European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday february 2,1988 strike by mine supervisors cripples British Coal Industry London a ten thousand mining supervisors launched a 24-hour strike monday hailing most Coal production in Britain in the most widespread stoppage 10 hit the Coal Fields since the yearlong strike of 1484-83.in other labor disputes thousands of health workers mostly nurses scheduled a one Day strike for wednes Day and seamen operating Crri to Ireland and the coming it planned an indefinite strike beginning tues  10.000 members of he National association of Colliery Overman. Do spuires and shot fires walked off their jobs i Midnight in Northeast England and were followed by colleagues in the rest of the country when shift began Al 6 a. A the supervisors Are seeking a 10 percent annual pay increase retroactive to last nov. I. Said the unions National Secretary Peter Man Stry. Members rejected a 4 3 percent annual pay increase last week which would push up pay Scales to a weekly average of about 1433. Production is effectively hailed Man Csery said. Most of our 10.000 member arc on strike and they will continue to take some form of Industrial a Cimon throughout the week until the dispute is settled. Supervisors arc responsible for mandatory safety inspections i Ianul which Cual cannot i Cully be mined at the nation s 103 mines. The. Supervisors Union is separate from inc National Union of mine workers which staged a yearlong strike in 1984-85 in a Ful Ilc Effort to prevent inc closure of unproductive mines. Stale owned a Riligh Coal said surface work was con Liti Wingat some pits but it estimated monday s san pc will Cost the Industry s2s million in lost production. A total of 27 million work Days crr lost in 1984-85 when the miners look on prime minister Margaret Thatcher s f Overn men. Labor disputes in the pits also helped to topple the previous conservative govern ment of Edward Heath. The Only mines operating normally monday were Al Littleton and Scahall in the English midlands where moderate supervisors ignored the strike Call. The Union s National executive is due to meet tues Day to discuss its next move. Meanwhile the National Union of seamen voted Over the weekend o be in an indefinite strike tuesday at All 12 British  ports to protest the firing Oft 61 seamen by a ferry company in the Isle of Man on England s West coast. Ferry services to Continental and Irish ports could be halted if the Union s 5,000 ferry workers heed the strike Call. Several thousand health workers mostly nurses in London Are expected to walk off the Job wednesday in a protest to demand More Money for the ailing nation Al health service. Critics say Thatcher s in nation  restraints have plunged the socialized health care system into its worst crisis in 40 years forcing Ward closures nursing shortages and leaving More than 700,000 peo ple waiting for admission to state hospitals for surgery. Against the trend Union leaders on sunday called off an imminent Auto workers strike against Ford motor co. Ltd., inc British Arm of the . Auto giant. A strike by 32,500 workers had been called for mid night sunday but was cancelled three hours before the deadline. Workers will vote wednesday on an improved pay offer recommended by the Union that would push up a Middle Range worker s weekly pay by s90 to $420. Former Stalin Deputy Menkov Dies in relative obscurity at 86.  i i _   of Lii n Murl of Ftp Fultn c Nii Rufelt. Lit ill Moscow al1 Georgi m. Malinkov the Rig lit hand Man to dictator Josef Stalin during the purges of the 1  who was pushed aside by Nikita s. Knish Chov in a Kremlin Power struggle has died at Wafic 86, the government said monday. Foreign ministry spokesman Gennady 1. Gerasimov said Malinkov died a few Days ago. Gerasimov gave no specifics and no further details on Malenkos death were available immediately. Malenkos had briefly appeared to be statin s heir apparent. He served As Premier for two years after Stalin s death inl953, Khrushchev. Malinkov was removed from his lop posts As pre Mier and first Secretary of inc communist party Cen trial committee in 1955, publicly confessing to having followed the wrong policies. In 1957. He was thrown out of the ruling politburo and off the Central com Mittee and there were fre que Cal rumours thai he had been shot. He apparently ended his career As a Man Ager of a hydroelectric Sta Tion in a Small town in Easi Kazakhstan. Soviet historian Roy  reported in 1984 in his Book All Sta Lin s men Hal he had spoiled Malinkov Silling Wilh his wife in a Hospital w Kioto for old bolsheviks in mos a Coral m. Miten Kot cow. The writer said a Iankov had an apartment in Moscow but spent most of his time Al his daughter s Dacha outside the capital. Bom Jan. 8, 1902, in the town of Orenburg later Chekalov in the ural. Malinkov was too Young to Lake an Active part in the events leading up to the 1917 communist revolution. He joined the communist party during the civil War helped put Down the revolt of Central asian anti communist groups then began his ii year career As a political worker. By 1925, he had joined the staff of the party Central committee in Moscow and after holding several posts became a member of Stalin s secretariat. In 1934, he was named chief of the party personnel department. It was in this Post that he directed much of the administrative work of Stalin s purges. Biori ans and Kremlin louts believe is took an Active part in choosing people Lor removal and selecting their successors. Millions were killed or sent to labor Camps beginning in the 1930s, Malinkov became a Central committee Secretary in 1939, taking his first step toward membership in the politburo which was then called the presidium. Two years later he was made an alternate member of be politburo and during world War ii served on the stale defense committee. He briefly struggled for Power with Andrei a. Zhdanov Stalin s ideological commissar but after Zhdanov died in 1948 it appeared that Malinkov was without rival for Stalin s favors. When Malinkov presented the Central committee s report to the 19th Congress of the communist party in 1952 he seemed ready for the succession. Two Days after Stalin died on March 5, 1953, Malinkov became Premier As Well As senior Secretary of inc Central committee. He proclaimed a new life for All calling for in creased production of consumer goods and new hous ing. By offering such a proposal he made enemies among the Mil Ilary and heavy Industry lobby. Malinkov also proposed a More moderate foreign policy in an Effort to steer the soviet leadership away from the Leninist doctrine that War Between socialism and capitalism was inevitable. Malinkov said thai in the age of nuclear weapons civilization would be destroyed by such a War bin Khrushchev denounced this idea As revisionist. Khrushchev and other powerful members of the so Viet leadership apparently alarmed at the Prospect of the emergence of a new dictator quickly forced Malin Kov from his Central committee Post. Elevated after Stalin s death to first Secretary of the Central committee Khrushchev began looking for ways to eliminate his rivals. He first gained the sup port of Malenkos s opponents and then showed that the Premier s promises to improve workers living con i Lions had not materialized. Malinkov was forced of make a Public confession in 1955 at a meeting of the supreme soviet and was demoted to Deputy of the Council of ministers. He was Given the relatively obscure Post of minister of Power stations although he at first was allowed to keep by positions on the Central Commilles and the politburo. From then on Malenkos s fortunes declined while Khrushchev Rose to the Pinnacle of the Kremlin elite. World to any papal envoy warns of famine catastrophe Addis Ababa Ethiopia of a catastrophe of ice Tibet proportions wid overtake Ethiopia with any break in the Chain of Relief food for More than 5 million people threatened by starvation an emissary of pop John Paul ii warned sunday. The Specter of he famine which saw so Many victims in 1984-ss still hang Over the population French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray told reporters after a i May tour of three of the East african nation s hardest hit provinces. His visit comes As the ethiopian Golem menus Relief and rehabilitation commission announced  number of people . At one feeding Center in the Northern town of Korum. The number of people lining up for food has jumped to 24,000aday,up from under re Ochoada seeking help in december the Nancy said _ the slightest breakdown in the Supply Chain could cause a catastrophe of terrible proportions Aid Etchegaray apparently referring 10 attacks in food convoys by secessionist rebels in Northern Eri trea and Zigray provinces which he visited. The Pope governments and humanitarian organizations have appealed to rebels to it opus anodes. England s sep approves merger with liberals Sheffield. England a the social democratic party voted overwhelmingly at a special conference sunday to merge with the Liberal party in the latest move by Britain s quarrelling centrists to Challenge the conserva Tive grip on Power but the decision marked a final split of us 7-year old social democratic party with its former Leader David Owen a one time foreign Secretary. The parly s 490-member polu Nakin body the Council for social democracy voted 273-28 to merge Wilh the liberals. The Owen Wing of the Frac rest of his supporters boycotted the however the result was Well Over the two third majority approval required by the part i Constitution. It virtually guaranteed the establishment in March of the new social and Liberal democratic this often the Best Hope for social democracy Robert Maclennan who succeeded Owen As Leader declared before the vote in the North England town of Sheffield the alternative is impotence. And thai Che Rill government in protracted and protected ascend  drug bust in schools nets 1,184 suspects Madrid. Spain a a nationwide drug bust in Spanish primary secondary and vocational schools a resulted in the arrest of 1,184 suspects a police statement said. The 24-hour dragnet of 127 a Choli and 5,328 residence and ban in the  of the schools netted 42 handguns 8.38 pounds of he Roin 12,32 pounds of cocaine and 1,408 pounds of hashish of which 770 pounds was discovered in the dressing rooms of a municipal soccer Field in the Northern town of Lugo. The statement said of those detained 877 remained in police custody for questioning and 92 were charged and jailed on various drug related counts. Auto party makes gains in Swiss regional voting St. Gall Switzerland a the Swiss Auto party founded to defend the interests of private motorists and i a counterweight to environmentalist panics made new Staios in regional balloting after sending us first deputies to the  last fall in its debut at the local polls the party won seven scats in the Iso seat St. Pall cantonal parliament at the expense of dominant conservative groups according w official results  environmentalist Green party also added four seats to its single mandate. The Auto party was bunched in i98s by Michael or Char a Zurich businessman., partly to fight new Swiss Speed limits that went into effect that year. It won two seats in National legislative elections Tost october