Labor Day Strikes Highlight 1975 Unrest Across Sectors
Labor Day 1975 opened with National Airlines flight attendants striking and 125 000 soft coal miners idled by a wildcat stoppage. Ford faced union criticism while Labor Secretary Dunlop forecast unemployment fall and controlled inflation amid rising prices. A Detroit group called for a Labor Day crime moratorium as 200 residents marched on Woodward Avenue.
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Camp David
Detroit
Egypt Israel ink Sinai peace text after all night talks
Secretary Kissinger announced Egypt and Israel agreed to a new Sinai settlement. The pact calls for another troop withdrawal in western Sinai, withdrawal of Gidi and Mitla passes and Abu Rudeis oilfields, mutual non aggression pledges for three years, U S technicians at warning posts, and Suez Canal opening to Israeli cargoes with U S aid contingent on congressional approval. It awaits Israeli initial and Egyptian ratification before signing in Geneva.
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Cleveland Hit By Storms Evacuations Continue
Storms across the Great Lakes forced evacuations in Ohio and Michigan as flood waters swirled around homes. In Cleveland 50 people were moved from three apartments and a motel as east side streets flooded and power outages affected 16 000 customers. In Michigan 276 people fled Hersey as rising waters threatened an upstream dam. No injuries reported in Cleveland. four died in last week’s flood.
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Minnesota
Cleveland
National Weather Service
Hersey
Coup attempt rocks Ecuador as palace siege unfolds
In Quito a group led by the army chief of staff tried to depose Gen Guillermo Rodriguez Lara. Rebel Gen Raul Gonzalez Alvear seized the presidential palace during a night battle but later reports claimed the uprising was crushed while others said troops remained. A curfew and airport departures followed as oil revenue tensions fueled the unrest amid neighboring Peru’s recent palace change.
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Quito
Ecuador
Guillermo Rodriguez Lara
Raul Gonzalez Alvear
Galapagos
National Secretariat of Information
Radio Nacional
Radio Grancolombia
Gonzalez
Guayaquil
Galo Semblantes
Rodriguez
Quito International
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
South America
Lima
Peru
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Francisco Morales Bermudez
World Bank proposes record lending to poor nations
World Bank President Robert McNamara announces plans to lend 7 billion this year and 40 billion in five years to developing countries, while acknowledging the needs of one billion ultra-poor. He links urban poverty to unrest and urges cities to confront poverty, noting IMF-World Bank meeting context and U S veto rights in IMF reform.
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Washington
World Bank
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
International Monetary Fund
United States
IMF
Treasury
William E. Simon
Dispatchers at the heart of Lawrence police operations
The Lawrence police dispatchers form the nerve center of city policing. Four full time dispatchers are listed, with six named in early summer. one resigned and another was promoted. The veteran is Jim Gillihan, guiding a four-voice airroom in a 10 by 17 foot desk.
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Police Communications Desk
Jim Gillihan
Heat Drives Through Holiday Weekend Into September
The National Weather Service forecasts sun and heat with a Tuesday high in the mid to upper 90s following a low around 70 tonight. Weekend highs reached 88 and 89, leaving August rainfall 1.45 inches below the four inch average. Lawrence totals rise to 20.74 inches year to date, six inches below the 26.93 inch eight month average. The drought persisted since mid June despite a brief break on Aug 13 with 1.32 inches.
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National Weather Service
Lawrence
East German airliner crashes at Leipzig airport
An East German airliner crashed while landing at Leipzig Schkeuditz airport killing 26 people. Eight survived. 23 passengers and three crew members died while five passengers and three crew members survived.
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Berlin
Leipzig- Schkeuditz
ADN
Local Ads Highlight Jewelry and Services
A fragmentary page shows ads for Something Special Jewelry from the Bengals at 803 Mass. Ave and a note to See us for motorcycle insurance from Doane Agency at 824 Mass. Ave Raney Drug for prescriptions appears in the clipped text.
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Doane Agency
Mass
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