Supreme Court to review Chicago race bias case and age bias ruling
The justices agreed to hear Furnco Construction’s appeal over alleged racial bias against black bricklayers in Chicago. They also ruled that the federal age discrimination law does not bar most workers from forced retirement before 65, in a Harris McMann case against United Airlines.
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Supreme Court
Chicago
Washington
Furnco Construction Corp
7Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
High Court
St. Louis
Hazelwood
John Paul Stevens
Furnco
7Th Circuit
Donald Samuels
Robert Nemhard
William Smith
Harris McMann
Alexandria, Va
United Airlines
Oil riches in Siberia raise tough extraction odds
A U S government study finds West Siberian Basin holds at least 48 billion barrels of oil and 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but its Arctic, remote location and permafrost complicate development. CIA and US estimates warn Russia may import oil by 1985, impacting global markets and NATO allies.
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Steven R. Hurst
Associated Press
Washington
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
West Siberian
Alaska
Arctic Circle
U.S. Geological Survey
European
Russia
Siberian
O.W. Girard Jr
Girard
CIA
OPEC
Mideast
Hungary
Japanese Official in Washington Seeks to Ease Trade Rift
Nobuhiko Ushiba, Japan’s minister for external economic affairs, begins a four day mission in Washington to explain tariff reductions approved by Tokyo. He meets U S trade negotiator Robert Straus and cabinet officials as Tokyo calls the imbalance an emergency risk.
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Washington
Tokyo
United States
U.S
Japan
Nobuhiko Ushiba
Robert Straus
Commerce
Treasury
Labor and Agriculture
Sunao Sonoda
Ushiba
Government tests wider CPI survey to capture inflation
The Labor Department plans a broader Consumer Price Index redesign. Part time workers will record prices nationwide and assess a wider product range. The index will include professionals, self employed, poor, unemployed and retired groups, expanding from about 400 items to several thousand.
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Washington
Labor Department
Chicago Youth Dies After Police Involved Shooting
A 15 year old boy died from a gunshot wound inflicted by an off-duty Chicago police arson investigator. The officer said he was robbed while asleep in his car near Damen and Lake streets on the near West Side. Two suspects, Horace Griffin and Donald Sims, were arrested for robbery after Briggs was shot. The incident is under review by the Office of Professional Standards.
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Chicago
Ralph Briggs
Charles A. Gardner
Damen and
Lake Streets
Near West Side
Briggs
Gardner
Horace Griffin
Donald Sims
Department
Office of Professional Standards
David Karpiel
Churchill's widow Clemmie Churchill dies at 92 in London
Lady Clemmie Churchill widow of Sir Winston Churchill dies at 92 at her London home after a heart attack. Grandson Winston Churchill announced the death saying she was lunching with her secretary when she was stricken. She had begun quietly auctioning paintings and heirlooms this year to help meet expenses.
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London
Spencer Churchill
Britain
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Clementine
Clemmie
Winston
Democrats call special session over Illinois elections board
Democratic Senate President Thomas Hynes and House Speaker William Redmond called a Friday special session to override Gov. James R. Thompson's veto on creating an eight member state Board of Elections. The plan seeks to restore a timely path for the March primary as the court deadline nears.
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Springfield
Illinois General Assembly
State Board of Elections
Senate
Thomas Hynes
Chicago
House
William Redmond
Dbensenville
James R. Thompson
Elections Board
Illinois
Dexter Avenue Church Named National Historic Landmark
The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama, linked to Martin Luther King Jr., was designated a National Historic Landmark. Built in 1878 it received the bronze plaque and certificate from Ira Hutchison deputy director of the National Park Service during Sunday ceremonies. King served as pastor there from 1954 to 1959 and led the boycott of Montgomerys segregated buses.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr
Ira Hutchison
National Park Service
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