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The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 5

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Conflict hifZk. June 25, 1978 THI SUN-TIIEGRAM 6,000 gather in old dump to criticize nuclear plant .0" Population bulge may radically alter patterns in the workplace fate Ha i Vi 1 that there will be no mass arrests, but requires that demonstrators stay on the 18-acre site, obey all laws and leave by 3 p.m. Monday. Those opposed to following the agreement, some saying they were from as far away as California, complained they had not traveled long distances to Seabrook to "spend a weekend baking bread by the sun and listening to rock music." The Clamshell Alliance is an umbrella organization for 50 anti-nuclear groups. Its membership grows and shrinks as nuclear issues fluctuate.

The group takes its name from clams that it claims will be killed by hot water released by the plant. As the few hundred dissidents argued, 4,000 other protesters simmered in the sun and listened to musicians Pete Seeger and Jackson Brown poke fun at New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson to the melody of a popular folk song. At a late afternoon press briefing Thomson said he was pleased that the demonstration had been peaceful. But, he added, "Let me assure you that the state is not going to back off one iota in seeing that our laws are obeyed." Thomson said work continued as usual at the site on Saturday.

Across a marsh from the camp site, a flotilla of small boats picketed an offshore drilling rig used for construction of cooling tun-' nels for the nuclear plant. Clamshell leaders claim the three-day anti-nuclear demonstra-' tion will be the largest of its kind in the nation's history. SEABROOK, N.H. (AP) More than 6,000 demonstrators braved the June heat, flies and piles of garbage Saturday to crowd onto an 18-acre former town dump adjacent to the seaside Seabrook nuclear power plant to rally against nuclear energy. Soon after members of the Clamshell Alliance and their sympathizers entered the site, a colorful tent city had been erected.

There was a stage for concerts and speeches and alternative energy exhibits were set up. Demonstrators baked bread in a solar oven and sold T-shirts displaying a variety of anti-nuclear slogans. On Saturday, about 300 persons at the edge of the site hotly debated whether to abide by an agreement between protesters and authorities, which guarantees will not be looking for just any job in the next decade but will be looking for the desirable jobs or promotions that were usually taken by white men. "This is the Vietnam generation," said Jerome M. Rosow, president of the Work in America Institute, "bringing the values of the 60s into the workplace." Freeman of Harvard, for example, noted that the huge prime-age labor force could mean a good rate of economic growth.

But it also "suggests fierce competition for promotions, coupled with substantial career disappointment for many and the possibility that persons in the 25-to44 cohort of 1990 will receive especially low relative income for their entire lives," he said. "The 'excessive' number of 25-to-44-year-olds and shortfall of younger workers will create major personnel and labor relations problems," he said, "on whose effective resolution industrial peace in the 1980s may depend." The shortage of younger workers, he said, as against high youth unemployment today, is expected to result from the lower birth rate of the last decade. It is also expected to mean a squeezing of wage differentials between the young and relatively inexperienced and the older experienced workers, another point of frustration. Weber of Carnegie-Mellon noted another factor: "Competition to move up the organizational ladder will be sharpened further by the secondary effects of the antidiscrimination laws which have brought women and minorities into the privileged corners of the occupational structure from which they were excluded in the past. Whereas in 1975 there may have been 10 workers competing for a middle-management position, there will now be 13 and to this total you can probably add three women and three members of minority groups." "We already see it in government," said Henle of the Labor Department.

"The problem will be at the tail end, people born in the mid-1950s, the tail end of this boom. They are going to find that their brothers have gotten there ahead of them." "The enormous size of the bulge 50 percent of the labor force will make it impossible to ignore the plight of this group," Weber said. He predicted, for example, that there would be an "increasingly strident backlash against programs for affirmative action." "Exhortations for social justice will have less appeal where there is sharp competition for limited positions in the upper reaches of the occupational structure," he said. New York Times News Service NEW YORK The scene of conflict in American society could be moving from the campus to the workplace. That huge population bulge, the baby boom that came after World War II, has shifted into the office and the factory, and there may not be enough promotions or good jobs to go around in the next decade.

In 1975 there were 39 million workers in the "prime" 25-to44 age bracket, so called because those ages are perceived as the years of ambition as well as skill. In 1990 there are expected to be 60.5 million workers in this bracket. "This remarkable bunching of the work force will have far-reaching consequences for the job market," said Richard B. Freeman, professor of economics at Harvard University and a director of labor enconomics research for the National Bureau of Economic Research. "They will have to jostle and elbow to find room in an increasingly dense labor market environment," said Arnold Weber, professor of economics and public policy and provost at Carnegie-Mellon University.

"Competition will be intense and disappointment more widespread. This disappointment will be deepened by the fact that, on average, these workers will be better educated than many of their superiors." This generation, like a tidal wave, rolled through the public school system and crumpled the old concepts of discipline, revolutionized the colleges, altered traditional sexual morality and ignored the narcotics laws. In the next decade that generation will be meeting head-on the institution of work. "This generation," said Freeman, "chose non-normal patterns of political protest" to make its points. "With that kind of numbers pressure on an institution, something is going to give," said Eli Ginsberg, chairman of the National Commission for Manpower Policy and an economics professor in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

"They ruin everything," laughed Peter Henle, deputy assistant secretary of labor. "My wife says they'll ruin the nursing homes when they get there." There is no way to predict with certainty what is going to happen in the 1980s. But what is certain is that the numbers of Americans in that prime age group will be enormous. This year the Census Bureau says that there are, in total, 58 million in this 25-to-44 bracket. In addition, it seems likely that the groups that have been con-sidzered short-changed in the workplace, women and blacks, Blacks ask South Africa sanctions WASHINGTON (AP) The Congressional Black Caucus called on President Carter Saturday to use measures such as economic sanctions against the white minority regime in South Africa.

"While Africans and their supporters regard that government (South Africa's) as Public Enemy No. 1, we have yet to see your administration fully share this view and implement proposals relating thereto," the caucus said in a letter to Carter. "It is naive to believe that conventional diplomacy will produce the desired results Economic sanctions and other diplomatic moves are the only means short of war in which external forces can engage." The letter was signed by Reps. Parren Mitchell, the caucus chairman, and Charles Diggs, chairman of a House International Relations subcommittee on Africa, on behalf of the 16 black representatives in the House. Mary Fisher survives massacre Massacre (Continued from A-l) Zimbabwe African National Union.

ZANU, headed by Robert Mugabe, is one of two guerrilla armies in the Patriotic Front alliance fighting to topple the biracial Rhodesian government headed by white Prime Minister Ian Smith. Smith has signed an internal settlement plan with three black moderates, designed to bring about black majority rule by the end of this year. The guerrillas have denounced the plan and have stepped up their attacks, focusing recently on white missions. A black member of the school staff said the attack came two days before the missionaries planned to move to Umtali, a heavily defended border town 10 miles north of here, because of increased guerrilla infiltration into the area. British Foreign Secretary David Owen, speaking in his home constituency of Plymouth, England, denounced the attack as "senseless killing." The Rhodesian military command said other victims included Mrs.

Lynn's husband, Robert, 37; Phillips George Evans, 29, his daughters Susan, 8, and Rebecca, Peter McCann, 30, his wife, Sandra, 30, and their children, Phillip, 6, and Joy, 5, and two single women missionaries, Elizabeth Wendy Hamilton, 37, and Catherine Picken, 50. Bodies of the four pajama-clad children lay in a cluster. One of the girls' bodies had the purple imprint of a boot on her face and neck. Evans' hands were tied behind his back with a piece of line. One woman, her hair in curlers and clutching a scarf, had an axe embedded in her back.

Some of the women were only partly clad. Thirty-three white missionaries have been killed since the guerrilla war began, five of them in the past three weeks. When Love Blooms Above all, a diamond ring means love, come in and see our many expressions of love. We'll help you select the ring that best expresses yours. See our complete selection.

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The aid for counties includes state takeover of the county share of welfare, Medi-Cal and food stamp programs, a $1.04 billion item currently paid by local property taxes. Brown acknowledged at the bill-signing ceremony that there would still be a $3 billion reduction in local budgets, which still (Continued from A-l) fought bitterly against the Jarvis initiative before the June 8 primary, said Saturday the message of Proposition 13 confirmed his philosophy. "The concept we are in an era of limits has been ratified by 65 percent of the people," Brown said after he signed the aid bill. Major provisions of the aid bill provide grants of $2.2 billion for schools, $1.48 billion for counties, $250 million for cities and $125 million for special districts, plus $900 million in short-term loans Line Tamer helps smooth away years of lines in just minutes. At last, you can tame those unfunny laugh lines, those circles under the eyes, those unsightly deep facial lines.

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Saturday, Joseph Hummel, hospital administrator said, and was pronounced dead at 7 p.m. Ketchum, a former cattleman and farmer, was elected to the California Legislature In 1966, serving from the 29th Assembly District for six years. He was elected to the 93rd Congress in 1972, winning re-election every year since. I I'" ROOM ADDITIONS 2nd STORY ADDITIONS GARAGE CONVERSIONS KITCHENS BATHS v. REMODELING SYSTEMS (7 1 4) 885-3838 (7 1 4) 825-6870 The Broadway Shop 10 a.m.

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