European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 0 the stars and stripes Friday August 11, 1978 postmaster refuses to renegotiate Washington a the postal serv ice said wednesday it refuses to renegotiate the tentative contract with its labor unions that has been widely criticized by heir members. We have completed our negotiations postmaster general William f. Bolger told the Washington press club. Bolger said he had refused a request bythe president of one of the four postal unions to reopen talks in the face of heavy opposition among the Union members. Bolger declined to name the Union presi Dent but a Union spokesman said it was Emmet Andrews of the american postal workers Union the largest of the four. Bolger said rejection of the tentative contract by the More than 500,000 workers now voting on ratification would mean fact finding and arbitration by mediators. He said this would re open All issues that had been thought settled in the three months of negotiations that ended july 21with the tentative contract. Retention of clause the major Issue then was retention of a clause forbidding layoffs of postal employees which the unions managed to retain. Since the tentative contract , Many Union members including numerous local presidents have said the Jas incr ase of w-5 percent Over the free years of the contract was inadequate. Wildcat walkouts at major postal instal lations near new York and san Francisco Ere ended Only with court orders and fir Ings of More than 100 workers. I addition an advisory panel within postal workers Union and the National convention of the National Assoc a ton of utter carriers has recommended rejection of the contract. Use j Means pre9ident of the api 22 dded fuel to efforts to defeat of a Jact by predicting tuesday that it would be voted Down. 9-foot robot guard when big Al talks you la Seel parliments. Private Security firms and Lory would use the robot tomonltors1electronics companies. Goes in and out. L let me put it this said quasar essentially the robot Eaulm Culver City. Calif. Api big Al is a Security guard who never sleeps on the Job. Never asks for a raise never takes a lunch break. But if crossed he can drop you to your Knees with a High pitched sound or Clamp lobster like hands around an intruder and hang on until police arrive. Standing 9-foct tall and weighing 1.-000 pounds. Big Al gets few arguments he s also Bullet proof. His makers. Quasar industries inc. Of Rutherford. N.j., tout big also known As alter and sentry ii. And his brother robot the smaller sentry i As the ultimate in Protection services. Quasar and its marketer. Taxter enterprises inc. Of Torrance unveiled the sentry robots wednesday to police de president Tony Richelt. 38. If you were a Bank robber would you go to the Bank that has a 7-foot. 685-Pound robot in the lobby or to the Bank across the Street that has a 68-year-old Guy with a Slingshot in his Belt and a uniform the robots were 10 years in the Mak ing Richelt said. Taxter already has received orders for the robots which sell for More than $100.000 each. Buyers can program the robots to their own specifications. Reichelt was reluctant to disclose exactly How the robot would catch a thief. We Don t want to give robbers an hints he said. He did however describe How a fac with a modulated voice will that anyone who crosses its path by himself Reichelt said. If thing checks the person will get a something s amiss the robot will him to halt. Of the person moves outside an radius that s when the robot Little Nasty Reichelt said. First the robot will Emit a pitched sound that will drop Yoa your Knees and give you one heu of headache said Reichelt. If does t work the robot which have a squeeze capacity around the and hangs on until authorities Senate rejects plan to give break to East coast on imported Oil pric Uncur or Tkv. R r. _ i. ,--.Washington capt the Senate has voted to Block the Carter administration from giving the East coast a generous break in the Price paid for imported Oil. Instead the Senate voted 53-40 on wednesday to permit a modest increase in subsidies designed to offset the High Price of foreign Oil compared with cheaper Domestic fuel. On the surface the Compromise pro posed by sen. Bennett Johnston a la would appear to be a defeat for 13 states along the Eastern Seaboard plus Michigan which rely heavily on imported residual Oil for industries and utilities. The Carter administration had tentatively planned to More than triple the size of subsidies which refiners of Domestic Oil Are required to pay refiners and importers of foreign Oil. R the subsidy is intended to even out the wide variation which now exists Between federally controlled prices of Domestic Oil versus imported fuels. Such East coast senators As Edward Brooke. A mass. Had threatened a filibuster against Johnston s original Effort to prohibit the proposed tripling of subsidies Brooke acknowledged that if the com plete ban had come to a vote his Sid would have lost. Instead East coast senators including Brooke and Johnston worked out a com Promise permitting a 20 percent instead Ofa 70 percent increase in subsidies. In addition Energy Secretary James agreed to recommend that president Carter take another action favourable to East coast refiners utilities and Industrial plants once the Bill is approved by the House. A to under that would continue 1,n serving Pittsburgh and Raro Oad Pittsburgh Bridges falling Down ing Allegheny county and they Are came of worry to local official since Lacy Are showing tic or age in Many App cot a freeze on a currently existing tall imported Oil. Continued suspension Tariff will equal the equivalent Oij tonal 20 percent in subsidies for coast Brooke said., the net result for consumer it increase in Petroleum products in and a slight easing of Utility Billii heating costs along the Atlantic of meanwhile efforts continued in House and Senate to get Carter plan moving again. There was reportedly heavy 1 the administration on l House Senate conference t yet to formally approve a i pricing the natural Gas Compromise i of portion of Carter s Energy pro stalled because of objections both pro consumer House senators who View it As Cut from what had been agreed total the result is that the natural r2 Promise has been postponed for of weeks from reaching the floor of i High ranking romanian off defects to . Washington up Awu officials confirmed thursday that i ranking romanian Security pen. Ion Pace a has defected . State department 11 Der instructions not to discuss refused to comment publicly Tau traction officials said an Accortt geared in a West German Nei Welt was essentially Correct. Tie German paper reported i a disappeared u Days ago business visit to Cologne. He
