the White House said, as

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By UNITED PRESS CANADA

"WASHINGTON (UPI)
~ -President. Reagan is

‘standing firm. .on his
" “tough talk” to the air

controllers Tuesday and a
spokesman ‘said “the.
system is working, the
Planes are in the air”.

Spokesman Larry
: Speakes,. told reporters

3 elfasi ‘and Loddonderry
after: IR’ hunger-striker’
Kevin ‘Lynch was buried.

. “As police. quelled . the
day,’ the body
ofa Second IRA hunger
striker, Kiernan Doherty,
-was ‘prepared for burial
Tuesday ‘along with that

“of a ‘policeman, John
Smith.  —

: Smith; 34, ‘and fellow
policeman Andrew
Woods, 50, were killed
Sunday when an IRA land
mine blew -up their car,
making them the latest
victims of 12 years of
sectarian strife that has
taken 2,133 lives in
Ulster.

calls in favor™ of the
president's. decision to
fire any air controller
who fails ‘to show up for
work by. 1! a.m. EDT
Wednesday.

But an equally, adamant
Robert Poli, president of
the striking Professional
_ Air Traffic Controllers
- Organization, respondec

-“In good conscience, I -

cannot order ‘my
members to go back to
work.”

Lynch and Doherty,

-both 25, died 42 hours

apart last weekend, the

‘seventh and eighth in--;
mates to die of self-

‘starvation in the five-
month Maze Prison

-protest to obtain political

prisoner status.
Doherty, elected to the

“Irish Parliament during

his 73-day fast - the
longest of any Maze
protester this year - will
be buried in Milltown
Cemetery in his native
West Belfast. He was
serving a 22-year sen-
tence for explosives and
firearms possession and
car theft.

The rioting Monday
erupted after Lynch's
burial in Dungiven, 45
miles northwest of
Belfast.

Postal talks
fo resume

OTTAWA (UPC) -
Executive union mem-
bers of the 23,000 inside
postal workers met
during the weckend in a
bid to end the 36-day
strike. a union official
said Tuesday.

Mediation talks with
Quebec Provincial Court
Judge Alan Gold were to
resume
following a_ three-day
break.

Gold called the break
at the request of both
sides Friday afternoon.
He said both sides would
consult and review their
positions over the
weekend.

Tucsday -

The night before ad-
journing the talks, Gold
admitted he was
pessimistic and had now
new solutions to end the
strike which has crippled
mail service and cost
businessmen millions of
dollars.

“It is a normal thing for
our executive board to
review our positions and
they have been mecting
during the weckend,” a
CUPW official said.

During the weekend,
CUPW President Jean-
Claude Parrot dismissed a
report saying his unton
had approved a new
proposal as only a rumor.

Chiorine kills
28 in Mexico

SAN LUIS POTOSI,
Mexico (UPI) - Army
troops today closed off
the remote mountain
village of Montonas
where deadly chlorine gas
from a derailed freight
train killed 28 peasants
and poisoned more than

1,000.

The Red Cross said the
death toll could mse cven
Ingher Some 600 people
have been cvacuated
from the village, 240
miles north of Mexico
City and 5.000 have fled
from the ncarby town of
Cerntos

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