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HU RS DAY Muncie, Indiana ctober 17, 1985 DAILY NE Volume 65, Number 30 ickets set up at Indiana plants NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A The most immediate impact will "I think Chrysler's officials realize Jim Anders, an oiler, said he be- 0 kesman for the Indiana Depart- be on Chrysler's Indiana employees, we gave to them for three or four lieves the big stumbling block in the nt of Commerce said Wednesday he said. In September, Chrysler noti- years and that they owe us," said negotiations which continued 6 /as impossible to estimate the po- fied state officials that its Hoosier Anders in reference to contract con- Wednesday "is the difference be- , ctial economic impact of the strike workforce totaled 8,858 people. cessions he and other Chrysler em- tween our pay and the other auto- ''_/ 8,000 Chrysler Corp. workers in "If they stay out very long the sup- ployees belonging to the UAW made makers in this country. We're worth ( iana. pliers will feel the pinch. If they're when the automaker was having fi- just as much as Ford and General 0 We simply hope that it's short- out for a few days, the suppliers can nancial troubles. "I don't think Motors. We've given for four or five d because if it is it won't have a adjust their production," Preston they'll sit back long without treating years, worked for $3 dollars an hour significant impact on the work- said. "But if they're out longer, the us fairly." less. It isn't any cheaper for us to buy e here," said Chuck Preston, di- suppliers may have to begin layoffs. His 55-year-old twin brother, Jim, a car and to live." tor of business and financial That's where the real multiplier ef- who has been with Chrysler for 33 In New Castle, workers went on Vices for the department. fect will begin to hit home." years was also on picket duty strike shortly after union representa- ,r, he United Lt. Gov. John Mutz predicted that Wednesday morning. tives reached a tentative agreement I o Workers unless the strike is very lengthy "it "None of us want to be out here," on local issues. Jim said. "But, we think our fearless ablished should not have a big impact on the "The mood here is very quiet, very leader (Lee Iacocca) is smart enough stets Wednes- state of Indiana. peaceful and very somber," said to realize he won't get cars built 1 at the five "The only thing I'm really con- UAW Local 371 President Noel Ble- without us and without cars, the rysler plants cerned about in this respect are two vins in New Castle. Indianapolis, Chrysler plants, one located in New company isn't going to make komo and Castle and one in Indianapolis, money." Blevins, who leads a local that rep- illw Castle, which are not operating at full capac- Both men, along with others who resents about 1,200 skilled trades, ere the No.3 ity. Sometimes the result of strike ac- were on picket duty, gave strong sup- production, office and clerical work- omaker is tivities is the eventual phase-out of port to their union which called for ers and another almost 2,200 work- city's largest plants like that. The Kokomo facility the walkout at midnight EDT, when ers currently laid off, said the people loyer. is so important to the total Chrysler it was unable to reach a contract set- he represents are determined to stay bout 80,000 Chrysler workers operation that it will continue to tlement. out as long as necessary. e on strike nationally and in Can- grow." "We're 100 percent behind the "We're out there for a cause, out- Lester Anders of Indianapolis union," said Donald Means, who has sourcing. We're going to stop it one l'reston said Chrysler is in the found himself on picket duty under worked for Chrysler 21 years. "And way or another," he said about the TALKING TO THE MEN on the strike tine, Bill Osos, re- 1st of a $353 million expansion sunny skies Wednesday. The Chrys- we must be united. Unity is our process Chrysler uses to farm work gional director of the United Auto Workers, tells Chrysler ject at its Kokomo plant, adding, ler employee of 31 years expected to strength. A selective strike at various out to job shots and overseas man- employees the strike that started Tuesday night probably Ion't know if they will delay that be back inside the company's electri- plants isn't the answer. We all need ufacturers instead of having it pro- won't last long. cause of the strike)." cal plant soon, he said. to be out at the same time." duced in its plants. BY ROBERT LING/Chief Photographer guise liner steams home, ending Palestinian hijacking terror ROME (AP) — The Achille Lauro ended its odyssey the 69-year-old invalid. Genoa before the cruise began there Oct. 3, and two oth- try because President Hosni Mubarak said he did not terror Wednesday, steaming into its home port of Gennaro Calabrese De Feo, chief prosecutor in Genoa, ers the prosecutor described as "fugitives" but did not know at the time that one of the passengers had been noa where two more Palestinians were charged in the said all seven Palestinians accused in last week's hijack- identify. killed. Navy F-Ms from the aircraft carrier Saratoga inter- ling of an American passenger during the ship's hi- ing of the cruise liner had been charged with kidnapping Italian authorities took the four alleged hijackers into cepted the Egyptair Boeing 737. king. and murder in the slaying of Klinghoffer. custody after U.S. Navy jets forced an Egyptian airliner Also on the plane was Mohammed Abbas, a PLO offi- IThe body of the dead American was flown to Rome for Prime Minister Bettino Craxi's coalition, one of the carrying them to land early last Friday at a NATO air cial who Italian officials say mediated an end to the hi- autopsy, while the Italian government faced collapse longest-lived Italian governments since World War II, base in Sicily. jacking. The United States said he directed the piracy and ?.r its handling of the hijack affair. split over how the piracy case was handled and appeared News reports in Italy say one of the fugitives is be- demanded he be held for extradition. nrMeanwhile, Israel released transcripts Wednesday of ready to fall. Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini's Re- lieved to have bought the tickets for the hijackers in Craxi's government did not stop Abbas from leaving 'lir) conversations it said proved PLO official Moham- publican Party quit the 26-month-old Cabinet, angered Genoa, the Achille Lauro's home port. The other was for Yugoslavia, provoking U.S. outrage and condemna- KI Abbas knew in advance the names and plans of the by Craxi's refusal to detain a PLO official the United said to have left the liner in Alexandria, Egypt, the last tion by Spadolini, the defense minister. Abbas later left ackers of an Italian cruise ship. An Italian prosecutor States accused of masterminding the hijacking. stop before the hijacking Oct. 7 off Port Said. Yugoslavia, and his present whereabouts are unknown. he has solved the murder of an American passenger Klinghoffer's body drifted to shore Monday near the Investigators boarded the liner as it rounded Sicily and In Washington, Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese said the ed aboard the Achille Lauro. Syrian port of Tartus. headed for home. They questioned Capt. Gerardo De United States was "making as much headway as we pos- rosecutor Dolcino Favi told a news conference after Reports from the captain and others on the Achille Rosa and at least five crew members, hoping the men sibly can" in tracking down Abbas, but he did not elab- ship docked Thursday at its home port in Genoa, Lauro said the Palestinian pirates shot the 69-year-old could shed light on Klinghoffer's murder. orate. have reconstructed the killing of the American in all New Yorker, who was confined to a wheelchair, when The ship's company, Flotta Lauro, said 313 crew Spadolini has criticized Italy's Middle East policy as details." But he declined to say who pulled the trig- the ship was off Tartus Oct. 8 and threw him overboard. members and 19 passengers were aboard for the trip to devised by Craxi and Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti, P killing Leon Klinghoffer of New York City. State Department spokesmen in Washington said Genoa from Port Said. especially their willingness to deal with the Palestine srael's military intelligence chief announced on na- Klinghoffer apparently had been shot twice, once in the The port is where the hijackers surrendered to Pales- Liberation Organization. The defense minister said he al television Wednesday night that it had learned the head and once in the neck. tinian negotiators Oct. 9 and were taken 'into Egyptian learned of Abbas' release from television news reports. ils of Klinghoffer's death, saying it was the youngest The seven men charged include the four who took custody. He and two other Republican ministers resigned from he four Palestinian hijackers who fired two shots into control of the ship for two days, a Palestinian arrested in Egypt granted the pirates safe conduct out of the coun- the 30-member Cabinet. Special order of business an on bike exposes himself to woman Senate rebukes graduation plans A man on a bike exposed himself to a woman at about 8 p.m.