Greyhound Ends Six Day Strike With Pay Hikes
Greyhound workers win raises about 16 percent over three years after federal mediation. 16,000 strikers voting on ratification, expected to approve despite slow start at Phoenix terminals. Meantime riders faced delays as rivals Amtrak and Continental Trailways absorbed displaced passengers.
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Greyhound
Marcantonio Perales
Los Angeles
Donald L. Rhodes
San Francisco
Amalgamated Council of Greyhound
FBI seen as a threat to public liberties
A former FBI assistant director says the bureau risks civil liberties and should have its internal security duties shifted to an independent board appointed by Congress. The Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation report calls for banning political surveillance and bugging, with safeguards to keep government power in check.
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UPI
FBI
Congress
Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation
Earl Warren
William C. Sullivan
Sullivan
Justice Department
White House
Department of Justice
Weekend auto layoffs push jobless total to 344000
United Press International reports ongoing auto industry layoffs raise the national jobless figure to 344000, with 120000 striking miners among the unemployed. Steel and coal sectors face further cuts as the economy pools losses from declining car sales and auto production.
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United Press International
Government probes sugar price rise in high level hearings
The Ford administration opens hearings to explain why sugar prices nearly quadrupled in a year, with witnesses from manufacturing, consumer groups, and Congress. Amstar's Domino Sugar wholesale hike may push retail sugar toward $1 a pound, while officials warn of broader inflationary effects. Virginia Knauer questions market interference and calls for reduced sugar use. industry leaders warn bakers face disaster amid high costs.
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Amstar
Virginia Knauer
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Ameri
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Associate Retail Bakers of America
Palestinian hijackers abandon plan of martyrdom in Tunisia incident
Guerrillas holding three British crewmen freed after four days aboard a British Airways VC10. They surrendered weapons, killed one passenger, and agreed to temporary haven in Tunisia while seeking permanent sanctuary with another Arab state. Tunisia refused PLO turn over and arranged safe passage, with possible relocation to Algeria.
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Palestine Liberation Organization
British Airways
Werner Kehl
PLO
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Libya
Tahar Belkhoja
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