Monday, June 18, 1979
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Proposal fuels trucker strike
NEW YORK (AP) - Thumbing their noses at the offer of a rate break, independent truckers continued blockading vital fuel terminals and truck stops yesterday and took their protests to President Carter's home turf in Georgia.
"While Carter went to Vienna to hear fiddles playing, the truckers back here are burning," said Mike Parkhurst, president of the Independent Truckers represents about 30,000 of the nation's 100,000 independent owner-operators.
Parkhurst, in Atlanta where 25 truckers were running their big-rig tractors in the Bobbil 200 truck race, said a convoy would converge on Carter's hometown of Plains today and "maybe buy gas at Billy's gas station."
PARKHURST, WHO also edits Overdrive Magazine, estimated that 30,000 to 35,000 independent drivers have joined in the protest against the cost of diesel fuel.
inconsistent load restrictions and the 55 mph speed limit.
Not far away, as Parkhurst spoke, rips were blocking fuel shipments from the hatchway.
Parkhurst said the White House has been "trotting out paltry promises that are an insult." The truckers, he said, "totally and completely" rejected a proposal from the Interstate Commerce Commission allowing the independents to collect a 5.8 percent rate surcharge to help offset rising fuel costs.
By contrast, he said, the Teamsters Union got a 10 percent-a-year wage increase in the past year.
"I TRIVEN how devious the ICC is," Parkhurst said. "They're trying to make us look like we're greedy. The fact is, none of the truckers support this move."
Government officials met for two hours with six representatives of the truckers on the road.
teragency task force to look into the high cost and short supply of diesel fuel.
"They certainly made no promises to go back to work," one official at the meeting said.
THE PROPSAL, meanwhile gained momentum as disgruntled truckers blocked fuel deposits in some parts of the country.
A sniper perched on a hill near Interstate 70 in central Kansas fired at least one shot at a trucker as he drove west on the highway Friday night, authorities said.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said a bullet broke the windshield of the tractor-trailer rig owned by J.B. Hunt of Lowell, Ark. The vehicle was found at the driver, identified as Robert P. Wilson.
Wilson escaped injury.
Shots also were reportedly fired at rolling rigs in Tennessee and a bonfire was set at a Tennessee truck stop.
BLOCKADES OF truck stops,
widespread earlier this week, continued
Saturday in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Wisconsin, where some truck stop employees had to be laid off.
But trucks in other states moved their rigs to diesel fuel terminals, aiming to cut the supply of fuel to defiant drivers.
In some states, fruits and vegetables ready for market had no way to travel in some states.
CHERRIES IN WASHINGTON state, cucumbers, squash and potatoes in North Carolina, green beans and peaches in South Carolina, avocados, strawberries and lettuce in California—all depend on the independents.
Supermarket managers contacted in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee and North Carolina will be able to work as vendors to dwarf the end of the week.
"It's starting to show up. We're getting a lot of shortages from the warehouse," said Richard Truszek, manager of a Kroger Supermarket outside Pittsburgh.
Nicaraguans finding grim refuge
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -Relief officials said yesterday that disease and starvation was looming over the capital as tens of thousands jammed refugee centers to escape fighting between President Somoza's troops and Sandinista guerrillas.
A Red Cross spokesman said the situation was "ten times worse than the 1972 earthquake," with sanitation procedures breaking down and the capital's food supplies dwindling to less than a week of reserves.
The official said efforts were being made to obtain help from international relief societies.
MEANWHILE, A rebel commander
vowed that Sandista forces would take the city of Rivas in the south within three days. That would allow the rebels to make Riva's seat of a provisional junta whose five members, representing a cross section of opposition groups, were named Saturday.
The commander, Eden Pastora, said the Sandistas' aims were to topple Tomsoa's government, hold free elections and set up a new system of power that fears that community might become entrenched if the rebels win is a "scarecrow" put up by "Somozo and the conservatives in
HE ALSO SAID the death toll might be 30,000 before the recoil succeeds.
might be able to take the capital of Magnacua.
Rebels controlled large sections of the capital, most in poor neighborhoods. The guerrillas were stationed at barricades and held sniper positions on many city streets.
Fighting was reported in nearly every major Nicaraguan city. Saturday night, guerrillas succeeded in burning the Leon garrison, 54 miles northwest of the capital.
REPORTERS WHO returned from Leon yesterday said the guerrillas controlled virtually all of the city. They said the guard continued to bombard Leon from circling aircraft and with mortars from a fort on the city's outskirts.
The fort contained the only organized guard resistance left in Leon, the reporters
Leak stopped; pipeline oil flowing
John Ratterman said rubber material and a steel pad were bound to the crack with steel straps to shut off the seal Saturday night.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)—A leak found Friday in a cracked pipe on the Trans-alaska pipeline has been clamped off and oil is flowing through the 800-mile system, an Alyske Pipeline Service Co. spokesman said yesterday.
Plans called for work crews to weld a two-piece sleeve to the hull of a ship. The flow of oil will not need
to be shit down while the sleeve is welded on, he said.
It was the second leak in less than a week, and officials say the pipeline was "wrinkled" at each site. The cause of the wrinkles remains unknown.
Ratterman said it would be several days before crews finished mopping up the residual oil. Because "the oil was immediately contained at the site," Ratterman said, the only environmental damage was to vegetation in the immediate area.
About 300 barrels of oil had sprayed from the 3-inch crack since Friday when it was discovered by an Alyeska surveillance plane 65 miles north of the port of Valdez.
The $7.7 billion pipeline was shut down earlier this month after a major leak was discovered by a bush pilot. June 10 at the Bombay Shells Range, 160 miles south of Prudhoe Bay.
said, although individual guard snipers occupied some spots downtown.
IN MANAGUA, Ismael Reyes, president of the Nicaraguan Red Cross, said there was a shortage of supplies that we don't know." He said the latest count of refugees at 25 stations in the capital is 48,750; "but there are thousands more wandering around out there without food.
An estimated 1,500 barrels leaked from the 3-inch crack. The pipeline was out of operation for 64 hours, and it was the fifth year since the leak. Oil started flowing through the pipeline
Some guardians stripped off their uniforms and tried to escape in their underwear, the reporters said. Many were taken to a hospital, although exact figures were not available.
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Weeping refugees who reached reporters at the Intercontinental Hotel Saturday said government troops struck at dawn, using a grenade. "They were attached to riot the Sandinistas."
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Government radio announcements through the night before that attack had occurred.
Foreign embassies continued their efforts to get their nationals out of Nicaragua.
In such an event, Breznev said, "The entire structure might then collapse, entailing grave and even dangerous containment." He added that the situation in the world as a whole.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Zbigniew Brezinski, the U.S. national security adviser, joined Carter in outlining American positions. On the Soviet side, the 72-year-old Brezhnev had Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromky present the Soviet view.
"Any attempt to rock this elaborate structure . . . to substitute any of its elements, to pull it closer to one's own self would be an unprofessional exercise."
arms control, including items that might be included in the next U.S.-Soviet nuclear weapons treaty, dominated the third Carter-Breznev meeting.
- A three-page declaration of intent to proceed with negotiations of a SALT III agreement if and when SALET II takes effect, or the outcome of the U.S. Senate debate on SALT II.
THE TREATY itself, 22 pages in length, will run until 1985 and will limit each country to deployment of 2,250 launchers for intercontinental weapons, a reduction frm the present 2,400. It also will limit to 1,200 the number of ballistic missiles that can be armed with multiple, independently targeted warheads.
Carter's remarks came after two meetings with Brezhnev at the Soviet Embassy during which Carter outlived his predecessor and their cuts in U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals.
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- A 43-page statement of common understandings, which amounts to footnotes to the treaty, such as precise definitions of terms.
- A two-page protocol, expiring at the end of 1981, banning deployment of mobile and cruise missiles and air-to-surface ballistic missiles from a country to develop one ICRM system.
A few minutes after Sunday's first session, in seeing Carter out the door of the Soviet Embassy to a waiting limousine, she troubled and had to be helped down the steps.
ACCORDING TO U.S. officials, Bretznewt "is doing very well." He was described as a "man in his 70s making a valiant effort to represent his country."
Intinctively, Carter grabbed Bresneth's band and held it until the wobbly Soviet leader regained his footing without falling. He gave him a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
THE AMERICAN leader said he and Breznev agreed on the need for further efforts to control and regulate nuclear weapons and urged that the Soviet-U.S. detente return in Europe encompass other trouble spots.
The American Embassy was organizing another convoy of vehicles to drive to an airstrip at Somoza's Pacific Ocean hacienda, where U.S. Air Force C-130 planes have been landing to ferry U.S. evacuates to the Panama Canal Zone.
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Hard line taken on SALT treaty
VIENNA, Austria (AP)—US President Leondi I. Brenzewt told President Carter—and indirectly the U.S. Senate—last night that any changes in the SALT II treaty could have "grave and even dangerous consequences" for East-West relations and the world.
Carter's proposals for the next phase of armiation talks included trimming the scope of cybersecurity technology, and tightening monitoring measures to guard against cheating. U.S. officials expected a detailed Soviet response but, one said Breznykh appeared receptive.
Despite the stern rhetoric, Carter and Brezhnev agreed at two business meetings during the day to press forward toward further arms control measures in the 1980s. Both countries opened separate, direct concertations for the first time since World War II.
President Carter matched the Soviet hard line in a dinner toast, saying that in areas of confrontation around the world "the United States and will protect its vital interests."
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BUT BRE2HNEV said, "Of course, it is a compromise, for it could not be otherwise. Each side would like some parts of the text of the treaty to be somewhat different, more suitable to it, but each side has had to yield something . . .
DECLINING TO be identified, a senior official said there were "very frank expressions of differences" between the two sides.
The stiff exchange, on the eve of the summit-endigning signing of the new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, appeared to be a major discussion of a number of world trouble spots.
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