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TEL AVIV — Officials said Is
rael’s army becan to pull armored
cars, trucks and heavy equipment to
new lines in southern Lebanon on
Sunday, and a top diplomat warned
Syria not to take advantage of Is
rael’s planned withdrawal.
“The initital logistic stages of the
redeployment have begun,” said an
Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv,
who in accordance with army regula
tions spoke on condition he not be
named. “Nonessential material is be
ing transported southward.”
The spokesman said the withdra
wal of heavy gear was to be followed
by a rollback on Feb. 18 of Israeli
troops from a 200-square-mile
chunk of territory along the Medi
terranean coast.
Residents of Lebanese villages
around Sidon, near current Israeli
front lines, told reporters several Is
raeli army trailers returned empty
Sunday after carrying armored vehi
cles toward the village of Kaitouli,
along the redeployment line.
State-run Beirut radio quoted wit
nesses in Sidon — the first major city
expected to be evacuated — as say
ing convoys of about 70 Israeli jeeps,
trucks and armored cars moved
through the city at dawn on their
way southward.
Israel’s Cabinet last week ap
proved a three-phase withdrawal
plan, without fixing a date for com
pleting the pullback to the Israeli-
Lebanese border.
Israel’s current front line is the
Awali River, 37 miles north of the
border. In the first phase, Israeli sol
diers will pull back 18 miles to the
Litani River and give up territory in
which 250,000 to 400,000 Lebanese
live.
Heavy ordnance, medical eouip-
ment and prefabricated buildings
were being shifted from bases near
the Awali to installations along the
new line Sunday.
The Israel military spokesman
said the army, which invaded Leb
anon in June 1982, “will remain in
the area fully equipped for operatio
nal purposes” until the rollback date.
Israel radio said liaison officers
told residents of Sidon that Israel
would reserve the right to return to
the port city of 150,000 if anti-Israel
guerrillas reorganize there.
Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Benya-
min Netanyahu, warned Syria not to
take advantage of a military vac-
cuum by sending its own army or
Palestinian guerrillas into newly
evacuated areas.
“I think the Syrians are well aware
that certain movements on their part
would not be acceptable to us,” Neta
nyahu told reporters in Jerusalem.
The planned Israeli pullout has
prompted fears of an outbreak of
sectarian violence between the rival
Christian and Shiite Moslem militias
in areas to be vacated. Sources in the
Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Sun
day that Lebanon had agreed to sta
tion U.N. observers in evacuated
areas to prevent bloodshed.
Photo by PETER ROCHA
CCCC Cold!!!!!
Cathy Castro, a freshman business major from McAllen, bun
dles up and tries to keep warm on her walk to the library Sun
day. With a wind chill factor a minus 15, it was a long cold
walk.
Budget cut
F-14 purchases reduced
Associated Press
WASHINGTON ■ J ~‘ A reduction
in the Pentagon’s fiscal 198b budget
already approved by President Rea
gan will force the Navy to cut ils pur
chase of F-14 fighters by 25 percent,
according to a high-ranking official.
Instead of proceeding with a plan
to acquire 24 of the front-line jets
during the year starting next Oct. I,
Navy Secretary John Lehman and
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Wein
berger have decided to submit a
budget that cajls for the purchase of
18 of the aircraft, even though the
change will ultimately prove more
expensive, said the source.
The cut, to be formally unveiled
when the president’s budget is sub
mitted to Congress on Feb. 4, will
save about “one-third of a billion
dollars in fiscalT986, but it will drive
up the unit cost by $3 million per
plane and in the long term end up
costing more for the taxpayer,” said
the source, who agreed to discuss the
matter only if not identified.
I he source, who has participated
in the Pentagon’s budget deliber
ations, declined to discuss what cut-
backs were being made by the Army
and Air Force to fulfill a commit
ment by Weinberger to reduce the
department’s overall 1986 spending
plan by $8.7 billion.
Indeed, the source made it clear
he was discussing the planned cut
back on purchases of the F-14 only
because “it’s the best example of
harm to the progress we’ve been
making” in controlling weapons cost.
UAW reaches agreement
with International Harvester
Associated Press
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CHICAGO — International Har
vester Co. and the United Auto
Workers union announced a tenta
tive contract agreement Sunday
night, ending a walkout by more
than 11,000 workers that had begun
less than 48 hours before.
Workers were to return to the job
immediately, said company and
union spokesmen who cteclined to
release details of the proposed
three-year contract.
The strike began at midnight Fri
day, with the union saying it was
seeking restoration of benefits it
conceded to the ailing farm equip
ment giant in 1982.
“Normal scheduled operations
are expected to resume immediately
atall UAW-represented IH facilities,
including manufacturing plants and
parts-distribution centers,” Bill
Greenhill, a company spokesman
said in a statement.
UAW spokesman Peter Laarman,
like Greenhill, refused to discuss de
tails of the tentative settlement but
said, “We believe this will be well-ac
cepted, well-received and imple
mented” by the rank and file.
The settlement “means that the
strike by 13,000 UAW workers is re
cessed and workers will return to
work tonight and tomorrow until the
contract is ratified later in the week,”
said Laarman.
Greenhill on Saturday had said
11,000 to 12,000 workers were on
strike; the difference between the
company and union figures could
not immediately be reconciled.
The UAW’s bargaining council
would meet in Chicago on Wednes
day to review the proposed
agreement and then would pass it
ice!
The settlement menus
that UAW workers will re
turn to work until the con
tract is ratified later in the
week.
along to the rank and file, said Laar
man. He said most rank-and-fiTe
members will meet Thursday to de
cide whether to ratify the pact.
Ratification meetings at the 23
UAW local unions included in the
negotiations will be held later in the
week, the Harvester statement said.
It said no details of the tentative
agreement wotdd be released until
the ratification process was com
pleted.
The previous Harvester-UAW
contract was to have expired Sept.
30, 1984, but was extended by mu
tual agreement, the Harvester
statement said. The union termi
nated the extension at midnight Fri
day.
The weekend strike was the first
work stoppage against International
Harvester since a S'/a-month strike
in the winter of 1979-80.
The 1979-80 strike, coupled with
a depressed farm equipment market,
caused huge losses for the company
and it took drastic steps to stay
afloat, including consolidation of op
erations, huge layoffs, and the bene
fits concessions.
“We stepped forward when they
needed concessions, and now we’d
like them back,” said Larry Terry, a
spokesman for UAW Local 98 in In
dianapolis.
The company hasn’t posted an an
nual profit since 1979 and does not
expect an improvement in the de
pressed farm-equipment business
for at least the next five years, Inter
national Harvester chairman Donald
Lennox said last October.
The strike involved plants at East
Moline, Rock Island and Melrose
Park in Illinois; Indianapolis;
Springfield, Ohio; Memphis, Tenn.;
and Louisville, Ky. It also affected
distribution centers in Atlanta; Fort
Wayne, Ind.; St. Paul, Minn.; Mem
phis; and Dallas, and an Interna
tional Harvester engineering center
in Hinsdale, III.
Harvester facilities not affected by
the strike included a plant in Wauke
sha, Wis., and parts distribution cen
ters in California, Kansas City, Kan.,
and Baltimore.
UAW members braved blowing
snow, subzero temperatures and ter
mination notices Sunday as they
walked a picket line at Harvester’s
farm equipment plant in Memphis,
which is to close May 1.
“It’s not a lot of fun,” said Murray
Springer, a member of UAW Local
988’s executive board.“Times have
been sort of hard for most of us.”
Harvester has sold its farm equip
ment business to Tenneco Inc.,
which plans to merge it with its J.I.
Case Co. subsidiary.
On Friday, Harvester began
handing out termination notices to
production workers and white-collar
employees in Memphis. About 430
production workers and about 200
office employees were still on the job
Friday.
Twelve hours later, the UAW or
dered a company-wide strike.
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