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The Battalion
WORLD & NATION
Page 10 The Battalion Tuesday, April 18,1989
Teachers on strike
to protest pay cause
closing of schools
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thou
sands of teachers went on strike
Monday to back demands for higher
pay and an end to corruption in
their union, defying a government
appeal to stay on the job and par
alyzing up to half of Mexico’s public
schools.
The strike was called by the Na
tional Education Workers’ Coordi
nate, a dissident group within the
National Education Workers Union.
The dissidents claim to have the sup
port of about half the union’s 1 mil
lion members.
At a plenary meeting of delegates
late Sunday, the coordinate rejected
a government offer to increase pay
by 10 percent and fringe benefits by
18 percent, insisting on the 100 per
cent raise they have been pressing
for since early December.
Coordinate leaders are also de
manding the “democratization” of
the union, headed by Carlos Jongi-
tud Barrios, a senator from the rul
ing Institutional Revolutionary
Party, as well as the removal of other
government-backed union leaders
they claim are corrupt.
The union, largest in Mexico and
one of the biggest in Latin America,
for decades has been considered a si
necure to reward loyal party officials
like Jongitud.
Education Secretary Manuel Bart
lett Diaz called the strike “unjusti
fied” in a nationwide television ap
pearance late Sunday and urged
teachers to stay on the job.
“It is unjust and not right that
school work be affected when chan
nels are still open for seeking a solu
tion to the conflict,” Bartlett said.
Negotiations between the coordi
nate, union leaders and the govern
ment broke down last week. The
coordinate, headed by junior high
school teacher Teodoro Palomino,
issued a statement accusing the gov
ernment of “lacking seriousness.”
“The strike will last indefinitely,
until we obtain a positive response to
our demands,” Palomino told re
porters Monday. He said a total of
8,000 grammar and high schools in
Mexico City and in 18 of Mexico’s 31
states — half the national total —sus
pended classes because of the strike.
According to government figures,
there are 1,100,000 teachers and
25,444,000 students in the nation’s
federal public school system.
Ten schools visited by journalists
in the Mexico City area on Monday
were closed by the strike. However,
teachers at a school in suburban Ati-
zapan said they would stay out only
one day, and others said they would
reconsider after three days because
teachers can be fired after four days’
absence.
Education Department spokes
man Gerardo Campos said the de
partment had no accurate informa
tion on how many schools were out
Monday afternhon. “We are check
ing,” he said.
Dissident teachers accuse Jongi
tud and other union leaders of rig
ging union elections and taking bo
nuses and other government perks
while Mexico’s 7-year-old economic
crisis has crippled the living stan
dards of the rank and file.
Teachers receive $150 a month,
with take-home pay at about $ 142.50
after taxes. A recent study by the lib
eral magazine Proceso said 80 per
cent of Mexico City’s 100,000 gram
mar school teachers could not afford
homes or cars. Nearly all had to
moonlight, and many drove taxis, to
make ends meet, the study said.
“They’ve turned us into peddl
ers,” said Juan Buendia, a teacher at
Jose Clemente Orozco primary
school in Atizapan. “Some of us sell
things on the street to buy chalk and
erasers for the students.”
In 1980 teachers made eight times
the federal minimum wage; they
now receive 29 percent more. The
government boosted salaries by an
average 20 percent last year, when
inflation ran at 51.9 percent.
Noe Garcia, a coordinate spokes
man in Mexico City, said the pay
hike offered by the government
amounts to little more than 80 U.S.
cents a day.
“We do it for love, because if we
did it for the money we’d die of hun
ger,” said Oralia Cinta Valdez, an
other teacher in Atizapan.
World Briefs
Investigator killed by explosion of bomb
WIESBADEN, West Germany
(AP) — A bomb similar to the one
that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103
exploded while being examined
Monday, killing an investigator in
a case involving Palestinians sus
pected of terrorism.
The federal prosecutor’s office
reported evidence contradicting
U.S. media reports that a Leb-
anese-American passenger inad
vertently carried the bomb onto
the jet that exploded over Scot
land on Dec. 2 1. All 259 people
on the plane and 11 on the
ground were killed.
Another officer was criticall)'
wounded in the explosion Mon
day at federal police headquar
ters, said spokesman Arno Falk of
Bundeskriminalamt, the police
bureau.
It was not clear whether the
bomb was seized in connection
with the Pan Am investigation,
hut the manner in which it was
disguised was said to be similar.
Two sailors missing after cargo ship sinks
BOSTON (AP) — Two sailors
were missing Monday evening af
ter a 652-foot freighter en route
from Greece apparently sank in
rough seas 400 miles southeast of
Cape Cod. Twenty-three crew
members were rescued.
The 23 sailors from the Star of
Alexandria were found on a life
boat and picked up by the mer
chant ship Ravenscraig, Coast
Guard Petty Officer Randy Midg-
ett said in New York.
“They’re all in good shape.
some minor cuts and scrapes,’’
Midgett said.
The two missing sailors were
believed to be on a life raft, which
was the object of a hunt Monday
evening by the 950-foot Ravens
craig and five Navy and Coast
Guard planes, officials said.
The Ravenscraig’s crew
spotted a second life raft, but it
turned out to be empty.
The cause of the sinking was
not immediately known, officials
said.
Stadium deaths may lead to section ban
SHEFFIELD, England (AP) —
Criticism increased Monday into
the police handling of the soccer
stadium disaster that killed 94
fans, and the government
launched its own inquiry and said
it may ban standing-room-only
sections.
Officials and fans accused the
South Yorkshire police of letting
thousands of late arrivals into
Hillsborough stadium — and
then responding too slowly when
the surging crowd was crushed
against a steel anti-riot fence in
one of the standing-room-onlv
terraces.
Home Secretary Douglas
Hurd, speaking to a hushed
House of Commons, said the in-
quiry headed by Lord Justice
Taylor would begin work Tues
day and “make recommendations
about the needs of crowd control
and safety at sports grounds."
Hurd told the Commons the
decision of a senior police officer
to open the gate because he “con
sidered that there was a possible
danger to the lives of the specta
tors at the front” would be a cen
tral question for investigators.
Group wants to leave nostalgia in past
CHICAGO (AP) — Does “The
Big Chill” leave you cold? T ired
of hearing “oldies” older than
you on TV commercials? Three
exasperated young upstarts say,
“Right on!”
The reminder that the cal
endar says 1989 comes f rom the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Time — three guys
in their 20s who say “We want to
end the ’60s in your lifetime.”
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW 1989-1990
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Rick Francen, Vice-President
Doug Wehmeyer, Secretary
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Curtis Rick, President
Keith Powell, Vice-President
Millicent Thompson, Secretary
Loray McKay, Treasurer
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apartment (or unit) number in the
Apartments
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of their lease contract. If resident fails to furnish
forwarding address in writing, then all security
deposit refunds, notices and/or itemizations will
be mailed to resident at the apartment which
resident is vacating for the U.S. Postal Service
to forward it to resident. This receipt should
be retained by resident as verification that
written move-out notice was given.
Owner’s Representative or Manager:
Signiture
Do You Want Your
Security Deposit Back?
Please follow these steps:
1. Write a letter of intent of vacancy at
least 30 days prior to the end of the
lease. A sample letter is published to
the left of the art work.
2. Give the letter to your manager and
keep a copy signed by the manager. If
you send the letter by mail, use
certified mail with return receipt
requested.
3. Pay all rent owed until the end of the
lease.
4. Give your forwarding address in
writing to your manager.
5. Vacate the apartment according to
your lease agreement.
6. Clean the apartment thoroughly.
7. Inspect the apartment with your
manager.
8. Wait 30 days to receive your security
deposit back.
9. If you fail to receive your security
deposit back, stop by the Off Campus
Center, at Puryear Hall (across from
YMCA building) or call for an
appointment 845-1741.
Acknowledgements
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Stories and artwork are
provided by
the Off Campus Center
April 18,1989
Editor: Erika Gonzalez-Lina
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