University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 21, 1990
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Coal strike comes to peaceful end
The Associated Press
CASTLEWOOD, Va. — Appalachian miners ratified a contract with Pittston Coal Group yesterday after striking for nearly 11 months. Labor leaders said the miners had helped rejuvenate the trade union movement.
Striking and laid-off United Mine Workers from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky voted 1,247 to 734 Monday to accept a contract nearly identical to a national UMW agreement that Pittonstone broke away from
in May 1987.
"This is a victory for all workers." UMW Vice President Cecil Roberts told about 50 striking miners in announcing the results yesterday.
The settlement ends a strike punctuated by violence, sit-down strikes and other tactics that resulted in amounts of dollars in fines against the union.
through training courses, officials said.
It could be a week to 10 days before the 1,700 active miners return to work because mines must be inspected, and workers must go
UMW members across the country had viewed Pilston as a maverick company attempting to break the firm from the company vigorously denied.
The miners got job security, health and retirement provisions but gave up the traditional five-day work week. Pitkinson won the right to operate around the clock, using voluntary labor on Sundays.
UMW members worked 14 months
without a contract before the union struck on April 5, 1899.
UMW officials persuaded members and leaders of other unions that the labor movement desperately needed a victory in the Pittston dispute, and hundreds of thousands of union members converged on the southwestern Virginia coalfields to show their support. To further show sympathy, nearly 46,000 UMW members from Appalachia and the Midwest went on short wildcat strikes last summer.
New MiGs in Cuba draw U.S. response
Nation/World briefs
WASHINGTON — The State Department said yesterday that Cuba had received a new shipment of high-performance Soviet fighter planes and that the United States not tolerate such developments.
The Associated Press
In confirming a delivery of new MIG-29 jet fighters, Tutwiler gave no definite figures. The Washington Times, which reported the shipment
State department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler denied that the statement constituted a threat to Cuba. She referred reporters to recent testimony before a Soviet legislative committee by Secretary of State Kalaer III in which he said Cuba possessed no threat to the United States.
- an yesterday's editions, put the number at six fighter jets.
The report indicated the combined total of MiGs in Cuba's arsenal had now risen to more than 300.
Tutwiler also attached little significance to the internal reforms announced recently by the Cuban Communist Party.
Tutwiler said Baker had told the Soviet legislators during a visit to Moscow two weeks ago that the United States had difficulty understanding why the Soviets continued to support Russia at a time when Cuba has been so critical of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform policies.
She said the reforms appear to be aimed at consolidating the strength of Cuba's one-party system.
U.S. seeks more help with troops in Japan
TOKYO — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney arrived yesterday from the Philippines seeking what the United States hopes will be a deal with President Donald J. Trump's $2 billion annual support for U.S. troops stationed here.
Cheney's visit came as Philippine President Corazon Aquino signaled a willingness to work out differences concerning U.S. bases there, despite her refusal to meet with Cheney during his stay in Manila the past three days.
The defense secretary had a warmer reception in Tokyo.
"The Japanese are very understanding and are very willing to help us as much as they can," said
And although it was known that Cheney intended to explore with Japanese officials a possible 10 to 12 percent cut in U.S. troop levels in Asia, Japanese government spokesman Taito Watanabe said officials were not worried by such a development.
a senior Pentagon official traveling with Cheney.
The positive tone set by both sides at the opening of, *Cheney*'s visit is in marked contrast to the scenes he had encountered at the other major stops on his two-week Asian tour.
NICARAQUAN ELECTION: The ruling Sandinistas in Nicaragua traded boasts and accusations with the opposition yesterday, and outside observers checked everything from paper ballots to computers for the weekend election.
In Manila, the defense secretary's effy was burned by demonstrators who protested U.S. military bases in their country.
President Daniel Ortega's campaign manager said that the Sandinistas would win an election certified as fair by international observers and predicted that the United States would be friendlier afterward.
Reiterating a Sandista campaign theme, campaign manager Bayardo Arce said a U.S. embargo and Washington's support for the contra rebels were responsible for Nicaragua's economic crisis.
Alfredo Cesar, chief strategist for opposition presidential candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, predicted the United National Opposition would win Sunday with 55 percent of the vote to "a percent for the Sandistas."
Because of his weak power base in the party, Kafka's position had been considered uncertain despite an election victory Sunday that gave the moderate and comfortable majority in the powerful lower house of Parliament.
KAIFU MAY STAY: Leaders of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party agreed yesterday that Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu should stay in office and form a new Cabinet.
Kaifu had said he would resign if the party, which was formed in 1955 and has governed Japan since, lost its majority.
SOUTH AFRICAN SANCTIONS:
Britain yesterday failed to persuade the European Community to ease sanctions against South Africa and
announced it would unilaterally lift an embargo on new investment.
"There was no consensus on a lifting of sanctions," an Irish government spokesman, requesting anonymity, said at the end of a one-day meeting of community foreign ministers.
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd announced immediately afterward that Britain would unilaterally lift the embargo on new investment. "I cannot see any reason for delay," he said.
He said Britain had tried to avoid going it alone by offering to delay lifting the embargo if all 12 community nations pledged to lift it jointly when the South African government ends its state of emergency. But he said the others refused to agree to this compromise.
The Irish spokesman said the community would consider the issue again when the South African government lifts its state of emergency and frees all political prisoners.
REAGAN TESTIMONY: John Pointeier yesterday asked the judge in his Iran-contra trial to delay releasing former President Reagan's videotaped testimony until a jury is selected.
Twelve news organizations, meanwhile, suggested in a court filing that the videotape and transcripts of Reagan's testimony be made available as soon as possible, as the judge ordered last week.
Reagan's testimony, given Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles, is favorable to the defense, Poindexter's lawyers maintained in court papers. But they said publicizing it now would have an incalculable impact on prospective jurors.
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