Page 12/The Batta I ion/Thursday, June 9, 1983
Mexican leader knocks
business for rejection
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Eider
Velazquez, head of Mexico’s
five-million member Confeder-
adon of Mexican Workers,
blasted private industrialists for
“lack of nationalism” because
they rejected a wage-price
freeze proposal.
The wage-price freeze was
proposed to halt an inflation
rate of 130 percent over the last
18 months, which has crippled
•the buying power of Mexicans.
Labor leaders said business
groups rejected the pact because
they want to raise prices to meet
the higher costs of importing
raw materials and spare parts.
Despite rejection of his offer,
Velazquez said there is virtually
no chance for the general strike
against private industry slated
for June 9.
He said the failure of business
to respond to the union’s call for
a pact will not endanger the gov
ernment stabilization program,
“but it does reveal the lack of
nationalism of the entrep
reneurs.”
Napoleon Gomez Sada, presi
dent of the 10-million member
Workers Congress that includes
the Confederation of Mexican
Workers, said that if the pact is
not signed, “social tensions will
increase throughout the
country.”
Velazquez said a price freeze
was necessary because the price
of staple products such as milk
have increased in the last month.
“The workers always bear the
burden of such problems, but
we have to keep on struggling,”
said Velazquez, who has domin
ated the Mexican labor move
ment for the last 40 years.
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EDINBURG, Pa. — The
home where the buffalo roam
isn’t necessarily out West. In
creasingly, it’s a fenced-in field
in Pennsylvania or Ohio.
Last year, Paul Miller of
Edinburg, about 30 miles north
west of Pittsburgh, traded in the
, on his 85-acre farm for buf-
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Joe Mastriani also has switched
from cattle to the fabled shaggy
beast.
The National Buffalo Asso
ciation lists 21 active members in
Ohio and 14 in Pennsylvania,
numbers that don’t include asso
ciate members who raise buffa
lo, nonjoiners or producers who
don’t know about the NBA.
“I feel like a modern-day
pioneer,” Miller, a Conrail em
ployee, said during a break from
stringing cable and barbed wire
around a 15-acre pasture.
He wants to build up his herd
from seven to a lucrative 55 or
60, and he harbors a dream of
hawking buffalo burgers down
town from a pushcart.
Hugh and Joan Forbes
already sell buffalo burgers
along with ice cream cones at
their New Castle, Pa., drive-in
restaurant and keep a herd of 25
buffalo at their dairy farm next
door.
Among the earliest buffalo
ranchers in western Pennsylva
nia when they began in 1975,
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start a half-dozen other herds,
including Miller’s and Mas-
triani’s.
“We were always interested in
buffalo. We were both raised on
farms. They are a nice animal,
interesting and profitable,” Mrs.
Forbes said.
“They’re a lot less work than
pigs,” said Miller.
While their wild cousins
thrived on the wild grasses and
blizzards of the Great Plains,
buffalo in Pennsylvania get
grass, hay, water and fences.
Mrs. Forbes, whose re
staurant was one of 13 last
month to receive NBA Cetifi-
cates of Excellence, said people
are beginning to learn that not
only are buffalo burgers, steaks
and roasts tasty, they are heal
thful.
r i-ople willing to
1,200 for a mountecB
while wooly robes sell (til
$800.
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chers.
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ler’s pet Husky andfoi
at weights up to 2,500
buffalos aren’t exactlym
Lean buffalo meat is 25 per
cent higher in protein than beef
and contains no cholesterol, she
said.
But there’s more to a buffalo
than red meat, and that sells too.
But “you watch tlia
stantly,” Mastriani said
the time you get up to
you go to sleep, you go!
take one more look.’’
Mastriani has sold buffalo
skulls for $80 to people in search
of unusual decor and has seen
hooves turned into lamps and
sold.
Forbes has a waiting list of
He remembers who
Ijorn in a cold rain died (/
ter and the rest of thell^
down in a semi-circlearj
baby.
“It was unreal,"hes:
ing his head.
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — A
methane gas explosion killed
eight workers and injured 53,
including a woman who helped
rescue co-workers, in a newly
opened coal mine in eastern
Yugoslavia, police said.
Mine officials said there were
135 people in the Morava pit,
124 miles southeast of Belgrade,
when the explosion occurred
2,500 feet underground about
7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“I felt a blow, I hit a wagon,”
engineer Ljubisa Dimitrijevic
told reporters from her hospital
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was methane, I knew it immedi
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Wil
liam Cohen, R-Maine, says he
has some difficulty with the de
scription by a Defense Depart
ment agency official of Penta
gon contracting practices as “99
and 44 one-hunaredths percent
pure.”
Cohen, chief sponsor of a bill
to foster competitive bidding for
Pentagon contracts, also accused
the agency Tuesday at a hearing
of the Senate Armed Services
Committee of trying to seriously
weaken the proposed legislation
with a draft of amendments.
The bill would restrict the use
of non-competitive federal con
tracts and establish a clear pre
ference for competitive proce
dures in awarding contracts for
services. It already has been
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that we believe we are 99 and 44
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