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Clear tonight Saturday, July 21, 1984 — See page 2 HanrlfpBtpr M m lii Single copy: 25<i: British .Talks resume 3 Fence Time! accord ^ as deadline reached 2 Bv Mark Schacter United Press International approaches LONDON — Union leaders Bv JudI Hasson If no .settlemcnl is reached by Round Rail agreed Friday to call oft an < United Press International 12:01 a.m. Saturday, the nation's •heavy-duty 5" cedar 11-day-oId dock strike that shut largest labor eonirael could be I poets down most British ports, stranding •heavy-duty cedar & WASHINGTON - Facing a sent to an arbitration panel. hundreds of truckers and tourists , spruce rails midnight deadline, the U.S. Postal Strikes by postal employees are in harbors on both sides of the I vsections include 2- Service and the nation's two illegal, but union officials have 10' rails 1-5' post English Channel. largest mail carrier unions re­ said no decision would Ih- made on Dockers at many of the strike­ a walkout if a contract is not signed bound British ports trickled back sumed contract talks Friday, $1515 which had been stalled for four until the nation's unions hold Iheir to work after an agreement was days over money issues. convention next month in Las reached in a 16-hour bargaining "The American Postal Workers Vegas. session between the Transport and Union and the National Associa­ Two other smaller postal unions, General W orkers Union and tion of Letter Carriers agreed to which represent about 100,000 management. ^ U t Rail return to the bargaining table workers, have been negotialing uatk hi■rdteed nito aedd roin reiittMit Jubilant truckers began moving u ft petU following intervention by a federal independently. They also were Ice ladudcs •! •2 -ir rath their rigs into ferries, easing giant mediator who has been in touch expected to resume negotiations. bottlenecks that trapped more 15»5 per section with both sides since the A postal strike has not (Kcurred than 1,500 truckers for (our days in stalemate. since 1970 when Presidenl Kichard ferry ports in France and Britain. Union leaders walked out of Nixon called out federal troops to In Dover, the tension had risen to negotiations, saying the postal move the mail, The iM>slal unions the point that truckers were service rcfu.sed to talk about wages are the only federal unions with the threatening to riot in the port, It costs money to heat and other economic issues. right to bargain for salaries. or aircondition your which is used by tourists crossing home. V When asked if the postal service On Tliur.sday, union leaders the Channel. If loose w indows let had now agreed to talk about called the postal servie package your monev escape. .. John Connolly, the docks officer money, Vincent Sombrotto, NALC "garbage." "T h e W indow F ixer" is of the TGWU, said an agreement the answer to your president, said " if they don’t, we'll The postal service said it was was worked out with employers in problem. be out very shortly." "astonished" by the union decision Instead o f costly new a 16-hour bargaining session that windows, you can insta ended after dawn Friday. The postal service is seeking a to walk out of talks. Bolger has said QUAKER* window three-year wage freeze, a One- the union demands would cost the channels in less than 45 He said the union leadership third pay cut for new employees postal service an additional $14.6 m inutes... .at a fraction would recommend that the pact be of the cost. and various other concessions, billion over the next three years. Be protected bv accepted at a TGWU confereiu:e r snug-nttina. rattle-free Saturday. British commentators according to union officials. The averjige postal workers windows that w ill save on labor affairs said dockers were Postmaster General William salary is $2.7.(HH) a year in base pay. heal, air conditioning Bolger has called the union de­ The unions say that figure is and money. likely to accept the settlement. Look for "T h e W indow Fixer" in our The strike began July 10 in mands "exorbitant" and has said inflated because it includes the energy-saving Department or Hardware it would cause a rate hike in the salaries of BII.UOO supervisors as section. protest against the use by state-run British Steel of contract dockers — cost of sending a first-class letter well as the postmaster's $82,900 'Qualifies for wcalher-sirip lax credil from 20 to 28 cents. yearly salary. Quaker channels fit standard I S ' wood sash a violation of the statutory “ dock with '/j' parlinR beat! labor scheme" guaranteeing work to legally registered dockers. No details of the settlement were Reg. SALE released, but news reports quoted Search goes on 8" $1198 $1078 sources as saying the union had failed in its main aim to get a Bv Steven Donziger 2" $1246 $ 1 1 2 3 guarantee against any future woman at the time of the abduc­ I United Press International breaches of the dock scheme. tion, but the gunman let the second fi" $1305 $1174 woman go. A separate port dispute by the $ 1 2 0 3 WASHINGTON - FBI agents 0” $1337 National Union of Seamen against "A t the present lime, we are swept an affluent area of the the sale of state-run Sealink ferry focusing on the metropolitan nation's capital Friday for clues in service to American-owned Sea "'M' area," said Norman Zigrossi, the gunpoint kidnap of the wife of a Containers Ltd. also ended Friday, special agent in charge of the multimillionaire drug company when the NUS called off its boycott FBI's Washington field office. "We magnate from an international of cargo shipments. are considering all iMi.ssibilities. as bridge tournament. Cargo handling returned to we always do." T L U X Edith Rosenkranz, 60, of Mexico normal at Felixstowe and Dover, Zigrossi, who described the City, was abducted at 11:150 p.m. busy ports which together handle suspett as a black male in his late g Skylight! EDT Thursday from the parking 14 million tons of freight annually. Herald photo by Tarquinio 20s wearing tan clothes, would not garage at the Sheraton Washing­ The port of Poole in the southwest comment on a motive or whether • Integrated screen And they’re off! ton Hotel, where she was partici­ and Ipswich in the north also were any ransom demands were made. pating in the 10-day Summer North ^ • Wood frame and reported to have reopened. Well, it isn’texactly the Indianapolis500, race on Friday. The competition was American Championship of the double insulated But workers at some 70 "dock "W e are dealing witli a tinman but Bernie Trott, left, and Jayson Cordy American Contract Bridge labor scheme" ports continued the fierce. So was the strain on the poor life, that's what's driving the tempered glazing League, the FBI said. strike until the union conference don't mind. The occasoin — Bowers racer ants — many didn’t make it alive to iiivesligalion," he said. • Remote control and Authorities said Mrs. Ro.senk- approves the settlement. School playground’s first annuaj. ant the finish line, one onlooker said. More than 100 FBI agents were roller blind options ranz was with an unidentified involved in the investigation. Made by the world leader in root windows and skylights. MMH’s 1985 budget doesn’t pass its preliminary review Bv Sarah E. Hall overspending $668,000 in fiscal "They flunked." Contacted late Friday afternoon, tal's projected net-patient re­ forts to contain the costs of health Herald Reporter 1983. That amount will be carved The hospital has the right to MMH officials declined comment. venues of $40,347,000 for the next care and to improve productivity l/indows out of the hospital's request for contest the ruling at a special "Basically, we want to wail until fiscal year be reduced to to ensure that care is delivered as k ^ lig tr ts j The State Commission on Hospi­ capital expenditures in the fiscal hearing, she added, and may end we've had a chance to review the $35,404,000. If the ruling gets final efficiently as possible," the com ­ tals and Health Care ruled Friday year starting Oct. 1, if the current up with a larger allocation than the commission's findings." said spo­ approval, then a planned increa.se mission's report .stales. that Manchester Memorial Hospi­ ruling holds. one the commission has approved keswoman Judy Mandel. in MMH room rates will have to be tal's proposed $40,179,550 budget The commission reached its at this point. The ruling shouldn't be a sur­ cut short. Earlier this month. The report also charges that the for fiscal 1985isexeessiveand “ not decision after submitting the MMH M M If budget is inconsistent with ■RT « The reasonablene.ss test de­ prise to MMH, Ms. Stanley said. MMH officials predicted that the H-A financially feas j. " Thecommis- budget loan "Overall Reasonable­ mands that general hospital ex­ She said the formulas on which the average charge for a semi-private the State Hedlth Plan, which stales sion asked for multi-million dollar CKNTKR ness Test," a preliminary review penses not increase more than reasonablene.ss test is based are room would jump from $1.58 to $181 that high-quality inpatient care STRKKT cuts in revenues and expenses.