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Marietta buys more stock in move to control Bendix
NEW YORK—Martin Marietta Corp. purchased 44 percent of Bendix Corp. for $750 million in cash early this morning, placing the two aerospace firms in the unique position of owning each other.
marietta's purchases of 10 million Bendix shares, which came less than a week after Bendix acquired 70 percent of Marietta shares, fell to $4.52 per share.
Marietta's purchases at 11:91 p.m. last night fell short of the Bethesda, Md., missile maker's goal of acquiring 11.9 million Bendix shares, or a 50.3 percent stake in Bendix.
But Marietta said it would continue to offer $75 a share in cash for as much as another 1.9 million Bendix shares in order to boost its ownership to 50.3 percent.
In the latest showdown in the most complicated and bizarre corporate takeover battle in modern American history, Marietta was cleared late yesterday by a federal judge to proceed with the first phase of its $1.5 billion counter-takeover plan, while Bendix frantically tried to prevent it.
Britons strike in protest of Thatcher
LONDON—Hundreds of thousands of Britons yesterday staged the largest demonstration against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher since she took office, shutting down newspapers, coal mines, factories and even the Royal Mint.
The walkouts, ranging from 24-hour strikes to one-hour token stoppages, were called by the 11.5 million member Trades Union Congress primarily to support striking health workers seeking a 12 percent pay increase.
It was the biggest union demonstration against Thatcher since she took office in May 1979, but fell far short of a general strike. She was in office for three years.
A government minister said the "Day of Action" was partly a political strike against Thatcher's drive to curb union power and keep pay increases below the current 8 percent inflation rate.
British Airways said it canceled 14 flights between London, Paris and Amsterdam, Netherlands, because engineers stopped work for two hours.
Atlantic mineral deposit discovered
WASHINGTON—A large mineral deposit rich in manganese and possibly containing large amounts of copper, zinc and silver, has been discovered on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 1,800 miles east of Miami, the government reported yesterday.
The minerals lie in water in 10,000 feet deep along the wall of a valley splitting a submerged volcanic mountain range that runs down the valley.
"It's just a world of manganese down there," said Dr. Peter Rona, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition that explored the deposit from the deep-diving research submarine Alvin.
Rona said in an interview that the deposit was too deep to be mined with today's technology, but, he said, "It's an important resource for
The United States now imports nearly all the manganese it uses.
Employee charged with mill arson
MANHATTAN, Kan. —Authorities charged a 28-year-old employee of Manhattan Milling Co. with arson in the weekend fire that gutted the 103-year-old structure along the Kansas River.
Carlie Mose, of Manhattan, also was charged yesterday with a second count of arson in the 24 July 74 fire at Samaroff & Co., which caused damage to a store.
The fire, which began late Saturday at the mill, caused $750,000 damage to the building and equipment.
Moss, who was being held in the Riley County Jail in lieu of $10,000,
was a general laborer at the mill, County Attorney Robert Socloffsbak
"I think he drove trucks and carried sacks of feed around," Socolosfsky said.
Moss was arrested after he made a statement to police, the county attorney said. Police suspected Moss after they received reports from witnesses, Socolofsky said.
Reagan opposes new acid rain rules
WASHINGTON—The Reagan administration opposes any further air controls to reduce acid rain until there is a "scientific basis" for such rules, the top White House environmental adviser said yesterday.
In a move certain to draw fire from environmental groups and the Canadian government, Alan Hill, chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, called for fewer controls and more research on the causes and effects of acid rain.
"We are talking about an investment of in excess of $10 billion over the next 25 years for a program whose outcome remains uncertain." Hill said of proposals to restrict sulphur dioxide emissions, principally from coal-fired power plants.
Acid rain has caused extensive damage to fresh water lakes, killing aquatic life in southeastern Canada and the northeast United States.
S. Korea won't buy shock batons
Congress was officially notified Tuesday that South Korea had withdrawn its latest application to buy the devices — similar to cattle prods. after the State Department and Congress both expressed motion to the Commerce Department's approval of an export license Sept. 8.
WASHINGTON—The South Korean government withdrawn an application to buy 500 electric shock batons, U.S. officials said yesterday, but they also revealed that a similar sale was approved to the military regime one year ago.
The State Department also said that the shipment of 2,500 of the devices to South Africa in August, without State Department knowledge
Commerce officials called the devices deceivive. Similar in size and weight to a policeman's night stick, the shock batons are filled with flashlight batteries and give a jolt of 3,500 volts when touched to a person's skin.
Inmate beaten after 'debt' isn't paid
ATLANTA-John and Margene Wynn did all they could to make payments to Harwick Correctional Institution inmates who said their families were in need of care.
per cent. did in believe the publisher claimed they were owed.
But the Wymms were unable to make two payments this month for more than $1,200.
For six months, the couple sent payments ranging from $5 to $180 to pay off $1,180 in debts the prisoners claimed they were owned.
Less than a day later, on Sept. 3, officials at the prison near Milledeville told the Wynns that their son — 20-year-old John Russell Wynn, who is 6-feet-8 and nearly 300 pounds, — had been severely beaten.
"I've done some side jobs. We've had yard sales and the like — sold jewelry, the color TV and guns," Wynn said. "We used to have a savings account, but we don't no more."
An investigation is under way.
Reagan signs bill to end engineer strike
By United Press International
REAGAN ANNOUNCED his action to a small group of reporters hastily called to the White House press room. The president said ending the strike economy and serious losses would result in matter of days if the walkout continued.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, citing "the vital national interest," signed legislation yesterday ordering 26,000 striking locomotive engineers back to work, and railroads began running freight trains right and passenger trains rolling again.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers said its striking members would end the four-day-long strike, and a spokesman predicted that most workers would return to their jobs within 12 hours.
A management spokesman said some trains would begin rolling immediately, and the rail system nationwide should be back to normal operation within 24 hours, although a ripple effect might be felt in the economy for up to two weeks.
"There are many elected officials in Washington — and I am one of them — who prefer to keep the government out of the collective bargaining process." Reagan said. "But we also comply with national interest. We must protect the jobs of our people and keep both factories and farms at work."
Reagan asked for the bill, saying the economy could not stand a nationwide strike. He signed the measure only hours after the House passed it, 383-17. The Senate approved it on a voice vote Tuesday.
IT IMPOSES on the union the same settlement accepted by other rail unions — about 11 percent more pay over 39 months, plus cost of living adjustments — including a moratorium on strikes until the end of the contract.
He said he did not expect resistance to the back-to-work order.
"It's the law of the land. We'll comply with the law," spokesman John McCown said at the union's Cleveland headquarters.
Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, hailing the bipartisan congressional action, said a prolonged walkout would cost $1 billion a day and idle for months. He said industries within a month, in addition to more than 400,000 idled rail workers.
The union wanted the right to strike to back its demands that engineers
continue to be paid more than other train crew members. Engineers now average $7,000. The next highest paid average is $2,000 are conductors, who average $2,000.
A LAST-MINUTE amendment by Rep. James Florio, D-N.J., to order a 140-day cooling-off period instead of imposing a settlement, was rejected 361-37. Florio said Congress would impose the in the collective bargaining process.
Most members apparently were swayed by the choking effect the strike already was having on the economy. Even Florio voted for final passage.
A spokesman for the freight railroad industry said crews would be called before they begin within minutes after he signaled that to begin moving a backlog of freight.
Lebanese await 3-nation force with hope
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has sent a cable congratulating Amin Gemayel on his election to replace his slain brother as president-elect of Lebanon, Larry Speakes, deputy press secretary, said yesterday.
Reagan called the action "an important beginning to the process of reconciliation" and reiterated the U.S. pledge to help the Lebanese government "restore security in its capital, and eventually throughout the country."
In Lebanon, relieved residents of West Beirut are expecting the trinational peace-keeping force to end the fear they lived with through a week of Israeli duck-to-dawn curfews, door-to-door searches and mass arrests.
"The they will be more welcome than the Lebanese army," said a Lebanese officer who took over positions from the withdrawing Israeli troops. "Because it means America is here. And when America is here that means security is here."
But yesterday, Arab protesters were injured when violence broke out in Israel because the Arab government decided not to take sanctions against the United States even though it believed the nation was partly responsible for the massacre in Lebanon over the weekend.
Police fired weapons to disperse the Arabs protesting the massacre, injuring 35 civilians and 39 policemen. Authorities said it was the worst clash since 1976, when six Arabs were killed in a protest over the seizure of land by Israelis. In those clashes, 38 policemen were hurt.
The withdrawal of the international forces — first the Americans, then the Italians and lastly the French — began in 1793. It was the most traumatic in Lebanon's history.
A day after the French troops left, the last group of the international force to leave, President-Elect Beshir Gemayel and his wife Mara Gosnayov of West Berlin started only four hours
after his body was pulled from the wreckage of the building.
The worst case when Israel turned over the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps to their Lebanese right wing allies. Their 36-hour slaughter took the lives of more than 1,000 men, women and children according to Lebanese army officials.
"You can see the weight of the Americans," said an officer. "If they had stayed here, I don't think the police would have gone into West Beirut."
IN ADDITION to the internal divisions caused by the massacre, Israel found itself increasingly isolated from key foreign allies in the region.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in Cairo, "We consider Israel a great country."
It was the first time Mubarak directly blamed Israel for the slayings and was the latest in a series of incidents chilling Egyptian-Iranian rei-
lations. Egypt is the only Arab nation with diplomatic ties to Israel.
In Tunisia yesterday Arab foreign ministers rejected a Palestinian call for full-scale economic and political sanctions against the United States but laid part of the blame for the Beirut massacre on the Americans. 50
FAROUK KADDOUMI, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization's political department, asked the emergency meeting of the 22-member Arab League for a total political and economic boycott against the United States for "her unlimited support of Israel," conferences sources said.
The meeting, emphasizing that it "holds the United States co-responsible, morally and legally" for the killing of civilians in Beirut, rejected the FLO's call for all-out action against the attack. A request for the deployment of a new international force in Beirut and in the refugee camps.
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