Million Worker Strike Paralyses Indian Government Operations
Nearly 1 million workers walked off in Uttar Pradesh and Bombays western region paralyzing government offices and delaying services. Hospitals discharged nonemergency patients as unions demand higher wages while Maharashtra and other states deploy home guards to maintain essential services.
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India
UPI
Bombay
Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur
Allahabad
Varanasi
Agra
Maharashtra
R. G. Karnik
Workers’ Coordination Committee
Karnik
Cleveland Mayor condemns police strike as illegal action
Mayor Dennis Kucinich denounces the overnight shift walkout by roughly 75 percent of Cleveland’s 120 midnight officers as illegal. He orders reporters to return to duty, warns of five day suspensions without pay for violators, and vows continued good faith bargaining with the police union despite the strike.
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Lucknow
Satya Prakash Malaviya
Bombay
India
Vasabtrao Patil
Maharashtra
Cleveland
UPI
Dennis Kucinich
Kucinich
Ohio
Ferguson
Richard Hongisto
Gene transplant experiment planned for next month
Government scientists plan a first of its kind animal experiment next month to test controversial gene transplant techniques at a high containment lab in Frederick Maryland. A local resident seeks federal court action to block the study citing potential risk to Frederick area residents. About 300 laboratories are involved in related work.
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Washington
UPI
Army
Frederick
National Institutes of Health
Frederick Cancer Research Center
Gunman fires at Blue Hills Regional High School
A gunman wearing a paper bag mask opened fire in a Canton high school classroom wounding two students identified as Douglas Newcombe 17 of Braintree and Richard Mercury 18 of Avon. Both injured in the left shoulder and treated at local hospitals. assailant fled.
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Canton
Mass
UPI
Blue Hills
Douglas Newcombe
Braintree
Richard Mercuri
Avon
Newcombe
Norwood Hospital
Mercury
Goddard Memorial Hospital
Stoughton
Failure to stop bullfights criticized
The American Humane Association criticized California officials for not stopping a bloodless bullfight planned at the San Francisco Cow Palace to celebrate Our Lady of Fatima. Milton C. Searle urged action, noting state law bans bullfights for amusement except religious festivals and citing a prior Long Beach case where a court halted the event.
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Denver
UPI
American Humane Association Today
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San Mateo
California
Milton C. Searle
Cow Palace
Val Fagundes
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Sacramento
John R. Quinn
Searle
Long Beach
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