The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, December 6, 1977-Page 9 Meany criticizes Carter on "r Jobless r LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Carter's first year in office drew mixed reviews yesterday from George Meany, who told the AFL- CIO the administration's pluses are clouded by high unemployment and continued slack in the economy. The AFL-CIO president charged that "realistic action" to deal with those problems is stymied by an apparent shift of priorities -away from jobs -- "the President's No. 1 campaign issue" - in an effort to please conservatives concerned with balancing the budget. FOR THE FIRST TIME, Meany also urged Carter not to reappoint Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns, who he said was "the first barrier to restoring economic health to America." The labor leader's comments were in a report released yesterday in advance of the AFL-CIO's 12th con- stitutional convention opening here Thursday. Carter's election, he said, "brought into office a sense of hope and a spirit of inspiration that has brightened the land." MEANY PRAISED Carter for his stand on human rights and for launching "a number of imaginative legislative initiatives" dealing with welfare reform, energy, the mini- mum wage and revisions in labor laws. He also sided with the Presi- dent against those who say Carter has proposed too many programs too 4, ate, sickly strong support in his 1976 election campaign, said, "It is still too early to grade the Carter administration. "FOR THE PLUSES - and they are many indeed - are clouded by the continued slack in the economy and the high rate of unemployment," he added. The best way to balance the budget is to put people back to work, Meany said in noting the nation's 6.9 per cent jobless rate. "Thus, while the Carter adminis- tration and the Congress have in- creased spending for public works, youth employment and public serv- ice jobs, the result has not been enough," he said. economy "THE PRIMARY CAUSE of the projected $60 billion budget deficit is unemployment, and the only cure is jobs.",1 Unemployment will be a major theme of the AFL-CIO's four-day convention, with the delegates ex- pected to call for more government spending and new restrictions against low-cost foreign imports, which union leaders claim are put- ting thousands of Americans out of work. Meany has long been one of Burns' harshest critics, but it was the first time he publicly urged Carter to get rid of the head of the nation's central bank. AP Photo Meanwhile, in balmier climes... APh Yes, in some remote corners of the world warmth still exists. Take, for example, Dallas, Texas-where these youngsters enjoyed the recent unseasonably warm weather bicycling through a park. 100 KILLED IN MA LAYSIAN DISASTER: Hijacked plane crashes JOHORE BAHARU, Malaysia (AP) -A hijacked Malaysian airlines jet with 100 persons aboard exploded and crashed Sunday night in southern Malaysia, airline officials reported. Police said rescue workers found no survivors. Sources at Kuala Lumpur airport in the Malaysian capital said the pilot radioed before th- explosion that his plane had been seized by, terrorists of the Japanese Red Army. Airline of- ficials said an unknown number of per- sons commandeered the twin-jet Boeing 737 but they did not know if the hijackers were Red Army members. They reported the seven-member crew and all but 20 of the 93 passengers were Malaysians, including. Agriculture Minister Ali Haji Amad. TWO OF THE foreign passengers were identified as World Bank officials from Washington-O.D. Hoerr, iden- tified by the bank as an American education planner, and S.S. Naime, a senior architect from Afghanistan. The twin-jet Boeing 737 "disap- peared, the metal shattered and the whole thing broke up into many small pieces," Malaysian Interior Minister Ghazali Shafie said. An airline spokesman said the hijackers seized control of the plane 10 minutes after it left the Malaysian resort island of Penang at 7:54 p.m. (7:24 a.m. EST) on a flight to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The plane touched down briefly at Kuala Lumpur airport and took off for Singapore at the hijackers' demand, he said. At 8:36 p.m. the plane crashed near Kampong Tajung Kutang, a small village about 13 miles west of this southern Malaysian town, according to the spokesman. POLICE REPORTED an 18-year-old boy in the village told them he saw the jet "shoot upward," then go into a dive and explode in flames. Two Malaysian military helicopters hovered over the wreckage with spotlights to assist in an all-night sear- ph of survivors by police, soldiers and civilian volunteers. The Japanese Red Army is a small, ultra-left organization which has been involved in at least a half-dozen major terrorist incidents since 1970. Police in Japan estimate it has only 20 to 30 regular members and an unknown number of sympathizers. They are dedicated to fomenting revolution in Japan but operate mostly out of the country. JAPANESE EMBASSY sources in Kuala Lumpur were quoted by Tokyo newspapers as saying they were unable to obtain any information pointing to involvement by the Red Army, which last September hijacked a Japanese plane over India. Some Japanese newspapers speculated the hijacking may have resulted from domestic political disputes in Malaysia. As a result of the crash, there was new talk of a possible protest job action by pilots worldwide. The president of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association said the international pilots federation was considering what action to take. MALAYSIAN OFFICIALS said air- port security would be tightened im- mediately throughout the country. Eyewitnesses on the ground at the southern tip of Malaysia said they saw the plane wobble unsteadily at about 1,000 feet, suddenly dive, explode and smash into the swamp, where it ex- ploded again., They said bodies, luggage and pieces of aircraft scattered over the area with each explosion. The crash left a large crater in the swamp. The site is about 20 miles north of Singapore city, across the Johore Strait in Malaysia. The newspaper Malay Mail said the eyewitness descriptions indicated that the hijackers probably struggled with the crew or passengers and set off ex- plosives. soon. .. .. 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