Teachers to fight taxpayer revolts across states
The NEA delegates at its 116th annual convention backed a top goal of seeking one third federal funding for education. They approved measures opposing Proposition 13 style tax cuts, urged ERA passage, and limited future meetings to cities with a public school collective bargaining law. The group also pressed against tuition tax credits and urged a Cabinet level Department of Education.
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California Governor signs austere 147 billion budget
Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. signed a lean 1978-79 state budget amid Prop 13 backlash. The plan cuts 25 percent pay raises for 224,000 state workers and trims welfare grants, while preserving 3.7 percent increases for 700,000 aged and disabled Californians. A one-year hiring freeze aims to reduce payroll by 54 million, with abortion funding for low income women slashed from 34 million to 11 million.
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Edmund Brown Jr
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Rochester Flood Remains Devastating in Minnesota Survey Underway
Thousands homeless and without power as Rochester assesses damage after heavy rains and a rising Zumbro River flood. Five dead including four elderly in a nursing home elevator incident. President Carter urged for disaster declaration. city braces for ongoing outages and widespread rescue efforts.
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Marty Burns
Wendell Anderson
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Rudy Perpich
Carter
Minnesota
National Weather Service
Lillian Hoesly
National Health Enterprises Nursing Home
Mary Ellis
Anna Starken
Florence Larsen
Bonnie Carol Keller
Stewartville
Alice Fauver
West European leaders struggle to unite on Bonn summit plan
In Bremen eight of nine Common Market governments outline steps to stimulate their economies ahead of the Bonn summit with the United States and Japan. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt withholds full pledge to expand Germany’s economy, signaling pressure to cut U.S. oil dependence as the dollar weakens. Informed sources say Schmidt may accept in principle that nations with low inflation and trade surpluses help boost weaker economies.
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Hart to stand trial for Girl Scout killings in Oklahoma
Gene Leroy Hart must face three counts of first degree murder after Mayes County District Judge Jess Clanton ruled probable cause exists for trial. The 1977 case concerns the bludgeoning deaths and sexual assaults of Lorie Lee Farmer 8 Michelle Guse 9 and Doris Denise Milner 10 at a northeastern Oklahoma summer camp. The arraignment date is set for July 18 with separate trial considerations and possible delays requested by defense counsel and prosecutor.
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Lorie Lee Farmer
Michelle Guse
Doris Denise Milner
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