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ft January 25, 1987 Vol. 123, No. 170 Sioux City, Iowa rmfrre Super Sunday Giants, this year's designated mini-dynasty, rate as heavy favorites over Broncos section Lifting the shroud WIT's Adult Literacy Program introduces reading to illiterate Siouxland adults readers: 124.2S3 OH Cloudiness; Cloudiness; High, 25-30 pageE! City edition GCIdn sappers Howard Seemann, a journalism professor at Humboldt State University in Areata, said Steen was a Boston native who taught at the northern California school in the early 1970s. "Al was always kind of open for adventure. He wanted to do things," Seemann said.

A Beirut University College official 1 i BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Four kidnappers disguised as police and carrying rifles seized three American teachers and an Indian professor at a west Beirut college Saturday and then fled with their hostages in a Jeep, police reported. The kidnappers duped the foreign teachers into assembling in a Beirut University College office by claiming hava hoon occffTnn1 ntsf them, police and school sources said. The abductions came as Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was reported to have concluded five days of secret negotiations with Shiite Moslem captors of two Americans held captive since 1985. U.S. Ambassador John Kelly held crisis talks with senior aides at the embassy in east Beirut's Christian suburb of Aukar to discuss the latest kidnappings.

Embassy spokesmen declined to comment. Twenty-five foreigners are reported missing and believed kidnapped in Beirut, including 10 seized since Waite arrived in Beirut on Jan. 12. Police and university officials, all speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the Americans abducted Saturday as Alarm Steen, 48, a journalism professor; Jesse Turner, assistant instructor of mathematics and computer sciences, and Robert Polhill, assistant professor of business studies. The Indian was identified as Mithileshwar Singh, chairman of the 111 1 ibbii.iiii i IBP urges workers their wives came to Nahhas' office.

It was then that one gunman pointed an AK-47 to Nahhas' head and shouted, 'Don't "Another aimed his M-16 at the foreigners and said, 'All men, come with The four walked out without insistence," the student said. He spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons. Nahhas said the kidnappers handcuffed the teachers. "As Professor Steen walked away, he looked back and told his wife, Virginia Rose, 'Don't worry darling, it's only a the student said. The four houstages were taken about 50 yards to the jeep, "where the kidnappers bundled them in and i 1 I for proposa to vote IBP inc.

officials are urging workers locked out of its Dakota City plant to vote today to accept the company's contract proposal, the same proposal members overwhelmingly rejected last month. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222 will hold a membership meeting at 1 p.m. today in the Siouxland Convention Center in South Sioux City, at which time members are expected to decide whether to hold a second vote. At a bargaining session in Omaha last week, IBP officials offered the union what it last month called its "final" contract proposal. It has repeated the message in several Journal ads since the verbal of fer.

Last Dec. 14, the union rejected in a vote of the company's offer and voted instead to return to work; the company subsequently locked its doors. IBP officials said in an ad in to sped off," according to the student. A Lebanese guard at a school gate said he thought the gunmen were regular police when they entered the school. "I was astonished to see them about 10 minutes later racing out in the jeep with the professors.

They were pointing guns to the professors' heads. One of them yelled at me, 'If you talk we shall finish The identities of the kidnappers were unknown, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. "I have already alerted Alann's family and mine," Steen's wife said, weeping after the kidnapping. "Please, I don't feel like talking." Mrs. Steen is the head of the Beirut college's fine arts department.

4 mnV "Despite the aggravations and tribulations that plague Washington now," Melcher said, "I want to assure senior citizens throughout this country that we are in no way allowing Congress to forget about you, to ignore you. We are going to attempt in every way possible to improve your circumstances and your quality of lives as seniors." In many cases currently involving a catastrophic illness, he said, people with inadequate health insurance have no choice but to give up their lifestyles and resort to welfare for needed medical attention. Melcher is co-sponsor along with Sen. Ted Kennedy, of a proposal by Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, addressing the costs of catastrophic illnesses. Hearings on the subject, including testimony from Bowen, are expected to begin Monday by the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

The Bowen proposal is far from the perfect solution, Melcher said, noting that it fails to address promises She addressed a crowd of about 150,000 people in Dumaguete. "I would like to assure families of the victims and the entire Philippine nation that justice will be given to them," the president declared. She was trying to repair the dam U.S. Sen. John Melcher, talks Satur- about ways they feel the government can im-day with people at the Siouxland Senior Center prove health care.

(Staff photo by Jody Henjes) Elderly get good news Union to make decision on taking another vote business studies division. The college said he had an American Green card, which makes him a legal U.S. resident alien. Four men wearing olive-green police uniforms entered the campus at 7 p.m. in a police patrol jeep and said they were assigned to provide protection for all foreign teachers, police said.

They asked that all foreign staff members assemble at the office of the campus services supervisor, Raja Nahhas, saying "We need to meet with them." A student who was at the office said the assailants "acting perfectly as Squad 16 policemen, were armed with M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles. "The foreign professors along with company's current offer by deadline a week from today, IBP officials have said they will re-evaluate their position at that time. Terms of IBP's final offer are spelled out in the ad on page A13 and include: wage rates for employees who have completed their starting wage rate to remain at present levels and, if the beef industry wage index rises above the base wages paid at the Dakota City plant, an annual pay increase for those workers; employees who have not completed their starting wage rate to continue to progress through their starting period with the starting wage rate progression and wage increases presently in place. In other words, those employees eventually will increase to a base rate of $8.20 in slaughter and $7.90 in processing and hides. Those levels will increase as the BIWI rises above the base wages paid at the Dakota City plant.

unacceptable in the company's proposal, he said, are that it offers no wage increase for a decade, no pension, inadequate health insurance and a two-tier wage structure in which new workers would never reach the pay of workers who are standing beside them. The company also needs to address the issue of safety on the job, Schmitz said. Last week, union officials charged the company with keeping two sets of injury and illness logs in an attempt to "willfully deceive OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) by sanitizing its injury and illness records in 1985 and 1986 at its Dakota City, plant," a charge denied by IBP. OSHA officials began inspecting the plant Thursday, but said the inspection was planned before the union's allegations against the company were made. Non-candidate keeps his word MAZEPPA, Minn.

(AP) -Frank Irwin warned voters he wouldn't accept the job if they re-elected him mayor. They did and he did. Last week, Irwin resigned as mayor of the southeastern Minnesota town of around 500 people. Last year, Irwin had declined to file for re-election, but no one else filed either and he was re-elected by write-in votes in last November's general election. "I just figured 11 years was long enough," he said.

"It's time for change and new ideas." Reagan declares American Samoa as disaster area WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan on Saturday declared American Samoa a major disaster area in the wake of extensive property damage caused by Hurricane Tusi, which struck the territory Jan. 17. Peg Maloy, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Reagan's action will permit the use of federal funds in relief and recovery efforts. University of Idaho, Polhill of New York University and that Singh had received a diplomat from Western Colorado University. Beirut University College, which has 3,000 Middle Eastern and African SEE VICTIMS continued on page A1 2 m4 longterm health care.

"But at least it is a starting point," he said. Congress must work from the starting point to formulate and implement codes addressing the issue of catastrophic care, he said. "And then no one will have to face the uncertainty and doubt and fears of not being able to have medical hospital long-term health care." In response to inquiries by several audience members about insurance policies designed to take up where Medicare leaves off, Melcher said such policies are often misleading and should be required by law to include clear, standardized, understandable language about what they cover. Similar explanatory information should be provided to citizens on Medicare so they understand what is covered under the government program, Melcher continued. "It is our national responsibility to understand what Medicare does and does not pay," the senator said, adding that he planned to put together a pamphlet on that very subject.

justice age done by the shootings Thursday at Mendiola bridge near her Manila office, which has drawn fire on her government from both left and right. Twelve people were killed and dozens were wounded when marines fired on about 10,000 demonstrators Journal WANT ADS ft CUaalltcillon 47 fer lull daull. Phorts 279-5092 LONG DISTANCE CALL TOLL FREE In Iowa: 1-600-352-4600 From adjoining stales: 1-800-U1-0920 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222 representative Bill Schmitz, in response to urgings by IBP inc. to allow a second vote on the company's "final" contract proposal, says he'll do so. But, the union representative specified in an advertisement in today's Journal, "it will be the last vote we take until IBP gets serious at the bargaining table and addresses the real issues." memDers oi me locai union wm meet at 1 p.m.

today in South Sioux City's Siouxland Convention Center and review a recommendation prepared by the Local 222 executive council on the question of a second vote. Schmitz said the ultimate decision on whether to have a vote today will rest with the membership itself. However, the union leader has made it clear he still finds the company 's offer unacceptable. day's Journal they want the union to hold a vote despite union leader Bill Schmitz's disapproval of the "final" offer. "We understand that UFCW Local 222 has called for a membership meeting this afternoon but we have not received any assurance that union leadership will allow a vote on the Company's proposal," the ad states.

"We, again, urge Bill Schmitz not to attempt to avoid having a secret ballot vote at today's meeting even if he personally is not in support of accepting the offer. "We believe that the affected employees should have the chance to accept the Company's offer prior to its expiration on Feb. 1," the ad continues. "If the UFCW allows a real opportunity to vote, we urge you to vote to accept the Company's proposal." If union members do not accept the In today's ad on page A6, which he addresses to IBP President Robert Peterson, the union representative says it's time for the company to stop playing "word games" and start talking about the issues important to the workers. "Stop hiding behind phony issues like another vote and so-called 'competition' in an industry IBP dominates," the ad states.

"Stop hiding behind proposals phrased in weasel words to disguise four more years of a wage freeze, cuts in 'take-home fewer opportunities for IBP workers to get better jobs in the Iilant and destruction of the seniority anguage. "You stole our children's Christmas, you are trying to cheat us out of our unemployment insurance, and you are trying to starve and freeze us into submission," Schmitz said in the ad. Among the points Schmitz finds and sisters of Forsyth County that we have learned to love our neighbors as ourselves," Bernice King, youngest daughter of Martin Luther King shouted above the noise of circling helicopters from the Georgia State Patrol and several television stations. "We are ready to carry the torch forward," she said. Sheriff Wesley Walraven said he had heard of no injuries, although there were a few reports of bottles and rocks thrown at marchers.

Robbie Hamrick, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, estimated the number of marchers at 20,000 to 25,000. Among those marching with the group were King's widow, Coretta Scott King, former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev.

Ralph David Abernathy, comedian Dick Gregory and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The march was delayed for more than three hours by the huge turnout, which created a traffic jam on the state road linking Cumming with Atlanta, 40 miles miles south. At least 14 people, four of them Klan members with weapons, were arrested before the march began. By Kathy Hoeschen Massey Journal staff writer Congress must take long strides to meet health care needs of the nation's elderly, a Montana senator taking steps to improve catastrophic health care benefits told Siouxlanders Saturday. U.S.

Sen. John Melcher, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Aging. He is a Sioux City native. He told visitors to the Siouxland Senior Center that, with an estimated 36 percent of the nation's citizens ages 65 and over living below the poverty level, "we (Congress) have not accomplished our goals of making life comfortable and rewarding for the elderly." "I don't know of any more critical conditions, any more trying times in the past 17, 18 years than what faces this Congress now," Melcher said. "And I'm here to start a quest of determining what people in the heartland of America are recommending for us to do.

1 Aquino MANILA, Philippines (AP) -President Corazon Aquino pledged Justice Saturday for 12 protesters by marines at a march near her office, and a major leftist group planned a repeat march as a test of whether she can control the military. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley says she's "just not in a position to comment" on whether Secretary of State George P. Shultz has a tiger tattooed on his left buttock. We would hope she's not.

Guardsmen protect brotherhood march CUMMING, Ga. (AP) Nearly 25,000 demonstrators, led by veterans of 1960s-era protests and protected by at least 2,300 National Guardsmen and police, marched peacefully Saturday in an all-white county to protest racial intolerance. civil rights activists black and white, and many with children were met by more than 1,000 counterdemonstrators, some waving Confederate and U.S. flags and shouting "Nigger go home." Authorities reported 60 arrests but could not specify how many were part of either group of demonstrators. The march was a response to a similar march last weekend by 75 blacks and whites that was disrupted by about 400 Ku Klux Klan members and supporters who pelted the marchers with rocks, bottles and mud.

Among the counterdemonstrators was former Gov. Lester Maddox, a one-time segregationist. The group, which planned a rally after the march, dispersed when confronted by state police. The marchers, carrying signs such as, "Do right Forsyth County," flashed peace signs at the hecklers. The lV'4-mile march was one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in the United States since the 1960s.

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