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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 7

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A7 July 23, 1982 S.F. EXAMINER Midair collision kills 6 National digest Compiled from Examiner news services UAW wants COLA back HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. The United Auto Workers union will seek full reinstatement of the cost-of-living allowance Chrysler Corp. workers gave up more than a year ago, a union official says. Marc Stepp, UAW vice president in charge of the union's Chrysler department, said the union wants the COLA formula "as it was," which would put it at $2.13 per hour.

Stepp also said after yesterday's bargaining session that the union wants autoworkers with about 10 years' seniority to get a guaranteed income if laid off. On Wednesday, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca presented the company's view, saying health-care costs must be curbed and expressing concern about pension costs. To N.J. tho worst way GREENVILLE, Miss. Police say A 17-yearold girl wanted to get back to New Jersey so badly she hijacked an 18-wheeI truck at gunpoint and drove it 90 miles through two roadblocks and a hail of gunfire before they finally stopped her.

Susan Marie Lahoda of Jackson, NJ, was held at the county jail today on an armed robbery charge with bond set at $25,000. MERCER ISLAND. Wash. (UPD Two light planes collided above a Seattle suburb late yesterday, killing six people, five in a plane that exploded into flames on a residential street The five were in a Cessna 172 and included two men, two women and a child, according to LL Curtis Johnson of the Mercer Island Fire Department The sixth victim, the pilot of a Cessna Skylark believed to have been flown out of Boeing Field, died shortly after his plane hit the ground on the north end of Mercer Island and broke into several pieces in the back yard of a residence. The pilot was pulled from the plane and rushed to Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, where he died.

No one on the ground was injured and no property was damaged Initial reports said one plane was traveling south and the other north when the northbound plane struck the tail section of the other plane. Identities of the victims were not released. Shultz wants free hand WASHINGTON Secretary of State Shulta says he favors stripping Congress of its power to veto administration decisions to sell arms to other nations. "I would prefer to see legislation which provides substantive guidance to the executive and contains procedures for effective oversight by Congress, without involving Congress directly in the execution of the laws it has enacted," Shultz said. He made the statement in written response to questions submitted to him as part of his confirmation proceedings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The panel released the answer yesterday. Soviet-West phone snags WASHINGTON The State Department says a reduction of direct-dial telephone circuits between the Soviet Union and Western Europe has harmed the diplomatic climate and is inconveniencing many people. A State Department official said yesterday that since July 15 Soviet telephone operators have interrupted most direct-dial calls or haven't placed them at all. When a call does go through "the connection is very bad," he said. Commute plane hijacked KEY WEST, Fla.

Two men doused a passenger and the cabin of a twin-engine airplane bound for Key West with gasoline and, brandishing cigarette lighters, hijacked the plane to Cuba. The craft, with 10 aboard on the return flight to Florida, landed safely in Key West early today. The two hijackers were arrested In Havana. It took five minutes to coax the air pirates from the plane when it landed at Havana's Jose Martin Airport late yesterday, but they eventually walked off and were taken into custody by Cuban authorities. None of the three crew members or seven passengers aboard Marco Island Airway Flight 39, bound for Key West from Miami, was injured.

More dumps on cleanup list WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency today added 43 hazardous waste dumps to Its list of the worst sites in the country, making them available for cleanup under the $1.6 billion superf und program. The new sites are in addition to 115 dumps named by the agency last October. The agency is directed by the 1900 superf und law to come up with a list of 400 of the worst hazardous waste sites in the country which will be eligible for assistance under the program. The 45 dumps added today include sites in Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Washington, Eisenhower College to close SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Eisenhower College, founded in 1965 by friends and former colleagues of President Dwight Eisenhower, is closing its doors.

The school, operated since 1979 as one of 10 colleges of the Rochester Institute of Technology, has lost $5.7 million in the last three years, RTT officials said yesterday. The decision means that the 484 students and 130 employees who planned to return to the four-year liberal arts college this fall will have to go elsewhere. The college has no summer classes. RTT Chairman Frank M. Hutchins and President M.

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