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Weekend derailments kill nineteen early Sunday sev- side the tracks, but most were including the man who has been in (COMPILED FROM AP/UPI REPORTS) -- At ty of Youngstown by the searing charge of probing Friday's derail- least 19 persons have died as the re- eral cars of an Atlanta and St. quickly overcome greenish-yellow cloud. ment in Waverly, Tenn. sult of freight train derailments Andrews Bay freight train jumped Some of the victims lived in Near Cades, Tenn. 25 cars of an along southern tracks over the week- the tracks, sending clouds of from a near-by homes. Illinois Central Gulf train derail- end. chlorine gas into the air Bay County Sheriff's Deputy Tom ed Sunday forcing evacuation of 250 The death toll in Friday's pro- ruptured tank car. died shortly after Loftin said he was driving to the residents when caustic lye leaked pane tank car explosion in Waverly, Seven persons and an eighth victim scene before he knew what had hap- from a tanker and filled the air Tenn. now stands at 11. the accident, was spotted near the scene by a pened. with a nauseating odor. in the after- The derailment occurred about 60 Leaking chlorine gas from a de- helicopter pilot later What he found were miles west of Waverly where 11 per- railed car near Youngstown, Fla. people stum- were hospital- bling along the highway, vomiting sons died after the explosion of early Sunday took at least eight Forty-one persons were evacuated from and screaming for help. a derailed propane tank car Friday. lives. ized, and 1,000 Sources have told UPI And 250 persons were evacuated the area. that auth- 2,000 evacuated residents from their rural Gibson County, Many of the victims' cars appar- orities are investigating the pos- About returned to their homes and church Tenn. homes later Sunday when the gently stalled and ran into ditches sibility that sabotage may have services in Waverly Sunday after air was filled with fumes of caus- when the chlorine cut off the oxy- caused the train to derail, workers emptied a second derailed tic lye from one of 25 cars that gen needed for engine combustion. The Mational Transportation of liquid propane and ran off the rails. Panicking motorists left their Safety Council has dispatched a tank car scene hauled it away. In the Florida panhandle communi- cars and fled into a swamp along- team of investigators to the 33 M 39U.S.Navl Bse, uananao Ba, Cba onderFbrurys2,in7WaeliSna fe r onoyahtae-o TheNationalTThersNavypd teamof ivestgatoGtothe cen hauedit AIA P - h o an Ntnaale intasamp j MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (AP) -- The So- malis say the U.S. is in collusion with the Soviet Union to deprive eth- nic Somalis in the Ogaden region of self-determination. The Somali charges come in the wake of a U.S. decision to allow shipments Campaign aims at miners of military trucks and trailers to Ethiopia, which is also receiving massive Soviet and Cuban support. Officials of will not accept a proposed new wage in Kansas and Kentucky. WASHINGTON (AP/UFI) -- NICOSIA; CYPRUS (UPI) -- Those two kick off an contract unless they are satisfied Sec. Marshall said the future of the United Mine Workers Arab gunmen who killed an Egyptian aimed with all the fine print. the coal strike is now up to the educational campaign today, editor and kidnapped 11 Arab diplo- proposed miners. at getting approval of the mats at an Afro-Asian conference in In the Appalachian fields of Ohio, Marshall represented President new coal contract. Cyprus last week will appear in court dis- West Virginia and Pannsylvania, Jimmy Carter in the talks that pro- About 400 delegates from UMW today for a preliminary hearing. miners indicated at weekend rallies duced the tentative contract upon tricts were scheduled to gather at Police sources in Nicosia say the hear that the 84-day strike is far from which miners are to vote in a few a downtown Washington hotel and Cyprus government plans to call at settled despite the tentative agree- days. union executives spell out the terms 50 witnesses to testify against reached in Washington late Fri- He also said he does not know least of the pact. ment and what the administration will do if the pair, a 28-year-old Jordanian Then it's up to the local officers day. Sunday the miners don't settle. a 26-year-old Kuwaiti. to go home and push for approval. In a broadcast interview Labor The UMW is sending its members The 160,000 rank and file members on CBS' "Face the Nation," PUERTO RICO (UPI) -- Puerto Rican said he be- copies of the proposed agreement. won't begin voting until early next Secretary Ray Marshall fishermen used 20 small boats Sunday will UMW President Arnold Miller pre- week, and indications are that they lieves the tentative agreement to keep navies from the United States a better dicts ratification. are not enthusiastic about the ac- be ratified because it is and other Western powers from conduct- with He said that it's a compromise cord. pact than one signed earlier ing war games at an island off the reject- that has the health and pension Striking United Mine Workers mem- an independent producer and East Coast of Puerto Rico. members benefits the miners sought. bers across the country say they ed in weekend voting by UMW The war games have been temporarily called off. WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Organized labor Sunday endorsed the farmers strike, *Park hearings exclude reporters saying farmers, just like other work- ers, deserve a fair return for their head of the Korean Central Intelli- WASHINGTON (AP/UPI) -- Tuesday's alleged influence buying by the toil. Agency in Washington. opening session of the House Ethics Korean government, arrived back in gence In an official policy statement the But in an interview with "Newsweek" panel may be reminicent of the Wa- Washington Sunday. AFL-CIO Executive Council called on Magazine, Park denies that he had tergate Committee Hearings, except the Carter Administration and Con- with the KCIA or that there won't be any lights, cameras The Ethics Committee is expected connections gress to seek speedy and effective agency gave money to his George- or reporters inside. to spend up to 10 days questioning the solutions to the plight of family club. The committee will hear closed the 42-year-old millionaire about town farmers. And Park said the money he lent door testimony from South Korean his alleged bribes to U.S. congress- Du Won was coerced from BOGATA, COLOMBIA (AP) -- Early re- Tongsun Park. men. General Yang rice dealer not been turns in Colombia Sunday evening after Park is quoted as saying he made a him and that the debt has Park, who fled the country showed the ruling Liberal Party with personal loan of $.5 million to the repaid. being indicted in connection carrying a 5 to 1 lead over the Con- servatives in congressional and local elections. Security is tight with troops pa- full military honors trolling city streets after several to get at cam- James blasts over the weekend bomb the James rose from the rank of lieu- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A full military James' body was flown from paign offices. to head America's entire funeral will be held at Arlington Air Force Academy in Colorado to tenant Four persons were injured in one Command. National Cemetery later this week Washington Sunday aboard a Presiden- Air Defense of the blasts. tial jet. for Air Force General Daniel "Chap- American He distinguished himself in three WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pie" James. said its survey wars, despite being charged with Conservative Union James, the first Black four star records in- retired from active duty mutiny and treason for trying to in- of congressional voting general in the armed forces, died He had to ago. an officers club in Indiana dicates that Congress is shifting Saturday of a heart attack. He was several weeks tegrate The hulking six-foot-four-inch in 1945. the right. The group says that's especially the case for Republicans. It finds the shift heartening, saying that survey scores in prior years showed Israeli settlement policy remains a trend toward liberalism. raeli cabinet passed a resolution to In- JERUSALEM (AP/UPI) -- After a long civilians into three existing bases NEW DELI, INDIA (AP) -- Former expand existing settlements in Gandhi's and emotional debate Sunday the Is- on the West Bank of the Jordan by dian Prime Minister Indira Northeastern Sinai without building victory in raeli cabinet agreed not to change the end of March. new party has won a major over new ones. India. its policy on Jewish settlements in The marathon debate stretched a state election in Southern Meanwhile, British Foreign Secre- Party won a occupied Arab territories. two cabinet sessions in Jerusalem. Her "Indira Congress" tary David Owen arrived in Israel to form the The decision was an apparent at- It split the 19 cabinet ministers majority and the right placate Sunday and said he sees little hope tempt to avoid upsetting peace nego- between those who want to state's new government. progress in Mideast peace talks while U.S. envoy Alfred Ath- Washington on the issue and those of are tiations of Jordan's ATHENS, GREECE (AP) -- The omens mission who want to speed up construction without the participation erton conducts his shuttle bad for those Greek fortune tellers of settlements. King Hussein. between Israel and Cairo. who don't pay taxes. The cabinet secretary was asked The nation's Public Order Ministry whether new communities will be built Owen went to Israel from Jordan, As it stands now, no new settle- has ordered a crackdown on an esti- in occupied territory in the near where he conferred with Crown Prince ments are to be built by the Israe- 12,000 persons who claim to "We'll wait Hassan.