European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse St and stripes of authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 37, no. 166 is doily Ond sunday sunday october 1, 1978 if 21855 a train strikers heed Leader s Call to return by the associated pres Union pickets who virtually shut Down the nation s rail transportation system for four Days honoured their Leader s Call to go Back to work saturday under a court order. Railroad spokesmen across the nation said trains were starting to had trains rolling within a matter of hours Union Pacific spokesman said in Salt Lake City. We be got everything running that there is in Huntington w.va., Chessie spokes Progress reported in Salt talks Washington a american an soviet negotiators reported Progress sat urday in White House negotiations for anew treaty to limit strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic had a Good and constructive meet ing Secretary of state Cyrus r. Vance said after four hours of talks under presi Dent Carter s two sides agreed to meet again Sun Day morning at the state department with Vance and soviet foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko heading the negotiating Extension of the talks which were to have ended with the White House session indicated the two superpowers were Mak ing a crash Effort to achieve a break through on a treaty that has eluded them continued on Page 24, col. 3 Man Willis Cook said Normal operation were expected to resume very the strike that began july 10 by the brotherhood of railway and airline clerks against the Virginia based Norfolk & West Ern railway grew to transcontinental pro portions last week As the Union threw up picket lines at 73 other carriers providing new with Mutual Aid pact financial assist Ance. The clerks struck in a dispute Over Auto mation caused Job eliminations and Union representation of supervisory picket lines were honoured and the movement of manufactured goods raw materials agricultural products and Amtrak and commuter passengers on 200,-000 Miles of track came to a halt in most areas. The picket lines started coming Dow Friday night after . District court judge Aubrey Robinson s temporary in Junction reinforcing president Carter s Back to work order. Carter using the 1926 railway Labo act ordered the 4,600 Union clerks Back to work and set up an emergency Board to study the dispute. After 60 Days the work ers could resume their strike if no Settle ment is reached. Robinson set oct. 10 for a hearing on whether the injunction should be made permanent for the duration of the 60-Daycooling-off period. Amtrak officials said Short distance runs were resuming Over the weekend with full service expected by late sunday night. The Boston & Maine Railroad returned to operation saturday and expected to be on Normal schedule for the monday com Muter runs after a 14-hour strike the com Pany said. The walkout Cut passenger and freight service through new England and new York state briefly. Secret conclave will Start oct. 14 of Chat is if Koko Francine Patterson shows a banana to Kop the Gorilla at Stanford univer sity. Koko is punching answers on an auditory keyboard that is linked to computer. Thus the Gorilla produces spoken words As Well As signs. A by al Rossiter up a 7-Yeaf-old Gorilla taught to speak in sign languages now making rhymes and the Goril la s instructor said Friday she has Only scratched the surface in discovering the mental prowess of the largest . Every Day i continue to be amused and amazed by what the gorillas do and say said Francine Patterson 31, a Stanford University graduate student at Palo Alto calif., who has worked with Koko the Gorilla for six years.-". Koko now has a working vocabulary of 375 signs including abstractions Suchias imagine understand gentle stupid and also has her special insults Rotten stink and dirty an she Calls unman Nerly people a Bird continued on Page 24, col. 4 Pope s funeral set for wednesday Vatican City a acting swiftly cardinals of the roman Catholic Church on saturday set the funeral of Pope John Pauli for wednesday and the Start of the secret conclave to elect his successor for oct. 14,sharply curtailing pre conclave Consulta of 127 princes of the Church assembled on the third floor of the Ornat apostolic Palace for the first of their daily meetings to draw up funeral and conclave plans. Although the majority was still out of Rome they set the two dates immediately in contrast to Days of waiting after the death of Pope Paul i on aug. 6.outside, tens of thousands including schoolchildren nuns peasants and tourists formed a half mile Long line on the massive cobblestones Piazza to pay their last respects to the pontiff lying in state in the Clementine Hall of the Palace. The body was to be transferred to St. Peter s Basilica later saturday in a solemn procession of cardinals and other prelates. The Basilica was to be open for Public viewing sunday at 7 . Until the outdoor funeral mass on the Steps of the Basilica oct. 4.the curtailment of pre conclave time was attributed by Vatican experts to the familiarity of cardinals with the elaborate electoral process and the fact that much of the problems of the Church had been Dis cussed less than two months observers cautioned however that the swiftness of the cardinals in set Ting the next conclave did not necessarily mean that they had a front running Candi Date in mind. Most widely mentioned Pap Abili or pop Eables carried the same Basic characteristics As Pope John Paul ital Ian and pastoral. They include Cardinal Giovanni Benelli,57, archbishop of Florence Cardinal Cor Rado Ursi 70, archbishop of Naples Cardi Nal Salvatore Pappalardo 60, archbishop of Palermo and Cardinal Giuseppe Siri,72, archbishop of Genoa. Benelli formerly Pope Paul s right hand Man and Siri carry conservative labels while Ursi and Pappalardo Are considered a Cardinal from the Central administration of the Church such As Sergio pig Nedoli Pericle Felici or Sebastiano bag Gio each considered a front runners in thelast conclave was not ruled out
