University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 2, 1989
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Official seeks Eastern pilots' help
MIAMI — Texas Air Corp. Chairman Frans Lorenzo is appealing to Eastern Airlines pilots to sign a new contract and to cross picket lines if the pilots refuse to be members strike, the pilots' union said yesterday.
The pilots' participation is considered pivotal to the success of the Machinists' strike, which is to be completed a a.m. Saturday unless there is a breakthrough in the union's 17-month-old contract negotiations.
The Associated Press
Leaders of the pilots' union have urged their 3,500 members to honor Machinists picket lines but indicated last week that they would reconsider if management made contract concessions to them.
In outer developments yesterday:
■ A federal judge took under consideration East-
ern's request to hire outside contractors to service him would prove that but did not say whether he would rule out the contract.
**Attorneys for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said they were seeking a federal court order allowing members of the company to travel on other airlines with which the union has contracts.**
- Eastern employees reported receiving formal notification of possible layoffs and plant closings. The notification was made under the new federal 60-day plant closing notification law.
In a videotape sent to Air Line Pilots Association officials, Lorenzo, whose Houston-based company bought Eastern three years ago, warned that the pilots were at risk and that employees were at risk, the pilots said. The tape.
sent via courier, showed Lorenzo apparently signing a contract offer.
Eastern, which says it has lost more than $1 billion in the past decade and is losing more than $1 million a day, wants $150 million in wage concessions from the Machinists union, which represents 8,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground services workers.
The pilots' master executive council went into拌
sweaty yesterday afternoon in Washington.
D. Cale, D. Scott
More talks were expected with the company on a contract addressing pilots' demands for job security, a long-term financial commitment to Eastern, and an agreement to keep Eastern routes from being transferred to Continental, Texas Air's predominantly non-union carrier.
Libyans could share chemical weapons
WASHINGTON — CIA Director William Webster said yesterday that Libyan strongman Moammar Ghadhah's chemical weapons plant is so big and powerful it could easily be shared with other radical nations.
The Associated Press
"The production capability is far more than Col. Ghadhafi could ever need or use by any stretch of the imagination." Webster told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"Is this going to become just another form of currency . . . a broking capability?"
Webster also said that Libya could have the capacity of targeting countries such as Israel with chemical weapons if Ghadhafi's forces obtained
air-to-air refueling capacity for their bombers.
He said that the possibility of air-to-air refueling capabilities moved the chemical weapons threat to the battlefields and put it into cities and strategic areas of the entire Middle East.
Webster was asked by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., if elements of the West German armed forces had aided Libyan efforts to obtain air-to-air refueling capability.
Webster said that he would prefer to discuss the matter in a closed, non-public session but also told Helms that he was right on target.
Webster later declined to elaborate on his comment.
produce pharmaceuticals, not chemical weapons. Webster said that even if that were true the facility could be converted to manufacture weapons within a day's time.
The CIA director said, as other U.S. officials also have said, that West German corporations as well as those from other European and Asian countries have helped Libya acquire a chemical weapons capability, and that it would have been virtually impossible for Libya to acquire it without such help.
Ghadhafi has said that the plant was built to
Webster said that some countries initially were slow to accept available intelligence information that a problem of chemical weapons proliferation existed but that that was no longer true.
Likud, right wing gain seats in Israeli election
The elections Tuesday extended the power of his Likud bloc on the local level and gave large gains to Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists.
JERUSALEM — The right wing scored a decisive victory in Israel's municipal elections and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said yesterday he indicated his refusal to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The Associated Press
Teddy Kollek, the moderate Labor Party's best-known mayor, won a sixth term in Jerusalem but lost control of the City Council.
A preliminary count gave religious parties 12 of the 31 council seats, up from 10 in 1983. Kollek 'one Jerusalem slate gat 11 or 12 seats, down 17, four went to Lukl and three or six to secular Citizen's Rights Movement.
More seats on the council will give religious parties greater power to enforce demands that restaurants and theaters close on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur and make concessions that did not conform to the will of the majority.
At stake in Tuesday's elections were 147 mayoral offices and city councils. Labor won 54 in 1983, Likud 26 and the rest went to local or religious parties.
Final results are not expected until later in the week, but Labor estimated that it lost control of at least 10 town councils, including several in traditional strongholds. Most were eliminated, including five of the largest cities.
Likud has been a major national force for 12 years, but Labor has been perceived as the establishment party because it controls such grassroots organizations as the trade union federation.
Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, discussed the results yesterday on army radio.
"We have definitely been dealt a blow, and I don't want to underestimate its force," Peres said. "But five years ago, when we won a big victory in municipal elections, it didn't mean anything for the Knesses."
Shamir said the Likud bloc, a small opposition faction for nearly three decades until it upset Labor in the 1977 national elections, was turning into a central party that held the power.
He said in a TV interview the voters had declared their support for his refusal to negotiate with the PLO against Palestinian demands for statehood.
Shamir is scheduled to visit Washington in April.
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