Detroit newspaper strike as workers walk out
About 2,500 workers at the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News struck after failed contract talks. Teamsters set up pickets as the 8 p.m. deadline passed, and both papers began to publish without them. News photographer Joe DeVera commented on the dispute.
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Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News
Detroit Newspapers
Teamsters Union
Free Press
News
Joe DeVera
Panel cites HIV blood supply failures in the 1980s
A 14 member committee appointed by Health and Human Services examined 1982 to 1986 events and decisions. It found systemic mistakes and no coordinated strategy due to unclear threat assessment and cost risk analysis. Dr Harold Sox Jr called for better leadership and consensus.
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Washington
National Institute of Medicine
Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala
Harold Sox Jr
Department of Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School
Les Paul Collapses at Home Before 80th Birthday in Nashville
Guitar great Les Paul suffered chest pains and shortness of breath while at his Mahwah New Jersey home on Thursday. He was resting under a doctor's care as preparations for an 80th birthday celebration in Nashville proceeded.
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Mahwah
N.J
Les Paul
Nashville
Tobacco clash as FDA seeks broad new authority
President Clinton hinted support for giving the FDA wide power to regulate tobacco. Critics in Congress denounced the move while AMA reports accuse Brown and Williamson of knowing cigarettes contain cancer risks and nicotine addiction. FDA asserts nicotine is addictive and aims to limit youth access.
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Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp
FDA
White House
Clinton
David Kessler
The
AMA
Clinton approves base closure list amid job loss concerns
President Clinton endorsed the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission plan to close 79 bases nationwide including Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio and McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento. Twenty six bases would be realigned. He cautioned the impact on the Hispanic middle class in San Antonio and pledged job protections and a smoother transition while the plan may become law unless Congress blocks it.
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Dallas Morning News
Washington
Clinton
Military Base Closure Commission
California
Texas
Air Logistics Center
Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio
McClellan Air Force Base
Sacramento
Calif
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
Pentagon
Defense Department
Cuban gunboat rams exile flotilla off Cuban coast
A Cuban gunboat rammed the lead boat Democracia during an exile flotilla voyage from Key West toward Havana. Three were injured, two seriously, as boats and aircraft observed the clash about 10 miles off Cuba. Coast Guard airlifted the seriously hurt while urging restraint.
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Exile
Miami
Democracia
Key West
Cuban
Havana
Jorge Lares
Coast Guard
Steve Atkins
Metro-Dade
Pedro Reboredo
Reboredo
Wtvj-Tv
Atkins
White House
State Department
Washington
United States
Defense loses bid for third party drug murder theory
In Los Angeles the defense failed to introduce a theory that Nicole Brown Simpson was killed by drug hit men targeting Faye Resnick. Prosecutors called the claim ridiculous and the judge ruled the scenario too vague to advance third party culpability.
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Los Angeles
O.J. Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson
Faye Resnick
Resnick
Cheri Lewis
Lance Ito
Johnnie Cochran Jr
Christian Reichardt
Corporate Team Roster With Management Listed
The group portrait shows Blaine Miller as Manager, Tina Williams as 2nd Assistant Manager, Janet Van Winkle, Beth West, and Terri Ciemnoczelowski in the front row. Not pictured are Sheryl Winistorfer Assistant Manager, Aaron Roth, and Chasity Starr.
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Blaine Miller
Janet van Winkle
Tina Williams
Beth West
Terri Ciemnoczelowski
Sheryl Winistorfer
Aaron Roth
Chasity Starr
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
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Sweden
Italy
Gazette Wires
Paul
Betty Debnam
the Gazette
Bew
Universal
Journal of the American Medical Association
B&w
Kessler
Fargo
N.D
Congress
Kelly
McClellan
Nicole Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Cochran
Reichardt
Simpson
HandiMart Food Stores
ABC HandiMart
Blairs Ferry
Council Street
Cedar Rapids
Bay
Blairs Ferry Rd
Edgewood
Ager Sidewalk
Nike
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Iowa
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Edgewood Plaza
Edgewood Road
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