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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1977
Page
2
Cincinnati board of education plans a meeting to consider further action against teachers on strike including possible mass firings. A union leader accuses the district of scare tactics and not engaging in serious contract negotiations.
Police doubled manpower for the second Led Zeppelin concert in three days as fans clashed. Cincinnati Safety Director Richard Castellini said adequate staffing helps control the situation.
Detroit AP reports General Motors is expected to retool its Lordstown Ohio plant in 1979 to produce smaller front wheel drive compacts. The changeover could cost at least 50 million dollars and raise employment, with the plant already missing a second shift since March 1976 due to weak demand for small cars.
The Minnesota trade delegation dined with Cuba's President Fidel Castro in Havana for about 90 minutes. Castro in fatigues praised lifting the 16 year US embargo as unjustified and said its removal would create optimum conditions for talks on other issues between Cuba and the United States.
Two rebels paraded at a stadium rally say Cuban advisers directed their march to the southern Zaire border six weeks earlier before retreating to Angola. One captive, Yava Pierre Kapenda, 28, wounded in the leg, described training first by the Portuguese and then by others.
In Islamabad supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Bhutto clash in the streets using sticks daggers and firearms. At least 11 people die raising the death toll to 162 since the March 7 elections. The United States reports a shipment of tear gas valued at $68 000 to the Pakistani government amid the turmoil.
Athens County commissioners debated a 1930s Thompson machine gun trade for five newer firearms. Adkins and Mrs. Harvey questioned keeping any machine guns, while supporting county policy review. A Friday meeting aims to discuss voiding the deal and policy direction for sheriff.
Deputy chairman Straight cites a decade of arts expansion via film, radio and television reaching the masses. He argues education and communication trends will raise public appetite for culture, supporting decentralization and freedom of thought while expanding government grants from 1.8 million to 83 million by 1976. He calls for a citizen watchdog to monitor progress.
An elderly woman, Louise Finsterwald, 82, is hospitalized after being struck by a reversing car driven by Ethel Collins, 68, on Ohio Avenue. Collins received on scene care for shock. Finsterwald was moved from O'Bleness Memorial to University Hospital for a leg laceration.
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