European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Postal service unions open talks to head off strike sunday september 3, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 23 Washington up coached by a Harvard professor . Postal service officials and Union negotiators representing 500,000 postal workers opened talks Friday designed to head off a new threat of a nationwide mail strike. Japan buying $1 billion of uranium Washington up Japan has agreed to Purchase $1 billion in enriched uranium from the United states and pay for it in Advance of its 1979 delivery in a move to Shore up the faltering Dollar the Treasury department said saturday. Japanese ambassador Fumihiko Togo exchanged letters with state department officials Friday to conclude the Sale. The specific detailed agreements Are being made by various japanese Utility companies with the . Department of Energy and the Treasury whereby they will pay $1 billion to the . Government the japanese embassy said. The Utility companies will use the uranium to generate electrical Power. Officials said Transfer of the funds will help reduce pressure on the Dollar that has caused its Sharp decline in value in rela Tion to the japanese yen. In the current two Way Trade Japan enjoys about an $11 billion favourable balance. Hiromu Fukada the embassy s economic minister said the Utility companies will pay in Advance for the uranium with delivery next year in keeping with the economic Summit in Bonn in july in which Japan agreed to Speed up payments to the unite states. Salvation  quits world Church group London up the salvation  has suspended its membership in the world Council of churches because of the Council s support of rhodesian patriotic front guerrillas Robert Mugabe and Joshua  Brief announcement in this week s is sue of the salvation St newspaper War cry said the Church has been perplexed and distressed by a recent Grant of $86, 000 to the patriotic front. Army Leader Gen. Arnold Brown was said to have decided to suspend member ship in the International Church Organiza Tion pending inquiries. The 288-member world Council gave the Grant this month for food health educational and agricultural  Pauline Webb the Only briton on the world Council executive Council said she hoped the salvation lists would reconsider. They Are a unique body with a unique contribution to make she said. She said the Grant was consistent with recent acc policy and carried a restriction that the Money Only be used for humanitarian  Nepal landslides Bury 19 Katmandu a landslides caused by torrential Rains have buried 19 persons alive including a family of seven police sources said. . District judge John Pratt helped Friday by extending a temporary restrain ing order barring the postal workers from striking through sept. 18. Talks began right on schedule at 10 a.m., with chief mediator James j. Healy a Harvard labor relations expert briefing leaders of three postal unions on How he in tends to proceed. J. Joseph Vacca head of the 180,000 member National association of letter carriers Emmet Andrews Leader of the 280,000-member american postal workers Union Lonnie Johnson chief of the 40,000 member National Post office mail handlers Union and James Lapenta a Union bargaining coordinator were present at the opening  postmaster general James con Way headed the government s five Mem Ber negotiating team. Under an agreement worked out to Avert a strike set for last monday Healy will have up to 15 Days until sept. 16, to medi ate a new contract with the postal workers. If Healy fails or determines there is an impasse he will resolve the issues through a system similar to binding arbitration. Any negotiated settlement will be submitted once again to the unions rank and file for  members ignored president car Ter s anti inflation appeals and voted Down an earlier agreement that provided a 19 Viz percent wage and Cost of living increase spread Over three years with annual base pay hikes of 2,3 and 5  Compromise bargaining arbitration system with Healy in the chair was suggested by Wayne Horvitz director of the Federal mediation and conciliation serv ice to forestall strikes mandated by two of the three unions after the previous agree ment was voted Down. Striking pose a striking teacher carrying a guitar gets hugged by one of her students out Side Mcmain Middle school in new or leans. The school Board said there were less teachers on the Job each Day of the strike which began thursday. A earning More producing More Carter praises american workers Washington up president car Ter joined the labor Day observances by noting More americans Are working Are paid More and Are producing More than at any other time in history. The text of his statement on this the second labor Day of my administration More americans hold jobs than at any time in our nation s history. Unemployment has been dramatically slashed. Our workers Are earning More and producing More than Ever before last month the Gross National product passed the Milestone $2 trillion Mark. Though inflation is a major concern we Are working hard to combat it and Overall the economic picture bodes Well for american Citi Zens. Our free Market system continues to provide Broad social and economic protections while maintaining respect for individual dignity and Freedom of Choice in the work place As Well As in the Market pal Ace. Our nation offers a working Environ ment in which we can take Pride and the Opportunity for skilled craftsmen to take pleasure in their continuing achievements working americans have Good cause to celebrate this labor Day. In the last 12 months More jobs have been added to the Economy than in any year in history. Al most a Quarter of those who were unemployed when i took office Are productively employed today. We have worked hard on this problem and the results Are Gratifying we have brought unemployment Down to the lowest level in three years and we have done it in a peaceful growing Economy without War or recession. Working americans can also take Pride in the continuing effectiveness of our Strong free labor organizations. We have a vocal articulate work Force in this nation and an Ever better Standard of living for an Ever rising percentage of our people. We still have problems we still have much to do. But it is Good to pause and count our blessings too. We have a great Deal to be thankful for on this labor  193 marchers arrested in . Protesting Shah los Angeles a police say 193 people were arrested during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran that turned into a Rock throwing Melee. Several demonstrators and three to four police officers were injured none seriously police said. About 600 people participated in the pro test Friday that began outside the Down town Federal building and was to end at the nearby los Angeles times building said police Captain Walter Stephenson. The demonstration was organized to protest american news coverage of a re cent fire that killed about 400 people in a iranian movie theater. Officers said the protest got out of hand when demonstrators began burning the Shah in effigy and throwing rocks at police and firefighters. Stephenson said the demonstrators were booked for investigation of a variety of charges including illegal use of a bullhorn burning an effigy participating in a riot and assaulting a police officer. Media reports quoted the government of Iran As blaming the movie theater fire on a Radical moslem sect opposed to the Rule of the Shah. A flyer distributed by the demonstrators Friday blamed the fire on the Savak the Shah s police Force. The group calling itself the federation of iranian students in the ., claimed in the flyer that the fire was set so the Shah could Call a state of emergency and Clamp Down on groups in Iran opposed to his Rule