The \Michigan Daily
Vol. XCII, No. 41-S
Ann Arbor, Michigan--Friday, July 16, 1982
Twelve Pages
Ten Cents
Twelve Pages
Iran, Iraq
step up battle
in port city
From AP and UPI
Iranian and Iraqi ground troops and
warplanes battled yesterday near
Iraq's second largest city, the Persian
Gulf tanker port of Basra.
Iraq claimed a three-pronged coun-
terattack had killed 3,729 Iranian
soldiers and driven the rest out of Iraq,
but Iran insisted that its troops had ad-
vanced 12 miles toward Basra and were
entrenched.
THE CONFLICTING claims from each
side could not be independently
verified.
Iraq also reported the Syrian air for-
ce "intensified activity" along Iraq's
western border, but did not say whether
Iran's allies were attacking by air. Iraq
has previously accused the Syrians of
firing on Iraqi border guards.
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killed and two wounded in an Iranian
artillery attack on the eastern Iraqi
border town of Khanaqin. It said the
Iranians, in addition to the several
thousand dead, also lost 60 tanks and
253 other military vehicles.
Iranian ruler Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini opened a new phase of the 22-
month-old Persian Gulf was Tuesday
by sending troops into Iraq in a drive
apparently aimed at Basra.
Iran also accused Iraqi jets of at-
tacking civilian targets in the west-
central Iranian cities of Dehloran, Iam
and Islamabad, formerly called
Shahabad, with a total of 16 people
killed and 145 wounded, including
women and children. Iran said air raids
Wednesday on civilian targets killed 46
people and wounded 500.
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military communique, said flicting war claims or verify casualty
nd forces mounted a coun- reports that spoke of hundreds of dead
that forced the Iranians to on each side. Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON
st to Iran's border. Iraq said But reports from the Persian Gulf
nes engaged in dogfights with and information made available in p per
,n air force and downed two Washington by administration sources
Inia Phrantomwnidht indicated the two sides were locked in Students of the Jack and Jill Nursery School obediently tag along behind
Iranian Phantom fighter the largest engagement of the 22- their teacher during a trip through Summit Park - with a little bit of help
LSO claimed one person was month-old Gulf war. from a leash.
Drugstore labor dispute sparks pickets
By BARB MISLE
The firing of 75 workers from four local drugstores
r . has resulted in a ten-day-old picket, which union
members vow will continue until management
t agrees to rehire the ex-employees.
The dispute began when employees of Cunningham
Drugstores were notified of their job terminations on
June 23. At the same time, workers were told that all
29 Cunningham stores in the state had been sold to
grol t tApex Drugs, Inc.
EMPLOYEES began their picket on July 6, one day
after the four Ann Arbor stores, located on Packard,
Plymouth and Jackson Roads, and at Arborland,
reopened under the Apex name.
"We believe Apex terminated Cunningham em-
._ 4ployees in an attempt to open a non-union
organization," said Ron Brown, senior vice president
of United Food and Commercial Workers Union
kLocal 876.
"We believe the officers of Apex drugs were af-
filiated with Cunningham's prior to the formation of
Apex," he said, adding that James Devine, president
of Apex, was formerly vice president of Cun-
ningham's.
DEVINE CLAIMED, however, that the stores are
° under completely new ownership and that Apex has
no responsibility to former Cunningham employees.
"We bought the store lease. Apex is the new
Doily Photo by EzABEH SCOTT owner," Devine said. "We are not affiliated with
R CUNNINGHAM employees picket the Packard Road store in an attempt to turn away customers. Cunningham's."
According to Brown, the workers were fired in an
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