UAW Picks Ford as 1987 Strike Target in Pattern Bargaining
The United Auto Workers named Ford Motor Co. as its 1987 strike target, pressing bargaining to set a pattern that favors job security and stable domestic employment. GM remains sidelined as Ford negotiates a settlement before the Sept. 14 contract deadline.
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Akarborn
Mich
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
UAW
Owen Bieber
Ford
Keen
Bieber
Stanley Surma
Ford Worker Council
Elevator disaster kills eight at South Africa mine
A mine elevator cable failed at the St Helena mine in Welkom causing a 4500 foot plunge. Eight dead and 42 missing as rescuers pull five survivors from a lower platform. Most of the shafts are black miners and white miners working through the night. Authorities consider possible explosion but not sabotage.
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Welkom
South Africa
Gregory Maude
St. Helena
Welcom
Orange Free State
Boston Driver Sets Himself Ablaze on Statehouse Steps
Antoine Thurel a 56 year old Boston cab driver died after dousing himself with flammable liquid and setting himself on fire on the Statehouse steps. He named religious persecution and Haiti’s secret police as motives and displayed a hand lettered sign seeking liberation for his country. The incident occurred about 7 am as onlookers watched his body burn. Elsewhere in New York the big three networks rejected a Soviet offer to excerpt the Moscow trial of Matthias Rust and warned against turning justice into a commercial venture.
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Boston
Antoine Thurel
Haiti
Thurel
New York
Moscow
Matthias Rust
Soviet Union
Don DeCesare
CBS News
Haiti landowners blamed for mass killings in northwest region
An official report cites 200 peasants killed near Jean Rabel as sharecroppers fought landowners for reform. Unreleased full findings note the July 23 clash left at least 70 confirmed dead, with seven government officers involved in the inquiry. A separate case in West Germany reports Margret Hoeke convicted of treason for passing secrets to a Soviet agent.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Jean Rabel
Duesseldorf
West Germany
Margret Hoeke
North Rhine-Westphalia
Hoeke
Sovi
Justice Department challenges independent counsel law
The Justice Department argued in a federal appeals court brief that the ethics in government act creating independent counsels is unconstitutional. It asserts appointment by a three member court panel bypasses Senate advice and consent and places executive power outside presidential control. Deputy AG Arnold Burns said the challenge protects constitutional structure and government form.
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Washington
Justice Department
Edwin Meese
Reagan Administration
Department
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Lawrence Walsh
Walsh
Meese
Tyra Ethics
Senate
Appeals Court
Justice Department Crief
Arnold Burns
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