Miami hotels hit by union strike and self service chaos
Miami Beach hotels face a strike by Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Employees Local 356 as 11,000 members walk off. Picket lines loom at Doral, Carillon, Deauville, Eden Roc, Shelbourne, and Doral Beach while guests perform many tasks themselves. Negotiations over wages and benefits are deadlocked. some staff cross lines, guests endure reduced service, and the union plans to expand actions. Local hotel guests report marquee cancellations and tight capacity during the holidays.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Herbert
Pinky
Schiffman
Ety Union Local 356
Doral Country Club
Carillon
Deauville
Eden Roc
Shelbourne
Doral Beach
Collins Avenue
Doral
Miami
Harvey Eisen
Brooklyn
N.Y
Cloudy Cold Tonight With Snow Flurries Possible
Forecast calls for cloudy skies and cold temps with a low near 20 tonight. Tuesday's high around 35 with a 50 percent chance of snow tonight and 30 percent Tuesday. Morning low was 11, Sunday high 34, and Sunday snowfall measured 0.07 inches.
Christmas traffic toll rises to 398 dead
Snowy conditions strained highways across the Northeast and Midwest as the Christmas weekend ended. The Associated Press tallies 398 traffic deaths from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday, a surge from last year’s 396 and far below the 1965 peak of 720 in three days.
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Associated Press
Midwest
White Christmas Lingers Over Ohio As Snow Falls
Ohio endures fresh snow across the state with more storms and cold air forecast. The National Weather Service expects a new storm to blanket most counties tonight and keep snow daily through Friday, with possible rain in the south. Roads grow hazardous as salt trucks clear prompts and city plows toil. Mansfield reports four inches, Findlay three, Columbus one to two inches, with winds easing later today.
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Associated Press
Ohio
National Weather Service
Highway Patrol
Mansfield
Findlay
Cincinnati
Columbus
World Bank ranks U S per capita income sixth in 1975
The World Bank reports 1975 per capita U S income at 7060, placing the United States sixth behind Kuwait United Arab Emirates Qatar Switzerland and Sweden. It notes stagnation in industrialized nations since 1973 and population growth in developing nations.
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World Bank
United States
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Switzerland
Sweden
United
States
Denmark
Canada
Germany
Norway
U.S
Saudiahaa
Hitching Santa Claus Heads North in Hurry on I 55
Interstate 55 motorists near St Lo report a man in a red suit claiming to be Santa Claus was in a hurry to go north. He declined to confirm his identity, saying only he needed to move quickly.
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Santa Claus
Lony
St. Loman
Carter summons cabinet for three day preinaugural talks
President elect Carter plans a three day series of informal cabinet sessions at a secluded Georgia island estate to discuss tax cuts and the economy. He will be joined by Mondale Blumenthal Lance and Schultze as he prepares to take office January 20.
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Walter Mondale
Island
Washington
Air Force
Carter
Michael Blumenthal
Bendix Corp
Treasury
Thomas B. Lance
Atlanta
Office of Management and Budget
Charles Schultze
Council of Economic Advisers
Rex Granum
Ford
OPEC hints at cancelling July price rise
In Vienna AP reports OPEC faces a split over a plan to raise prices by 15 percent in two steps. Secretary general M O Feyide says a waiver of the July 1 5 percent rise is possible if production and demand trends shift, with a special ministers' meeting if needed.
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Vienna
Austria
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
M.O. Feyide
Seas
Saudi Arabia
United
Ares Ae
Violence erupts in Cape Town again
In Cape Town South Africa hundreds of residents fled a black township after clashes that left 19 dead and 97 injured. Police patrols sought to restore order in Nyanga and Guguletu as more homes burned and residents carried personal effects away.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Aortas
Eavily
Nyanga
Gert Prinsloo
Guguletu
Prinsloo
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