European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday february 24,1986eastern airlines will consider Purchase offer before strike new York not Eastern air lines faced with a pilots strike deadline at 12 01 . Wednesday told its three unions saturday that it has received a Purchase offer a Union spokesman said. According to sources close to the negotiations which continued through the night the airline said that if the labor differences were not settled sunday it was prepared to accept the Purchase offer or go into corporate reorganization under the bankruptcy code. Although the Union spokesman Don Skiados said in a statement that the pilots had been unable to identify the source of the last minute Purchase offer sources close to the negotiations said it came late Friday from Frank Lorenzo chairman of Texas air corp., which owns Continental airlines and new York air among other holdings. Telephone Calls saturday night to the Homes of spokesmen for Texas air were not answered. Members of Eastern s chapter of the air line pilots association called an emergency meeting sunday in Miami the airline s Headquarters where the labor talks c been entered to consider what to do about the Surprise ultimatum. We Are treating it As a very serious matter Larry Schulte chairman of the Eastern chapter said in n statement. The developments accelerated by three Days a showdown in which the very exis tence of Eastern the nation s third largest airline is at stake. The dilemma for Eastern s 4,600 pilots was particularly difficult because Lorenzo has been anathema to that Union. The feud dates from the fall of 1983 when Continental went into reorganization under chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code and slashed the wages of pilots and other employees. The pilots went on strike but Continental was Able to keep operating at a considerably reduced level and has since returned to profitability with non Union pilots. The pilots demonstrated their enormous antipathy to Lorenzo last year by throwing Frozen in motion Sis photo by Gui Satiu Eltor freezing temperatures add a dramatic touch to Dolphin statue la a Small Fountain in London. The Chilly Dolphin at its location next to the Tower Bridge seems to acquire icy fins in the air while leaping from the water. Their support to Carl Icahn the financier in a contest Between Icahn and Lorenzo to buy trans world airlines which has also had serious financial difficulties. Lorenzo lost that Battle and Icahn has taken Over As chairman of Twa. The deadline for a pilots strike at East Ern was fixed when negotiations deadlocked in january. Robert Brown of the National mediation Board set a 30-Day Cooling off period As required under the railway labor act. The strike deadline comes at the end of the 30day period during which the Union is prohibited from striking. A Federal mediator has talked with both sides but no Progress has been reported in breaking the impasse. Eastern s lenders had Given the airline until Friday to work out its labor difficulties As the Price of gaining time on repaying a $2.5 billion debt. The airline has been demanding sizable Long term reductions in pay and benefits from the pilots. Attack pistol was stolen from judge Rome a the terrorist slain in the attack last week against a top aide to Premier Bettino Praxi used a pistol that had been Sto Len from a Rome judge reports said sunday. Italian newspapers quoted investigators As saying that the ,38-Calibcr Smith and Wesson pistol belonged to judge Orazio Savia who reported his Fiat car stolen near the Spanish Steps in Rome in 1979. A red brigades splinter group has claimed responsibility for Friday s terrorist attack in Northern Rome against a 47-year-old govern ment economist Antonio a Empoli i would never have imagined that 1 would become an objective of terrorism a Empoli was quoted As saying in an inter View in sunday s edition of ii mass Aggro a Rome newspaper. He was interviewed in his Hospital room where he was reported recovering Well from Bullet wounds in the Elbow and leg. I think that by Means of me they wanted to get the Premier a Empoli said. In claims of responsibility Anonymous callers said a Empoli had been attacked for his work on Italy s 1986 budget which they called news reports on sunday said that Ballis tics tests indicated that the shots that injured a Empoli were not fired from the Smith and Wesson which was carried by Wilma Monaco 28, the terrorist who was killed and abandoned on the the Street by her three companions in the attack. Police Over the weekend stopped cars at roadblocks and used helicopter surveillance in their Hunt for the escaped terrorists. They also combed neighbourhoods where they believe the terrorists might have been Given shelter As they planned their attack. The Day before the attack Italy s Interi or ministry issued a report warning that Domestic terrorism was making a comeback. On feb. 10, a former mayor of Florence was killed in an attack claimed by the red brigades. Fingers reattached peking a a woman who lost All 10 fingers in an Industrial Accident is expected to recover the use of her hands after surgeons reattached the digits in a 27-hour operation the Xinhua news Agency said. News update Poison Gas victim London a one of 11 Ira Nian soldiers being treated at a Lon Don Hospital Tor chemical weapon poisoning by iraqi forces has died an iranian embassy worker said. The Soldier Ibrahim Hindoo a Deh 25, died six Days after the wounded men were flown from Teh ran and admitted to Wellington hos Pital a privately run facility in North London. A Javedas a voluntary Liaison official with the iranian embassy said three of the other soldiers were in critical condition. The iraqi regime is using both Mustard Gas which causes extensive blisters and nerve Gas which largely affects the Chesl and lungs Javedas said in a Telephone interview Hondo Osadch had external Burns internal bleeding his kid Neys did t function and his Throat was Iran and Iraq accuse each other of using chemical weapons in the War. Embassies Security Washington a the Reagan administration conceding that America s embassies arc Vulner Able to the current Security and terrorist problems overseas has sent Congress a $4.4 billion plan to make the installations safer with improvements ranging from Walls to entirely new buildings. The five year program would also replace Many local employees with americans at the embassies in mos cow and Eastern Europe in an at tempt to halt espionage. The plan would implement the recommendations of a panel that examined Security following the 1983 bombings of two . Posts i Beirut. Pay legislation signed Olympia Wash. A do. Booth Gardner has signed legislation implementing a controversial $482 million comparable Worth pay sys tem for state employees. The plan for pay adjustments still requires Federal court approval but that did t crimp a Celebration in the ornate slate reception room where the Bill was signed. About 100 legislators women s rights activists and others who jammed the chamber cheered hugged each other and posed for pictures. Comparable Worth is the ides of paying workers the same for jobs of comparable difficulty responsibility and required skills. The system Pri Marily benefits female workers. Experiment on hold Gainesville Fla. A two researchers who had outlined an Experiment involving the near drowning of 22 dogs say the research May not be needed after All. University of Florida doctors Richard Melkor and Jerome mod Ell s proposed animal research to test the usefulness of the Heimlich a never for drowning victims raised protests from animal rights activists who called the project inhumane an unnecessary. The researchers now have put the experiments on hold because it appears unlikely that the Heimlich a never will be approved by medical groups As a treatment for drowning victims the University announced at a news conference. Or. Henry Heimlich proposed to the american heart association last summer that his Man Euver which involves an abdominal thrust to Clear the Windpipe of a choking person be used As the first step in treating drowning victims
