Government May Sue Ohio Teamsters Fund
The Labor Department threatens to sue the Ohio Highway Drivers Welfare Fund over 2.5 million dollars in fees paid to Dayton attorneys who administered the fund for 27 000 truckers since 1972 The department seeks to force voluntary compliance with the 1974 pension reform law and remove administrator Robert C Knee Jr. The case mirrors broader Teamsters crackdown including the Central States Pension Fund with vast assets and large scale mismanagement probes.
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Washington
Labor Department
Teamsters Union
Ohio
Dayton
Ohio Highway Drivers’ Welfare
Robert C. Knee Jr
Robert C. Knee Sr
Ohio Fund
Pot Law Use Not Linked in Report Says Governing Group
A National Governors Conference study finds harsh penalties do not deter possession and moderate use may pose no major health risk. The 375 page report cites savings from decriminalizing marijuana and notes long term effects of penalty reductions are unclear. Local data were limited with Los Angeles officials reporting no rise in use after decriminalization.
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Washington
National Governors Conference
Governors Association
Los Angeles
Carter vows to hang tough on arms and rights policy
President Carter says negotiations with the Soviet Union will resume in May in Geneva. He will keep pushing the human rights agenda and will not rush a superficial SALT agreement even as talks restart with Cyrus Vance, Andrei Gromyko, and NATO leaders to follow.
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Carter
Washington
Moscow
Geneva
Cyrus R. Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Europe
NATO
Hafez Assad
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Vance
Brown
United States
Agreemen
Soviets Reject U S Arms Control Plan and Bomber Debate
Washington reports senior defense officials see no need for rapid U S weapon program acceleration despite Moscow's rejection of Carter's nuclear arms limits. The stance could aid continued BI bomber production while SALT talks linger. Brown expects eventual US Soviet agreement based on mutual benefit and notes no immediate alarm for deterrence.
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Washington
U.S
Russia
Carter
Kremlin
Defense
Harold Brown
Nixon
Ford
Brown
United States
Congress
Soviet Union
Dems Present Voting Reform in Ohio Senate Committee Action
Majority Democrats advanced their election reform bill from the Elections committee in Columbus. The 5 to 3 party line vote sent the measure to the rules committee for floor consideration, with Republicans warning it invites fraud and harms Ohio elections.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Ian Heart
Elections, Insurance and Financial Institutions Committee
Rules Committee
Tony P. Hall
Dayton
Thomas A. van Meter
Ashland
Hall
County to Pay Insurance for Athens Employees
Athens County will offer county paid health and life insurance to employees in about two months after the county commissioners agreed to seek bids for the coverage. They also adopted a resolution reforming appropriations for Municipal Court prosecutions following a prior criminal complaint against former City Solicitor Lawrence Grey.
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Athens County
Lawrence Grey
Jackson County to seek municipal court with countywide jurisdiction
Jackson and Wellston officials agreed to ask the state legislature to establish a municipal court for Jackson County. Location to be decided later, but the court would have countywide jurisdiction.
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Jackson
Jackson and
Wellston
Jackson County
C&SOE Seeks $45.5 Million Rate Increase
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric plans to ask the Public Utilities Commission to approve a 45.5 million dollar rate hike affecting about 435000 customers in a 25 county region of central and southern Ohio. The request aims to fund new generating facilities. A prior 44.1 million increase was approved last August.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio
Robert Newton
Columbus Public Utilities
Public Utility Commission
Pan Am to Airlift Crash Victims Home from Canary Islands
Pan Am plans to begin special flights to bring bodies of passengers and crew home after the Santa Cruz runway collision with KLM. Investigators study cockpit recorders to determine why the KLM jet took off without clearance and whether Pan Am was properly positioned on the runway.
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Pan Am
Santa Cruz DE Tenerife
Canary Islands
Pan American
United States
Santa Cruz
W. H. Waltrip
KLM
Royal Dutch
Netherlands
U.S
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
William R. Haley
Z.A. Veldhuizen van Zanten
van Rejsen
Victor Grubbs
Centerport
N.Y
Grubbs
Associated Press
Carl Fox
Los Rodeos
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Ohio Teamsters Fund
Central States Pension Fund
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Central States Plan
Knees
Daniel J. Shannon
Central States Pension Plan
Joan Mondale
Walter Mondale
Admiral’s House
Louis Nevelson
India
Jans Hoffmann
Midwest
O'Neill
D-Mass
Jim Wright
D-Tex
GOP
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Pentagon
Dems
Ohio House
Ohio University
Ond
C&soe
PUCO
Franz van Reysen
van Zanten
Los Rodeos Airport
Carl
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