Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sundov, September 12, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday Sentember 1 2~ 1976 art f i r v 0 BARGAINING TO RESUME TODAY: No progress in auto talks Quiz air controllers in crash DETROIT (A)-Contract talks' talks between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers (UAW) became a race against the clock yesterday as the two sides struggled to meet a strike deadline of 11:59 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Bargainers met for six hours yesterday, but the union said no progress was made when dis- cussions ended for the day. Talks were to resume today. FORD MADE a second pro- posal Friday, offering conces- sions on wages and fringe bene- fits, but the UAW voiced con- cern that the new package pro- vided too little, too late. The union is prepared to call its 170,000 Ford workers off the job if there is no agreement on a new three-year pact when the current contract expires. Yesterday, negotiators di- vided into two bargaining groups -one working on money issues and one on noneconomic mat- ters. A company spokesman said there also were subcommittee sessions on grievance proced- ures and health and safety is- sues. UAW PRESIDENT Leonard Woodcock said Friday he is not optimistic about the chances of averting a nationwide walkout. But Ford said its latest offer is not final and there is room for further bargaining. Ford's initial offer, made on Aug. 31, was angrily rejected by the union as an "insult." Woodcock's reaction to the sec- ond offer was more restrained, but the union leader said it still failed to resolve any of the major issues. The new package hiked Ford's earlier wage offer by an aver- age six cents an hour; pro- posed an increase in company contributions to its benefits fund for laid-off workers and softened its previous stand-roundly criti- cized by the union-calling workers to share in health surance costs. for in-) BUT THE OFFER still made no mention o a priority de- mand for reducing work time to preserve current jobs and create new ones. Both sides agreed that issue must be dealt with to avoid a strike. The UAW has said it is work- ing toward a four-day work week several years down the road, and hopes to establish a foundation for that program through its reduced work time demand this year. Ford is the UAW's target for setting the auto industry pat- tern on new three-year agree- ments covering a total of 700,000 workers. Current contracts with the other makers have been ex- tended indefinitely pending a settlement at the No. 2 auto- maker. FORD'S LATEST offer upped its previous general wage hikel from an average 52 cents an hour over three years to 58 / cents, plus 9 cents an hour to be used either as a first-year pay boost or to help finance fringe benefits. The average Ford worker now makes $6.88 an hour exclusive of overtime or shift differentials. Ford also proposed hiking con- tributions to its Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) fund from a current 9 to 12 cents per worker hour to be- tween 12 and 22 cents. Ford also would add up to $10 million to the fund if it is exhausted by more extensive layoffs. SUB, when combined with government jobless benefits, gives laid-off workers nearly 95 per cent of their take-home pay for up to a year. Woodcock said the improve- ments in the second offer were virtually cancelled out by new restrictions. ZAGREB, Yugoslavia () - Five Yugoslav air traffic con- trollers were taken into custody for questioning yesterday about how two airliners supposedly under their control could have met head-on at a combined speed of 1,200 miles per hour in the worst air collision in avia- tion history. The controllers were all on duty Friday at the time of the collision, which killed all 171 persons aboard a British Air- ways Trident 3 and a chartered Yugoslav DC9. The debris killed a Yugoslav woman working on her farm. THE PLANES were cruising in a clear sky at 32,800 feet, in one of the busiest air corridors in the world. A Yugoslav judge who is in charge of the investigation said the controllers had probably in- correctly judged the altitudes of the two planes. A spokesperson for the Yugo- slav charter company Inex- Adria, which owned the DC9, indirectly blamed the controllers for the crash. He said planes at that altitude were the "absolute responsibility" of controllers at Zagreb. Collin Allen, a member of the British investigation team, said the Trident's two "black boxes," or flight recorders, were re- covered and would be examined today. He said their contents would be made public only if full light can be shed on the causes of disaster. BRITISH Airways officials said in London that all docu- ments and recordings of con- versations between the Zagreb tower and the pilots of the two planes were impounded by Yu- goslav authorities. Joe Kroese, the Dutch pilot of a German Lufthanea Airline plane, said he witnessed the collision. He said he was flying at 29,000 feet, during a tripe from Frankfurt to Belgrade, when he saw the two jets slam headon into each other. The Yugoslav plane burst into pieces, he said. The British plane lost a wing, floated briefly in the sky, then the cockpit broke off and the wreckage plunged to the ground. PIECES OF the planes, bodies and luggage rained over a large area of farmland near Zagreb. The bodies, some charred be- yond recognition and others in pieces were taken to Zagreb's medical institute for identifica- tion. Officials said despite pas- senger lists, some bodies were damaged so badly there may be difficulty identifying them. A spokesperson for British Airways said relatives of the victims were asked not to travel to Zagreb until tomorrow so recovery work could be com- pleted. British Airways began releas- ing the names of the 54 passen- jgers and nine crewmembers aboard its plane, which was on a direct flight between London and Istanbul. It said three Americans were on the passen- ger list, but their names were not among the first group re- leased. MOST OF the other passen- gers were Britons and Turks. The Yugoslav plane, bound from Split to Cologne, was carrying 107 West German tour- ists, one young Yugoslav man who boarded at the last minute, and five crewmembers. Yugoslav courts have given stiff sentences in the past to persons convicted of being at fault in fatal accidents. After a 1974 train derailment in Zagreb, the locomotive engineer was sentenced to 15 years in jail and his assistant to eight years. Both had admitted falling asleep and allowing the train to gain too much speed. Mark Lambert, editor of the British aviation magazine Flight International, said he had never heard any criticism of Zagreb air traffic control. A BRITISH civil aviation of- ficial said international regula- tions require that planes be separated by at least 1,000 feet if they are below 29,000, and by 2,000 feet if they are above that level. There also must be several miles of horizontal sep- aration, he said. "Things happen very quickly in an aircraft cockpit," said Mark Young, secretary of the British Airline Pilots Associa- tion. "A plane can crash into you from outside your field of visionfrom underneath, for in- stance. Air traffic controllers are responsible for keeping air- craftwell apart. The system normally works-that's all you can say." Daily Official Bulletin Sunday, September 12, 1976 Day Calendar TV Ctr: "Where Are Women Go. ing?" channel 4, noon. WUOM: "Options in Education," by Inst for Educ Leadership, Geo. washington U & Nat'l Public Radio, 21 pm. Monday, September 13, 1976 WUOM: "Point of Order," by Emile de Antonio & Daniel Talbot, narrated by Eric Sevareid, 10 am. WCBN: "Women's Hour: Survey of Women's Studies Courses," 6 pm. Music School: Carillon concert by Albert Gerken, Burton Tower, 7 pm. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVII, No. 4 Sunday, September 12, 1976 is edited and managed by students at the University of MichiganNews phone 764-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 4109. Published d a i l y Tuesday through Sunday morning during the Univer- sity year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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