Auto Repair Scams Scrutinized by Senate Panel
Washington hearings focus on auto repair scams harming women and others, with claims of rebuilt parts sold as new, inflated appraisals, and price gouging totaling about 1 billion dollars in a year. Experts cite bribes to appraisers, dummy estimates, and pressure tactics to force repairs, including pushing roadside breakdown fears and deceptive practices on new car buyers.
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Washington
API
Congress
Philip A. Hart
Dmich
Senate
Neal E. Mann
Independent
Automotive Damage Appraisers Association
Mann
NYC School Closes After Angry Clashes Between Students and Police
In New York City anger erupts as public clashes prompt state education officials to shutter several schools. Commissioner James E. Allen Jr orders Ocean Hill Brownsville Junior High and related facilities closed after a confrontation outside the campus.
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New York
UPI
Ocean
Hill- Brownsville
James E. Alen Jr
Lill-Brownsville
Allen
Herbert F. Johnson
New York City
JHS
Johnson
Williams
Firman
Albert Shanker
United Federation
UFT
Manhattan
Queens
Shanker
Icity Board of Education
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
Washington Square
Brooklyn
Sex Slaying Clues Sought In San Antonio Case
Detectives hunted for leads in the weekend death of Ida Marshall Harrell 44 found mutilated along Six-Mile Creek identified by her daughter Virginia Luna. Authorities say the body shows signs of sexual torture and strangulation while her husband Army Spec. 6 Joseph Harrell was stationed at Brooke General Hospital.
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Ida Marshall Harrell
Six-Mile Creek
Army Spec
Joseph Harrell
Brooke General Hospital
Ruben Santos
Santos
Virginia Mae Luna
Halliday
Luna
Ft. Sam Houston
Harrell
San Antonio
Frankfurt
Germany
West Side
Pallco
Roman Catholic Membership Seen in World Council of Churches
Geneva reports say Catholic officials see membership in the World Council of Churches as only a matter of time after years of dialogue dispelling legal and theological objections. Council leaders note practical obstacles remain but view the Vatican’s acceptance of equal footing as likely as talks continue.
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Geneva
Switzerland
UPI
World Council of Churches
Council
Agostino Ben
Vatican
Council Assembly
Uppsala
Sweden
Roberta Tucci
World Council
Lukas Vischer
Faith and Order
Dr. Vischer
FAA imposes new limits on private aviation flights
FAA rules cap hourly landings at private Kennedy O’Hare and Newark shuttles to ease congestion. The order targets general aviation operators with about 80 daily takeoffs and landings, shifting capacity toward scheduled airlines and new supplemental flights. The plan drew mixed reactions from the National Pilots Association and private operators, who call the quotas discriminatory and unnecessary.
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Washington
Owners and Pilots Association
FAA
Transportation Secreta
Wash-ty
Alan S. Boyd
Ington
New York
Boston
Nixon
Federal Aviation
Ainort
Kennedy
Lamar
Guardia
Newark
Washington National
Eastern Airl
York
Council
World Council of Churches
Jesus
Rome
Conf
Vatican
World Council
Alaska Bush Pilots To Hunt for 39 Victims
Alaska bush pilots prepared to begin recovering 39 bodies from a twin engine Wein Consolidated Airlines plane that crashed near a small Alaska lake during a blizzard. The F27 plummeted toward Jamna while en route from Anchorage, killing 36 passengers, including two infants, and all three crew members. Recovery teams faced subzero temperatures and icy terrain as they worked to move the bodies to a temporary morgue in Thamma.
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Anchorage
Alaska
UPI
Wein Consolidated! Airlines
Sam Skeels
Portland
Gre
William Crow
Harvey Mardaway
Seattle
Wash
Dave Stanley
Gary Svengard
Sally Lamar
Air Force
Holan Higdon
Pedro Bay
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Dick Hafer
National Transportation Safety Board
Thamma
Walter Nickel
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Los Angeles
N.Y.C
I. M. Harrell
Lassie
Chicago
Patricia N. Schultz
Faribault
Minn
Kenneth ©. Reynolds
Arapahoe
Colo
Tracy Greenwood
Velma
Okla
March of Dimes
Charles H. Percy
Olinois
Washington, DC
Bush
Lucinda Robb
Randolph Afb
Washington, D.C
Secret Service
Clint Jhii
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