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Show I lw J w Snv' '--' National WASHINGTON - Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger, arriving Tom Saigon, said Monday night "some progress" had been made in his talks with the South Vietnamese Viet-namese government. Asked by reporters to speculate whether there would be a cease-fire before the Nov. 7 presidential election, Kissinger said only "we made some progress." He did not elaborate. . NEW YORK-A federal judge issued a back to work order Monday night against striking REA Express employes, after the union voted to reject the company's latest contract offer. The order was issued by Manhattan Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld, acting upon a company request. REA was struck Friday by 15,000 members of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC) who had been without a contract for more than 15 months. Kansas, Wis. and Texas-Bargainers Texas-Bargainers for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. met in three states Monday in negotiations brought on by the latest round of flash strikes against the giant auto company. Another 14,000 workers at three other plants are set to go out Thursday and Friday if disputes over working conditions remain from UPI to West Germany, the Soviet ambassador to East Germany and the British charge d'affaires in Bonn. PARIS Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma said Monday he expects an Indochina cease-fire to be announced before the end of the month, but peace will come later. SEOUL-The third full Red Cross meeting of South and North Korea seeking to help separated families communicate and reunite opened in the North Korean capital of Pyon-gyang Tuesday. In Seoul, President Park Chung-hee Monday decreed a series of laws strengthening the martial law proclaimed a week ago. SOFIA Four Turkish hijackers who threatened to blow up a planeload of hostages with the aircraft unless Turkey released 13 political prisoners Monday night gave up to Bulgarian authorities, the official Bulgarian news agency BTA said. BELFAST A gunman grabbed a screaming 7-year-old child in Belfast Monday and used him as a shield for a pistol attack on British troops. The soldiers held their fire for fear of hitting the boy. In Londonderry, a 12-year-old Roman Catholic boy died in a hospital of shotgun wounds of the head, but authorities said the incident in-cident was apparently domestic and unrelated to the more than three years of political and sectarian sec-tarian violence that has claimed more than 600 lives in Northern Ireland. ZONGULDAK, Turkey-Explosion Turkey-Explosion and fire ripped through two coal mines near here Monday, killing 22 miners and injuring more than 40 others, some seriously. SUVA, Fiji Hurricane Bebe roared toward Fiji Monday packing 182-mile-per-hour winds after wrecking Funafati and Rotuma Islands in "one of the worst disasters in the South Pacific in this century," a Royal New Zealand Air Force spokesman said. unresolved. There has been speculation that the current strikes, all of which began last Friday, would end either Monday or Tuesday. A union spokesman, however, said he knew of no such schedule. NEW YORK-Seven inmates at the Manhattan House of Detention for Men sawed through two sets of bars and climbed down a 60-foot rope of bedsheets from a fourth floor window Monday in the first successful escape in the 32-year history of the institution. International BERLIN -Representatives of the Big Four World War II Allied powers Monday discussed their future role in Germany if and when the two German states sign a treaty governing their relations and enter the United Nations. Taking part in the meeting were fte U.S. and French ambassadors |