41 Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 15, 1984 Kroger employees to vote on new contract IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports DETROIT (UPI) - Kroger Co.'s largest employee union in Michigan said last week it will ask its members to vote on a new contract with large wage and benefit cuts that the company says will keep some stores from closing. However, union officials said they will not advise their members to ap- prove the proposed plan. KROGER HAS said it will close and sell its 70 southeastern Michigan stores July 21 unless its 5,000 employees grant concessions. A spokesman for United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 876 said Kroger told the union it would close about half of the stores even if the con- cessions are granted. Local 876 represents 4,200 Kroger clerks and cashiers. However, Kroger spokesman Paul Bernish said that if the contract is ratified, "A majority of our stores in southeastern Michigan would remain open as Kroger stores." BOTH KROGER and union officials declined to reveal details of the proposed contract. Kroger earlier demanded senior full- time clerks, now making $10.37 an hour, be reduced to $7.50 an hour. Part-time clerks, who also make $10.37, would be paid $5.60. Kroger ,also asked for major cuts in health and welfare benefits, a weakening of seniority rules and a two tier hiring system, under which new workers would be paid lower wages. Union officials estimate Kroger's original proposal would cost employees an average of $6.50 an hour in wages and benefits. Last all-white parliament in Africa holds final session Delegate-priest suspended DETROIT - A Roman Catholic priest has been suspended from his clerical duties because he is a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, officials of the Arch- diocese of Detroit said. The Rev. Robert Williams will not be reinstating until he has admitted his decision to defy church law was wrong, said Jay Berman, director of the archdiocesan Office of Com- munications. Canon law specifies clerics are not to have an active role in political parties. Williams, pastor of St. Lawrence Church in the Detroit suburb of Utica, was suspended last Wed- nesday by Archbishop Edmund Szoka. He may not celebrate Mass, hear confessions, preach or perform other priestly dities, Berman said. Coleman sought in another slaying CINCINNATI - Alton Coleman, suspected in a Midwestern murder spree of five women and girls, Saturday was charged with murder in the bludgeon death of a suburban Cincinnati woman, police said. FBI Special Agent Terrence Dinan and Norwood police Capt. Tom Williams said evidence discovered while investigating the murder of Marlene Walters led them to suspect Coleman. Labor sweeps New Zealand elections WELLINGTON, New Zealand - David Lange's Labor Party swept to victory in New Zealand's general elections yesterday, winning power on a platform that calls for barring nuclear-armed or powered U.S. ships from the nation's ports. Labor won 56 seats in the 95 seat Parliament, defeating incumbent Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon's conservative National Party to take power for the first time in nine years. Lange, 41, pledged during the campaign to renegotiate the terms of the 23-year-old mutual defense alliance and ban all nuclear armed and powered ships from New Zealand ports. Train crash kills 36 BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - A speeding freight train slammed into a stopped passenger train packed with vacationers yesterday, killing at lease 36 people and injuring scores of others, officials said. Authorities said they feared the death toll might rise as workers searched the mangled wreckage for more victims. All of the dead and injured were Yugoslavs, railway officials said. Beirut fighting flares BEIRUT, Lebanon - Fighting between two pro-Syrian militias flared in northern Lebanon again yesterday despite an implied threat by Syrian President Hafez Assad to use military force to stop the violen- ce. In another development, Beirut's professional press association called a newspaper strike for tomorrow to protest the shooting of leftist publisher-editor Talal Salman in an assassination attempt. Salman was reported in satisfactory condition af- ter surgery to remove bullets from his jaw and neck inflicted in the Saturday pre-dawn attack. Teen charged in police slayings COTTON PLANT, Ark. - Law of- ficers in a nearby town yesterday arrested a teenager who was charged with the murders of two policemen that left the small com- munity of Cotton Plant with no police force, a prosecutor said. Benny Hatley, 16, of Little Rock, was arrested in the town of Des Arc. Sgt. Bill Young of Little Rock said the two officers approached Hatley in Cotton Plant and took him into custody for possession of a stolen motorcycle. India declares emergency powers NEW DELHI, India - The Indian government, troubled by Sikh unrest in Punjab and insurgency in nor- theastern India, gave itself sweeping powers yesterday to declare areas "terrorist-affected" and set up special courts. Under the new ordiance, the government has the power to declare any area terrorist-affected for up to six months, and set up special courts there to try "specified offenses which are very heinous in nature and impinge on the security and territorial integrity of the coun- try." 6 0 S CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The African continent's last whites-only parliament came to an end Friday. South Africa's Parliament - which meets less than a mile from the site the first European settlement in southern Africa 332 years ago - adjourned at 12:50 a.m., with the issue of its own ex- piration at the center of debate. CONSERVATIVE Party deputies walked out to protest the ruling National Party's plan to charge the present style of government and to of- fer limited voting rights to South Africa's 850,000 Asians and 2.7 million persons of mixed race. The opposition Progressive Federal Party argued vainly for whites, Asians and "cdloreds," South Africa's official clasgification for people of mixed race, to debate issues together. The nation's nearly 21 million blacks, who outnumber whites by more than 4- 1, remain without representation or the power to vote. PRIME MINISTER Pieter Botha's National Party won approval from white voters last November for a new constitution creating separate cham- bers of Parliament for whites, for Asians and for people of mixed race. Elections for those chambers willtake place in August and the new system will take effect in September. Up to now, the South African system of government has been based on the British system in which a prime minister serves at the will of Parliament and can be fired by vote of no confidence. In Pretoria's new system, a state president will replace the prime minister and will have much stronger powers. Graduate student tuition to rise more (Continued from PageS1) allocated $182 million to the University, an increase of 11.2 percent - or $19 million - over last year. The state ap- propriation is approximately half of the University general operating fund. The percentage of state aid in the general fund has fluctuated from 73 to 48 per- cent - which partially explains the tuition increases of 9.5, 15, and 18 per- cent for the past three years. Six other state-supported colleges have announced tuition freezes for the fall term: Wayne State, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan and Western Michigan Universities and Ferris and Lake Superior State Colleges. The regents also approved the University's operating budget at the meeting. The budget plan called for the use of the University's equity funds that have been saved up over the years. Vice president James Brinkerhoff, chief financial officer of the University, reminded the regents that the Univer- sity can only use the extra funds once. The budget was passed 7-1 with Baker than 7% opposing the motion. LAST MONTH, the regents had to approve a resolution to continue operations under last year's budget un- til the legislature set the University's funding for the coming year. The University's funding was approved, along with the rest of the State's budget, last week. The freeze was also approved in hope of more increases in the coming year. The University doesn't have the capacity to continue to absorb declining state support, said Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs and provost. The surpluses have dried up. The regents approved on Thursday the School of Business Administration's plan to charge a mandatory $100 fee each term for the use of a new microcomputer system. The plan is similar to the College of Engineering's plan in which engineering students and LSA students majoring in computer science are required to pay a $100 per term fee to use the Computer Aided Engineering Network (AENH - Member of the Associated Press Vol. XCIV- No. 24-S The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967X) is published Tuesday through Sun- day during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday during the spring and summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: September through April-$16.50 in Ann Ar- bor, $29.00 outside the city; May through August-$4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. 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