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dally ncbraskan
thursday, September 27, 1979
Commission orders railroad workers back to work
WASlIlNGTON-The Interstate Commerce Commis
slon Wednesday ordered a resumption4 of service on the
strikebound Rock Island railroad, and Vice President
Walter F Mondale predicted that snarled grain shipments
on the line "will start moving early next week," .
The ICC issued an order directing the Kansas City Ter
minal Co to operate the financially beleaguered carrier's
13-state rail network for 60 days because the Rock Island
lacks the money to resume service on its own. ,
Mondale made a personal appearance at the White
House press room to announce the rare ICC action , which
would end a 31 -day shutdown triggered when two unions
staged a strike,
ICC Chairman Daniel O'Neal said the Carter adminls.
tration has received indications from the unions that they
would go back to work under the ICC order.
The two unions had ignored a back-to-work directive
issued by President Carter last week,
Mondale said Fred Hard In, a leader of the striking
United Transportation Union assured the administration
Wednesday that he would instruct his 2,500 train opera
tors to return to their jobs immediately.
However, the president of the other union, the Bro
therhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, Indicated he
7 R Cfeife
would not send his 1 ,600 clerks back to work until ncgotl
attng labor conditions with the new temporary. operator,
the Kansas City Terminal. ..
In its order, the ICC said the new operator could pay
the strikers prevailing industry wage rates rather than the
lower rates the Rock Island had been paying If the opera
tor determined that the higher wages were necessary Tor
the workers to return to their Jobs,
Tha clerks union had been holding out for the higher
wage rate,
Carter vs. Kennedy
WASHINGTON-Presldent Carter apparently has not
abandoned hope of persuading Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
that it would not be a good Idea to challenge him for the
1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
Carter volunteered his first direct attack on his poten
tial opponent Tuesday during a "town meeting" in the
New York borough of Queens.
One participant asked, "What makes you think your
first term merits a re-election?" Carter concluded his
response with these remarks on Kennedy's longtime push
for a national health insurance program.
"Sen. Kennedy has been in Congress for 16 years. . .
He has never gotten a comprehensive national health bill
, out of his subcommittee .
Carter said he believes "I now have enough support in
the Congress to do it before this term is over in 1980.
Canal votes
WASHINGTON-Reps, John Cavanaugh, D-Neb., and
Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., voted with the majority Wednes
day when the House passed a Senate-approved bill to
carry out the Panama Canal treaties and sent it to Picsi.
dent Carter.
Rep. Virginia Smith, R-Ncb voted against the bill.
Cavanaugh was among the 196 Democrats who voted
for the bill and Bereuter was one of 36 Republicans who
favored the Panama Treaty measure.
Mrs. Smith was one of 188 Republicans opposing
the measure , along with 70 Democrats.
Snail in trouble
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The process of filling the Tclllco
Dam reservoir and flooding the spawning grounds of the
rare snail darter could begin within a month, officials
said, alter President Carter decided to permit completion
of the controversial project that has threatened to make
the fish extinct.
The tiny fish has been the central character Is a long
legal battle over completion of the Project on the Little
Tennessee River. The president said Tuesday he had
signed "with mixed reactions" the legislation allowing
completion of the 12-year-old project.
Newton mistrial
OAKLAND, Calif .-The jury couldn't reach a verdict,
but Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton believes a
second mistrial Is as good as acquittal on charges he killed
a 17-year-old prostitute.
Tm very happy that I was acquitted even though
there was one person on the jury who was not fair," a
jubilant Newton said Tuesday after a panel of eight
women and four men deadlocked 11-1 (n favor of acquittal.
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