KC Schools Plan Rejected In Washington
KC Schools face a second HEW rejection for its desegregation plan with 30 days to revise. HEW criticized busing only black students, 19 high minority schools, 12 alternative schools, and boundary changes. NAACP leader Jeremiah Cameron calls the ruling justice, condemning the district’s approach.
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Kansas City
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Southwest
Bingham Junior High
Paseo
Southeast
Jeremiah Cameron
NAACP
Blind Youth Defies Odds On Road To Self Sufficient Life
Jeff Meyer a 15 year old from San Diego is blind and epileptic yet rides 150 miles in two days guided by his father. Once told he would be a vegetable his mother’s courage and home therapy helped him overcome paralysis and reduce seizures. He plans to attend Mission Bay High School and refuses to wear disability tags. Meanwhile in Kansas City union members end a four day strike at Bunge Corp with a three year pact offering wage increases. No comment on ADM Milling dispute.
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San Diego
Calif
Jeff Meyer
Jeff
William
Peggy Meyer
Ucla
Meyer
Meyers
Chicago
Mission Bay High School
Kansas City
American Federation of Grain Millers
Bunge Corp
Thomas J. Perry
Bunge
Perry
ADM Milling Co
Miami man dies in jet self immolation aboard flight 1601
A 24-year-old Miami man identified as Anthony G Townsend entered the restroom on National Airlines Flight 1601 from New York to Miami, doused himself with a flammable liquid, and died from severe burns after an unscheduled landing in Jacksonville. Fifty seven passengers were uninjured. Townsend attempted to seal the restroom with a shirt and coat as flames erupted, stewardesses and passengers evacuated.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Miami
National Airlines
Anthony G. Townsend
DCO
New York
Kennedy International Airport
Robert Morgan
Townsend
Karen Pierro
Miami Beach
Anthony Pierro
Pierre
Eastern Air Lines
George Pizarro
Mayor proves point on bike rack in Topeka
Mayor Bill McCormick who bikes to work chains his bike to a post in City Hall lot to prove bike racks are safer but his own bike is stolen. He escorted city officials to the lot to show the need for racks and demonstrated his point with the theft occurring during the demonstration.
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Topeka
Kan
Bill McCormick
City Hall
Decorating Dentist Does Tattooing On Teeth
SAN FRANCISCO AP A denim dressed dentist tattoos teeth with suns moons hearts and flowers calling it body art He limits designs to porcelain caps not front teeth and says 36 patients in the last year chose decorative caps The dentist notes most like it while a few find it bizarre and some fear reactions from family or peers
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San Francisco
Robert Wachtel
Wachtel
Bob Sagesar
Michelle Hubbell
Arlene Glazer
Firemen Off Duty With Blue Flu Protest in University City
University City Missouri faced a second day of a blue flu as firefighters protested council plans to cut staff from 45 to 42. Local 1918 President Joseph Walsh said seventeen firefighters called in sick on Tuesday, forcing one station to close, with expectations the strike would last through Thursday.
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University City
Fire Fighters Local
Joseph Walsh
Walsh
Soviet backed MPLA holds Luanda as FNLA threat looms
In Luanda the Soviet backed MPLA controls most of the capital after a week of fighting that has killed about 300 and wounded 1,000. FNLA with 3,000 troops remains in Carmona and may push toward the city as Portugal contemplates reinforcing with up to 2,000 troops.
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Luanda
Angola
Agostinho Neto
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Holden Roberto
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
Atlantic Ocean
Carmona
Daniel Chipenda
Portugal
Lisbon
Chipenda
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Knob Noster
Johnson County
Amtrak
Washington
W. Monroe
Millers
Man
Derby Foods, Inc
Swift & Company
P.O
Clinton
Java
Coupen
Kenya
Marcus Holmes
Detroit
Detroit Department of Transportation
Holmes
Ashley's
Mexico
Oua
Dae i
Coats
Feene
Panty
North Jefferson
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