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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1985
Page
2
The FAA will conduct yearly urinalysis tests on about 14,000 air traffic controllers and 10,000 related safety personnel including pilots, airport police, firefighters, and inspectors. Administrator Engen said there is no evidence of widespread drug use, but isolated incidents show risk remains.
Union leaders approve a tentative agreement ending the 21,000 truckers strike that disrupted new car and truck deliveries to showrooms nationwide. Negotiations reached a deal Wednesday with industry and union bargainers. Ninety-two locals voted 91 to 1 in Washington, ballots go out August 22 with return due by September 12.
Maverick meatpackers walked out at Geo. Hormel & Co. Austin headquarters plant in a 1,500 worker strike over pay parity. The action disrupts a key operation that produces Spam and Cure 81 ham, funding about a quarter of the town’s jobs as Hormel warned of possible plant departure.
The EPA says cash shortages force a hold on new contracts for 57 abandoned toxic waste site cleanups across 22 states. Congress has not renewed the funding tax. New York projects include Marathon Battery in Cold Springs and Sinclair Refinery in Wellsville among others.
The Washington Post reports a State Department memo outlines a $53 million regional counterterrorism plan for El Salvador Honduras Costa Rica Guatemala and Panama. It would allocate $27 million for military aid and $26 million for police training to bolster host governments counterterrorism capabilities following 13 El Salvadoran deaths in May.
Mayor Tom Bradley signed Los Angeles’s ordinance prohibiting discrimination against AIDS victims in housing medical and dental services businesses and public accommodations. It stops firings or refusals to hire AIDS victims by employers agencies and unions with civil penalties only and exempts blood and sperm banks as Bradley urges public education.
In Charleston, West Virginia, 135 people were sickened after a gas leak at Union Carbide in Institute. Officials say workers believed a tank was empty, but it held about 500 gallons of methylene chloride and aldicarb oxime. Steam from a leaking valve overheated the tank before the release.
Madonna and Sean Penn tied the knot in a quiet Malibu ceremony overlooking the Pacific. The bride wore an off-white gown with a 10-foot train while a black-tuxedoed Penn stood beside her as a black-robed minister officiated the half-hour service at sunset. Guests included Diane Keaton and Cher.
Public-facing note from Syracuse Herald Journal outlining a corrections policy. It invites readers to call 470-0011 with factual inaccuracies and provides postal details, subscription rates, and mailing information for the Syracuse edition. The text mirrors a printed policy box and includes address and rate figures.
Partly cloudy tonight with low around 60 and a 30 percent chance of showers later. Sunday remains mostly cloudy with highs near 85 and showers possible across many states from New Jersey to Florida and beyond into the Great Lakes and Dakotas. Hurricane Danny’s remains produced more than two dozen tornadoes killing two people and injuring 20 across the South, with widespread damage from Alabama to Tennessee.
Michael Stewart, 38, operations manager for Houston Oil Co., was seized Friday night in a wealthy Bogota suburb by six gunmen identified as members of M-19. His bodyguard was forced from the car. authorities and corporate sources confirm the kidnapping and note previous similar abductions of oil executives in Bogota over eight years.
In Lima leftist guerrillas in a speeding car fired on a crowd of about 60 people at a bus stop, killing three and wounding eight. Rebels seized radio stations, announced a truce with the government, and held a news conference to urge President Alan Garcia to fulfill a campaign pledge to aid the poor. Police attributed the attack to Shining Path, the largest Maoist rebel group in Peru.
Nicaraguan Indian rebels fired their two most prominent leaders accusing one of treason and the other of being a dictator The elders stripped Steadman Fagoth Muller and Brooklyn Rivera of authority in a move announced by Roger Hermann of Misura The clash comes as Indians challenge the Sandinista government on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Meanwhile in El Salvador unidentified gunmen killed a Transportation Ministry official and wounded the postal service director in separate attacks police said
Senator Alfonso D Amato testified in federal court that during his 1971 to 1978 tenure as Hempstead town supervisor he never recalls denying a raise because of party affiliation or political contributions. He acknowledged awareness of a 1 percent salary donation practice among Nassau County workers but said it was not coercive. D Amato noted reforms by the Nassau Republican Party to address a decade of complaints while denying personal memory of pressuring for contributions for promotions or raises.
Albany A Wa verly town justice Almon Wait faced six cases involving his and his wife's relatives. A state Commission on Judicial Conduct ruled his actions egregious, undermining public confidence and deeming him unfit for office. The recommendation goes to the Court of Appeals for final decision as Wait appeals.
John J. McLaughlin president of the City Health and Hospitals Corp resigns after informing officials he is under criminal investigation in an undisclosed civil suit. A high-level source hints the probe involves financial wrongdoing. McLaughlin is a 39-year-old lawyer earning 95 500 annually, unavailable for comment. attorney Thomas Puccio states the investigation does not involve his client’s city duties.
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