Page 4-Friday, August 14, 1981-The-Michigan Daily Foreign inaction deals setback to U.S. controllers 4 from AP and UPI AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Trans-Atlantic air travel returned to near normal yesterday and striking U.S. air traffic controllers suffered another setback when foreign con- troller unions postponed a decision on imposing sanctions against American commercial flights. Leaders of international air traffic controllers asked their members to cancel all actions in support of striking U.S. controllers, with the implied con- dition that President Reagan move to resolve the dispute within nine days. THE EXECUTIVE board of the In- ternational Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Associations called on its member groups to drop their protests as a goodwill gesture. The board sent Reagan a telegram urging him to negotiate with the U.S. union, and scheduled an Aug. 22 meeting of the 61 national associations to consider further action of the U.S. strike has not been setled. Traffic between the United States and Europe through the pivotal control point at Gander, Newfoundland, picked up to near-normal volume after Canadian controllers ended a two-day boycott that affected some 100,000 travelers. PORTUGUESE CONTROLLERS withdrew their threat of a similar boycott next week on flights along the southern trans-Atlantic route. "The system is working absolutely normally today, both domestically and across the North Atlantic," said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Dennis Feldman. ' Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis said domestic traffic ran 80 per- cent of normal Wednesday. A U.S. GOVERNMENT spokesman said Reagan, who refused to negotiate after the controllers walked out last week and ordered all the strikers fired, has not changed his mind. The President of the international body, Canadian controller Harry Hen- schler, told reporters the board hoped "to bring about a peaceful settlement." He did not rule out a call for strikes, boycotts or other disruptions by over- seas controllers at the Aug. 22 meeting. Americans strongly favor President Reagan's handling of the air traffic controllers strike, according to the latest Associated Press-NBC News poll. The poll, a scientifically selected random sampling of 1,601 adults con- tacted by telephone Monday and Tuesday, said 64 percent approved the way Reagan is handling the 11-day-old strike, while 27 percent disapproved and 9 percent were not sure. AFOR FALL 1981 LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE? or NEEDING A PLACE TO LIVE? Come to the HOUSING INFORMATION OFFICE 1011 S.A. B. Roommate Matching "Get Togethers" are offered by the Off Campus Housing Office from 4-5 pm.. . TUESDAYS, Aug. 18th - Sept. 8th and THURSDAYS, Sept. 3rd and 10th Roommate Matching information also available during regular office hours: until August 28th: 7:30-noon, 12:30 pm-4 pm after September 3rd: 8 am-noon, 12:30 pm-4:30 pm Monday-Friday. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Iran gets new hard-line gov't. BEIRUT, Lebanon- Iran got a hard-line new government yesterday, 459 more foes of the regime were arrested, and several Iranian army officers reportedly hijacked a plane and flew to Oman in search of political asylum. Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar named his 22-man Cabinet before Parliament, the official Pars news agency said. He then asked for a vote of confidence that he was certain to get. The hard-line outlook of the new administration heralds no letup in the nationwide crackdown on secular opposition, observers of Iranian affairs said. They noted that Interior Minister Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, who superintended the crackdown under Rajai, retained his post in the new Cabinet. Pars said most of the regime's foes seized in the latest roundup belonged to the Mujahedeen Khalq, the leftist guerrilla group whose leader, Massoud Rajavi, fled to France with Bani-Sadr in an Iranian military plane July 29. Soviet emigrants return home without son granted asylum MOSCOW- Emigrants Michael and Anna Polovchak returned home from the United States yesterday, accusing the Americans of "poisoning with narcotics" their 13-year-old son kept behind on a court order. The boy, Walter, is seeking permanent asylum in the United States. The Polovchaks emigrated from the Ukraine to Chicago in Januray, 1980, but decided after six months they did not like the U.S. and wished to go home. Walter, however, ran off with his sister Natalie to stay in an apartment his uncle had rented for the two. He was granted asylum over the protests of the Soviet Embassy in Washington after a Cook County juvenile judge placed him in state custody. Natalie, 18, is legally considered an adult, and also remained in the United States. Abscam defendants sentenced NEW YORK- Three former congressmen and two other Abscam defen- dants were sentenced yesterday to prison terms ranging from three to six years and fines of up to $40,000 for bribery and conspiracy uncovered in the FBI's probe of political corruption. A fourth former congressman, Frank Thompson Jr. (D-N.J.), who has a heart condition, was given the maximum 15-year sentence on his bribery conviction, a technicality to enable the judge to order a medical study to determine if prison would endanger his life. The defendants-former Reps. Michael Myers (D-Pa.), John Murphy (D- N.Y.), Raymond Lederer (D-Pa.), Thompson, and Philadelphia Councilman Louis Johanson-sat stoically as the sentences were announced. Angelo Errichetti, a New Jersey state senator and former mayor of Cam- den, N.J., drew the stiffest sentence, a six-year term for his bribery convic- tion and an overall $40,000 fine. Errichetti, a middleman involved in several Abscam cases, also was sentenced to concurrent five-year terms for con- spiracy and interstate travel in the aid of racketeering. Nixon bribed Fitzgerald to avoid trial, aide charges WASHINGTON- Former President Richard Nixon has paid $144,000 to Pentagon whistleblower Ernest Fitzgerald to avoid trial of a $3.5 million damage suit, a former White House national security aide charged yester- day. The allegation was made ina legal brief filed before the Supreme Court by lawyers for the aide, Morton Halperin, who is suing Nixon for authorizing illegal wiretaps on the Halperin family's home telephone. The brief said Nison "has already paid Fitzgerald $144,000" and has agreed to pay another $34,000 if the Supreme Court does not dismiss Fit- zgerald's suit but instead says it must go to trial. Under the agreement, the brief said, Fitzgerald would take the extra money and drop the suit if the Supreme Court rules against Nixon. Eight Michigan men arraigned on drug charges GRAND RAPIDS- Eight men were arraigned in federal court yesterday on drug charges stemming from last month's massive arrest by the Drug Enforcement Agency and Muskegon county law enforcement officials. The men are accused of participating in a drug-smuggling ring that brought 3/ tons of marijuana to Michigan from Colombia from 1977 to 1979. The men were identified through their connections with earlier drug cases and were charged with little-known laws enacted to limit drug trafficking. One of the defendants was a teacher and assistant football coach at Dowagiac High School at the time of his arrest and another was a former Paw Paw High School biology teacher. 4 4