The Micigan aly Vol. XCI, No. 57-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, August 7, 1981 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages ontrollers, Reagan stick to their guns From AP and UPI TRANSPORTATION Secretary Drew WASHINGTON - Ignoring widening Lewis said a total of between 1,000 and outcries from big labor, the Reagan 1,200 controllers have returned to work administration continued to fire since the strike started Monday. illegally striking air controllers yester- day as their union declared the gover- In London, leaders of a 60-nation nment could "put our people in association of air controllers' unions shackles and put them in jail - we will asked its members to "consider not go back to work." refusing air traffic control services to With about three-quarters of the U.S.-registered aircraft." nation's scheduled flights operating Ted Bradshaw, one of five board normally in all but the 22 largest airpor- members of the International < ts, White House spokesman David Federation of Air Traffic Controller Gergen said officials were sending out Associations, said there was unanimous notices of dismissal "as rapidly as they support for the U.S. strikers. administratively can." AS FAR AS President Reagan was IN THE FACE of the strike, the concerned, said Gergen, "this is Day nation's airlines-working to bring One of rebuilding the system" without their flight operations back to near the strikers. The administration has normal-found themselves looking for said that process could take as long as passengers to fill empty seats. two years. The biggest airports still were limited The Air Transport Association, which to half their normal traffic. represents the airlines, said planes Meanwhile, another 500 striking air were flying with 50 percent of their traffic controllers made the "gut wren- seats filled, compared with a normal 65 Daily Photo by KIM HILL ching" decision to return to work percent at this time of year. yesterday as the final deadline for President Reagan's back-to-work order "Our initial reports are that more Touche epied expired. and more people are returning to air Practicing for their certification in stage combat, Richard Smith (left) and That left at least 12,000 who refused to travel as they realize that there are Lou Brockway thrust and parry until they get it right. A demonstration, break ranks and give up in the face of plenty of flights and plenty of seats which will also serve as the basis for their certification, is being held today massive government pressure on the available," spokesman Dan Henkin at 6:15 p.m. on the lawn next to Rackham Hall, on Fletcher- fourth day of the illegal strike. said. IRAN CLAIMS RED TAPE HOLDING UP DEPAR TURE French citizens can't leave Iran From AP and UPI PARIS - Iranian officials yesterday barred 62 French nationals, including 25 diplomats, from boar- ding an Air France flight to Paris but said they would be allowed to leave the country Monday. The Paris government Wednesday had ordered all French citizens to leave Iran because of fears they would be taken hostage by Islamic militants. AS IRANIAN red tape held up the departure, negotiations were reported under way in both Tehran and Paris to find a solution. Iran promised "full security" for the French. The test of wills between the two nations was the latest in a growing dispute over France's decision to grant asylum to Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the fugitive former president of Iran. The Islamic regime wants Bani-Sadr returned to stand trial. "We are not worried at the moment; we have no reason to be," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. PRESIDENT FRANCOIS Mitterrand, however, held a five-hour meeting on the Iranian situation and canceled plans to leave Paris for the weekend. Mitterand's office said the first group fo 62 French citizens, who had obtained exit visas Wednesday, were prevented from leaving Tehran airport on an Air France flight yesterday morning under "various pretexts." The official Iranian news agency Pars quoted an Iranian government spokesman as saying the delay was for "investigation of legal and financial records" of those involved. A SECOND AIRCRAFT was standing by at Istan- bul, Turkey, after being denied permission to land in Tehran, a French Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The Iranians indicated the French would be allowed to leave only on regularly scheduled Iran Air flights Monday and Wednesday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Reza Alavi Tabatabaie, quoted by Pars, said Iran had not asked the French to leave, saying they "are our guests and can continue to stay in Iran in full security just as they have done in the past." IRAN'S FOREIGN Ministry, which issued exit visas to the French citizens for the trip, said "arrangements" had been made for them to leave Monday on the "first Iran Air flight," the official Pars news agency reported. Officials in Paris, however, said a second Air France jetliner would be sent to Tehran shortly to evacuate the total of 140 French nationals believed to be in Iran. Pars quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Reza Alavi Tabatabaie as saying the 62 French citizens, including 25 diplomats, were barred from boarding the plane because of "problems concerning in- vestigations of legal and financial records of those who intend to leave Iran." FRENCH PRESIDENT Francois Mitterand on Wednesday ordered the staff of the French Embassy in Tehran reduced to four and instructed French diplomats, technicians and their dependents to return home in an apparent bid to avoid their seizure as hostages. France has stated clearly it will not extradite Bani- Sadr because France - which also was Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's place of exile during the Shah's regime - is known as a haven for political refugee.