Rand Study Finds Little Gain From Federal Education Money
A Rand Corp report for the U.S. Education Department finds billions in federal education dollars yielded few long term results. Local buy in and better teaching were lacking, with programs often surviving financing only briefly. The study covered 293 projects including illiteracy, vocational and bilingual efforts.
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Woman Charged In Abandoning Newborn At Service Station
Sherry Lynn Mentzer, 24, of York New Salem, was arrested in Red Lion Pa for abandoning a newborn girl she had just given birth to in the restroom of a Windsor Township John Sunoco. She faces endangering welfare of a child charges and bail set at 1000 dollars before a Sept. 8 preliminary hearing. The mother fled with an unidentified man in a car.
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Weddington picked as Carter liaison to women and minorities
Texas lawyer Sarah Weddington who won the landmark abortion case is expected to join President Carter's White House staff as liaison to women and minority groups. The 33 year old Agriculture Department counsel will succeed Midge Costanza after her resignation earlier this month and could be named after Carter returns to Washington.
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Goodyear Blimp Mayflower Damaged At Augusta Field
The Goodyear blimp Mayflower valued around 1 million was torn from its moorings during a thunderstorm at Bush Field Augusta. Pilot reports the craft deflated and crashed to the ground while a crew member Tom Santaniello 22 of Miami was treated after being struck on the head by a blower.
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Miami
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Cancer society to test leukocyte interferon on advanced cancer
The American Cancer Society will clinically test a substance derived from human blood cells, leukocyte interferon, to assess its value in treating advanced cancer. Interferon has reduced tumor sizes in animals and limited human cases, with early trials in Sweden and the United States at M D Anderson in Houston and Stanford in Palo Alto.
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American Cancer Society
Sweden
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm
United States
M.D. Anderson Hospital
Houston
Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto
Calif
Healy Chosen to Mediate Postal Service Contract Fight
Harvard professor James Healy, a veteran labor mediator, was named to lead negotiations to settle a long running contract dispute for over 500,000 postal workers. Wayne Horvitz steps aside as Healy takes on the task to avert a possible mail strike.
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James Healy
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Harvard University
Wayne Horvitz
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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Carter Returns From West to Press Fight Over Gas Bill
President Carter ends his Western vacation and heads back to Washington to confront Senate opposition to his natural gas pricing bill a central piece of his energy program. He plans intensive lobbying with political leaders major industrial users of natural gas and other groups to salvage the stalled measure.
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Mirror message leaves Idaho maid in protective custody
Idaho Falls chambermaid Kathy Wagoner, 23, held in protective custody after claiming an unidentified man knocked her out in Room 145 at the Ramada Inn where a mirror bore the warning the president will die Thursday. Police say she was uncooperative but mentally distressed.
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GSA Payoffs Traced to Swiss Banks in Probe
Federal investigators track millions in alleged GSA corruption to Swiss banks. A source says GSA employees sought payoffs from contractors and that money moved via FBI liaison contacts in Switzerland as part of a broader Justice Department inquiry.
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General Services Administration
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U.S. Seeks UN Probe of Cambodian Rights Abuses
The State Department urged an international inquiry into Khmer Rouge human rights violations. It submitted a detailed indictment to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva and called refugees’ testimonies evidence of a brutal dictatorship warranting further investigation.
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Hijacker Seeks Asylum On Polish Airliner at Tempelhof
A gunman with a wife and child seized a LOT Tu-134 plane carrying 60 passengers and forced landing at Tempelhof, a U S air base in West Berlin. Six others sought asylum after arrival. most passengers were East Germans. The hijacker surrendered once on the ground and the four others were questioned by police. Passengers bound for East Berlin were fed under guard in the terminal.
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East Berlin
MacArthur Arrives in Japan to Establish Allied Occupation
On this date in 1945 General Douglas MacArthur landed in Japan signaling the end of World War II. He established Allied occupation headquarters and prepared for the postwar governance of Japan. The arrival marked the start of a sweeping reconstruction and demilitarization effort by Allied forces.
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Striking Firemen Ignore Downtown Blaze in Anderson
In Anderson Indiana a downtown fire burned for hours as striking firefighters refused to respond and volunteers faced picket delays. Fire Chief Ed Ballinger said the blaze was controlled by mid morning with four buildings destroyed including the county prosecutor’s office. No injuries were reported and the incident followed a pay dispute prompting a temporary restraining order to return to work.
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Ind
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Larry Musser
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New Orleans Teachers Vote to Strike on Opening Day
About 3,000 members of the United Teachers of New Orleans voted to strike as 90,000 public school students prepared to return. Union president Nat LaCour demanded an 8 percent raise and better hospitalization, arguing the proposal costs about 5 million dollars. The school board had offered 4 percent, about 2.5 million, with 5,300 teachers and aides in the district. Substitutes and administrators greeted a smaller first day turnout.
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United Teachers of
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Anti Somoza forces gain new support in Nicaragua
Air force planes bomb Matagalpa killing at least four as anti Somoza strikes widen. Battles in Leon and Managua ramp up amid civilian control and calls for archbishop mediation. Nicaraguan Development Institute backs the political labor protest while Roy Wilkins and Joan Blondell are named birthday figures.
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