European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lowest in Over 3 years january the stars and stripes Page 27 3 killed joblessness rate plunges in Basque shootout Washington up unemployment in the United states dropped sharply to percent in tue lowest rate since the Early Days of the recession More than three years the labor depart ment said the percent improvement Over no vember exceeded president Carters goal Tor percent joblessness by the end of the figure on the number of jobless is expected to ease current pressure placed on the administration for More eco nomic a record 58 percent of americans were working in culminating a rapid million Rise in employment during 1977 the biggest annual gain in the Post world warts not since the Start of the recession in october 1974 has unemployment fallen As Low As it did in joblessness was High during most of last for eight months of the it fluctuated Between percent and Yak the december decline represented an percent drop from percent unemployment originally reported for novem but labor department officials said wednesday that novembers rate has been revised to the unemployment rate at the end of 1977 represented a percent drop from the recession Peak in May 197s and a percent decline Over the past refused to end Plant blockade Texas arrests 40 striking Farmers by in cd press Latifa Arioul forty striking banners who blockaded a cold storage punt in Texas were arrested tuesday in the most militant protest yet of the Mont hold and National strike tenders called on agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland to the strikers were booked at the Webb county jail in on Mise Meanor charges and released on personal Hie strikers refused to obey sheriffs who asked them to remove a blockade of the where they were protesting imports of Frozen beef car strawberries and other commodities from they said imports of mexican beef alone Cost american farm ers million a in other strike action in Texas about three dozen tractors temporarily blocked entrances to the Campbell soup in the Farmers allowed Small vehicles to enter the but stopped transport trucks at the main Dolph Briscoe rejected Farmers requests for a special legislative session to consider constitutional Amend ment giving tax Breaks to but he endorsed heir goal of breakeven prices for farm More than Illinois in tone chilling convened at the id Springfield tuesday in the show of support for the strike in that state since last former French envoy Dies Paris a Andre a French ambassador to Germany both before and after world War has friends he was Dave Oneal promised to convey their request for support to ailing James who was in bed with a bad striking Farmers in Seattle halted their picketing at the Pter m Grain elevators after closing operations there Friday and spokesman Bob Gangle of Moses said the group achieved its objective and did not feel there was any use in further army civilian is held in fatal stabbing of son Germany secs a 47 year old american civilian employed by the army is being held in connection with the fatal stabbing of his 20yearold son in their apartment in the american housing area near Wharton Barracks Accord ing to a Community Public affairs spokes near Midnight saturday Patrick Donovan returned to the family apart an argument ensued with his James a gs11 assigned to det lit 7th signal brigade the spokesman the son was stabbed in the stomach with a Hunting the spokesman another of the Donovan children called who brought an ambulance and doctor with them to the the Young Man was taken to a local Hospital where he died about an hour and a half later of his the elder Donovan is being held by German authorities the spokesman adding that the incident is being investigated by the German criminal police and the stocks closing Stock prices through the Courtesy of Bache Halsey Stuart Jonwll Amow Gram 144 aim Chom in ainu of Ai a Ajom 41 and thou b4 in of flaw u4 amal Renoi 414 414 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have to be worked out Grad creating an entity or Structure composed of agricultural producers to devise and approve policies that affect a refusing to allow imports to enter the country at a Price less than 110 percent of Schroder likened the Farmers demand to the Federal minimum he said this didst guarantee an Only an ability to earn an elephant heart test needed companionship and carrots England up u took veterinarian Andrew Greenwood three sacks of carrots and a Herd of ele Well As his usual equipment to perform an Electrocardiogram on a circus circus owner Dick Chipperfield said a 7yearold Indian had not been Well recently and Greenwood was called in to test her we Are doing the heart tests As one of Many others to find out what is wrong with of the Chipperfield he said the circus entire troupe of per forming elephants joined Camela in the circus ring to keep her company when she was wired up to the three sacks of carrots were needed before she would stand still and Stop trying to operate the machine herself with her said Dow Jones overages new Iurii Zooi j0004 Helgn Clow a Mojo 41 Madrid Upil in the worst Basque violence in three a police inspector and two suspected separatist Urban guerrillas were killed wednesday in a gun Battle in the town of police the National news Agency Cifra later re ported a second shootout in Pamplona be tween police and suspected guerrillas and said it was believed it claimed one casual Cifra later also reported an explosion in a building near where the main shootout u said it appeared that police were blasting their Way into an apartment serving As a guerrilla the incidents came As police swooped Down on suspected hideouts of Basque Homeland and Liberty this outlawed far left group has reacted to the governments recent granting of provisional Home Rule to the Basque Region by unleash ing a new Campaign of wont flare up since october the shootout was the worst political Vio Lence in the Basque Region since last 7 when Eta guerrilla killed a High govern ment official and his two bodyguards in the town of Eta and other organizations have rejected the limited autonomy rights which the government gave to the basques last the extremists Are demanding the withdrawal of All National police from the Region As a first step toward its full in the main gun Battle in the san Jorge suburb started when a group of guerrillas returned to their hideout just As police had finished searching seizing a Quantity or arms and police said police identified the dead As police in Spector Jose Manuel Baena and Eta suspects Joaquin Perez and Ceferino police also said that in a swoop Down on another hideout three one of them a were record of violence Eta has a Long record of kill Ings and two weeks its gunmen held up two vans near Bilbao and stole More than a ton of plastic some of which was used in bomb and gun attacks on police stations in Pamplona and other towns last claiming responsibility for the theft of the Eta said the stolen Materi Al will increase our military offensive potential in the revolutionary fight for workers rights and in police vigilance was drastically stepped up following re ports that Eta planned to carry its Campaign of violence into the dozens of jeeps carrying heavily armed police were parked near government buildings or cruising the City conversion rates London up wednesdays closing rates of the Dollar to european cur figures Are expressed in dollars to the British other local currencies to irl Alhi Jonm Mort Oroo Kovit u n 449w 1444 Uin 1s4i Tui hmm h4s these Are commercial banking rates and in Moat cases Are not available to the Public at the exact rate the sate of Marks to personnel Tor personal use will be at the rate of on 110 is based on a Price fixing at midday and allows for a Standard handling