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South Korean strikers vandalize
^shipyard area, hit tourist hotel
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BEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
About 13,000 striking workers occu
pied the nation’s largest shipyard
Thursday, and some torched cars,
destroyed office equipment and at
tacked a tourist hotel.
^■dundreds of other strikes contin
ued around the country after one
striking shipyard worker became the
second fatality in two months of la
bor turmoil.
^■Striking taxi drivers who reached
a pay raise agreement in Seoul re-
to work late Thursday, but a
strike leader was reported in serious
>n Onler' condition after setting himself on
in a dispute with management.
• via r ■’resident Chun Doo-hwan said he
confident the country could
■j^krcome the labor unrest, which he
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a forward. Prime Minister Kim
bowling ;^»jng-ryul talked with top law en-
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Center
forcement officials, but no drastic
government action appeared immi
nent.
The strikes began in early July af
ter Chun bowed to weeks of violent
protests and agreed to democratic
reforms, including greater labor
freedom. Under past authoritarian
governments, wages were strictly
controlled and labor activity was vir
tually outlawed.
Official figures by the Labor Min
istry showed strikes were under way
Thursday at 797 worksites, 65 per
cent of them identified as bus and
taxi companies. New protests
erupted at 112 workplaces but dis
putes ended at 56 companies on
Thursday, the ministry said.
About 13,000 workers at Hyundai
Heavy Industries Co. occupied the
shipyard in the southern city of Ul-
san after an overnight vigil at a
nearby stadium to press their de
mands for pay raises and other ben
efits.
Strikers destroyed windows, type
writers, photo copy machines and
other furniture in the shipyard’s
main office. They set two cars and a
bus on fire and blocked a six-lane
highway outside.
“Raise our pay!” the workers
chanted.
All but 200 left the shipyard by
nightfall and no injuries or arrests
were reported, officials said.
About 500 workers attacked the
Diamond Hotel, a tourist hotel right
across the street from the shipyard’s
main gate, but were repelled by tear
gas-firing riot police.
All Korean and foreign guests
staying at the 290-room hotel were
asked to leave for security reasons.
Hundreds of senior Hyundai office
workers and their families were
evacuated from company apart
ments for fear of attack.
One striker, Chae Tae-chang, 45,
was killed and four others were in
jured Wednesday night when they
were run over by a truck near the
{ jublic sports stadium in Ulsan. Po-
ice arrested the driver and said
there was evidence he had been
drinking.
The first fatality of the strikes
came on Aug. 22, when shipyard
worker Lee Suk-kyu was killed in the
southern port of Koje island in a
clash between strikers and police.
A special unit of 40 police detec
tives was dispatched from Seoul
Thursday to hunt for workers who
set fire to seven cars and a garage in
side Ulsan city hall Wednesday. Fif
teen cars and hundreds of windows
also were destroyed.
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U,S. delays
: q uired deadline set
for cease-fire
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■WASHINGTON (AP) — 1 he
Reagan administration today de
layed a deadline for Iran to agree
to a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf
war and gave its support to a
peace mission to Tehran by U.N.
Se< retary-General Javier Perez de
Cuellar.
■The administration had given
Ipin until Friday to obey the
cease fire ordered by the U.N.
Senn ity Council on July 20. But
Charles E. Redman, the State De
partment spokesman, said draft
ing of sanctions against Iran by
the council would be delayed un
til after Perez de Cuellar visits
Tehran next Thursday.
B| However, the U.S. official said,
“We believe the time for stalling
jhas come to an end. There is a
need for a definitive response.”
BOn Tuesday, Phyllis Oakley, a
department spokesman, said
drafting of a resolution to apply
sanctions against Iran — which
probably would entail an arms
embargo — should begin next
week unless Tehran agreed by
Friday to stop fighting and to ne
gotiate with Iraq.
■ The two countries have been at
war in the Persian Gulf area for
seven years. Iraq agreed to the
i|iase-fire, but Iran has not given
a concrete reply. In the mean
time, Iraq has resumed its attacks
on ships carrying Iranian oil ex
ports in the Gulf.
K Redman said the Perez de
Cuellar visit had the approval ot
tne five permament members of
the council — the United States,
the Soviet Union, Britain, France
and China. He said they had
reached agreement on conditions
for the peace mission after three
days of informal discussions in
New York.
Pilot hangs on to open door
until co-pilot can land plane
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A pi
lot who clung to the rear stairs of a
small plane after a door opened in
flight says he was “thrilled to see the
sunrise” after landing safely, but de
clined to say any more Thursday
about the freakish accident.
“There was no mechanical fault
with the door,” and the plane was re*
turned to service, Steven Mason,
sales manager of Eastern Express,
told a news conference Thursday.
He said the company was investigat
ing the possibility that it had not
been properly closed.
Henry Dempsey, 46, of Cape Eliz
abeth, the pilot wno lay on the stair
way door, suffered only scratches on
his hand in the bizarre accident, af
ter which his hands had to be “pried
off’ the plane’s stair railings.
Dempsey declined all interviews
but said through the company he
was “thrilled to see the sunrise” and
was still stunned by the “harrowing
experience.”
Dempsey was piloting a 15-seat
Beechcraft 99 turboprop, with no
passengers aboard, from Lewiston,
Maine, to Boston early Wednesday
evening when he heard a rattle in
the back of the plane. The twin-en
gine commuter plane was being
flown to Boston to be used for a
flight from there, Mason said.
As he walked back to check on the
noise, the aircraft hit some turbu
lence and he leaned against the stair
way door. The door, which is hinged
at the bottom, fell open and Demp
sey was partially sucked out of the
plane. He grabbed the railings and
lay upside down on the stairs as the
plane traveled at 190 mph at 4,000
feet.
“He was partly in the aircraft and
partly out,” Mason said.
The co-pilot, Paul Boucher of
Lynn, Mass., spotted the “door ajar”
indicator light on and “assumed the
worst,” Mason said.
“He did not know What the situa
tion was dther than the captain did
not return and the door was ajar,”
he said.
Mason said Boucher believed
Dempsey had fallen completely out
of the aircraft into the Atlantic and
frantically radioed for Portland In
ternational Jetport control tower for
help. He then changed course, fly
ing to the jetport, which was about
10 minutes away.
Coast Guard Duty Officer William
Falk in South Portland said he re
ceived a telephone call from the jet
port control tower requesting the aid
of a helicopter.
“A man called, and said a pilot has
been sucked out of a cockpit
through an open door and fell into
the sea,” he said.
As the plane landed, Dempsey’s
face was about 12 inches above the
runway. His hands were clenched so
tightly to the outside of the aircraft
he had to be “pried off,” Mason said.
Bob Devlin, director of the Medcu
rescue unit, which was called to the
airport said Dempsey was “pretty
shook up, which is quite understand
able.”
Boucher did riot realize Dempsey
was hanging on until the plane was
on the ground, Mason said.
The plane was flown back to the
company’s headquarters in Bangor,
“where it underwent a thorough ex
amination and inspection,” Mason
said. “No mechanical fault was
found” and it was returned to serv
ice.
Fires continue blazing across six states
(AP) — Scorching temperatures and steady winds
fanned a plague of fire across parts of six Western
states Thursday, consuming hundreds of thousands of
acres of brush and timber and threatening California’s
towering sequoias.
Jack Wilson, director of the Boise Interagency Fire
Control Center, called the situation “extremely critical,
primarily in California and southwest Oregon.”
“In the national park situation, we’re very fearful
that they might get into the giant sequoias, which are an
irreplaceable resource,” he said.
The fires were started by thousands of lightning
strikes spawned by late-summer thunderstorms.
LaVon Perez of the U.S. Forest Service in California
said, “It continues to be a critical situation. The fore
casters say we’re not going to get as many lightning
strikes today — but they said that yesterday, too, and
we had more than 1,400 additional strikes.”
An estimated 8,000 persons were evacuated from
nearly a dozen rural communities in California.
Dale Wierman of the California Department of For
estry said, “It’s rather frightening because a U-2 over
flight showed hot fires througout the area. If winds
come up this afternoon as predicted, it could be real
bad.”
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