University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 10, 1991
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Gorbachev seeks economic aid
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's special envoy is to leave today on a six-national tour of the Middle East to seek economic assistance for the Soviet Union.
Moscow
The mission is part of Soviet government efforts to alleviate the economic situation and possible hardships as we look to the difficult and challenging environment. Ministry spokesman Vitaly Charkin said.
The Soviets could get food help from Egypt, which in the past has supplied Soviet consumers with oranges, as well as Turkey. The Soviets may also be seeking a market in Turkey for cotton.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia Macedonians call for freedom
The Yugoslav federation suffered another blower yesterday when early returns in a Macedonian plebiscite indicated the republic's voters overwhelmingly supported declaring independent.
Even before the first returns were released from Sunday's referendum, tens of thousands of Macedonians demonstrated in the streets to celebrate leaving the union.
But Macedoniaian leaders stressed they would try to work out new ties with Yugoslavia as part of a loose confederation of sovereign states, and thus it was more independent independence sought by Croatia and Slovenia.
Johannesburg, S. Africa Death toll in fighting rises to 65
Frenzied factional fighting raged in Black townships for a second day yesterday, and the death toll in the year's worst outbreak of political violence rose to 65.
Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, said that despite the fighting his organization would sign a peace accord Saturday at the United Nations Freedom Summit on white aid government.
Inkatha also said it would sign the agreement, which is aimed at stopping factional fighting that has killed about 6,000 Blacks since 1986.
—From The Associated Press
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Thousands of civil servants emptied government offices, slowed tax collection, disrupted grain exports and snarled airports yesterday in one of the largest strikes in Canadian history.
Canada faces one of largest strikes
The chief issues were job security and higher pay.
"It're regrettable that it's necessary for us to take this action," said Daryl Bean, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. "But we were left with no choice."
About 110,000 of the union's 155,000 members were eligible to strike, and although Bean had no immediate figures, he said that participation had exceeded expectations.
"All across the country, it is a real massive turnout," he said.
Another 45,000 essential workers, such as prison guards, airport firefighters, and meat inspectors, cannot legally walk off their jobs.
Meanwhile, the striking workers set up pickets in cities across the country to protest a government plan to freeze wages this year and raise pay by 3 percent in each of the two following years.
Gilles Loiselle, president of the Treasury Board, which negotiates for the government, said the wage proposal was non-negotiable. The average wage of a unionized federal civil servant in Canada is about $26,000 in U.S. currency.
Loiselle also threatened to seek legislation ordering employees back to work if disruptions became too severe.
Bean said there were plenty
of disruptions yesterday.
"There are several operations closed today; airports, grain elevators," he said. "There are holdups at borders and immigration. The whole revenue side, bringing in revenue through income taxes, is completely shut down."
He said that while wages were important, the main issue was job security and the growing number of jobs that are being contracted out.
"Since Feb. 26, I have received notices in my office of 1,900 layoffs," he said. "Job security is certainly the No.1 issue, followed very closely, of course, by the wage aspect."
Loiselle said that he did not expect the union to eagerly accept the government's offer, but it would be the only choice in the current economic climate.
Yesterday, flights at Canada's busiest airport, Pearson International in Toronto, were severely disrupted when striking public servants blocked air traffic controllers and kept them from getting to their jobs
At noon, Pearson was handling only about 25 flights an hour, one-third of its usual capacity. That created a ripple effect on Montreal's Dorval Airport, where flights were up to an hour late.
On the west coast, federal grain inspectors, weighers and samplers established picket lines at the Vancouver terminals. Longshoremen and grainhandlers have agreed not to cross the picket line, said Al Hadvick, union representative.
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