Montreal inquest rolls on as torture claim erupts
In Montreal court witness Lise Rose screamed she was tortured while naked in jail prompting a court adjournment to December 1 for the inquest into the death of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. She defied the judge Trahan shouting I refuse to testify as a protest against investigators who beat me while nude. The scene sparked pandemonium as guards intervened.
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Montreal
UPI
Lise Rose
Quebec
Pierre Laporte
Jacques Trahan
Jacques
Paul
Miss Rose
Gaetan Robert
Groups push action against hazardous toys in suit
Two consumers groups announce plans to sue to force the government to ban dangerous toys now. They criticize the Health Department for slow action after FDA declined to use the imminent hazard provision and gave manufacturers 15 days to respond. If no favorable reply comes, suit will proceed.
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Washington
UPI
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Children’s Foundation
Morris Kaplan
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Kaplan
Food and Administration
FDA
Mohawk Airlines pilot talks recess with no date set
Mohawk Airlines and the Air Line Pilots Association paused talks in Utica New York. Negotiations will resume next week via mediator O Robert Boadley with possible sessions after December 1. Pilots accuse management of not responding and seek new contract terms while service remains canceled.
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N.Y
UPI
Mohawk Airlines
Striking Air Line Pilots Association
Horizon
Mohawk
Oneida County
O. Robert Boadley
National Mediation Board
United States
Herbert Silvera
ALPA
Silvera
Canada Helps Blame US Over Great Lakes Pollution
At a Canada US cabinet meeting Canadian energy minister J. J. Greene urged halt to dumping into the Great Lakes. He cited 80 percent of Lake pollution as from the US. U.S. Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel clashed, saying Our two are going straight. In London, the House of Lords rejected a bill to grant asylum to American military deserters despite protests.
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Ottawa
UPI
U.S
Great Lakes
J. J. Greene
Energy, Mines and Resources
Walter J. Hickel
Greene
London
House of Lords
Britain
Rutland plans push for 40 percent state aid to education
Rutland city school officials and area legislators will meet to press for maintaining the 40 percent state aid level. Supt. James Tinney warns that a cut to 32 percent could cost Rutland up to 170000 next year as costs rise and austerity continues.
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Rutland
UPI
Rutland City
James Tinney
Richard Mallary
Vermont
New York School Board Considers Book Policy
In Averill Park a parents group urged immediate suspension of high school books including Catcher in the Rye Soul on Ice and Midnight Cowboy. The board will respond within 48 hours and a public hearing will precede any action as a policy is developed for completion by Feb. 1. In Saratoga a sewer district election for ages 18 to 21 may occur Feb. 16 to decide a 32 million project, pending a Supreme Court ruling. In Watervliet the Arsenal lands a 3 million defense job with potential to 25 million over five years to manufacture and install a new longer gun tube for the M109E1.
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Averill Park
Concerned Parents Committee
Mary Jane Eaton
Saratoga
Saratoga County
James V. Parente
U.S. Supreme Court
Watervliet
Samuel S. Stratton
Stratton
Williamstown police reach settlement on shifts and vacations
In Berkshire a year-long dispute between the Williamstown Police Association and the town ends with a compromise on night shift differentials and vacation. Officers over 10 years gain two extra vacation days, over 15 years three days, and next year the maximum pay scale tops at 8,268 dollars.
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Williamstwon
Williamstown Police Association
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