UAW Opens Talks Amid Optimism for Peaceful Year
United Auto Workers begin contract negotiations with General Motors Ford Chrysler and American Motors. observers foresee a peaceful round with no major walkouts while key issues include job security health care costs and pensions. Woodcock plans handshake openings at GM Ford Chrysler and AMC.
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UPI
United Auto Workers
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Corp
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
Comany
Woodcock
Deadline Set for Cannery Worker Strike in California
Teamsters Union warns of a strike deadline for Tuesday over a new contract for about 60 000 California cannery workers. A walkout would affect 30 000 workers now and 30 000 more later in summer during harvest. Freddie Sanchez says action is forced by employers' refusal to offer an equitable contract. A federal mediator joins today to seek a settlement before the deadline. Union votes authorized a strike by 85 percent. workers will give 24 hour notice if walking out. Growers warn a summer strike would be devastating.
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Calif
UPI
Teamsters
California
Freddy S. Sanchez
Teamsters California Council
Sanchez
Advisory board criticizes California bilingual education
The California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission says the Department of Education failed to enforce bilingual laws and that only about half of English learners benefit from programs. It calls for a census, a single unit, and stronger enforcement while noting current reforms underway.
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UPI
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California
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
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A. Alan Post
Phillip Montez
Commission
Riles
Department of Education
Viking prepares for landing in Mars desert basin
Viking 1’s lander, awakened from hibernation in Mars orbit, underwent a sequence of power on tests to verify readiness for Tuesday morning touchdown. Engineers at JPL activated one system after another, sending commands 214 million miles from Earth to Mars to confirm operability of the lander’s components.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Viking 1
Mars
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Sibley Drowns While Fishing in British Columbia
Shermer L. Sibley 62, chairman of Pacific Gas & Electric, drowned on a fishing trip on the Dean River 300 miles from Vancouver. His body was not found. A UC Berkeley graduate, he rose from mapper to chairman by 1972 and led Edison Electric Institute. He is survived by his wife Mary and three children.
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UPI
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co
British Columbia
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Dean River
Vancouver
Pacific Coast
Pg&e
University of California At Berkeley
Europe
Edison Electric Institute
General Motors Corp
del Monte Corp
Stanford Research Institute
Mary
Patricia Allen
Peter
Jeffrey
Bomb attacks mark Spanish uprising anniversary
Bombs exploded across Madrid Barcelona Bilbao and El Ferrol injuring two. Police killed Carlos Hernandez Exposito after he failed to halt. Authorities blamed a preplanned terrorist act and speculated leftist or anarchist groups.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Francisco Franco
Barcelona
Bilbao
el Ferrol
Carlos Hernandez Exposito
Juan Carlos
Ministry of Justice
Americans Prepare to Flee War-Torn Beirut
UPI reports hundreds of Americans and other foreigners ready to evacuate Beirut as fighting widens in the central mountains. An overland convoy was planned to Damascus with 347 foreigners registered, including 161 Americans and dependents, amid increasing Syrian reinforcements and clashes near Sofar.
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Lebanon
UPI
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Syria
Safar
Sofar
Aitourah
U.S
Madera Sheriff calls FBI aid in bus kidnapping case
Madera County Sheriff Ed Bates, a former FBI agent, urged Edward Levy to keep federal agents on the case. Bates says the withdrawal worsened local resources and hindered the investigation while noting FBI jurisdiction remains under the sheriff’s comment. The note comes as USPS raises several first class and related rates amid nationwide changes.
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Chowchilla
Calif
UPI
Madera
Ed Bates
FBI
Bates
Edward F. Levy
Levy
California
Iid
Groups say ERDA fought proposition in California nuclear safety vote
Nine public interest groups accuse ERDA of masking neutrality to defeat the California nuclear safety initiative. They urge a GAO investigation and California inquiry, noting the measure would have imposed strict reactor regulations and a potential moratorium. ERDA cites voter decisions and information duties.
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UPI
Energy Research and Development Administration
California
John Abbotts
ERDA
General Accounting Office
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