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Show Our Phone Numbers Partly Cloudy News Tips Home Delivery Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with highs in the 60s and 70s Tuesday. Lows knight 35 to 40. Probability of rain 10 per cent. Details, weather map. Page 524-440- 524-444- 5 524-444- 374, NO. 78 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 4 4 AutoStrike Termed 'Inevitable' S 521-353- B-1- VCL. 0 -5-24-2840 PAGES 0 c 1 THE MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST There Goes $20 Million In Jetliners NEWSPAPER At ON DAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1970 fR) Midnight Set As Deadline DETROIT (UP!) As the hours ticked off toward the 11:59 p.m. EFT strike deadline. both the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. predicted today a walkout was inevitable unless there was an unforeseen, dramatic move toward a settlement. A walkout idle 330.000 of GM's 417,000 UAW members in the United States and Canada, costing the workers an estimaied $42.5 million a week in wages and the worlds largest manufacturing corporation about $30 million a day in lost production. WILDCAT STRIKE Some GM employes, however, didnt wait until the strike deadline as 1,300 workers staged a wildcat strike at a GM assembly plant in Framingham. Mass., on the first Americans Treated As Israelis would shift today. The assembles AP, UPI Report BOAC jetliner is first blown up b Arab guerrillas at desert airstrip American hostages detained from three hijacked airliners will be treated as Israelis until Israel agrees to a prison- .. . i er exchange with the Palestinians. a top guerrilla spokesman said Monday. It is the principle of Israeli acceptance that counts, the for the Marxist spokesman Popular Front for the Libera tion of Palestine said in plant Buicks. Chevrolets, Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs. In Canada, workers at GM plants at Oshawa, Ont., and St. Therese, Que., who staged walkouts Friday night, returned to their jobs today after union leaders pledged that the strike deadline would not be extended. General Motors was picked as the UAW's strike target in a special meeting Sunday cf tiie unions international executive board. Earlier, GM and Chrysler Corp. had been twin strike targets. Ford Motor Co. was exempted at the outset. NOT FREE AGENT But Leonard Woodcock, UAW president, said Chrysler but was not a free agent was a stooge of GM in bargaining negotiations. He said the union did not want to exploit UAW members who work for Chrysler. Woodcock and his lieutenant at GM, Irving Bluestone, met with GM negotiators late into Sunday evening but the two sides came no nearer to Jordan. 38 AMERICANS State Department spokesman said today in WashingA wildcat agreement after a ton . . . Explosion shreds second plane as first, on left, burns furiously . . . Of the 38 possible American, IvIcCloskey said, there may be as many as 19 with dual nationality, meaning that they could also be considered UPf TeieoHoto . . . Debris strewn over desert after destruction. Hostages were moved earlier. Security Efforts' under - ventilated passenger compartments of the planes, on a desert airstrip, 20 miles from Amman, the Jordanian jv Larry Bush. By L ARRY BUSH Deseret News Staff Writer NICOSIA, CYPRUS - Re- agement sentatives. and union repre- The negotiators were still far apart on the key issue of wages. W. J. IJsery Jr., assistant labur secretary, held a breakfast meeting with the union bargaining team, then met later with the management group. Another round of talks was arranged for later today. A spokesman conceded little if any progress had been made since the deadline was extended from the middle of Mountains Stop Ella last week at the governments request. Nixon could issue a order under terms of the Railway Labor Act. inistradon officials, however, were known to be discussing the possibility of letting a strike occur, at least for a few days, to dramatize the need for expanded presidential powers to deal with transportation industry disputes. Nixon asked for that authority from Congress but the proposal has languished in the Senate Labor Committee. A d m noted a loss of public support for the world body in the United States and called for its strengthening. port BROW Hurricane Ella bat(UPI) to death Sunday herself tered mountains of the against northeast Mexico as two other weak tropical depressions formed in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Ella crashed inland Friday with winds of 111 miles an hour into a sparsely settled fishing village along the northern coast of Mexico and miles south deaths were reported. 135 ville. of Browns- or injuries No nations with with citizens held hostage are maintaining a solid front against freeing any of the prisoners the guerrillas want released until all of the hostages are freed. Tiie international Red Cross negotiation efforts, but the situation was complicated by Isreals arrest of 450 Arabs in occupied territory and the guerrillas threat resumed its TUX. N SVILLE, Joins Hunt FBI NO CONTIST ffs Shor Beef Up Peace, Editors Note; Fomer Utahn Lt. les-to.- E. Bush, American doctor at the U.S. Embassy at Nicosia, Cyprus, the followinq account of his conversations with American hostaqes released from planes hijacked by Arb fuerril-la- s fast week. Bush, who treated the ?he hostaqes at the Nicosia airport, brother of Deseret News Staff Writei y No Sign Of Rail Accord, Midnioht Walkout Looms y Utahn At Nicosia lieved and happy after their or consider themselves Israeli release from eight grueling citizens. days in custody of Arab guerMcCioskey did not know the rillas, American hostages citizens number of dual described the nightmarhave among the 23 confirmed as Lt. Lester E. Bush ish ordeal for an American American citizenship. having doctor. , . . treats victims The spokesman told a news Lt. Lester E. former numBush, conference that the total Saints spirits, Bush said, and glad ber of hostages allowed by the intern at Latter-daHospital in Salt Lake City, to get some solid food. guerrillas to depart from Amtreated the hijack victims tor man had come to 370. from Americans Mostly some and shock minor New' SWISS TO TALK York and other eastern Sunday and early states, the passengers from The five governments injuriesat Nicosia Airport. today TWA the involved in the mass hijackhijacked plane The under week were last Arab tired, spent guard, majority ings by guerrillas today asked the Swiss ambassador but in good health and high crammed into overheated and in Amman to open as many negotiation channels as possible to try to secure the re4 lease of the hostages still held by the guerrillas. The U.S. State Department said this afternoon that the Tie - Women with children arrive in Cyprus after release by Arab guerrillas. American Press officer Robert J. McCioskey declared that 23 of those held have been confirmed as American citizens. He said the status of the other 15. who may be American citizens, has not yet been completely nailed down so far as information to Washington is concerned. DUAL CITIZENS session. A WASHINGTON (UP1) countdown toward a threatened nationwide rail strike resumed today with no sign of progress toward a contract agreement that might avert a midnight walkout. President Nixon could block a strike for 60 days, but there was no firm indication he would do so. A five-dapostponement of the previous deadline set by four rail unions was in its final hours as a government mediator held separate meetings this morning with man 38 citizens may be among the reported 50 or more hijack victims still being held by Palestinian guerrillas. two-ho- union leader and company officials both agreed the two sides were far. far Each predicted a apart. strike unless the other made some dramatic move toward a settlement. To avoid a strike at midIt night Woodcock said, would first require the General Motors Corp. to abandon the hard and fast, adamant attitude they have taken. as many as AP Wirt Pliot of unimaginable reprisals if the Israeli arrests continued. WAS INDEPENDENT In Washington, the White House took the position that Israel's mass roundup of suspected Arab guerrillas was an independent action not directly linked to the status of the hostages. Tel Aviv reports nid the weekend brought to 3,800 the number of Arabs held bv Israel, which so far See 38 AMERICANS, Page A-- 5 For Hippie Hero SAN LUIS OBISPO. CALIF. FBI agents joined (UPI) police throughout California today searching for Dr. Timothy Leary, the drug culwho ture's priest high walked away from a minimum security prison. The one time Harvard University faculty member was seiving a sentence for marijuk ana possession when a showed Sunday he had escaped from the California bed-chec- mens colony which overlooks California Highway 1, the used by Hippie Highway hitchhikers headed for the Big Fur region. His prison blue denim shirt and nants, and one of his hion We are conespecially cerned over the relatively new threat to world order Assembly Opens Meet Tuesday by armed groups, the control of national beyond "The critical Importance of who menace governments, A WASHINGTON (AP) UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. tire United Nations mediation and sabotage international co-- - The U.N. General AsWhite House commission has in the Middle East conflict (AP) operation by criminal acts of told President Nixon the Unit25th session its will, we hope, lead io suggesopens sembly and destruction. ed Nations has been weaktions for providing prompt kidnaping Tuesday amid mounting recomThe commission memits ened and misused by procedures and impartial ex- mended stronger peacekeep- demands that it be given bers through failure to make pert staff to limit, defuse and broader powers to enforce its ing machinery, tougher interit the world's primary means settle this kind of breach cf decisions in tire national laws on hijackings for peace and security, field. international security, Lodge and action against criminal said. Diplomats are using the octraffic in drugs and the abuse Henry' Cabot Lodge, a forcasion to take a close look at of narcotics. With the recent hijackings mer U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and chairman of the of commercial airliners by Lodge further indicated the the organizations weaknesses Palestinian guerrillas complicommission, prepossible need for new rules ar.d possible steps to prevent sented the interim findings to cating the Mideast situation, and institutions to protect the it from eventual collapse. the President Sunday. The re he added: air and waters from pollution. Many already have ex- created - peace-keepin- t g pressed the view that member nations must consider yielding some of their sovereignty to the international body, thus giving it the needed authority to put teeth in its decisions. Some of the questions raised in a White House commission report on the effectiveness of the U.N. already have been under discussion of the among diplomats countries and to get they are expected major attention by the 60 to 70 heads of government and heads of state who will attend the anniversary commemorat- - ive segment of the Assembly session Oct. 14-2- Most agree that the organization has lost the confidence of large segments of the public because of its inability to deal effectively with the Vietnam war, the Soviet military intervention in Czechoslova- kia, aoartheid in South Africa and (he long Middle East conflict. The Middle East problem will undoubtedly have an important impact on the anniversary observation because of last weeks aircraft hijackings by Palestinian guerrillas and the standstill in the Israeli-Ara- b peace talks. X capitol. Bush said the victims disclosed they were in extreme discomfort during the early hours of the ordeal. The passengers were told by the guerrillas to stay in their seats, with their hands their heads for the first several hours, Bush told the Deseret News by overseas behind cable. Only after it became relaxed. The released passengers remain very concerned about husbands, sons and other relatives left behind in the forced separation imposed by the guerrillas, Bush said. They are hopeful their hns-Se-e UTAHN on Page A-- 5 HELP YOURSELF Protection From socks, were found hours after in a gasoline station two miles south of the prison on U.S. main north-sout101, the highway which joins briefly with California 1 at San Luis Obispo. h who coined the Turn on, tune in, while advocating drop out, the use of mind expanding drugs, apparently scaled a high chain link fence topped with two strands of barbed wire. Prison authorities would not say whether they believed lary, 49, had been picked up by an accomplice with an automobile, but they did say there were no complaints of stolen clothing in the area. San Luis Obispo, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, is in mountainous country dotted with hippie communes, where many consider Leary, an advocate of legalized marijuana, a folk hero. The prison for 1.250 inmates is surrounded only by the fence and is four miles west of San Luis Obispo, near the Pacific Ocean. Watch Commander Quentin Heer said: He left alone and no force wfas used. He was not seen leaving. Leary, Criminals A series of articles that will be published in the Deseret News on how to avoid crime wont stop a bullet. But it could save your life. On Guard, phrase, Today's Thought 1 ap- parent that they were in for a long siege, was the rule never had a dull or idle moment from morn- ing till midnight. Sir Winston Churill Protect Your- Against the Criminal'' begin Tuesday on the womens pages of the newspaper. It is full of fascinating true stories and detail that include tips from professional thieves about what they fear most from you and how you can make crime most unprofitable far them. from how to Everything handle obscene telephone self will calls to preventing assault that could result in death is told by Associated press crime specialist, Bernard Gavzer. Watch for the series beginning Tuesday. INSIDE THE NEWS SECTION A |