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Pittston miners ratify contract

CASTLEWOOD, Va. (AP) -
Appalachian miners ratified a con-
tract with Pittston Coal Group after
striking for nearly 11 months and
were credited by labor leaders yes-
terday with helping to rejuvenate the
trade union movement.
Striking and laid-off United Mine
Workers (UMW) from Virginia,
West Virginia and Kentucky voted
1,247 to 734 Monday to accept a
contract nearly identical to a national
UMW agreement that Pittston broke
away from in May 1987.
"This is a victory for all work-
ers," UMW Vice President Cecil
Roberts told about 50 striking miners
in announcing the results yesterday
at a union office in Virginia.
The settlement ends a strike
punctuated by violence, sit-down

strikes and other tactics that resulted
in millions of dollars in fines against
the union.
It could be a week to 10 days be-
fore the 1,700 active members return
to work, because mines must be re-
inspected and workers must go
through training courses, officials
said.
UMW members across the coun-
try had viewed Pittston as a maver-
ick company attempting to break the
union, a claim the company vigor-
ously denied. The union also felt
other companies would Pittston's
tactics if it won concessions.
The miners got job security and
health and retirement provision they
sought but gave up the traditional
five-day work week contained in the
1988 Bituminous Coal Operators

Association Contract signed by most
other producers. That means Pittston
won the right to operate around the
clock, with voluntary labor on Sun-
days, a day the miners traditionally
have not worked.
"Pittston set out to try to break
our union and they didn't succeed,"
James Hall, a striking miner from St.
Paul, said at a rally. "It's a victory,
no doubt about that."
UMW President Richard
Trumka, Treasurer John Banovic,
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland
and Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole
congratulated the miners in tele-
phone calls from the AFL-CIO con-
vention in Miami.
"You've rejuvenated the labor
movement throughout the world
with this strike," Banovic said. Kirk-
land called the strike a "gallant

struggle that was an inspiration to
the entire trade union movement."
Dole, who intervened in the
strike to appoint former labor secre-
tary William Usery to mediate a set-
tlement, called the pact an example
of successful collective bargaining.
"It's a joyous day for everybody
- for the miners who are going
back to work, for the families who
will be getting a steady paycheck
and certainly for the company,
which will be going back to full pro-
duction," Dole told the strikers.
During his news conference,
Roberts called Pittston President
Michael Odom to tell him the con-
tract was ratified. "You have been a
worthy adversary," he told Odom.
"We're hoping to work just as hard
together now."


IDs
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it the same so I can borrow a friend's
ID to use the computing center, to
have that flexibility," said Justin

Walcott, an LSA senior.
But Amorita Guno, an Engineer-
ing senior said, "I think if one card
can cover everything, it would be
handier."
"It's about time. I can't believe U

of M hasn't had photo ID's. I think
that's the way to do it," said Mike
O'Connor, first year MBA student.
The idea for a new form of identi-
fication cards was conceived by
Hoover and Frank last June, evoked

by the need for Engineering students
to have 24-hour access to laborato-
ries. Now there is "a 40 percent in-
crease in time" availability because
the card can be read by computers,
said Hoover.


ACQUITTAL
Continued from page 1
suggested a third party," Gaffney
said.
Gaffney also insisted his client
was in Detroit at 8 p.m., on May
28, 1988-the time and date the rape
was reported. He said Willis' girl-
friend drove him to an Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) meeting at 7:30
p.m. in the Detroit area and that he
had a ledger signed by the chair of
the meeting which indicated Willis
had attended.
Gaffney added Willis does not fit
the description the student gave be-
cause Willis weighs 220 pounds and
is therefore not of "thin build." He
also said Willis has had a moustache
for 12 years while the student de-
scribed her assailant as clean shaven.
Gaffney insists his client was an
unlikely suspect because he was
"well educated" and that "medical re-
ports alone excluded him."
But at the time of the incident,
Ann Arbor Detective Doug Barbour
said "the assailant appeared to be
well educated."
"No one doubts she was raped,"
Gaffney said, "she just had the
wrong man."

Larry Burgess, the prosecuting at-
torney, maintains Willis is guilty.
He said that while the genetic mark-
ers did not implicate Willis, they did
not exclude him.
Burgess also said that although
the A.A. chair signed the statement,
he could not assert that Willis was at
the meeting and maintained the stu-
dent's identification of Willis was
not mistaken.
"Everytime she's been in court,
she has never failed to identify him
as her attacker," Burgess said, "thin
is a relative term."
But Burgess insists Willis is
guilty: "He flunked the polygraph
(inadmissible as evidence) and he has
been caught in womens' bathrooms
at U of M and at MSU before...the
jury has made their decision but
we're convinced it was him."
PILL
Continued from page 1
of contraception should be used.
When more than two pills are not
taken, women should call a clinic to
ask for advice about what to do for
the next cycle, she added.
The study stated that 40 percent
of the women reported they did not
use a back-up method of birth con-
trol if they missed more than two
pills, 58 percent said they had not
taken a pill every day, and only 16.7
percent of the women took the pill
at the same time each day.
Taking a course offered at the
University on the different methods
of birth control is required before
getting a birth control prescription at
the University Health Services.

COUNSEL
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they said the only people they have
to look up to are people society
views negatively. They admired en-
tertainers but they're so inaccessi-
ble."
Crockett said she hoped to give
the junior high students accessible
mentors her community lacked. "If I
can (become an attorney), damn near
anyone can," she said. "Ordinary
people can do extraordinary things."
Shae McPhail, a junior high
student who participated in the pro-
gram said, "What I particularly liked
was, (the law students) were giving
us-the sixth, seventh and eighth
graders at Clague- a chance to have
these role models. They'll help you
with anything you ask them about."
Minority students also recruited
and then mentored incoming psy-
chology graduate students. The
BSPA's "buddy system" pairs new
graduate students of color with older
minority students already established
in the graduate school.
"It is important for anyone (to
have a mentor) but especially minor-
ity students because there aren't
many minority students there when
you are at the doctoral level," said
Daria Kirby, a graduate student who
participated in the program as a men-
tor. "It"s helpful to have people of
similar background."
Of the 10,107 students enrolled
in graduate and professional pro-
grams in 1989, 1,658 are minorities.
The University now employs 343
minority faculty members out of
3,159 total paid appointed faculty

members.
Even though most minority men-
tor programs are currently organized
by minorities, some students believe
it is not mandatory for role models
to be of the same race or gender.
"There is something to be said
for minorities having white role
models and whites having minority
role models," said Frank Woo, presi-
dent of the Asian-American Law
Student Association.
The social director of Rackham,
James Jackson, said serving as a
mentor is something that's impor-
tant to professors of color, but most
of them don't have sufficient time
to counsel all the students who seek
their advice.
But not all of the guidance of
minority students is formal. Some
students who are involved in recruit-
ing keep in touch with new students
after they come to the University.
"When the new people come in, I
just call them up to say hello," said
Gretchen Lopez, president of the
Hispanic Student Psychology Asso-
ciation. Lopez said once a network is
established, sometimes there are
meetings, social gatherings or re-
search groups.
Jocelyn Sargent, President of the
Minority Organization of Rackham
confirmed that most of the guidance
efforts are less formal.
"In most departments there isn't a
formal graduate matching program.
It sounds like a good thing, maybe
we'll do it in the future but right
now it's an informal thing," Sargent
added.

IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports
Modrow calls for German
reunification negotiations
EAST BERLIN - East Berlin Premier Hans Modrow, pressed by
mass emigration and a crumbling economy, appealed yesterday for im-
mediate reunification talks under a formula worked out with the Allied
victors of the Second World War.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, urged Mod-
row's government to create a social security system as generous as West
Germany as a means of stopping the flight.
Kohl met with West German industrial leaders yesterday to draft plans
for "solidarity with East Germany," ajd told journalists his government
would help finance unemployment benefits and pensions for East Ger-
mans.
He was vague about the degree to which West Germany would un-
derwrite the costs of East Germany's transition to capitalism, however,
saying only that Bonn could provide "start-up financing" for the benefits.
Cuba receives Soviet MiGs
WASHINGTON - The State Department said Tuesday that Cuba has
received a new shipment of high-performance Soviet fighter planes and
that the United States "simply cannot tolerate" such developments.
Under questioning, department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler denied
that the statement constituted a threat to Cuba. She referred reporters to
recent testimony before a Soviet legislative committee by Secretary of
State James A. Baker III in which he said Cuba posed no threat to the
United States.
In confirming a delivery of new MiG-2)jet fighters, Ms. Tutwiler
gave no figure. The Washington Timc , w loch reported the shipment in
yesterday's editions, put the number at six.
The report said the combined total of MiGs in Cuba's arsenal has now
risen to more than 300, most of them older models.
Divers search lake for victims
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - Boats and helicopters crisscrossed
Convict Lake yesterday, searching for the bodies of three teen-agers and
four would-be rescuers who fell through thin ice during an outing for a
group of young offenders.
Some of the victims struggled to stay afloat in the icy water for 15
minutes before disappearing Monday, witnesses said.
"We could see them bobbing around," said volunteer firefighter Jim
Lambert. One pleaded, "Throw me a rope!" but they were too far from the
shore.
The hole they fell through froze over within hours.
Divers recovered the body of U.S. Forest Service ranger Clayton Cut-
ter yesterday, said Mono County sheriff's spokesperson Gail Merritt.
Two divers at a time, able to withstand the 32-degree water for only
10-minute spans, were dropped from helicopters into the water where the
victims were last seen.
Coca-eating caterpillar may
be new weapon in drug war
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration is pushing research
into a possible new combatant in the war against cocaine - a caterpillar
with a taste for coca leaves - but officials said yesterday that the insects
won't be deployed in South America unless local governments approve.
"We are not undertaking any biological war," said President Bush's
spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater. "Neither troops nor caterpillars will go in
without prior request and consultation."
Peruvian and Bolivian growers supply the vast majority of the world's
cocaine leaves, the raw materials for cocaine.
The embassies of Peru and Bolivia did not respond to several requests
fro comment on the proposal, first reported by The Washington Post in
yesterday's editions.
"This is a quite a voracious caterpillar," Waldemar Klassen, associate
deputy administrator for the Agricultural Research Service, told the Post.
"If we could put them down there in sufficient number, we could then
defoliate the plants."
Finnish banks continue strike
HELSINKI, Finland - With banks closed for the third week, Finns
are learnig to live without cash - or with bags of it.
Commercial , savings and deposit banks were shut February 1 in a
wage dispute that has been unusual in its intensity for this Scandinavian
country known for quiet negotiation and consensus. Only the Post Office
bank, which has its own union, remained open.
The cash flow problems are causing many small businesses to suffer,
and many layoffs are looming.

Bank customers had plenty of warning before the financial institutions
actually closed their doors, and most took precautions.
"When I knew the banks were going to shut, I withdrew all my money
and keep it is a box at home," said office worker Kaisa Harris.
Police said there has been a sharp increase in burglaries and warned
companies not to move large sums of money. In some cases, police pro-
vided armed escorts on paydays.
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