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OSCOW — The Soviet Union
rday charged the United States
ising negotiations for the release
ic 52 hostages in Iran as a
meen to disguise a possible
tary attack on that country,
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imunist Party newspaper Pravda
ged the United States has been
a “dishonorable game” in-
the hostages — allegedly
ing earlier opportunities to bar-
for their freedom while concen-
ng on a military buildup in the
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MONDAY, JANUARY 19. 1981
Soviets call talks game ■ TRIPLE THREAT
J"j' e ,! Pre,s *? ,en, “ tiona ! . Jody Powell blasted the Pravda arti- Iranian revolution.” Pravda said. Hi ■ ■ H H I HHB HHH H I B I H BHii H H ■
Jody Powell blasted the Pravda arti
cle, saying it could be aimed at pre
venting the return of the hostages.
He said Secretary of State
Edmund Muskie had summoned
Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobry
nin to complain about the article.
The Pravda commentary, which
cited a variety of reports from India,
Lebanon and London as its source,
also was broadcast worldwide on
Radio Moscow’s international fre
quencies.
“The threat of armed U.S. inter
vention has been hanging like the
sword of Damocles over that country
(Iran) since the very outset of the
Picketers dump
juice near plant
United Press International
MISSION — Pickets from the Texas Farm Workers Union poured
range juice on the ground outside the Big Tex citrus juice processing
lant Friday to dramatize demands for higher wages for citrus pickers.
After the picketers left to organize their efforts, a union leader
owed the pickets would be back in the citrus groves and at packing
teds every day until they have a significant impact on the citrus
larvest in the Rio Grande Valley.
Union leaders are claiming a farm workers strike began at 6 a.m.
today, but a spokesman for fruit growers Friday said the union’s
ledaration of a strike was premature and without support from Valley
itrus pickers.
“The union may try to start a strike, but all they can do is picket and
ly to induce the workers to leave the groves,” said Bill Weeks,
lecutive vice president of the Texas Citrus and Vegetable Growers
ndShippers Association. He asserted that there are no farm workers
inion members among Valley citrus harvesters.
Weeks said he had heard “no reports of anyone leaving the groves. I
binkthe growers would call me, in my position, and keep me posted.”
Union organizer Alfred DeAvila claimed Friday that approximately
DO farm workers had met in committee meetings in Hidalgo and
imeron counties and decided to back the strike.
“We hope that in 10 to 15 days, we’ll be able to knock off 60 to 65
lercent of the citrus workers this way,” DeAvila said. “It’s a slow
irocess. It’s a daily process.
This is going to be our strategy in this strike: we’re going to be in the
[roves in the morning and then move to the major packing houses to
iring our grievances to the public. The emphasis here is on a general
trike.”
About 20 farm worker’s union pickets, wearing handkerchiefs over
lieir faces and carrying red and black flags, gathered at the Big Tex
ihnt Friday, bringing with them canned oranged juice to empty onto
ground. The scene was similar to action Thursday when farm
workers union members demonstrated outside the Texsun juice pro-
'essing plant in Weslaco.
DeAvila said the farm workers union’s new strategy came partly
ram observing union acitivites in Poland.
The idea came out ofwhat’s happened in Poland,” he continued. “If
rorkers there can organize under the domination of the Soviet Union,
*ecan do it here.”
He said the tactics are different from those used in previous farm
wrkers strikes in Mercedes, Raymondville and Hereford, where as
nany pickets as possible were assembled on the edges of vegetable
ields.
Too many people on the picket lines were recognized from news-
Hperand TV pictures and were blacklisted from future work, ” DeAvi-
asaid. He said that was why the strikers covered their faces with
landkerchiefs, and only about 20 workers show up on any given day.
Union members’ appearance at the Texsun plant also marked the
eginning of a national boycott on grapefruit and orange produces,
nice and concentrate canned by Texsun and of R. C. Cola, parent
smpany of Texsun.
Union organizer Jesus Moya Thursday said farm workers in El Paso,
lereford, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas will seek support of the
mycott at the supermaket level.
DeAvila said the Valley strike was called to coincide with the intro-
luction of a bill in the state Legislature seeking collective bargaining
ights for farm workers — rights which, they point out, are guaranteed
!o almost all Americans by federal law.
DeAvila said the picketers would conduct peaceful demonstrations
md said no additional dramatic efforts, such as pouring out orange
nice, are planned.
There are picket lines taking place every day, he said, “the drama-
icswill depend on the police or the sheriff.
Iranian revolution,” Pravda said.
The commentary said the over
throw of the shah and “the collapse of
American positions in Iran” were
used to justify a U.S. military buil
dup in the Persian Gulf and the
establishment of the Pentagon’s
Rapid Deployment Force.
“The emergence of the hostage
problem in November 1979 was used
to intensify pressure on Tehran,” it
added.
Pravda news analyst Pavel De
mchenko said “many foreign obser
vers” have concluded that the Un
ited States avoided taking a number
of opportunities to free the hostages
earlier in their captivity, “preferring
to brandish arms and even undertak
ing the so-called rescue operation in
April that was in fact an aggressive
incursion .”
In the ensuing months, Pravda
said, “Washington did not stop its
dishonorable game around the hos
tages, although the matter is not re
duced only to them. Reports were
made in the newspapers of many
countries, including the United
States, that under the cover of nego
tiations on that problem the Penta
gon is preparing a new intimidating
operation against Iran.”
Powell, who said he reflected
President Carter’s feelings, called
the article “despicable” and said, “It
is difficult to place any interpretation
on that sort of behavior except that it
is an effort to interfere with the nego
tiations and in effect to prevent a
resolution of differences that would
bring about the release of 52 inno
cent Americans.”
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