European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday october 26. 1985 the Star and stripes Page 7 Philly cops testify in move investigation Nhonh move r "i1" 1 " or Lac fT1" of the a dial group move from their barricaded Headquarters say they told their sup enors a plan to use water cannons to dislodge rooftop Hunker would not work. Sgt. Albert revel testifying before a special commission said authors of the plan thought water cannons would Knock a rooftop Bunker off the House when the water cannons did t work a bomb was dropped on the Bun Var i no explosives dropped from a helicopter during them in 13 siege caused a fire that killed ii people in the move House and destroyed 61 other Homes in the neighbourhood. Revel said fire commissioner William Richmond at the Imal planning meeting attended by Fri agents told him water would not dislodge the Bunker. I knew it would t work. Revel said. Richmond is scheduled to testify later. Officer Michael Tursi testified that it was our Hope that the Bunker would come Down but if that did t Hap pen we could at least create a ,.i"rsi Aid office hoped the water would prevent move members from seeing police going into adjacent houses to break through Walls. A roof Type assault was considered but it would have been an absolute disaster without neutralizing the Bunker he said. Revel and Tursi said they advised their superiors about the fire department s concern. Police commissioner Gregorc Sambor. Mayor w. Wil son Good and former City managing director Leo Brooks testified last week that it was heir understanding the water guns would eliminate the Bunker. Revel also contradicted his superiors including Sambor. About the existence of a written plan and about the pres ence of an anti Lank gun machine puns and powerful automatic rifles. Sam Hor Luil said there written plan in an Effort to keep things secret and that he did t know who Aulhorn cd the heavier weapons revel produced a two Page typed document labelled Movi operation he said was prepared by planning officers Btu eco May 2 and May 9. Me said the document was on the table during a meeting in Samoa s office attended by i i agents. The document outlined the evacuation of the neighbor Hood the deployment of personnel and equipment the attempt to use water to Knock Down the Bunker and efforts to blast through the House Walls to insert Pas. If for some reason Entrance is not gained through the Walls for the Gas teams bomb men will go on to the roof and drop Down the Chimney or blow holes in the the document said. Revel said he did not know if Sambor had been Given a copy of the plan. Revel also said he overheard . Frank Powell asking Sambor whether they could machine guns and automatic rifles from outside sources because they weren t Standard equipment in the City police Arsenal. The commissioner replied that if they were needed and could be obtained legally go get them revel said. Powell who dropped the bomb selected revel and Tursi to create the tactical plan. Powell invoked his 5th amendment right against self incrimination and refuse to testify wednesday. Meanwhile . District judge James Mcgirr Kelly rejected a motion thursday from attorneys representing Powell and the fraternal order of police to prevent Public disclosure of interviews Powell gave to commission investigators. The Fop is trying to prevent the people from knowing what said commission counsel William Lytton. Gorbachev s old school chum May talk to Dod Washington a the defense department has confirmed it May negotiate a contract for the written recollections of an emigre who went to school with Mikhail Gorbachev but has t seen the soviet Leader in 30 years. We a not Rule out that an individual who had Contact with Gorbachev when in the soviet Union May have some insights and knowledge useful to the . Govern ment the Pentagon said thursday in a statement prepared in response to Media inquiries. The siege in Philadelphia move a welding. Drop onto Bunker. Hurt my Imp anal b Fil sum Juning but Tingi i Pok n Slaka Oul re Houwen Awny break through erf adjoining and Aro driven Back by gunfire from move members no Fiat broken or ouija from is nuke sub will be a museum Nautilus docks for Good in Connecticut Groton. Conn. Up1 the Nautilus launched 30 years ago As the world s first nuclear submarine has been cased into a permanent berth where it will become a floating museum. Three tugs quietly and without fanfare nudged the historic vessel through a lifting fog Down the thames River to its final port of Call at Goss Cove. The submarine will open As a tourist at traction next Spring. Only a handful of line handlers on the submarine and seamen aboard the tugs witnessed the famous submarine s final half mile trip thursday. Navy spokesman George fair fluid said the Nautilus arrived at Goss Cove at approximately 8 30 . The Nautilus was tied to a pier a Short distance from the huge electric boat ship Yards where on Jan. 21, 1954. Mamie Eisenhower christened the nuclear vessel that had been Anvi soned a Century earlier by author Jules Verne. The ship went into service nine months after it was christened. On Jan. 17, 1955. The Nautilus put to sea with c mar. Lug inc p. Wilkinson s historic message. Underway on nuclear on its Shakedown cruise the Nautilus travelled a record 1,381 Miles underwater in 89 hours. In 1958. It became the first submarine to navigate the North pole covering 1.830 Miles in 96 hours. The Pride of the Navy in the decade of sputnik and the Hydrogen bomb the sub was decommissioned in 1980 in California and its nuclear Power Plant was removed. Jaw members vote on 3-year Chrysler pact Detroit a rank and file members of the United Auto workers will vote on a new contract with Chrysler corp. Over the weekend. Results Are expected to be announced sunday evening Law officials said. Local Law leaders endorsed a tentative contract thursday setting up the vote that could end the $15 Mil lion a Day strike by 70,000 Chrysler workers. The Union s Chrysler Council approved the agreement overwhelmingly in a voice vote thursday said Robert , who represents local 372 of Trenton . The report i get from my members is that they re ready to go Back to work said Frank Mckinnon presi Dent of Law local 961 in Detroit. I would expect that the vote. Would be upwards of 95 percent in Law president Owen bib or who forged the agreement gathered the 170-Mcmber Council to explain the contract. Council member took his message Back to Union members and lobbied them to vote for the contract. Bib or has predicted ratification. A summary of the tentative contract released thursday by the Union said the average Chrysler worker would receive $2,120 immediately to compensate for the enor Mous sacrifices Chrysler workers made toward the survival of the that would be in addition to pay raises Over the three year agreement. The Union said that assuming a 4 percent annual inflation Rale 15,650 will be added to the typical Chrysler worker s regular earnings Over the three years of the con tract in wage increases and Cost of living payments. The Lump sum payments and profit sharing will come loan estimated $4,400 or More Over the three years. The Union did not gain strict controls on the subcontracting of parts work by Chrysler. However the contract would create a committee of three Union and three management members who would oversee rules that both sides agreed to govern subcontracting. Jon Hughy the chairman of Law local 1226 in Indianapolis said the workers he represents at a Chrysler electrical Plant will be pleased with the Job Security provi Sions of the tentative contract. It in t everything we wanted. We would love to have had an Iron Clad impossibility of closing a Plant Hughy said. But i think they did everything they could. I be never seen an agreement that so totally addressed All areas. 1 won t have any problem Selling Jesse Murff a Delegate from local 550 at the Chrysler Chrysler corp. In 194 Ernst gym Ulm sum. 80.233 Ort Dwinda. 100.435 total payroll in Ltd sum. S2 9 01x1, $34 a on plants in Midwest o Avgi Muy hum Ira cad 3 pm fourty a Orier it Atli 32 i 12 states. 5 n Canada. 6 in Menai Cwa us. 1 .11 Macon Canada t76.2?o. 09w Countney 39.065 True Ute . 573.248. Canada. 53.33fl altar do untie. 28.438 dour late 1198 Aston world Ciao prof its. Losses s25 1976 77 78 79 so 31 82 83 84 85 p to Ftp Onty. Somm of Rwy cop cd foundry in Indianapolis said of the proposed contract it gives pretty Good Job a contract covering 10,000 members of the separate Canadian Law who struck simultaneously oct. 16, was ratified monday and they returned to work. However More than a third of the 2,000 employees at the Chrysler Canada Ltd. Plant in Ajax Ontario have been Laid off because of the continuing . Strike. The layoffs arc a result of a backlog of trim parts said Chrysler spokesman Walt Mccall. He said 750 Ajax employees will be Laid off next week with 290 of them remaining out of work for a second week. Production at the other three Chrysler plants in Canada including the Assembly plants for the company s vans has been Cut to half shifts Mccall said. We Hope to have things Back to Normal in a week or so. We re doing a bit of a shuffle with the inventory and will be checking the situation from Day to Day he said. Chrysler said the three year agreement would Cost the company at least is billion More than the contract that expired last week. Auto Industry analysis have said the strike was costing the no. 3 Domestic automaker Morel an $15 million a Day. Chrysler workers who now make $13.23 an hour would get an average wage increase of 2.25 percent in base wages in the first year of the contract and an average Lump sum payment of 2.25 percent in the second year. In the third year they would get an average 3 percent wage increase a Cost of living formula is retained in the tentative con tract. Like the general motors and Ford pacts the Chrysler agreement contains penalty payments for excessive Over time and a Large fund called a Job Bank to pay for the retraining of High seniority workers displaced by Automa Tion and productivity improvements
