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Coal pact vote close as

miners continue voting

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Rank-and-file members of the United Mine Workers union continued voting today on whether to accept a new coal contract and end a three-week-strike. Preliminary results obtained in scattered areas Monday indicated that the vote on the three-year accord was generally close, although one Alabama district was apparently passing the contract by a two-to one margin. In District 12 in Illinois, one district board member said the vote was running about 1,900 for and 2,200 against, although results were not completed. Early figures in eight Pennsylvania locals . showed 683 votes for and 568 against the

contract — representing a 58.4 per cent turnout in those locals. In another local, in Cambria County, the vote was 277 against, 160 for. But in Alabama’s District 20, a union spokesman said the vote was running was 2,130 to 995 with the largest local in the district still out. Snowstorms hampered voting Monday and UMW President Arnold Miller ordered an extension through Wednesday. A union spokesman said the final results probably would not be available until Thursday. Some areas were expected to wrap up their voting Monday. John B. Henry of Lewistown, 111., said he did not believe locals in his area would need ad-

ditional time. “I expect the Illinois locals to have it all wrapped up today,” he said Monday. However, there were no figures available from that area Monday night. In Indiana, one report said that 95 per cent of the state’s 3,000 union coal miners voted, but UMW officials said they would probably not have totals available until later today. The only hint of how the voting went came from Warrick County, where about 125 workers at the Squaw Creek Mine reportedly voted 2-1 in favor of the new pact. Results of the voting were to be telegraphed to union headquarters in Washington. The rank-and-file participation in the voting was one of the

pledges UMW President Arnold Miller made when he assumed control of the 120,000member union two years ago on a reform platform. He said he would let the union members decide for themselves whether they wanted to accept it. And he noted that the contract would have to be written in plain language to enhance member participation in the process. Miller has predicted that 60 per cent of the miners will approve the contract, which calls for a 64 per cent increase in wages and benefits over a three-year period. He cites its safety, pension and work improvement provisions as the important qualities. .

Burton elected Demo caucus chairman; Mills 9 power greatly eroded

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democrats who will dominate the new House have voted major power changes in their party, electing a liberal activist to head their caucus and cutting the authority of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills. The process which began Monday, the first day of an organization caucus, is scheduled to continue today and throughout the week. The caucus is expected to vote today to increase the membership of the Ways and Means panel from 25 to 37, which could make possible a shift of its majority from conservative to liberal. The caucus voted Monday 146 to 122 to strip the Democratic contingent of Ways and Means of its power to assign party members to other committees. Assignments now will be made by the Democratic Steering Committee. That panel is composed half of the House leaders and their appointees and half chosen regionally by the caucus membership. The decision was a blow to Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The Ar-

kansas Democrat burst again into the news over the weekend with a public renewal of his friendship with a stripper who plunged into the Washington Tidal Basin in October after a late-night party with Mills and others. Backers of the change said the move was set and votes lined up before Mills appeared on stage with the stripper at a Boston night club over the weekend. Rep. Phillip Burton of California was elected caucus chairman Monday, 162 to 111 over B.F. Sisk, also of California. Sisk, who had campaigned for party unity, said he will work with Burton but fears the election might be seen as a sign Congress will be “flying off into the wild blue yonder.” But Burton proclaimed, “The winds of change have reached the House.” The prior caucus chairman was Rep. Olin E. Teague, D-Tex., whose term in that post expires with the present Congress. The meetings Monday of the Democratic caucus and the Republican conference were the

first such sessions under new rules that provide for organizing Congress before it convenes next month. Incumbent leaders of both parties were re-elected: Carl Albert, D-Okla., Speaker, subject to the formality of House confirmation; Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., D-Mass., majority leader; John J. Rhodes, RAriz., minority leader; and John B. Anderson, R-Ill., Republican Conference chairman. At the Republican organization meeting, Robert H. Michel, R-Ill., was elected Republican whip over John N. Erlenborn of Illinois and Jerry L. Pettis of California. The post was left open by the retirement of Leslie C. Arends, R-Ill. In the contest for Republican Conference chairman, Anderson turned back, 85 to 52, a challenge by Charles E. Wiggins of California. Republicans, outnumbered by Democrats at least 291 to 144 in the new House, had comparatively little to do and concluded their conference Monday.

Cabanas killed

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A five-month hunt by 20,000 troops has ended with the death of legendary’ guerrilla chieftain Lucio Cabanas in a battle in the mountains of southern Mexico. The army said 10 other guerrillas died with Cabanas on Monday; another 17 were killed in a shootout Saturday, and two soldiers were killed and five were wounded. Cabanas, about 36, had become Latin America’s best known guerrilla since the death of Che Guevara. Thin, swarthy, with dark hair and dark eyes, he was teaching sixth grade in a village north of Acapulco in 1967 when he fled to the hills after a minor school controversy ended in bloodshed.

He became a follower of another teacher-turned-rebel, Genaro Vazquez Rojas, and took over the band when Vazquez died in an automobile accident in 1972. He published a manifesto saying he sought a “socialist government” for Mexico and claimed his guerilla war in the Sierra Madre del Sur was a continuation of the 1910 peasant uprising led by Emiliano Zapata, who was betrayed and killed by the army. Last May, Cabanas kidnaped Sen. Ruben Figueroa when the millionaire transportation magnate tried to negotiate a truce between him and the government. Cabanas demanded $4 million in cash, arms and freedom for a

number of prisoners. The government in response sent 40 per cent of the army into the mountains to free the senator. On Sept. 8, the army trapped the guerrilla band, killed 17 of them and freed Figueroa. Cabanas got away, but a government spokesman predicted he would be killed or captured by Dec. 31. Cabanas’ last battle took place on the Otatal Ranch, 88 miles north of Acapulco. The ranch was near Atoyac, the village Cabanas left seven and a half years ago. Cabanas’ band was thought to be smaU, perhaps never exceeding 250. A lieutenant captured in 1971 said the headquarters contingent was only 35 men.

HUD reduces mortgage interest rate WASHINGTON (AP) - The' Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Monday a reduction in the interest rate on reducedcost home mortgage under a special federal program. The program initially had charged interest rates of 8.5 per cent plus extra fees and charges which raised the effective rate to 9.5 per cent. James T. ^.ynn, secretary of housing and urban development, said that during the month of December the contract rate on the loans will be 8.25 per cent plus fees and charges, which will make the effective rate 8.895 per cent. The interest rate is pegged to the rates the government pays on the money it borrows. The program, which was initiated with President Ford’s approval of the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act in October, functions through purchases of home mortgages by federal agencies. Lynn noted that the December rate for the federally backed loans compares with a 9.92 per cent rate on loans the Federal National Mortgage Association — or Fannie May — is committed to buy over the next four months.

Overtime! INDIANAPOLIS (AP)An attorney for Indianapolis policemen seeking an estimated $4 million in overtime pay says he will appeal a Marion County Superior Court ruling that denied the overtime request. John C. Ruckleshaus, representing the Indianapolis chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he will attempt to have Judge Wilbur H. Grant’s decision overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals.

President proclaims arms race

'capped 9 ; missiles growing

WASHINGTON (AP) - While proclaiming the arms race “capped,” President Ford has boosted prospects that the United States will build bigger missiles to make sure Russia does not gain a major advantage in nuclear warheads. Ford’s statement Monday night that his new agreement with Soviet party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev put "a firm ceiling on the strategic arms race” referred only to the number of weapons “delivery systems,” principally missile launchers. But the agreement provides no limitation on the size and lifting power, or “throwweight,” of those missiles, or on the number of warheads they can carry. A new family of Soviet missiles is reported nearing in-

stallation, probably with multiple independently targetable warheads (MIRVs). These missiles are rated by U.S. intelligence experts as having between three and seven times the throw-weight of the American Minuteman missile. Some of these new Soviet missiles have been tested with six and eight warheads, compared with the Minuteman’s three MIRVs. U.S. defense officials repeatedly have voiced concern that by the early 1980s the Russian throw-weight advantage, translated into thousands of accurate nuclear warheads, could threaten U.S. missiles in their underground launch silos. Officials have said this would seriously weaken the U.S. striking force which is relied on

to deter nuclear war. “If there is an inequity in throw-weight, that can be remedied,” Ford told his news conference. “If we decide to go to a heavy throw-weight, we can add a greater number of individual warheads,” the President said. He indicated he would abide by U.S. military judgment on this. With this kind of encouragement, defense officials are likely to push fra- a new missile system to replace the Minuteman, although a decision on what form that system will take still is at least a year away. A number of possible approaches already are being studied, including mobile missiles that could be fired from

giant transport planes, trucks, trains or barges. Mobile missiles would be very difficult for the Soviets to knock out in a surprise attack, compared with missiles in fixed silos. Although Ford said he plans to keep spending on strategic arms at about the present level, it is difficult to see how a new missile system could be developed and installed without spending additional billions of dollars over a period of perhaps eight years. At one point, Ford seemed to be suggesting that there might be some reductions in U.S. weapons programs. But he later clarified that by saying that the agreed limits on delivery systems would result in a cutback on the Soviet side.

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Plane caught in downdraft?

Runway did not have full instrument landing system

UPPERVILLE, Va. (AP) — Authorities have ended their search for the bodies of 92 persons killed in the crash of a Trans World Airlines jetliner and now are seeking the cause of the crash. Investigators recovered the plane’s flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder Monday. They said they hope the instruments will enable them to determine why the Boeing 727 slammed into a fog-draped peak Sunday while approaching Dulles International Airport. Firefighters and others searchers climbed over the mountainside Monday to find the bodies of the 85 passengers and seven crew members. O.R. Dube, Loudoun County fire marshal, said, “There

might be pieces of bodies left, but no whole bodies.” The National Transportation Safety Board declined to speculate on causes of the crash. But other officials acknowledged the runway being approached by the plane was used infrequently and does not have a full “instrument landing system.” The plane should have been at 3,400 feet at the time it crashed near the top of the 1,-754-foot-high mountain. The full instrument landing system tells the pilot whether he is on the correct course, both horizontally and vertically. John F. Leyden, head of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers

Organization, y said in a letter to President Ford that “it is our position that this accident could possibly have been avoided” if there had been a warning device on the plane to alert the pilot about his altitude. A spokesman for the Airline Pilots Association said his group has a “longstanding appeal” that the Federal Aviation Administration require a full “instrument landing system” at all major runways. However, spokesmen for both TWA and the FAA said the instrumentation at the Dulles runway was adequate for both the plane and the weather conditions. FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said the crash site,

23 miles away from the runway, was too far off for a full instrument landing system to have been much help. The runway was chosen so that the pilot could land heading into the wind, which was gusting up to 50 miles an hour. Veteran pilots said the plane may have been caught in a severe downdraft caused by the winds swirling around the Blue Ridge Mountains 45 miles west of Washington. A downdraft can cause a plane to drop anywhere from several hundred to several thousand feet in a matter of seconds. The NTSB has listed weather as “causal” in 44 per cent of all fatal accidents involving scheduled airlines.

Arms pact allows U.S.,

weapons buildups

Soviet WASHINGTON (AP) - The new U.S.-Soviet strategic arms agreement allows both countries to continue costly nuclear weapons buildups over the next decade, President Ford has acknowledged. In a news conference Monday night, Ford said the accord, worked out last week in Siberia with Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, allows each country 2,400 longrange missiles and bombers. Of that quota, both nations can place multiple warheads — MIRVs — on 1,320 missiles. Although the President said this agreement “put a cap on the arms race,” he described a situation in which both countries have great flexibility in increasing the number of MIRV missiles as well as the lifting power of each missile — “throw-weight” in militarydiplomatic jargon. For instance, the Soviet Union has about 2,200 long-range missiles, none of which is believed to carry multiple warheads. Moscow can and is expected to install MIRV warheads on up to the 1,320-missile limit. The United States already has 822 of its 1,710 offensive missile force carrying multiple warheads. Ford made it clear

Monday night the United States will push its MIRV program to the limit. “We do have an obligation to stay up to that ceiling,” he said of the figures worked out at the Vladivostok summit. “The budget that I will recommend will keep our strategic forces either up to or aimed at that objective.” Ford’s claims for the agreement, which will run from 1975 to 1985 once technical details are worked out, came under immediate challenge from Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash. In a telephone interview, Jackson said that “the total number is way out of order when you count the thousands of nuclear warheads that will be produced.” The Russians will be able to build “a new missile system when they don’t have any now,” he said, referring to the current lack of Soviet MIRVs. In addition, the Washington Democrat said the cost of meeting the ceilings will be extraordinary. Ford opened the news conference by segregating topics into two categories. He dealt first with the strategic arms question and then turning to domestic matters, primarily the economy. He repeated his assertion

that inflation remains the nation’s worst enemy, although acknowledging that a recession “is a serious threat that already has hurt many citizens and alarms many more.” Still, Ford challenged a growing belief among congressional Democrats that the recession should be fought by recharging the economy, possibly by increased spending. “Our greatest danger today is to fall victim to the more exaggerated alarms that are being generated about the underlying health and strength of our economy,” Ford said. Since in his mind inflation is the “deadly, long-range enemy,” Ford asked Congress to act before it adjourns later this month to cut the fiscal 1975 budget by $4.6 billion, while providing $2.6 billion for public service jobs to offset rising unemployment. The question of costs also involved the arms agreement. Ford said, “We will probably have to increase our military budget next year just to take care of the costs of inflation.” Nevertheless, he said that in the long run there “very, very definitely” will be an actual savings in military spending because of the new arms agreements.

“If there had been no ceiling ... we would have had an arms race” that would have cost the nation dearly, Ford said. As it is, the President said an annual cost of $18 billion “is in the ball park” for building the American arsenal to the new limits. Another potentially large expense could come out of the arms agreement if the United States should try to match the Soviet Union in the one area where it is already clearly superior. The President said the agreement has no limit on “throwweight” or on the number of MIRVs that can be placed on any missile. “If there is an inequity in throw-weight, that can be remedied,” Ford explained. “If we decided to go to a heavy throw-weight, we can add a greater number of individual warheads.” The decision apparently will be up to the American military leadership to challenge the Russians in this area, according to the news conference statements. If the United States makes that turn, it would cost billions of dollars since intelligence sources estimate Russian throw-weight at three or four times that of American missiles.

More executions

New Ethiopian leaders to kill more soon

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — More executions of Ethiopia’s former feudal leaders are expected in reprisal for terrorist bomb attacks in Addis Ababa. The ruling military council blamed supporters of deposed Emperor Haile Selassie for explosions at noon Monday in the city hall and in a downtown hotel. The official casualty count was 13 injured, but witnesses said at least six persons were killed and dozens were injured. The military council accused supporters of the old regime of trying to spread confusion and chaos and said it would take drastic action. Other sources believed the bombs and another one set off Saturday night were the work of the Eritrean Liberation Front. The ELF recently threatened to carry its 10-year guerrilla campaign for the independence of Eritrea province to the capital. The military council executed 60 members of the old regime on Nov. 23 but is holding about 150 others in the cellars of the Grand Palace for military trials which are scheduled to start Wednesday. Selassie is confined to a suite in the palace. Five more persons were arrested Monday and the nightly curfew was moved up from midnight to 9 p.m. Among those arrested was a former national guard com-

mander, Count Alula Bekele, who was brought in after a halfhour gun battle at his home on the edge of the city. He had been jailed once for plotting against Haile Selassie, but a government spokesman accused him of amassing weapons for an attack on the government in retaliation for the Nov. 23 executions.

Anti-American sentiment appeared to be spreading in Addis Ababa. For 20 years the United States government was a major supporter of the feudal regime, and some Ethiopians said they believed the Central Intelligence Agency was now trying to undermine the 120man ruling council, which reportedly includes some

Communiat members. PROBE DEATH ELKHART, Ind. (AP)-Po-lice are attempting to identify a woman whose body was found lying in the middle of an Elkhart County road northeast of Elkhart on Sunday. Police said the woman had been shot six times.

Trade talks

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is facing a flurry of questions from senators about how much the Soviet Union will change its emigration policies in order to win U.S. trade concessions. Kissinger agreed to testify today before the Senate Finance Committee in hopes of winning the panel’s approval of a major administration trade bill. Congress has amended the measure to encourage the Soviets to allow freer emigration for Jews and other minorities. President Ford told his news conference Monday night the trade bill deserved special and immediate congressional attention because it would “help immeasurably in fighting both recession and inflation, by

creating more jobs and providing more goods as well.” The bill would grant the President broad authority to lower tariffs and other trade barriers and to negotiate with other nations for freer trade and access to critical materials in short supply. Kissinger is expected to provide details of how far the Soviets will go in lowering emigration barriers in return lor U.S. trade concessions. Kissinger, Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., and presumably high-level Soviet officials worked out an arrangement calling for the Soviets to ease their emigration restrictions for the 18-month period that the trade concessions would be in effect. When that arrangement was announced Oct. 18, the only ex-

planation came from Jackson who predicted it would result in the emigration of about 60,000 Jews from the Soviet Union, compared to the 1973 figure of about 35,000. The only White House statement about the arrangement came three days later PAY PENALTY INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Atty. Gen. Theodore L. Sendak says the Guide Lamp Division of General Motors Corp. has paid a $5,000 civil penalty levied as a result of a chromium spill on July 23 in the White River at Anderson. Sendak said Monday the agreement was signed by Oral H. Hert of the Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board and Carl W. Dobos, general manager for Guide Lamp. t

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