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. T1.-T - ;nniia 4ttnrncrIWA t/nlni 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. It was impossible to confirm the con- The Iraqi an official Iraqi grou terattack retreat eas its warplan the Irania U.S.-made jets near B IRAQ A] 11 news agency liNA, quoting 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 See LOCAL, Page 2 FORME