Questionnaires Go Home Today Children asked to consult parents on school funding
Ruth Walker reports that county students will bring home education needs questionnaires for parental input. The ACEA and school district prioritize items by cost including teacher hires, supplies, raises, and repairs, with a call for community response via mailed forms.
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Aiken County Education Association
ACEA
Aiken Standard
Aiken County
Edgefield Ave
Aiken
French Legion Begins Withdrawal From Kolwezi in Zaire
French Foreign Legion paratroopers started pulling out of southern Zaire after aiding in Kolwezi recovery and evacuations. The defense ministry says Zairian forces, reinforced by about 100 Moroccan troops, will replace them, with withdrawal by road to Lubumbashi over three days.
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Paris
French Foreign Legion
Zaire
Kolwezi
Defense Ministry
Lubumbashi
France
Seven Americans Die in Lumber Truck Bus Crash in Norway
Seven American tourists were killed and four seriously injured when a lumber load broke free from a truck and torn into a tour bus on a mountain road in central Norway. Police reported no immediate identification of the victims as witnesses recalled the truck skidding into the bus and wood smashing through the left side. the driver kept the bus on the road to avoid a plunge into a river bed.
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Oslo
Norway
Helicopter Pilot Fights Hijacker at Marion Prison
Former Vietnam pilot Allen Barklage wrestled a gun from Barbara Oswald, shot her as the helicopter sank 600 feet from the ground near the U.S. penitentiary at Marion. Oswald, in her mid 40s, allegedly planned to land in the exercise yard to aid three convicts.
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Marion, Ill
U.S
Marion
Allen Barklage
St. Louis
Barbara Oswald
America
PLO Promises Peace In Lebanon
The PLO pledges to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon and remove non-Palestinian volunteers. It vows to coexist with U.N. peacekeepers and support a total Israeli withdrawal and Lebanese sovereignty. The accord followed a three hour meeting between Premier Salim el Hoss and Arafat’s six member delegation.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
U.N
Salim el Hoss
PLO
Arafat
Tennessee Court Allows Limited Coverage of Sessions
Tennessee Supreme Court approves guidelines permitting limited television radio and news photography of its sessions making Tennessee the 14th state to allow appellate or trial court coverage. Chief Justice Joe Henry says the guidelines are experimental and may be revised. No televising or photographing of trials or other proceedings is allowed.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee Supreme Court
High Court
Tennessee
Joe Henry
Cuban Forces Suspected of Shaba Invasion Support
An administration source says there is considerable evidence Cuban forces in Angola aided Katangan insurgents in the invasion of Zaire's Shaba province and the Kolwezi takeover, though he cautions that a categorical proof of Cuban role cannot be provided.
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Washington
Angola
Zaire
Shaba
U.S
Kolwezi
Belgium calls for African led peacekeeping for Shaba Province
Prime Minister Leo Tindemans urges a Western backed all African force to deter further attack in Zaire’s Shaba and ensure ore flow. He suggests an African coalition with EU logistic support, while France has shown limited direct involvement. Details on participants remain undisclosed.
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Brussels
Belgium
Zaire
Shaba
Leo Tindemans
European Economic Community
Henri Simonet
Jaworski Endorses Weakened Aid Cut Threat to Seoul
special counsel Leon Jaworski says a watered down plan to cut U S economic aid to South Korea will pressure testimony from former ambassador Kim Dong Jo. Committee approved a nonbinding resolution demanding oath testimony and warns of aid cuts if Seoul does not cooperate.
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Washington
Leon Jaworski
U.S
South Korea
Jaworski
House Ethics Committee
House International Relations Committee
Kim Dong -Jo
Seoul
Democratic Republican Party
New Democratic Party
Ethics Committee
House
Energy Battle Nears End
Washington notes that President Carter’s energy package races to completion but may drop the crude oil tax. Lawmakers reached accord on the natural gas pricing compromise with votes in both chambers, though tax passage this year looks doubtful as elections loom. The gas plan would lift price controls on newly found gas in 1985.
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Washington
Carter
House-Senate
U.S
Senate
House
Senate approves gas price compromise amid deregulation push
Lawmakers struck a middle ground on gas controls after Senate deregulation, forecasting about 9 billion dollars in higher heating costs through 1985. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger led formal talks with conferees, who plan to reconvene June 6 to tackle 33 minor issues before sending the package to the Senate floor. Senators Domenici Hatfield and McClure supported the deal, signaling bipartisan backing.
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Carter
House
Senate
Energy
James R. Schlesinger
Pete Domenici
Rn.m
Mark Hatfield
Oregon
James McClure
Idaho
Watermelon Sidedress Calcium Nitrate Reduces Defects
Florida trials on Congo watermelons show fewer whiteheart hollow heart and blossom-end rot defects when Calcium Nitrate was applied as three 15 pound nitrogen sidedressings compared with other nitrogen sources. University of Massachusetts cabbage tests in sand found calcium levels rise significantly in heads wrappers and basal leaves with calcium solutions.
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Florida
Congo
Maynard, Gersten and Vernell
University of Massachusetts
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