Court rule limits busing to five-year cycles
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 2 that federal courts cannot require annual changes to busing plans to equalize schools. The Pasadena California case, tied to Ford action to cap busing orders, ended ongoing court review and upheld limits after district redistricting produced shifting minority majorities in several schools.
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Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Pasadena
Calif
Ford
Congress
U.S
Manuel L. Real
Los Angeles
Pasadena Unified
Real
Pasadena Board of Education
William H. Rehnquist
Americans and Britons convicted of mercenarism in Angola
The People’s Revolutionary Tribunal in Luanda sentenced Daniel Gearhart an American and three British mercenaries to death by firing squad. Other foreigners received prison terms from 16 to 80 years while two Americans were jailed. The court declared all 13 mercenaries guilty of mercenarism and noted age and charges in apportioning sentences.
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Angola
Daniel Gearhart
People’s Revolutionary Tribunal
Gustavo Grillo
Jersey City
N.J
Gary Acker
Sacramento
Calif
Gearhart
Kensington
Costas Georgia
Col. Callan
Andrew McKenzie
John Derek Barker
Agostinho Neto
Michael Wiseman
John Marchand
Grillo
John Lawlor
Colin Evans
Cecil Fortuin
John Nammock
Acker
Malcolm McIntyre
GE Strike Averted By Tentative Labor Pact
A nationwide strike by 87,000 General Electric employees was called off after a tentative agreement was reached hours before contracts expired. The pact would cover 70,000 IUE members and 17,090 UE members. GE employs 260,000 nationwide, including 106,000 unionized in Syracuse.
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New York
General Electric Co
Con
International Union of Electrical Workers
United Electrical Workers
Syracuse
Ford warns of global fiscal woes at economic summit
President Ford urges major allies to curb social welfare spending to avoid reigniting inflation and a new global recession. He spoke at the opening session in San Juan Puerto Rico where the economic summit began with a breakfast meeting with French President Valery Giscard dEstaing.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Ford
America
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
U.S
Dorado Beach
Here
Giscard
Italy
Storms Likely Tonight Through Tomorrow At Hancock Field
The weatherman warns of possible thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow with a low near 60 and a high around 80. Rain chances are about 60 percent tonight and 70 percent tomorrow.
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Hancock Field
Pension reform dispute expands in Albany over pension panels
In Albany a widening gap between Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats over pension reform provisions threatens to delay adjournment. The dispute centers on replacing the Kinzel commission with a 14 member panel and on barring extra police and firemen benefits before age 62, with estimated taxpayer savings of 1.2 to 1.4 billion over 10 years.
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Albany
UPI
Senate
Assembly
Otto Kinzel
GOP
Fred Eckert
Rochester
Thomas Hanna
Kinzel
Passengers off plane still held by hijackers in Uganda
A hijacked Air France jet with about 247 passengers and 10 crew landed in Benghazi before moving to Entebbe. All aboard remained under Palestinian hijackers in the transit lounge under Ugandan military guard as negotiations continued.
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Kampala
Uganda
Air France
High Commission
Gath
Ered
Entebbe
Paris
Pierre Renard
di Amin
Tel Aviv
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Benghazi
U.S
Yitzhak Rabin
Lake Victoria
Athens
Libya
East Africa
Nation reports May trade surplus as exports rise
The Commerce Department says May exports topped imports by 395.6 million dollars, the first surplus this year after April’s deficit. Year to date, the U S trade gap is 670.8 million, while 1975 saw a record 11 billion surplus. A 24 percent drop in oil imports drove May results, though the dip may be temporary.
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Washington
Commerce Department
United States
American Petroleum Institute
Fire victims' funeral shrouded in bitterness
Samuel Winder 48 and Janice Winder 45 were buried after their fire at a mobile home on the Onondaga Oneida Reservation. About 150 mourners attended at a Syracuse funeral home before interment, amid claims of resentment toward whites and a historic dispute over police access to tribal land.
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Samuel and
Janice Winder Yester- S
Samuel
Janice Winder
Syracuse
Winders
Mr. Winder
Janice
Onondaga
Oneida
Oneida City
Oneidas
Herbert Brewer
Indian Land
David
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