Greek immigrant helps reunite mother with son after 26 years
Vera List of Florida finally meets Manfred List after a Greek immigrant James Zissis sent 41000 to cover travel to unite the family. List believed her son died in 1945 during Soviet imprisonment in Germany. Zissis, a former immigrant and restaurant investor now California executive, says he gave the money to repay America for its opportunities.
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San Francisco
UPL
America
James
Issis
Vera Ulst
Orlando
Fla
Nevis
Manfred
Germany
United States
Tred
West Berlin
Florida
Zissis
Venlare
East
California
Iran
Seamen Reach Accord Ends Wage Standstill
Seamen on the West Coast agreed with shipowners to a wage pact expiring contracts with the Waveville Maritime Association. The settlement totals about 17 percent over three years, raises pay nine percent this year, twelve percent next year, and 21 and a half percent in 1974, lifting basic pension to $200 a month. The Sailors Union Pacific, Marine Cooks and Stewards, and Marine Firemen unions, all affiliated with the Seafarers International Union, AFL-CIO, anticipate no strike when contracts expire.
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San Francisco
UPI
Wavillc Maritime Association
Sailors Linton of the Pacific
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
Marine Firemen's Union
Seafarers International Union
Afl-Cio
BART Hit With 1.8 Billion Suit Over Tidelands
A Stockton attorney filed a San Mateo County suit against the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit alleging the BART tunnel and adjacent lands from the Ferry Building to Montgomery Street are tidelands owned by Californians. The $1.8 billion claim estimates land value used by BART as it plans 1973 operations.
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Redwood Ofty
San Francisco Bay Area
San Framcisco
Montgomery Street
California
White
BART
UC student arraigned in murder case
UC San Diego graduate student Ching Shao Mudl was arraigned in Taoyuan District Court on murder charges after admitting to killing his wife Tan Yu Wan 25 during an argument. He allegedly left her body in the trunk of a 1960 Ford in Los Angeles before fleeing to his hometown of Chungu and surrendering to police.
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Taipel
UPI
Ching Shao-Mudl
University of California In
San Diego
Chung
Taoyuan District Court
Ford
Blanga Street
Los Angeles
Chungu
Taipei
Tan Yu-Wan
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Washington Ave
San Lorenzo
Hespérian
SouthTond
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