October 28, 1985

Rank-and-file members of the United Automobile Workers today ratified a new labor contract with the Chrysler Corporation, ending a 12-day strike by the company's 70,000 production workers in this country. The union said the agreement, reached after a 42-hour bargaining session last week, was approved by 87 percent of the membership. Chrysler workers are expected to be back on the job starting with the first shift Monday. The new, three-year agreement with the smallest of the major domestic automobile companies gives each worker an immediate bonus of $2,120, in recognition of the concessions the union made in Chrysler's financial crisis of 1979-1982. It also provides for pay increases each year and parity with the General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company in benefits and wages. Wages will increase from $13.23 an hour now to $13.29 an hour when the new contract goes into effect.

A picture provided by Camera Press in some copies yesterday with an obituary of Maurice Cardinal Roy, former Archbishop of Quebec and Roman Catholic Primate of Canada, was incorrect. It showed Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, former Archbishop of Montreal.

International A major art theft in Paris took place at the Marmottan Museum. Robbers, holding nine unarmed guards and 40 visitors at gunpoint, took nine of the museum's most valuable Impressionist paintings, including five Monets and two Renoirs. At least five armed gunmen took part in the holdup that lasted about five minutes. They escaped in a car. It was the first time in France that museum artworks were stolen at gunpoint, the curator who oversees the museum said. [Page A1, Column 5.] Israel attacked Palestinian bases in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon, the 13th bombing by its air force of guerrilla bases this year in Lebanon. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but an Israeli military spokesman said the planes had made direct hits on their targets and had returned safely to base. [A1:1.]

A front-page caption yesterday with a picture of barge traffic in upstate New York incorrectly described the Erie Canal. It runs for about 350 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo on Lake Erie; it is part of the 525-mile New York State Barge Canal System.

And in the seventh game, Dick Howser rested. As the Royals won the World Series for the first time last night with an 11-0 victory, their manager relaxed as much as a manager could. Through the tension of six taut games, Dick Howser was hounded by the second-guessers who analyzed his every thought. Sometimes even a thought he never had until a second-guesser brought it up. But he always smiled.