Bell okays settlement changes
AT&T and the Justice Department accepted Judge Greene’s modifications to the antitrust settlement. The deal allows AT&T to give up 22 Bell System companies worth about 80 billion while retaining long distance, Western Electric, and Bell Labs. The government drops the 1974 suit, with six months to draft a spinning off plan and up to 12 months to complete the breakup.
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Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Justice Department
Bell System
U.S
Harold H. Greene
At&t
Bell
Greene
Department of Justice
Timothy E. Wirth
D-Coro
Congress
Wirth
Food for Hungry opens to long line at Chicago church
In a South Side Chicago event, about a thousand people waited for free groceries at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church as doors opened. The program, now run by the Mount Pisgah Food for the Hungry Foundation, distributes bags of potatoes onions and cabbage and will require voters registration cards next time. More than 5 000 bags had been handed out in the area by Thursday.
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T. Lee Hughes
Associated Press
Chicago
Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church
Joseph Wells
Wells
Mount Pisgah Food For the Hungry Foundation
The
Chicago Urban League
John W. Hardin
Beauty queen awaits verdict in cocaine smuggling case
Miami AP Jurors in Chicago model and Miss Black America 1980 Sharon Wright failed to reach a verdict after two hours of deliberation in her cocaine importation trial. Wright, 26, testified she did not know cocaine was hidden in a picture frame she carried from Cartagena. She faces up to 30 years in prison and fines up to 50,000 if convicted.
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Miami
Chicago
Sharon Elizabeth Wright
Miss Wright
Miami International Airport
U.S. Customs Service
Cartagena
Colombia
Nanauna
Sanaina
Rye Ve Vewee
United States
American Express Sued Over Alleged California Sex Bias
A California suit accuses American Express of discriminating against women by ignoring couples community property when evaluating card applications. The company says its focus is on the women’s market and expresses surprise at the $100,000 claim.
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San Francisco
American Express Co
California
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William E. Irby
Reagan
Aoena
Leona Gibson
Sharon Wright
North America
Charlies Jones
Parkview Church of Christ
Park Bivd
Amana
Ene Eney Rees
RCA
Orig
Marantz
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