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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Oct. 18, 1985
Talks at Chrysler may stall
United Press International
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers' chief bargainer said yesterday that an agreement would have to be reached immediately to prevent an extended strike by about 80,000 Chrysler Corp. workers in the United States and Canada
"Today is a very crucial day," UAW Vice President Marc Stepp said as he returned to Chrysler's Highland Park headquarters to resume negotiations. "If we don't make it today, the strike will go on."
Without a quick tentative agreement, talks would have to be put on hold for two or three days because the union's 170-member Chrysler Council meets tomorrow in Huntsville, Ala.
Union officials said earlier this week that they hoped to have a tentative agreement to present to the council at the Huntsville meeting. The council represents every UAW-Chrysler local in the country.
About 70,000 Chrysler workers in the United States and more than 10,000 in Canada walked off their jobs at midnight Tuesday when their old contract expired. The newly independent Canadian UAW is negotiating separately in Toronto.
The strike already has affected at least one Chrysler supplier. C & F Stamping Inc. of Kentwood, Mich., laid off 220 of its 550 workers yesterday. Forty percent of the company's business is with Chrysler.
Job security and wage parity for Chrysler workers — who earn $13.23
an hour, six cents an hour less than their counterparts at Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. — have been the major stumbling blocks in the talks, UAW President Owen Bieber said.
If the strike lasts more than 15 days, it also will begin to affect the UAW's U.S. strike fund, which is between $672 and $757 million.
The strike would cost the UAW $10 or $11 million a day beginning on the 3rd of March.
The figure shows how much the UAW would spend to pay 70,000 striking American workers $150 in pay and medical benefits.
Strikers must participate in strike activities to receive the money, offered by the employer.
Farrakhan, guards sued for attack
United Press International
NEW YORK — A $51 million lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and several of his bodyguards over an alleged attack of a Madison Square Garden stage hand.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn by Keith D Verna, 31, of Massapequa Park, N.Y., asserts that members of Farrakhan's security entourage attacked De Verna as he was cleaning after a rally Oct. 9.
According to court papers, De Verna and other stage hands were removing chairs from the speaker's
platform after Farrakhan's Nation of Islam rally when the workers were "suddenly and without provocation" attacked by numerous bodyguards and other members of Farrakhan's security force.
But Abdul Wali Muhammad, a Farrakhan aide, said he received reports that female followers of the Muslim leader were still on stage when the police took them away to remove the chairs with a forklift and that the women were in danger.
Muhammad also said he had been told the stage hands used abusive language against the women.
Attorney for De Verna, Harry Lipsky, called the explanation ridiculous.
"The men were working and their work movements brought them near the women. These creatures turned into evil beings, and the white devils." Lilis charged
De Verna, in the court papers, said the bodyguards punched him, held him over a railing, knocked his head and hit him repeatedly in the face and body.
The complaint also says De Verna was surrounded during the attack.
Lipsig said there were about 200 of Farrakhan's security guards involved in the beating and they would be named as defendants in the case.
French novelist wins Nobel for literature
"The whole thing was unprovoked," Lipsig said.
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Novelist Claude Simon, whose complex style has kept his work from becoming well known even in his native France, won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday.
Simon, 72, became the 12th French writer to win the prestigious award and the first since 1964, when Jean-Paul Sarre, existentialist author and
playwright, declined to accept his award.
The Swedish Academy said it had been watching Simon's work ever since he became known as an exponent in the late 1950s of the French "noueau roman," or "new novel" style, which did away with conventional concepts of narrative structure, plot and character development.
The academy said in its citation that Simon's novels combined the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition.
Simon's last major work, and according to the academy secretary, Dr. Lars Gyllensten, his "most important," was the novel "Les Georgiques." ("The Georgics"), published in 1981.
You've wanted it for so long and now you've got it:
A very exciting team capable of winning—and winning BIG! So let's really hear it in the stands for the fantastic Jayhawk air & ground attack! They're generating the excitement so let's follow their lead and make the stadium rock!
Our defensive attack last Saturday was super! With an explosive team that we have waited a long time for, one would think we could fill the stadium. Yet, there are over 15,000 tickets left for the K-State game this Saturday, and 20,000 more for each of the remaining home games.
I know KU can play a more inspired game with 55,000 pairs of eyeballs watching instead of 37,000. More vocal chords wouldn't hurt either. When I was in Tallahassee I was impressed at what 76,000 screaming fans did in turning a sure defeat into a victory for Florida State. So...
Let's capture the school spirit and run with it!
HELP PUSH KU FOOTBALL FORWARD Cut out the words to the Alma Mater and bring them to the game.
ALMA MATER
Far above the golden valley Glorious to view.
Stands our Noble Alma Mater Towering toward the blue.
Lift the chorus ever onward,
Crimson and the blue
Hail to thee our Alma Mater,
Hail to old KU.
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