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1983
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February 16, 1983
SIGMA PHI EPSILON
presents the Seventh Annual
olution sought
in union battle
United Press International
DALLAS — Robert Lind-
international chairman
if the Transport Workers
Union, indicates that his un-
j pn has little recourse against
1/ l] what he claims to be heavy-
' -tl Landed tactics used by Amer
ican Airlines during current
Contract negotiations.
According to Lindner,
American Airlines has
attempted to scare his mem
bers with a vow to lay off
workers if they don’t approve
new contract by March 5.
Union officials rejected the
proposed contract as a Friday
strike deadline neared and re
ferred the pact to the 10,000
members of the American loc
al for a vote. The union offi
cials recommended that the
workers turn down the con
tract and go on strike.
“We can’t complain to the
National Labor Relations
Board because it doesn’t gov
ern our industry,” he said.
We’re under the National
ek. The
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soring a
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Railway Labor Act, which
allows management to make
any kind of threat it wants.”
Lindner, who spoke with
the Dallas Times Herald by
telephone from New York,
said taking the matter to a fed
eral court would not be a vi
able alternative because the
case would probably be heard
in Dallas.
“American has dealt with
us with a heavy hand from the
beginning,” said Lindner.
“They obviously think they
can scare some people by
doing that, and maybe they
can.”
A 21 percent increase, in
cluding a “lifetime” job
guarantee was included in
American’s final offer.
However, the airline asked for
the right to use workers in
tasks other than their primary
duties, as well as the right to
contract out maintenance
work to non-union mecha-
Texans want stiffer
penalties for DWI’s
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United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — Texans
favor much tougher treatment
of people convicted of drunken
driving and firmer handling of
juveniles who commit crimes,
according to a special Texas
Crime Poll.
The survey was released
Tuesday by the Criminal Justice
Center at Sam Houston State
University at the request of the
governor’s office.
According to Dr. Raymond
H. C. Teske, Jr., director of the
Center’s Survey Research Prog
ram, 2,000 Texans were selected
at random and polled in Novem
ber, 1982 on issues currently be
fore the State Legislature.
Teske said, the adjusted re
turn rate of 69.58 percent makes
the survey reliable as a means of
projecting the opinions of the
state’s population as a whole.
The poll highlighted the
view's of the citizenry concerning
DWI cases, laws regardingjuve-
niles, the legal drinking age,
court-related issues including
the death penalty and child sex
ual abuse, and the overall crime
problem.
Respondents indicate strong
support for raising the legal
drinking age. Only 17 percent
felt it should be retained at 19,
while 62 percent favored raising
it to 21. Only 13 percent sug
gested it be lowered to 18.
Concerning DWI cases, a size
able portion of those polled indi
cated they had been personally
affected by DWI-related acci
dents.
Thirty-seven percent, for ex
ample, said they have personally
known someone who has died as
a result of a motor vehicle acci
dent involving a drunk driver.
Nearly one in ten said that a
family member had died as a re
sult of a DWI-related accident,
and a similar percentage, 9.8,
claimed to have had a neighbor
killed in a drunk-driving case.
The survey showed that 14.1
percent had a close friend who
died in such an accident.
Texans polled thought that
evidence seized illegally should
be admissable if the policeman
believed he was acting within the
law, with 75 percent favoring
such evidence being admissible.
Those polled indicated sup
porting stiff penalties for child
abuse, and favored using the
death penalty in specific inst
ances.
In general, Texans seemed to
question the use of the “insan
ity” plea in determining guilt or
innocence, but favored the con
sideration of the insanity plea in
determining punishment.
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\rms trial jury
jtill deliberating
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the stalebDALLAS — Jury delibera-
ti< s resumed Tuesday in the
C e|iorfoiB a l of Ian Smalley, a liritish
tem, is <®' zen charged with being an in-
advison ■ rnat ' ona l arms merchant who
^sistanjBhcmed to sell millions of dol-
sastal rt » s ' Iim °dern weaponry to war-
rii g Iran and Iraq.
I Despite eight hours of de
li! radon Monday and more
ftiirs last Friday, the seven-
lan, five-woman jury failed to
re i h a verdict.
I Instead, the panel spent most
oi Monday listening to scratchy
|pes the government made in
ashington, D.C. of conversa-
tkns Smalley had involving the
le of arms.
If convicted, Smalley could
ceive up to 70 years in prison.
The Englishman faces
larges of conspiring to smug-
le 100 tanks to Iran and 8,400
■nk-destroying missies to Iraq
rlare.sr | eS pj te a federal ban on the ex-
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port of defense materials or
assistance from U.S. firms or re
sidents to the Middle Eastern
countries.
He was also charged with two
counts of failure to register as an
agent for those countries.
U.S. Attorney James A. Rolfe
concluded his arguments by
asking: “How in the world are
we ever going to stop wars with
people like Ian Smalley running
lose to sell weapons to anybody
who will buy?”
Throughout the two-week
trial prosecutors portrayed
Smalley as an opportunist eager
to do business with Libyan lead
er Col. Moammar Khadafy and
the Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini of Iran.
Defense attorney Richard
“Racehorse” Haynes of Houston
argued that Smalley was fooled
into believing he was part of a
sanctioned but covert operation
by the U.S. government to gain
control of the Middle East.
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