European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 27 phone strikes averted at last minute by the associated press Telephone strikes were averted in Many parts of the country Early sunday As negotiators reached tentative agreements on some after workers had already begun setting up picket striking had begun in new York Indiana and Michigan when negotiators for Bell system companies and locals of the communications workers of America reached tentative in the Cwa reached an agree ment with Western electric the Bell systems equipment which employs Cwa management said the Brief walkouts caused no interruptions in the local covering switch installers and clerical Are still subject to ratification by Union Bell system officials had predicted last week that the local accords would be reached without but negotiators were still bargaining Over working Condi Job grievance proce Job seniority and other issues in some state and regional negotiators for the Bell which averted a nationwide Canadian prime minister Pierre tru Deau and son Michel enjoy a Romp at family frolic the Winnipeg Railroad Trudeau and his sons and 22 Mont hold Michel were in route to West Ern Canada by a photo eve of Catholic ceremony bomb shakes Basilica in Lourdes France up a powerful bomb blast dug a Hole in the Concrete roof of Saint Pius x underground Basilica Early sunday on the eve of a Catholic ceremony expected to be attended by hundreds of Pil no one was Hurt in the a patient in a nearby Hospital was treated for Strain which a spokes Man said was induced by the sudden damage was limited to an air duct which was destroyed and a Crater five feet deep which was drilled into the Concrete Over the Basilicas the Interior vault itself was spared some windows in the area were Shat a police spokesman said the bomb was a plastic charge which went off shortly after nobody claimed responsibility or the Church authorities said they were baffled As to who could have placed the police said they had no a spokesman for the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes said a ceremony planned for monday will go ahead in the thousands of catholics Are in the South pm French town of a european Center of pilgrimage overlooked by the pyrenees it was the scene last week of a traditionalist mass held by followers of former archbishop Marcel who has been suspended by the Pope for vociferously rejecting Church the traditionalists have also scheduled a pilgrimage to Lourdes this a police spokesman said there is no reason to suspect the traditionalists had anything to do with the Lourdes is famed for its subterranean Springs which Are said to have miraculous Healing properties and for being the birth place of Saint Bernadette Soubirous according to had visions of the Virgin Mary in the 19th strike by the Cwa a week had faced saturday Midnight strike deadlines on con tracts involving More than work the local and regional contracts supple ment the National which pro Vides wage hikes totalling 31 per cent Over three years for Cwa a threatened strike by employees of the Bell systems Chesapeake it Poto Mac Telephone covering West Virginia and the District of was averted just Over an hour before the Midnight in negotiations with new eng land Telephone with employees in five continued past the Midnight but there were no reports of pick the states include Rhode new Hampshire and the settlement with Michigan Bell Tele phone came seven hours after the and a Bell spokesman said its 000 workers were being asked to report on their next new York Bell announced at 7 an agreement affecting about technical and clerical workers the company also said settlements had been reached with most Independent leaving Only two unions represent ing about accounting employees with out an a Cwa spokesman in new York said which were set up across the state at the Midnight were removed when the settlement was a settlement with Indiana Boll Tele phone co came four hours after the dead and ova members and about 100 members of the International brother Hood of electrical workers removed picket lines and went Back to Cwa local 1150 in which represents Long line technicians reported it had also agreed to a new Pacific Telephone reached agreement with its Cwa workers As Well As workers from the Ibex and the order of repair men and toll some workers in California and Nevada were in Cwa negotiators representing about 000 workers in Oregon and washing ton said they reached agreement in Seattle with Bell representatives just minutes before picketing was scheduled to in new a settlement was reached Early sunday Between Southern new Telephone and spokesman tentative agreements were also reached late saturday and Early sunday in Mil Atlanta and Wolf kills German child Germany a a Wolf being transported to a zoo in Northern Germany broke out of his Cage and killed a seven Earold police according to the animal leaped from a truck in this suburb of Bremen and attacked the boy As he was playing with a the animal was killed by a police six Urban terrorists Are Force fed Bonn up ii prison officials sunday began the forced feeding of six of the 40 jailed Urban terrorists fasting for about a week in support of demands for improved conditions in their fasting began a week ago after a Strug Gle Between Andreas a Leader of the Baader Meinhoff band of and other of his and wardens in a Stuttgart the Baader Meinhoff prisoners in Stutt Gart had been allowed to gather for sever Al hours each Day in a common after they were supposed to have returned to their double cells and been locked in for the night one wardens discovered Baader had mane Vered to be locked into a cell with Gudrun his girl warders discovered the two hiding in a under a both were fully a fight As a Stuttgart prison authorities refused to allow the terrorists to get to Gether in their common the prisoners began fasting and Refus ing and were quickly joined by terrorists in other West German authorities said they would have per Mission to gather each evening if they broke their the terrorists said they would break the fast Only if authorities first permitted them to use the common and if authorities transferred prisoners from other West German prisons to Stuttgart to join the there the matter Lay sunday when six of the prisoners grew so weak that authorities decided they must be fed against their