Last Minute Talks Delay Area School Year Start
With opening day looming, several districts report lingering contract talks. De Soto district shut schools until a deal is reached while teachers press for a written contract and binding arbitration. Other districts like Elverado and Sparta report tentative settlements pending board approval and votes set for Sunday night.
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Broombaugh
de Soto
Elvorado Education Association
Elverado Unit
Teachers Picket Across Five States As Schools Reopen
Almost 7,000 teachers in five states are expected to be back on the picket lines Monday as new terms begin. Louisiana Jefferson Parish plans a Sunday rally in Metairie while 82 schools remain open with substitutes. Oklahoma City teachers Nearly half of 2,300 are off, salary disputes drive actions across districts. Park Hill Kansas City area postpones opening as PTA urges classroom safety. Benton Harbor Michigan and Bethel Park Pennsylvania negotiate while Allegheny Unit reaches tentative agreement for Monday classes.
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Sparta
Loren Eddleman
Eddleman
Don Adams
Sparta American Legion Hall
Adams
Eddle
Associated Press
Louisiana
Jefferson Parish
Metairie
New Orleans
Larry Sisung
Oklahoma City
American Federation of Teachers
Park Hill
Sub
PTA
Michigan
Benton Harbor Education Association
Bethel Park
Pittsburgh
Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Supreme Court delay for Nevada killer Bishop halts execution
Convicted killer Jesse Bishop won a temporary stay from Justice William Rehnquist delaying his gas chamber death while the Nevada Pardons Board refused to commute the sentence. Bishop called the stay a farce as his execution deadline neared and board members debated commuting to life without parole. Ballard's widow cites plea from ACLU.
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Carson City
Nevada
Jesse Bishop
U.S. Supreme Court
Nevada Pardons Board
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Washington
Richard Bryan
Pardons Board
Bishop
State Supreme Court
al Gunderson
Gordon Thompson
David Ballard
Baltimore
Las Vegas
Ballard
ACLU
Inmates take guards hostage at Las Vegas city jail
Armed inmates seized three guards at the Las Vegas city jail on Saturday and demanded to air grievances by two way television. Police Lt. J O Smith said a deputy public defender was requested as go between, with the hostages reported in good condition. Felix Lorenzo, linked to a 1978 Strip bar hostage incident, was named as a negotiator contact by some inmates. It remained unclear how many inmates held weapons or how many escaped from the second floor lockup.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Paul Dawkins
Klas-Tv
Dawkins
J.O. Smith
Smith Declin
Smith
Felix Lorenzo
2500 Return to Homes After Nitric Acid Leak in Cleveland
About 2,500 residents returned home Saturday night after a nitric acid leak from an Aries Alpha Co tanker on Tennessee 60 in Cleveland. Police said evacuees were given the all clear and noted only mild skin and eye irritation in some cases. Civil Defense sprayed the cloud to keep it moist before offloading to a second truck and sealing the leak with an acid resistant gasket.
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Cleveland, Tenn
Cleveland
Raymond Brackin
Aries Alpha Co
Civil Defense
Tennessee 60
Defector's wife at center of U S Soviet dispute
At New York's JFK a Aeroflot jet remains grounded with 68 Soviet passengers aboard as U S officials refuse to let the plane depart seeking a non coercive interview with Ludmilla Vlasova the Bolshoi dancer. Moscow protests calling the move hostage taking and an affront to human rights while Washington maintains the plane will stay grounded until a satisfactory resolution is reached.
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New York
Moscow
U.S
Bolshoi Ballet
Alexander Lee
Soviet Union
Tass
United States
Ludmilla Vlasova
Aeroflot
Pan American World Airways
John F. Kennedy International
Donald McHenry
Evgeny Makeyev
Makeyev
Miss Vlasova
Godunov
Washington
State Department
Mary Ann Bader-Debeusscher
Uneasy truce in Middle East tense after cease fire
Premier Salim el Hoss announced a U N mediated cease fire between Palestinian guerrillas and Israeli rightists. Hours later Israel reported rockets across the border and returned fire. Tel Aviv said intermittent rocket fire hit Galilee panhandle settlements with no casualties. Beirut sources cited Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon villages.
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Nabatiyeh
Lebanon
Salim el Hoss
Israel
Tel Aviv
Galilee Panhandle
Beirut
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DeSoto Consolidated
Man
L. D. Bauersachs
Chester
Murphysboro
Ernest
Bozarth
Robert Arnold
Una
Kansas City
Parent-Teachers Association
Ludmilla Viasova
Middle East
Zeigier
Illinois
Carbondale
Herrin
Marion
Geegar
Southern Illinoisan
Ill
Sedgefield
Donmoor
Rob Roy
William Barry
Pacific Trail
Barrell
Morty Abels E
Brittania
North Park Ave
Russ Kramer
Carbondale, IL
du Quoin
Illinois General Assembly
Southern
Ilinois
E. Union
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