25 Mar 1981
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1981
Page
1
The National Weather Service at Hancock Airport reports a low around 30 tonight with increasing cloudiness. Tomorrow's high near 0. Winds at the airport will be light and variable with a 20 percent chance of precipitation tonight and tomorrow.
Three white men were arrested today on charges of murdering a black youth who was strangled and then hanged in a tree on a Mobile residential street last weekend. Public Safety Commissioner Robert Doyle announced the arrests.
AP reports thousands of government workers mobilized to Boston Common for a march to the Statehouse to press for increased taxation while faculty from the state's 10 colleges protested at the State House over delays in funding contracts. The Massachusetts Teachers Association echoed, predicting more than 20,000 at an anti-Proposition 214 rally, arguing a 5 percent sales tax on commercial services could cover a $600 million revenue shortfall for the new fiscal year.
In Berlin, demonstrators in the American sector raged through Kreuzberg protesting the arrest of 26 squatters, injuring 51 police and leading to 18 arrests as police dispersed groups across four boroughs. In New York, the daily numbers draw was 218.
A witty note claims a so called income tax loophole exists only for a 65 year old college student who owns an oil well. The joke hinges on improbable qualifications and satirizes tax rules.
Special Prosecutor John F. O Mara is probing Democratic Assemblyman Michael J Bragman and has subpoenaed records tied to Bragman s Cicero home project eight years of financial records involving Ow Surplus owner Mitchell Shulman and invoices from the Bragman job. Architects and contractors confirmed subpoenas and Bragman said he has not been personally contacted about the probe. he expects the inquiry to continue for months.
Vice President George Bush is named to head a crisis management team as a power struggle with Secretary of State Haig unfolds. Haig denied threatening resignation. White House says Haig is on board. Bush will coordinate foreign and domestic emergency responses and plan options for presidential decisions.
United Mine Workers leaders seek ratification for a contract endorsed 21-14 by the bargaining council and backed by President Sam Church. The deal, a three year package boosting wages and benefits by 36 percent, faces opposition over a pension royalty provision and potential non union coal processing at UMW plants. Voting is expected to begin early next week with local meetings detailing the agreement.
Labour leader Lech Walesa and Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski resume talks amid threats of nationwide four hour strikes and a general strike in Poland. Stanislaw Kania warns the action edge risks catastrophe as Solidarity pushes for firing officials over a police beating of 23 unionists.
A year after Mount St Helens awoke in March 1980, devastation lingers yet life returns in spots. Grass grows on slopes, animals reappear, and thousands visit two Forest Service centers along I-5 as researchers monitor ongoing activity and residents adapt to the changed landscape and memory of the May 18 eruption.
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