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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Ulster political figure january 1961 Bernadette Devlin is shot up gunmen shot and seriously injured politician Bernadette Dev Lin and her Michael in their county Tyrone Home police Best known under her Maiden got involved in Ulster politics in the late 1960s As a civil rights activist and later at 21 became the youngest woman in the British police said a passing army patrol heard the shots and detained three men near the scene for a police statement said and her husband were taken by helicopter from the local South Tyrone where they received emergency to the Belte guarded and equipped mus grave military Hospital in police said both victims were shot several limes in the police sources said three gunmen burst into the Mai Iscys isolated and unguarded farmhouse Home 40 Miles from Belfast at and fired on the couple As they were having breakfast with their two Chil Dren and Cal Iscys eldest Republican groups blamed protestant militants for the in apparent reprisals by Republican a Par time policeman was shot dead and a Belfast restaurant was gutted by police cleared part of Central Belfast because of a bomb political sources expressed fears the shooting might bring to an end a period of uneasy peace in Northern Bernadette Devlin entered the House of commons on the Day before her 22nd birth Day in a heroine among republicans for her speeches and Street actions against British Rule in Northern Ireland which later Cost her four months in she lost conservative Catholic support after she had an illegitimate child in and became further alienated from Moder ate opinion after she lost her parliamentary seat in 1974 and helped form the militantly marxist Irish Republican later she settled Down to life As a House wife with whom she married in polish plane workers stage sit Downs Warsaw up in a spate of Esca lating Industrial Public transport in Warsaw struck for four hours Friday and workers at an air transport factory in the South walked off the Job for two Solidarity Union Solidarity Warsaw Branch called the Bank elevator carrying 21 drops 56 floors 13 Hurt continued from Page i plunged the floors to the Bottom of the elevator Shaft in the Loop but the braking device slowed the fall and less ened the Impact when the car reached the ground thirteen people were treated at three area hospitals for injuries suffered in the two passengers had broken legs and an other suffered an apparent fractured hospitals officials other passengers were treated for cuts and bruises suffered when the cars decorative ceiling estimated to weigh about 50 pounds fell on their police rescuers had to climb on top of the ceiling of elevator which serves floors 39 to 56 at the Bank to Cut the grates and lift out the trapped Passen said Herbert the elevator had the capacity to carry 43 Cabinet continued from Page i curb agencies engaging in mischievous ideological struggle against americas principles and global the Georgetown University political Sci ence professor said the Reagan administrations goals on cooperation with the United nations Are both less utopian and More Iodest than those of some previous admin and this should make them in the end More realistic and Achieva the labor and human resources com Mittee approved Bells nomination without Bell told senators that the president elect intends to carry out his Campaign prom ise to abolish the education a former Utah commissioner of higher Educa Bell served As commissioner of education in the Nixon and Ford adminis the labor committee indefinitely postponed a vote on whose Nomi nation triggered questions Over dealings by his new Jersey construction firm with the teamsters Union and an organized crime connected a committee vote had been scheduled for were still looking into a staff aide passengers and but was carrying Only 21 when the passengers came aboard on the 56th passenger John who suffered a leg estimated it took about 45 minutes before firefighters completely freed we didst know where we howl and the Light stayed on and then the ventilation stayed the people got up except for one lady her leg was Bent under her publisher of a monthly Finan Cial there was no feeling of acceleration like we were although there were some jokes made about somewhere around the 46th floor there was a but nobody thought much about he we did not know it was falling until we it seemed to be the next thing we knew we hit the everybody was scrunched Robert another said most of the people suffering leg injuries were standing in the rear of the the people standing near the door were hit by the decorative he Elmer a superintendent for Westinghouse elevator the elevators said thursday night that Auto Hydraulic buffers cushioned the the elevator did not Tessner it landed on the Jeff general manager of the building on South Dearborn said the elevator merely stopped if that elevator would have fallen that car would have been tas Sani Central Europe forecast for saturday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy Northern Germany rain or rain and Snow Central and Southern Germany Snow and heavy Snow in Alpine High temperatures 2632 tows 20 Sunset saturday will be at with Sunrise sunday at the Outlook for sunday Calls for continued Cloudy skies with decreasing precipitation in the North and occasional Snow and Snow showers in Central and Southern heavy Snow in the temperatures will be temperatures recorded Friday 4am 4pm r cd p p p p 45 34 36 48 54 46 32 32 32 34 32 34 p r p r p 4pm 32 32 30 39 so 55 27 28 30 36 39 46 32 32 cd Clouds a partly Snow 7th weather so transit strike in the capital to push demands for a 40hour work week and to protest government plans to Dock the pay of workers who stay off the Job on saturdays that the government has not declared it was in Defiance of repeated govern ment warnings that it would stand firm on its in Solidarity said some workers at the air transport factory about 150 Miles South of Warsaw struck from 7 to 9 in support of workers and peasants occupying the premises of the now defunct state run unions in the town of about 30 Miles the Rzeszot protesters about 220 supporters of a Rural Solidarity Independent peasants Union seized the building 2 and have been staging a Satin de manding that a government commission sign an agreement giving de Facto recognition to the Rzeszot is in the Pieart of a Region of Poland that since the last Century has been a stronghold of the Radical peasant move the protesters there said they now feared that authorities would step in with police to evict earlier this week protesters who had occupied Public buildings in two other towns were evicted by a Solidarity spokesman in the National said that the Mielec strike a major show of Industrial sup port for the peasants had gone on with the approval of the National Union and he said there would be a National commission meeting after the re turn from Rome of Leader Lech on the Issue of free italian Industrial giant plans massive layoffs Milan a Italy largest Petro chemical Mon Edison has announced that it will dismiss employ or percent of its total work to relieve its economic situation and improve sources close to Mon Edison said dismiss als could be started shortly in the company Headquarters in Milan and in factories in Northern Italy and analysts said firings of both White and Blue Collar workers would produce yearly savings of about million or the loss Mon Edison is expected to Post for Mon Edison was the second italian Indus trial group to resort to dismissals in the Wake of economic and production last fall the largest italian Auto maker and private Laid off thou Sands of workers after its sales slumped on foreign election Date set Seoul up the South korean government has set 25 As the Date for elections to pick a new chief a presidential spokesman Iran Gold transferred by Carter continued from Page 1 out by tonight and it will be in Tehran tomorrow then if they accept it his voice trailed indicating that it would mean an agreement had been con Cutler said Iran had asked the United states to draft the he said Bankers who met with Secretary of state Edmund Muskie earlier in the Day on release of iranian assets Are being assistant Treasury Secretary Joseph Laitin the Treasury is completing arrangements under instructions from president Carter to position about million ounces of Gold in London amount of Gold owned by Iran and held for them by the Federal Reserve in its vaults in new the 50 tons of now valued at about along with billion Worth of american government securities owned by were Frozen by presidential order issued 10 Days after iranian militants captured the diplomatic Laitin said the new York Federal re serve had been instructed to sell the Securi ties in order to provide funds that could be deposited in an escrow account in which is mediating to end the 14month hostage Laitin said completion of the financial arrangements will permit the prompt Transfer to an escrow account for Iran if an agreement can be reached and the hos tages banking sources said the Reserve could buy some or All of the securities avoiding disruption on financial and Britain might Supply the Gold from its own making it unnecessary to Transfer ingots physically across the Atlan feverish negotiations in the government awaited the godhead to release the hostages from Al where feverish negotiations were taking place to Complete in hours trans actions that normally take an official indicated the americans would be flown to a destination of their preparations Are being made for the departure of the the who is closely connected with the hostage a aircraft charter firm said it had placed a Jet on standby at Stockholm air port to pick up the asked what would be the hostages1 first the official it has been suggested that they will be flown to Alge but that is something they can de the United states said Iran had made a promising approach that might Lead to a solution of the 14month crisis exactly two years after Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi went into financial and Legal experts flew to where the government is acting As intermediary Between Washington and Iran chief hostage be had said his government regarded this As the final Day for negotiations with the Carter Washington itself had claimed that after this Date the Carter administration would not have the capability of affirming the accepted therefore the iranian government consid ered 16 As the last Day for negotiations and once again condemns any kind of he 100 Hurt in train collision Sao Brazil up a suburban commuter train rammed that was stopped for a signal near the North sub Urb of Agua More than 100 people were injured in the  
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