European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 27, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 Detroit strikers agree on tentative pact Detroit a bar gainers for the City and a Union representing 7,000 striking municipal workers have reached a tentative agreement on a three year contract ending a 10-Day-old walkout. Officials on both sides disclosed the agreement late Friday night but gave no details. Negotiators were to meet saturday to work out some details officials said. The strike by american federation of state county and municipal employees Council 25 halted collection of garbage and idled bus service for 200,000 daily rid ers. It also disrupted local preparations for the aug. 5 state primary election. Of some spokesman Phil Sparks said More than 10,000 of the City s 17,000 workers honoured the strike thursday including 90 percent to 95 percent of his Union s 7,000 members and about 80 percent of sever Al other unions representing about 5,000 Detroit employees. The City s last reported offer had been a 2 percent wage increase the first year including additional in creases based on its financial condition with an 18 percent Cap Over three years. Of some s last Public demand was a 26 percent increase Over three years. Among some jobs held by striking workers the top minimum salary for Detroit custodians is $19,156 a year trash haulers $10,250 chemists $22,200, and secretaries $17,941. Last week s talks took place under an order by Wayne county circuit judge Sharon Tevis Finch who refused to Rule immediately on the City s request for a Back to work order. The bargaining broke off for several hours Friday afternoon when City representatives walked out. The talks resumed later in the Day. Appolo Lucky lottery winners Stanley Jurewick and his wife Gertrude. Jersey couple wins $14.9 million Trenton . Up a re tired Auto worker and his wife claimed the richest lottery Jackpot in new Jersey lottery history Friday picking up the first instalment of their $14.9 million Windfall. Stanley Jurewick 70, and his 64 year old wife Gertrude had the Only winning ticket in thursday s drawing. He had bought $11 Worth of tickets based on random selections of num Bers at Pyramid sounds in his Home town of Bayonne. Retired for five years from the general motors Plant in Linden Jurewick said he will use the Money to help his family donate some to Charity and probably buy a new car. I worked for pm for 44 years he said. It s got to be a Block Diplomat reported Choice for Pretoria Post Washington up Terence Todman the highest ranking Black . Foreign service officer will be nominated by president Reagan As the next american ambassador to South Africa administration sources say. White House aides told reporters that Todman 60, was Only one name on a list of potential nominees and there was no final decision. However sources said Friday that he would be chosen As the most Likely Prospect for Quick Senate approval. The administration began searching for another Black candidate aides said after Robert Brown the North Carolina executive tentatively chosen first with Drew his name last week amid questions about past business dealings. A senior administration official told reporters Friday that naming a Black envoy does have the potential to make it abundantly Clear in a very tangible Way what kind of a society we Reagan and Secretary of state George Shultz want to move on this very soon the official said. Reagan meanwhile indicated he is increasingly ready to bargain with con Gress on stronger pressure against South Africa s White minority regime. In his policy speech last week Reagan rejected the emotional clamor for Tough new economic sanctions but Friday the administration was conciliatory. White House officials said proposals now under consideration include Mea sures to deny visas to White South Afri cans and possibly to ban Landing rights for South african airliners. Reagan s speech left Senate republicans who he is counting on to reject a House passed measure for stronger penalties dissatisfied and prepared to draft their own sanctions. Todman was recommended to Reagan by Senate foreign relations committee chairman Richard Lugar a and. He said the replacement for ambassador her Man Nickel should be one of the Caliper of Terence Todman a career foreign service offi cer born in the Virgin islands was in Washington last week chairing a promo Tion panel for senior foreign service officers and thus was available for Consul Terence Tod nun a Pinto Senate confirmation hearings would not begin until after labor Day though the administration is expected to ask Lor an accelerated process because of the critical racial violence in South Africa. Any doubts about Todman in the White House apparently entail his reservations about the administration s quiet diplomacy approach toward pressuring South Africa away from its apartheid system of segregation. The White regime in Pretoria has not raised a Public objection to the idea of a Black . Envoy but neither has it Given specific agreement to Todman As required by the treaty governing Diplo Matic said Nickel however has told friends privately he is appalled by the administration s handling of his re joined the foreign service in 1952, serving As a Junior officer in India Lebanon Tunisia and Rome. He has served As ambassador to Chad Guinea Costa Rica Spain and now Denmark. He was assistant Secretary of state for Latina Erica during the Carter administration. Son charged in sex vietnamese envoys deaths a Washington a the son of two former vietnamese diplomats whose bodies were found in their Hom has been arrested and charged with their murders police Van Chrone 88, Vietnam s ambassador to Wigton from a to 1963. And his wife Nam Tran Chuong 75, permanent observer to the see Timet were found dead thursday morn no in their Home in Northwestern Washington. Police arrested Tran Van Khiem. 60, Friday evening at has menut Home where he was living with his i fend a tear old son he was charged in a warrant with two Wulw of or order police said. Arraignment was scheduled or saturday . Superior court. An Auto a revealed the Chuong died of suffocation Andradi apparently been beaten. Chuong s nose had been broken and mrs. Chuong had apparently been hit by some kind of blow that smashed in her Chest breaking a Bone and crushing a main artery to her heart. In an interview with the Washington Post hours before his arrest Khiem denied killing his parents saying the police allegation does not hold Khiem an attorney and former paramilitary Leader in Vietnam was quoted in saturday s editions As say ing he left his Legal practice in pans last year to Takecare of his parents and that their life together had been very quiet a very american kind of however the newspaper quoted unidentified police sources who said the Chuong had been estranged from their son because of philosophical differences. Madame Chuong the sources said called a daughter recently to complain of arguments with Khiem and said he had acted brutally toward them. The Chuong resigned their diplomatic posts in 1963 in protest of the treatment of buddhists in their country under president Ngo Dinh diem. The Chuong were the parents of mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu whose husband was diem s brother Ana headed Vietnam s secret police. Madame Nhu served As first lady for her Bachelor brother in Law. The whereabouts of Madame Nhu at this time Are Uncertain. She was called the dragon lady because of her harshness toward buddhists. She was estranged from her parents and fled to Italy in exile after her husband and brother in Law were killed in a .-sup ported coup nov. 1,1963. The vietnamese embassy in Rome said mrs. Nhu is believed to be somewhere in Italy
