APPhoto
DOUGLAS FRASER, LEFT, president of the United Auto Workers chats with
Rep. Margaret Heakler of Massachusetts at a GOP breakfast meeting in
Detroit yesterday. Listening in is Don Ephlin, UAW vice president.
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SAN SALVADOR, El SalvIador (AP)
-Leftists shot their way into the Costa
Rican Embassy yesterday, killing a
policeman, and then led about 100
peasants inside to stage a protest oc-
cupation, police reported.
A spokesman for the peasants told
reporters they would stay inside the
embassy until they were able to speak
with a group of foreign ambassadors,
including U.S. Ambassador Robert
White, about their demands for an end
to alleged repression by the Salvadoran.
government in the countryside.
THE NATIONAL policeman was shot
dead in a brief shootout with at least
two men who entered through a garage
in the building-a combined residence
and office in an exclusive area of the
capital, police said.
Policemen who rushed to the scene
entered the building, but Costa Rican
Ambassador Alejandro Alvarado Piza

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emerged with a Costa Rican flag and
shouted, "This is Costa Rican territory,
please leave!" and they pulled back,
police reported.
Guerrilla bands and other leftist
groups have been fighting to oust the
civilian-military junta in this Central
American nation.
Reached by telephone, embassy
workers said they were not being held
hostage, but they said some of the
young people in the group were armed.
A spokesman for the group, which is af-
filiated to a leftist organization, said
"we are here seeking political refuge,
not asylum, to call attention to the ex-
treme repression in the countryside."
The spokesman, who asked not to be
identified, said the army is killing and
torturing peasants, and his group, the
February 28 Popular Leagues, is
demanding it be halted.

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GOP attempt
to woo UAW
into fold may
hurt Dems
DETROIT (UPI) - Republican "remote" possibility that the UAW
leaders, in a bold move to win labor executive council would endorse
support, met with the head of the Reagan and added, "we have to look at
United Auto Workers yesterday and the overall record and the past."
claimed the start of "a new relationship The unusual meeting between the
and dialogue" that could break the Republican leaders and the heads of the
Democrats' historical grip on union UAW, engineered by Sen. Robert Dole
workers. (R-Kan.), and Republican National
But Douglas Fraser, president of the Chairman Bill Brock was held behind
UAW, said he saw no sign of Republican closed doors.
"repentance" and added "we didn't
take any steps this morning .... we just The two sides held back-to-back news
danced around." conferences after the breakfast session
and the Republicans were noticeably
FRASER, HOWEVER, told a news more enthusiastic.
conference there was a substantial shift "It is a good start, but only a start,"
among rank and file UAW members to Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma
Ronald Reagan, a movement he said said. "The dialogue will continue."
grows in direct relationship to in- Rep. Margaret Heckler of
creasing unemployment. Massachusetts, the only members of
"I don't know if the members know the Republicans who receives labor
who Ronald Reagan is," Fraser said. support, said the session was "symbolic
"That's why this movement to Reagan of a new relationship and dialogue."
may not be permanent." She said there was a need for a "new
"And I don't know how many will say coalition" and added, "I think we have
a plague on both your houses and vote done it today."
for John Anderson," he added. "But Dole conceded, "I didn't see anybody
there is a noticeable movement to grabbing for elephants as we left" but
Reagan as unemployment goes up." added there were "many more areas of
FRASER SAID there was only a agreement than disagreement."
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State att'y general strikes
down transportation tax

LANSING- (UPI)-Attorney General
Frank Kelley said yesterday two
special Detroit-area regional transpor-
tation taxes-important support for
area mass transit programs-are un-
constitutional.
Kelley's ruling will result in the im-
mediate suspension of the four-year-old
$2.50 motor vehicle registration tax
and $6 auto title transfer fee in Wayne,
Oakland and Macomb counties.
THE MOVE IS sure to send
lawmakers scrambling this fall for new
levies to save metropolitan area transit
systems from a financial pinch and
secure the future of the Detroit subway

and other planned programs.
Ironically, the regional taxes fell
afoul of a 1978 voter-approved con-
stitutional amendment that was part
of a compromise package designed to
boost mass transit in Michigan.
Under the amendment, revenue
raised from specific taxes on motor
vehicles and aircraft must go to the
state transportation fund and not less
than 90 per cent of it must be-spent on
streets andhighways.
The regional taxes, however, are
funneled to the Southeastern Michigan
Transportation Authority and all
revenues are spent on masstransit. a