Tornadoes and snow storms sweep U.S. in bitter weather
Tornadoes ripped roofs from homes in the South while a winter storm swept the Midwest and Northeast. Six family members died in a Boston fire as subzero temperatures lingered. a cold front caused travel delays at O'Hare and minor injuries from a Wisconsin snowmobile crash amid snowy roads and plane incident near Champaign.
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United States
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Ill
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Detroit Desegregation Bus Plan Begins Amid Protests
Detroit schools start busing under a court ordered desegregation plan with fewer than 10 percent of 247 000 students. Police near each school. MAD protests wind through downtown as NAACP objects to plan limits. Full buses begin Tuesday with 21 83 pupils aboard and many students still walking or changing schools.
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Detroit
UPI
NAACP
Mothers Alert
MAD
U.S
Robert DeMascio
DeMascio
Letter mailing decreases across the nation
Discontent with Postal Service prompts Americans to seek alternatives to mail delivery as rates rise. Officials expect a 1.2 billion drop from last year and a further 4 to 5 percent decline over five years as agencies cut costs by using electronic payments and postcards. Greyhound and Trailways note 10 to 15 percent more outgoing packages, while utilities report more hand delivered bill payments.
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Washington
UPI
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Albany
N.Y
Peter Goldmark
Portland
Ore
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N.J
Greyhound
Trailways
John Medeiros
Court rules on validity of arrest without warrant
The Supreme Court, by 6 to 2, held that custody alone does not compel a warrantless search of a person’s property when rights are read. The ruling upheld arrests without warrants with clear cause, as in the Henry Ogle Watson case, and included brief orders on salmon fishing, laetrile, and Tennessee property taxes.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Henry Ogle Watson
Watson
9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
William J. Brennan
John Paul Stevens
Washington State
Tennessee
Obscure treaty threatens California tax take
California could lose about $100 million in annual tax revenue from multinational firms with California operations if a new U S United Kingdom tax treaty limits state taxing power. Bruce Walker of the Franchise Tax Board says the pact may scrap California's method of taxing English based companies and their subsidiaries.
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Sacramento
UPI
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United States
England
Senate
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Treasury Department
United Kingdom
Walker
Brown signals ag labor board changes may come in due course
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr stated that changes to the Agriculture Labor Relations Board can be considered in due course. He stressed that an emergency $3.8 million appropriation will not serve as a vehicle to overhaul the law amid a tight two thirds vote and election focus. The board faces closure without funds as farmer and worker groups push for amendments during a looming Feb. 6 election. Republicans and rural Democrats oppose the funding without concessions.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Agriculture Labor Relations Board
Brown
Senate
David A. Roberts
Los Angeles
Kelley Warns Against Unrestricted FBI Oversight Access
FBI Director Clarence Kelley told the Senate Government Operations Committee that unlimited access to FBI files by Congress could endanger leaked information and the bureau’s lifeblood of volunteered data. He noted a 64 percent drop in domestic intelligence investigations since 1973 and urged sworn testimony over open file access.
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