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Page 9 , STATE "• 2(>(>0 THF. BATTALION ~ ockheed workers roid disease, me While thyroid fa,lu' 1 ! H)RT W0RTH ( AP > ~ l>it:kets inly a problem f or vvcn ' U P ear 'y toda y at Lockheed Martin nptoms often — Aeronautics Co.’s massive plant here af- nopause !, IK u terlbout 2,300 machinists voted to strike i illv .tow . '■ " Ua - ‘-over better wages and benefits. ' iai| y sta rts to rise manj and that older The plant is the company’s primary I I men •manufacturer of the F-16 lighter, said s '"ore o tenthansiK^oli^eed spokesman Joe Stout. Most of nnaocnnologistslastyearJhI people on strike are morning-shift 1 " k ll ' sl ; s ' wr P re gnaii!senmloyees who work on the F-16. sea mot ier sunderaetwc^i! was unclear what impact the strike '" 1 L, '‘ 1rain deve l°pnieiit wot ild have on company operations, Stout mii(.e one in 50 womenfe said this morning. I ie declined to say how lsm miring pregnancy. m an\ workers honored the strike, n addition. endocrinologjB" We think that everyone is now at hers suflering postpanc wlrk that is coming to work,” Stout said, need testing to see ifthy i we’re conducting business as usual and Lbime. frlm what we see everyone else is at tidgway's other tindms work today.” aid failure causedchobflj Some 150 people were outside the g. Iliat supports areceniB; Pm nl this morning, with a dozen pickets concluded mild thyroidc walking the line at a time. (sociated with heart ataill The company has made several ma- i simple test to detect b. jor sales during the past two years, most stimulating hormone." notably 80 planes to the United Arab doodstream diagnoses!! Emirates, 50 each to Israel and Greece, I he same blood sampU ami 24 to Egypt. It is a finalist for sever- esterol or any other rot al other contracts, including sales to Nor- an be checked forISH W av and Chile. I Lockheed stock was down 6 l /4 cents at $21 a share this afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange. I No new talks were scheduled after Brain Hie walkout, the third in the history of the ^■9-year-old plant. Strikes also occurred anC * w ' dl the Inst walkout | lasting two weeks. Q-|p Pat Lane, president of Local 776 of International Association of Machin- fBsls, was on the line w ith other pickets as workers arrived after midnight at the plant’s 10 gates for the third shift. Angry that their wages and bonuses from the defense contractor have fallen behind rival Boeing Co. machinists, union members voted Sunday to reject “We're under paid. we want to get in line with the rest of the in- dustiy. We're not greedy” — Tom Williams Lockheed worker for 18 years the company’s contract offer and go on strike against the jet fighter manufactur er, beginning at 12:01 a.m. today. “We’re underpaid. We want to get in line with the rest of the industry. We’re not greedy,” said Tom Williams, a Lock heed worker for 18 years. He said that the last couple of con tracts, “We’ve lost ground” with respect to the cost of living. Cost of living increases, Williams said, have been slashed by one-third. Salaried employees, who may end up working on the line during the strike, had some difficulty getting into the plant be cause of slowed traffic around the pick- on strike el lines early this morning, Stout said. Union attorneys have tiled a tempo rary restraining order against the White Settlement Police Department to keep police from interfering with the pickets. “It’s simply designed to ensure that the city of White Settlement, particular ly the White Settlement Police Depart ment doesn’t interfere with the union’s peaceful strike activities on the picket line and that the police department is not using tactics used to intimidate or harass the picketers,” said Rod Tanner, an at torney for the union. The plant straddles Fort Worth and the suburb of White Set tlement, west of Fort Worth. About 7:30 a.m., a White Settlement police wagon and a cruiser drove up to the main gate and left after a few min utes. The three-year agreement between the company and the union expired at midnight Sunday. Negotiations between the union and managers began in mid-February and continued through last week. Stout said management made its last offer to the union about 4 p.m. Friday. The machinists’ union represents some of the most senior employees at the plant. Because of the combination of de fense downsizing and seniority rules, the average worker at the plant is 49 years old and has 20 years of seniority. A threatened strike three years ago was settled when the company improved pension benefits. Last year, Lockheed narrowly avoid ed strikes at plants in California and Georgia. Hormones Journalist murdered, body umped south of Harlingen LOS 1NDIOS (AP) — Federal officers have witnessed he dumping of a Mexican journalist’s body across the order in South Texas after his shooting death. Pablo Pineda of Matamoros was slain in Mexico be fore his body was taken to the Texas side of the bor- ictera/x/abandoned early Sunday morning. “It was an execution-style shooting,” Cameron Coun ty Sheriff Omar Lucio told the Valley Morning Star. “We’ll be working closely with the Mexican authorities on this case." Pineda's head was covered with a plastic bag. Lu cio said the victim had been shot in the back of the head with a 9 mm gun. The sheriff said U.S. Border Patrol agents watching the area saw two men carry a large bundle across the Rio Grande, dump it on the U.S. bank and return to Mexico. The agents assumed the bundle contained some thing illegal and waited for someone to pick it up. They went to inspect the object around 6:45 a.m. and dis covered Pineda’s body in Los Indies, a town of about 1,000 people, 15 miles south of Harlingen. iKING I I 'ER 5 p.m.? >ted fo r jram th , Employ' Come learn what your government does not want you to know about UFOs. . . Using the Freedom of Information Act, several UFO research organizations have recently obtained once>secret government documents concerning “flying saucers”. These, and other newly-declassified documents reveal that UFOs do exist and, further, indicate that the U.S. Government has been engaged in a massive cover-up designed to keep the tacts from the public. “UFOs - THE HIDDEN HISTORY” A slide-tape program and lecture by Robert Hastings April 13, 2000 Rudder Theater 7 pm Presented by MSC Current Issues Awareness TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT Kaffee Klatsch Make reservations now! Parents Weekend April 14, 15, 16 Lunch all day. 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