European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday september 13, 1978 to Settle postal rift Washington a amid continue threats of a mail strike a special mediator decided tuesday to Settle the postal con tract dispute himself saying the postal service and its unions appear unable to reach a settlement on their own by Satur Day s deadline. Mediator James j. Healy told bargain ers of his decision when the postal service and three unions representing More than500,000 workers resumed their deadlocked negotiations. I have decided to Render a final an binding decision on the unresolved issues in dispute. Healy said. While a negotiated settlement is still possible it is Al most certain now that it will be necessary for me to resolve the issues. His decision to Settle the lengthy dispute with binding arbitration appeared Likely to fuel strike threats by some local postal Union leaders who contend that the bar gainers should Settle the issues on their own and submit the agreement to rank and file ratification. Shoving match meanwhile tuesday a shoving match broke out As the president of the largest postal Union was confronted outside the site of the talks by angry new Jersey Post Al workers who were fired for walking of the Job in july. Emmet Andrews head of the 299,000-member american postal workers Union had to push his Way past the handful of an Gry pickets who screamed at him to win amnesty for them As part of a new contract settlement. As Andrews entered the building Security guards had to restrain the demonstrators from pursuing him. The workers were fired when the staged a Wildcat strike on july 21 at the bulk mail Center in Jersey City n.j., to protest the tentative contract agreement reached that Day. Illegal strike threatened some big City Union leaders have threat ened to Call an illegal mail strike for wednesday but they say they May cancel the Job action if they fail to marshal enough support from Union members. National Union leaders said they believe few members would be willing to participate in the strike which is barred by Feder Al Law. Meanwhile postmaster general Wil Liam f. Bolger said tuesday he is pre pared to do what is necessary and required by Law if there is a strike. However he repeated his prediction that that there will not be a strike. I Sim ply do not believe our employees will Lethe american people Down Bolger said in a speech prepared for a convention of Busi Ness mailers Here. In his statement Healy held out hop that the two sides would Settle on their own before their self imposed deadline of 10a.m. Saturday. But he said he would have to begin deciding the issues on his own on the Assumption a negotiated settlement will not breached in time. 50-foot Waves 70-Mph winds Atlantic storm lashes qe2 new York up the luxury liner qe2 has overcome 50-foot Waves and 70mph winds that left three persons injured during the worst Atlantic storm in a Yea Rand is cruising toward new York at nor Mal Speed Cunard lines said  is Back to Normal and the ship is expected to arrive in port at 1 , said a spokesman for Cunard which owns of the  elderly woman passenger and two Crew members were injured sunday when a tropical storm originating in the carib bean lashed the ship Midway on a 3,000 mile Atlantic crossing. The passenger suffered a broken Arm one Crew member suffered a broken Collar Bone and the other sprained his wrist. The Cunard spokesman said the Captai radioed that the ship was experiencing a Force 12 storm the most severe there is meaning Waves of 50 feet or More and winds of 70 Mph or More. The ship lurched violently when the storm struck. The spokesman said the liner slowed its Normal crusing Speed of 28.5 knots an hour to 9 knots and changed direction. That led to Calmer seas and by 5 . Monday things had returned to Normal. An employee who asked not to be identified said the storm damaged the railings of the liner and tossed things about in the Cabins. He said the storm was the worst in a year. Other Crew members said it waste worst in a dozen years. The Captain radioed that there was dancing aboard the liner monday night and dinner and breakfast were served As unusual. The weather was Good. The spokesman said the ship was 1,000miles off new York and was expected to Dock at new York s pier 90. The ship which left from Southampton England last Friday is carrying 1,213passengers and 1,000 Crew members. 3 took cruise on soviet liner typhoid strikes 6 . Vacationers London a an outbreak of six cases of typhoid fever was reported in Brit Ain tuesday and health authorities said three of the victims became ill after sailing aboard an unhygienic soviet cruise  officials said they were trying to Trace another 500 passengers who went on cruises aboard the soviet liner Litva Las month. But authorities said there was no firm evidence As yet that the infectious disease is being spread by the soviet ship and sweep against plotters nets prominent iranians Tehran a Security forces act ing under martial Law arrested a prominent moslem Clergyman several Well known journalists and a former Cabinet member tuesday in a sweeping govern ment Clampdown on opposition groups. The Clergyman Sheik Yahya Nasiri Noori was charged with a plot against the Security of the state by stirring up protest demonstrations. Reports in Tehran said that perhaps a Many As 1,000 persons have been ordered not to leave the country. Rioters in a number of iranian cities had attacked Banks Heaters liquor stores an shops before the proclamation of martial Law sunday by the government under Sha Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The opposition led by conservative moslem and accused by the government of alliances with pro soviet leftists has been demanding Resto ration of strict islamic Law and the ouster of the Shah. Raiders who searched Noori s House claimed they found documents disclosing his involvement in arson and attacks nonpublic places. The raiders said also they found Bank accounts totalling $1.5 million which the Clergyman had opened under his own name or for his family members. Security agents operating under what the government described As an anti corruption drive also took into custody a Doc Tor and former minister of health sheikh us Isla Zadeh and his two top aides. While government agents carried out the drive against political dissidents and corrupt government officials the majlis lower House of Iran s parliament began debating the government program offered by the new prime minister Jaafar Sharif Emami. In Tehran and other cities millions of iranians watched the parliament debate for the first time tuesday As they were carried live on the state operated color television network. As required by Law Sharif Emami presented his Cabinet sunday and asked for approval of his program in a vote of Confidence. In the debate tuesday opposing deputies unanimously charged Sharif Emami with responsibility for recent casualties. The Leader of the opposition pan iraqis party Mohsen Pezeshpour claimed that recent uprisings were the result of Public dissatisfaction from the previous govern ment. Pezeshpour said he regretted that the recent liberalization movement initiated by the Shah had resulted in Unity and Friendship of islamic groups with the communists. He was referring to last thursday mass rally in Tehran in which an Esti mated 100,000 demonstrators demanded enforcement of islamic Laws. Some shouted slogans for establishment of a democratic Republic of Iran and ouster of the  deputies have registered to speak in the debate wednesday before the scheduled vote of Confidence on the new govern ment. Observers said that perhaps a dozen of the 365 deputies might vote against the government or abstain. Go hospitalized by Poison berries  Bureau chief Nurnberg is a 20-year-old sol Dier from 3rd in 35th Armor is in Nurnberg army Hospital after eating Blue dime sized berries he found growing on a Waist High Bush near Bamberg. The fruit looked like blueberries and tasted Good. But they were deadly Poison Ous berries called  Werner Schreiber doctor of internal Medicine warned that Belladonna is common in Europe and that its victims in clude participants in past nato fall exercises. The Soldier was brought to the Bamber health clinic after his wife noticed he was acting funny wild confused the doctor said. The victim also had a High temperature Reddish skin wide pupils and a heartbeat of 120-140 beats per minute. Schreiber said doctors were Able to save the Soldier by pumping his stomach using drugs to slow the heart and giving him fluids through a tube. A common nickname for the Bush  germans Call the berries to Lkirsche the cherries that drive one mad. The name Belladonna comes from Italy where women once used the berries As Eye makeup because it made their eyes wider. The name Means Beautiful  Call it deadly. Three of the confirmed cases appeared to have no connection with the soviet  outbreak follows the death Monda a from smallpox of mrs. Janet Parker a 40-j year old medical photographer and the country s first smallpox victim for Morthan five years. She is believed to have contracted the disease at the Birmingha Hospital where she worked above a Small j pox research Laboratory. The typhoid Alert began last weekend when three britons including a 12-year-old i girl came Down with the disease two weeks after returning from a cruise on the soviet liner. Three new cases identified tuesday were unrelated however officials said. Nevertheless medical checks preplanned on the liner and its Crew when if docks at Tilbury East of London on the River thames on saturday. Mediterranean cruise the ship was Docking overnight tuesday at Lisbon on its return from its latest medi-1 Terrane an cruise. Last month More than 100 passengers who had travelled on a two week Litva cruise signed a protest petition complain-1 ing that cockroaches unwashed crockery and other unclean conditions had caused food poisoning on Board. One passenger Terence Starr of Bristol said it was an awful trip. The food was dreadful and i was ill for some of the  a port of London authority medical offi Jer boarded the liner sept. 2 and found it unhygienic informing the ship s master of needed improvements. The port authority runs London s docks. In isolation wards medical Alert was sounded when the three passengers a 12-year-old girl from Jersey in the Channel islands and two men from Chelmsford and Gosport eng land came Down with typhoid after re turning from a Litva cruise. They Are now in Hospital isolation wards. Samples were taken from the ship s was Ter Supply and medical tests conducted on the Crew but Etc lines the cruise Organ Aizers who chartered the liner said tues Day that analysis showed nothing to Indi i Cate typhoid and water supplies were free of infection. J we did have an outbreak of minor stomach upsets on the ship but they seemed to recover said a spokesman forthe firm. 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