National Showdown Delays New York Teacher Strike Action
A four day delay in legal action against the United Federation of Teachers gives negotiators a long weekend to resolve the walkout that has shut city schools for 1.1 million students. Across the nation strikes continue in Chicago and other cities as New York court orders formal contempt proceedings if talks fail. Rehiring of laid off staff and class size reductions top the union agenda, not wages.
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New York
Chicago
New York Supreme Court
Irving Yool
United Federation of “Teachers
Inmate Found Dead After Nashville Prison Riot
A prisoner was found with his throat cut in a cell after a riot at the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. The uprising injured 34 and was quelled with shotguns and police dogs after food service amid a pork chop shortage led to a bologna substitute dispute.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee Ite
Peron to take leave of absence amid political strain
President Isabel Peron will step down from office for a period starting Saturday and transfer authority to Senate President Italo Luder who will be sworn in as acting president. She will rest at an air force resort in Cordoba Province amid rising violence and exhaustion after more than 14 months in power.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Isabel Peron
Senate
Italo Luder
Luder
Air Force
Eron
Juan D. Peron
Sixteen Military Police Members Convicted in Athens Torture Case
A Greek military court found 16 members of the military police from the former dictatorship guilty of maltreating political dissidents. The group included 12 officers and four enlisted men and received prison terms from six months to 23 years after nearly 10 hours of deliberation.
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Athens
Oil income to fall for Venezuela next year
Venezuela faces a about 1.7 billion decline in oil earnings as production and world demand slacken. Finance Minister Hector Hurtado announced 1976 oil income seen near 7 billion dollars versus 8.5 billion in 1974 and about 7.4 this year, with wide impact on member economies.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Hector Hurtado
Hurtado
Congressmen to clash in Grudge Bout for press fund
Six members of Congress will punch and kick in a charity bout at the District of Columbia Armory to raise money for the Freedom of Press Foundation. The event features Quentin Burdick and Ted Stevens training under Tae Kwon Do guru Jhoon Rhee, with other lawmakers pairing off in the sinuous display.
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Quentin Burdick
North Dakota
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Burdick
Stevens
Capitol Hill
House
District of Columbia
Legal Defense Fund
Freedom of Press Foundation
Tom Bevill
D-Ala
Floyd Spence
R-S.c
Del
Walter Fauntroy
Ddistrict
Columbia
Willis Gradison Jr
Ohio
Senate Gym
Jhoon Rhee
Milton Young
James Symington
D-Mo
Postmarks Back in Vogue as Exposition Opens in London
Pearl Bailey will fly to London with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller for the Franklin Jefferson Bicentennial Exposition opening. The Farmers Almanac praises the postmark restoration as a win for average Americans and the Postal Service expands to include city postmarks on first class letters.
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Pearl Bailey
Los Angeles
London
Nelson Rockefeller
Farmers’ Almanac
Ray Geiger
Postal Service
U.S. Postal Service
Geiger
Lewiston
Maine
Duke to retire from NASA and Air Force in 1976
Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles M Duke Jr announces plans to retire from the astronaut corps and the Air Force effective January 1 1976. He is 39 and served as the lunar module pilot with John W Young in April 1972, spending 20 hours 15 minutes on the lunar surface.
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Charles M. Duke Jr
Astronaut Corps
Air Force
Duke
John W. Young
Young
New York Names Axelson Deputy Mayor for Finance
Mayor Abe Beame announced Kenneth S. Axelson the $143000-a-year top financial executive of J C Penney Co as New York City deputy mayor for finance. Axelson 53 will take a one year leave of absence from J C Penney but will still draw his Penney salary. Beame earns $60000 yearly and Axelson will receive no city compensation.
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New York
Abraham Beame
Kenneth S. Axelson
J.C. Penney Co
Axelson
J.C. Penney
Beame
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