The Daily News in Longview reported Monday afternoon:
Law enforcement officials applauded a tentative deal announced Monday between longshoremen and the EGT grain terminal, saying the agreement could defuse tensions and tempers that have run high in the community for months.
A Coast Guard commander also said Monday he hopes the settlement, the details of which were still sketchy Monday afternoon, will discourage a planned blockade of the Columbia River shipping channel by Occupy movement protesters, who have planned to thwart the first grain ship’s arrival.
