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Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 10, 1984 Vegas picket lines honored by Teamsters Union drivers United Press International LAS VEGAS — Strikers en dured 40 mph desert wind gusts Monday and Teamsters Union truck drivers honored their picket lines, refusing to make deliveries to casino-hotels as a walkout against Las Vegas gambling resorts entered its sec ond week. Drivers for Teamsters Local 6(51 and Local 14 honored the picket lines of 17,000 striking culinary workers, bartenders, stagehands, musicians and bel lhops at 29 gambling palaces. The owners used pre-strike contingency plans and said they could do without the union truckers. Supplies were ware housed in advance and private contractors picked up garbage. No negotiations were sched uled, but both sides said they were willing to return to the bargaining table. The unions are seeking an 8 percent wage hike and fringe benefits. Strikers were bolstered by ihe presence of Tom Donahue, sec retary-treasurer of the 14-mil lion member AFL-CIO. He toured picket lines Sunday dur ing an eight-hour stopover and pledged moral and financial support from the national labor movement. The pickets Monday were buffeted by high winds as they paraded outside the struck gambling spas. A court order reducing the number of pickets virtually halted violence and brawling which broke out early during the eight-day strike against the city’s gambling industry, which is the prime source of state tax revenue. Police said Monday nine strikers were jailed during the night, pushing the number of arrests during the walkout to 174. Recent arrests involved vi olations of the court order. Vince Helm, head of the Ne vada Resort Association which represents 20 of the richest ho tels targeted by the unions, said the strikers’ demands would cost owners $10,000 per worker over a four-year period. All hotels have remained open during the labor unrest and reported capacity weekend business. Honeybees buzz in outerspace while building their honeycombs United Press International SPACE CENTER — Thou sands of honeybees buzzing in the middeck of the shuttle Chal lenger have adapted to weight lessness and built a “great big THE UNDERGROUND Sblsa Basement old honeycomb” in their plastic hive, astronauts said Monday. “They moved into the area where the food was (after launch) and they’ve really been going to town,” astronaut James Cookie Special Friday 4/6/84 — Thursday 4/12/84 890 per dozen OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST COOKIE “The Best Food. 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Nelson concluded the bees in space must be having more fun than their Earthbound coun terparts. “I guess they like zeto-G as much as we do,” Nelson quipped. The bee experiment was cre ated by Dan Poskevich, a stu dent at Tennessee Tech Uni versity in Cookeville, Tenn. Poskevich said his experi ment was designed to find out if the bees could built honey combs in the absence of gravity and if so, whether the bees would construct them with the same hexagonal shape as those on Earth. Scientists will measure the thickness, shape and depth of the honeycomb cell walls once the experiment is returned to determine if the honeycomb structures built in space are stronger or better than those on Earth. Photo by KATHERimm Carving Ham Emilie Oeverman, a junior animal i a b Wednesday. The hams will be science major from Houston, trims a judged and auctioned on April 21 in ham for a contest at the Kleberg meats 115 Kleberg. United ASH IN ie strugi angry tening Centra “shrill * has ob egion. Ifilh Reai In outer Ing of Hou menl “t mr objec ms." sthe ad 1 :re Con) ite prep; urging ; CIA-di; rsal of t i. dispute Ions fro 1 Get Reagan! offeri ward Kei himstrati Idoser t Environmentalists target prominent Republicans "A Complete Automotiye Q 3 -o • Brakes 2. CD Front End Parts Replacement ^ c o J0 <D ■O “J Datsun-Honda -» United Press International WASHINGTON — The po litical arm of the environmental movement will target President Reagan and Republican Sens. Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Roger Jepsen of Iowa for defeat this fall, conservation leaders said Monday. The Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters — two of the three national en vironmental groups with active campaign efforts — announced some of their election plans in a conference involving congres sional leaders, conservationists and political pollsters. Marion Edey, executive di rector of the League of Conser vation Voters, said top election priorities for environmentalists in 1984 are to defeat Reagan, Helms and Jepsen. Helms and Jepsen have re ceived consistently low ratings from the league for their con gressional votes, Ms. Edey noted, while environmentalists for three years have bitterly bat tled Reagan administration pol icies. Environmental activists will decide later on pouring volun teer campaign workers and money into other Senate and House races. “We hope that the league will spend close to $2 million on the elections,” said Ms. Edey. Both groups also said they are training activists on a local level in the Democratic Party delegate selection process and are running delegates in 32 states for the Democratic Na tional Convention in San Fran- Democratic pollster Peter Hart told the conference his public opinion surveys show 62 percent of Americans are con cerned about environmental is sues. “Only war in Central America, the deficit and health care are bigger worries,” said Hart. In trying to help elect a Dem ocrat president, Ms. Edey said her group will concentrate on “key swing states,” where both the outcome may be close and the public may be more recep tive to environmental They include New Jersey,! mom, Washington, FI01 New Mexico, Pennsylvania! Texas. While neither the leagtiel the Sierra Club has end any Democratic presidd candidates, they praisedlh] silions of all three ■ Vice President Walter Mdl Sen. Cary Hart, D-Colo., Rev. Jesse Jackson. |n the I leill sa tld agree million |approve ' would But a leading environmtl ist in Congress, Rep. Udall, D-Ariz., told thecodj ence Reagan has softenedj conservation image by rel ing Interior Secretary ' Watt -spouse ran has |21 mil [itly need The Wh fed by fry Spea Ition has f U.S. co jescalate i jua if Re; The doct embers lined of A opera ast and a >urt revii Ition. Freeze damage estimates rise slightly fg United Press International WASHINGTON — The Ag riculture Department Monday raised slightly its estimate of Florida’s freeze-damaged orange crop to 118.7 million boxes, which would be 15 per cent smaller than last season’s production. The estimate was the fourth measurement of the crop since a late December freeze severely damaged fruit, vegetable and sugar crops in the South. In the first post-freeze esti mate, issued in January, the de partment’s Crop Reporting Board reduced the estimate by 23 percent to 129 million boxes. 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