AT&T to Pay 2.5 Million for Discrimination
The Labor Department announced AT&T will pay an additional 2.5 million to rectify deficiencies in implementing a 1973 74 consent decree on gender and minority employment. About 2,500 women and minority employees will receive checks from 125 to 1500 dollars. The payout targets Bell System units across states including New England, Southern New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and others, with several units deemed to have made good faith efforts in 1973 unaffected. The agreement was filed with a Philadelphia court for approval.
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Washington (Ap
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Labor Department
At&t
Bell System
Bell
U.S
Philadelphia
New England Telephone
Southern New England Telephone
New York Telephone
New Jersey Bell
Bell of Pennsylvania
Diamond State Telephone
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Virginia
Jackie Onassis to revert to Kennedy name
London gossip column cites Jacqueline Onassis plans to resume use of Kennedy surname to honor her first marriage and strengthen ties to American politics. Column notes loyalty to Kennedy name over Onassis memory and potential for political involvement.
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London
Jacqueline Onassis
Kennedy
London Daily Express
Aristotle Onassis
John F. Kennedy
Onassis
the Express
Vietnam Catholics Are Youthful
North Vietnam hosts 800000 to a million Catholics with a youthful profile as mass attendance reveals many under 30. Priests and nuns are Vietnamese. post-1954 clergy exodus shaped the church. Catholic influence appears in North-South posture during war, with Catholic-led committees and rallies cited in Can Tho Hue Saigon Bien Hoa and other cities.
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Hanoi
South Vietnam
Saigon
Daniel de Luce
United States
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
France
Indochina
Synod of Bishops
Rome
Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary
Thieu
Can Tho
Mekong Delta
Popular Committee Against Corruption
Hue
Bien Hoa
Red cockaded woodpecker rarity and habitat loss noted
Helen Mary Fenninger reflects on why red cockaded woodpeckers are rare, tracing habitat needs to live pine trees, especially loblolly, and citing timber cutting. She discusses nesting in the same tree, gum markings, identification challenges, and historical views on abundance, noting a colony in Aiken and wishing them longevity.
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South Carolina
Natural History of American Birds
Birds of North America
Longleaf
Aiken
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William J. Kilberg
Kilberg
Southern Bell
South Central Bell
Ohio
Northwestern Bell
Pacific Northwest Bell
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Companies
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District of Columbia
Southwestern Bell
Houston
Long Lines Department
New York City
Jackie
Associated Press
Vatican
Helen Mary Fenninger
Mitchell Shopping
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