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...final week began, Byrd and his Senate head counters estimated that they had only 62 votes-still five short of what they needed. Sensing that the treaty had stalled, Michigan G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin, a vigorous opponent, devised a strategy of sending the pact back to the President with the advice to renegotiate it with Torrijos. When Carter called Griffin to express his fear that a defeat would be a "devastating blow to the presidency," the Senator rather sharply replied: "I'm also concerned about the presidency. If you don't have the votes, you ought to take...
...question was: Go where? Once again the strike had turned into a cliffhanger, with the nation waiting to learn whether the 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America would vote this Friday to ratify the pact, which contains more generous provisions for health care and pension benefits, or send their negotiators back to the bargaining table...
Next day, the U.M.W.'s bargaining council voted for the pact by 22 to 17. The vote was closer than expected, but not close enough to dash union leaders' hopes that the contract would be ratified by the U.M.W. rank and file. In fact, although many miners were wary of the new agreement at first, at week's end they seemed to regard it as better than its two predeces sors. (The first was rejected by the bargaining council on Feb. 10; the second was voted down 2 to 1 by the miners on March 5.) Still...
...first, the B.C.O.A. negotiating team took tough positions on several issues, including wildcat strikes and health benefits. Said a strip mine operator: "They underestimated the miners because they didn't know them. The company negotiators were mostly bureaucrats." In any event, after the miners rejected the pact, the B.C.O.A's bargaining was turned over to Nicholas Camicia, 61, chairman of the Pittston Co., and Stonie Barker Jr., 51, president of Island Creek Coal Co. Although their firms rank among the nation's five largest coal companies, Camicia and Barker started out as deep-pit miners. Said Camicia...
...believe it is only right and fair that each guarantee Israel gets, we the Arabs should also get-except one thing. For if Israel chooses to conclude a common defense pact with the United States, I shall not call for a similar one. I shan't call for such a pact to be concluded between me and the United States, the Soviet Union, or any other power. We are a nonaligned country and will continue to be so. Our will is ours, and ours alone...