Notable Chicago financier Gleason to begin prison term
John S. Gleason Jr., 62, former Veterans Administration director and banking executive, is set to report to federal prison for a three year bank fraud sentence following a guilty plea. He concealed interests in a firm loaned by Mercantile Bank of Chicago and kept a $60,000 check as a loan to a third party.
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Chicago
UPS
John S. Gleason Jr
la Salle Street
Gleason
Veterans Administration
Kennedy
U.S. Army Reserve
Mercantile Bank of Chicago
First National Bank of Chicago
American Legion
Notre Dame
China
Mercantile
U.S. District
Pesticide test checks question accuracy in EPA review
The EPA ordered 31 chemical firms to verify lab results on health hazards of pesticides used on crops after finding significant deficiencies at Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories. Bio-Test admitted problems and cut corners, affecting approvals for products like Captan Paraquat Naled Ronnel Phosalone and Thiram. More firms may be asked to review and verify studies.
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Chicago
Environmental Protection Agnecy
EPA
Northbrook
Fred Arnold
Office of Pesticide Programs
Bio- Test
Arnold
Carter begins week-long Camp David vacation in Maryland
President Carter starts a scheduled week off with family at Camp David in western Maryland. He plans to combine rest with work on tax revision and government reorganization, marking his first extended vacation since taking office.
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Camp David
Carter
Maryland
Rosalynn
Militant West Virginia miners widen strike reach
Militant miners spread from West Virginia into neighboring states Tuesday, idling about 20,000 additional workers as the eight week strike over health care benefit cutbacks expands. The pickets began moving into other states Monday and pledged to force wider action.
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United Press International
West Virginia
Teachers urged to fight school spending cuts
U.S. Education Commissioner Ernest Boyer urged teachers at an American Federation of Teachers convention to keep education at the top of the national agenda and oppose cuts at local state and federal levels. He called for lifelong education linking schools to homes and supported teacher centers to shape studies while noting postwar shifts in life patterns. John Doherty of the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers cited busing turmoil as a cause of job losses for teachers and warned against simplistic politics reducing student numbers and funding.
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Boston
UPI
U.S
Ernest Boyer
Boyer
American Federation of Teachers
John Doherty
Massachusetts Federation of Teachers
West Germans drop search for ex Nazi Kappler
West Germany halted the manhunt for Herbert Kappler after authorities said detaining him would not occur even if found. Kappler, 70, a former Gestapo chief in Rome, is terminally ill and was smuggled from a Rome hospital in a suitcase. The Italian government sought extradition, but German law blocks extraditing a German national.
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Bonn
West Germany
Herbert Kappler
Gestapo
Rome
Andreotti
Kappler
Federal Criminal Office
Wiesbaden
Ardeatine Caves
Justice Ministry
Germany
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U.S. Forest Service
Chews Ridge
Carmel Valley
Calif
Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home
South Fourteenth Street
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Fourteenth Street
Umberger-Sheaff
Chicago Sun-Times
Nalco Chemical Co
Carters
Monitor
Panama
Central America
The
Christian Science Monitor
White House
Washington
Delta, Alaska
trans-Alaska
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Valdez
Lincoln Memorial Park and Mausoleums
Giulio Andreotti
Helmut Schmidt
Verona
Schmidt
Emhart
First National Lincoln
Notifier Company
First National
Lincoln
13Th & M Streets
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