Roanoke Rapids Hearing Highlights Stevens Labor Strife
National attention centers on Roanoke Rapids as House subcommittee probes J. P. Stevens Co. tactics in anti union campaigns. Testimony paints a town divided over unionization with workers citing intimidation and wage gaps while others defend the company and cite religious grounds against unions.
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N.C
Washington
House Labor
J. P. Stevens Co
South
Stevens
America
Louise Baily
Jerry Davis
Montgomery
Ala
Ford Pinto gas tanks linked to deadly fires questioned
Mother Jones magazine reports more than 500 deaths in Pinto fires due to rear end collision gas tank placement. It accuses Ford of knowing the risk and choosing not to add a $1 plastic shield now standard on 1977 models.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Mark Dowie
Mother Jones
Foundation For National Progress
Herbert L. Misch
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA
Embezzlement Charges Trace Spending Spree at DOT
William C. Sibert, a 30-year-old DOT employee, faces embezzlement charges after authorities say he diverted federal transit grants to his own accounts and bought 12 luxury cars, a new home with pool, a 30-foot houseboat, and real estate while cash totaling $59,000 appeared on his arrival in Las Vegas. FBI and Secret Service investigations linked the spending to alleged theft, with about $850,000 in purchases identified so far.
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William C. Sibert
Sibert
Department of Transportation
Department
Las Vegas
FBI
Secret Service
Atlanta
United States
Sihanouk barred from leaving Cambodia amid detention
In Phnom Penh, former Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Princess Monique are effectively under house arrest and forbidden to depart the country, as stated by the Thai supreme command. In Cape Town, police used tear gas to disperse protesters angered by the destruction of squatter shacks housing about 26,000 people across three camps north of the city.
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Norodom Sihanouk
Monique
Phnom Penh
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Cape Town
USA
del Monte Foods
P.O
Clinton
Iowa
Missionaries killed in Rhodesia at St Pauls Mission
Black guerrillas shot and killed two white women missionaries at St Pauls Mission in western Rhodesia. Dr Johanna Decker, 59, of Munich, and Sister Ferdinanda were identified by a official from St Luke’s Mission in Lupani District, about 250 miles from Salisbury.
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Johanna Decker
Munich
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