AFT and CCCTA Clash at Nevada Teacher Luncheons
AFT members picketed outside Valley Rancho and Clark High Schools during CCCTA new teacher luncheons to recruit amid a court injunction on campus organizing. CCCTA leaders say 405 new teachers join a district total of 3,834. AFT claims about 900 to 950 members.
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Clark County
American Federation of Teachers
AFT
Clark County Classroom Teachers Association
CCCTA
Valley, Rancho and Clark
Silver State Schools Federal Credit Union
Tom Hood
Ben Knowles
Hood
Knowles
Afl-Cio
National Education Association
AFT Member Speaks at CCCTA Luncheon at Rancho High
Laurice Young of the American Federation of Teachers spoke to teachers arriving for a Clark County Classroom Teachers Association luncheon at Rancho High School. An AFT spokesman later identified her as the speaker.
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American Federation of Teachers
AFT
Clark County
Classroom Teachers Association
CCCTA
Rancho High School
Laurice Young
Growing Storm Monitors Gulf As Anita Affects Weather
New England endured a heat wave with temperatures in the 90s while an air stagnation advisory stretched for Washington DC area and parts of Maryland and Virginia. Forecasters tracked a Gulf system that could intensify into the season’s first tropical storm named Anita as high pressure lingered off New England.
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New England
Washington, D.C
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Mountains
Los Angeles
Anita
Writer Takes Plunge From Brooklyn Bridge
Dan Cameron Rodill, 30, a New York writer described as a world traveler and former war correspondent, plunged 133 feet into the East River after distributing news releases from a girder beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. He was in very critical condition with internal bleeding and underwent surgery after being revived by a police launch en route to Downtown Hospital.
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NEW York
UPI
Brooklyn Bridge
East River
Dan Cameron Rodill
Rodill
Indochina
Secret Work Alleged Blocks Chicago Man's Exit From USSR
Abe Stolar a Chicago native 65 and his family say Soviet authorities refused exit visas again for six months claiming secret work by his Soviet wife an analytical chemist They had visas withdrawn in 1975 and face pensions loss while stranded in Moscow with limited funds and a planned 50th Tuley High reunion in May uncertain.
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Moscow
UPT
Chicago
Soviet Union
Abe Stolar
Stolar
Gita Rozovskaya
Michael
Israel
Tolar
Humboldt Park
Ussr
U S
U.S
Stolars
Tuley High School
Roberto Clemente High School
Russian Dissidents In Mental Hospitals
In Honolulu a Russian psychiatrist claimed 700 to 1,000 political dissidents are held in Soviet mental hospitals. The charge, made at the World Congress of Psychiatry, labeled these hospitalizations a crime unrelated to psychiatry. The meeting also condemned Soviet use of psychiatry as political oppression, with parallel criticism of Chile.
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Honolulu
UPI
Marina Voikhanskaya
Volkhanskaya
Soviet Union
World Federation of Mental Health
Volkhanska
Leonid Plyushch
Vancouver
Canada
WFMH
Milton Miller
Monstermelons Grow Giant Watermelons in North Carolina
Edward Weeks cultivates enormous watermelons and seeds that set records and fill his fields with unusual crops. His 197 pound melon earned Guinness certification in 1978 while Week's seed business ships 100 seed packs nationwide. The grower notes crowds visit his pasture and times many melons weigh hundreds of pounds.
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N.C
UPI
Edward Weeks
Guiness Book of World Records
L.H. Fountain
Chicago
Weeks
North Carolina
New Jersey
Florida
Alabama
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