Mail unions seek 7.7 percent wage hike in talks
Washington unions representing about 560,000 postal workers press for an immediate 7.7 percent raise as their July 20 contract deadline nears. They urge Carter and White House advisers to stay out of negotiations citing a 5.5 percent cap, arguing pay must reflect private sector levels and pointing to a plan calling for $1,100 first year and $865 second year raises plus 5.2 percent productivity share.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Postal Service
Carter
White House
James LaPenta
Joint Union Bargaining Committee
Postal Service
Rosenberg sons press bid to reopen case
Twenty five years after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing a meeting by their sons seeks to reopen the case and clear the Rosenberg name. The sons use the Meeropol surname.
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Sing Sing
Meeropol
Robert Meeropol
Michael Meeropol
Morton Sobell
New York
Meeropol’s
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Sobell
Rosenbergs
FDA warns bands over laser light burn risk
UPI reports the FDA examined a Blue Oyster Cult concert in Atlanta and ordered safety fixes for laser light shows. Officials warned rock groups like Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead about potential eye injuries from reflected laser beams and stressed the need for compliance to prevent burns.
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UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Blue Oyster Cult
Atlanta
Bureau of Radiological Health
Zeplin
Pink Floyd
The
Grateful Dead
Wings
Earth, Wind and Fire
Radio Station Aided FBI Spying on AIM Activists
The Coali tion on Government Spying says Seattle station KIXI and the FBI conspired to gather information on Seattle participants in the 1973 Wounded Knee protests. An FBI teletype memo obtained under FOIA shows KIXI provided data from reporter Clarence McDaniels, apparently without his awareness.
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Seattle
UPI
FBI
Wounded Knee
S.C
Coalition On Government
Roberto Maestas
KIXI
Clarence McDaniels
McDaniels
Egypt fires ambassador over anti-Sadat remarks
Egypt dismissed Saad Eddin Shazli, its ambassador to Portugal, for gross violation of duties after he criticized President Anwar Sadat's peace policy and crackdown on dissent. Shazli, a retired general, said democracy would block the peace approach with Israel and accused Sadat of imprisoning opponents.
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Cairo
Egypt
UPI
Portugal
Anwar Sadat
Mohammed Kamel
Saad Eddin Shazli
Lisbon
Armed Forces
Shazli
Sadat
Israel
Shazlr
Antonio
Radiation equals removal in breast cancer treatment
Dr Melvin Deutsch of Pittsburgh told the AMA radiation therapy can be an effective alternative to radical mastectomy. Studies show no significant survival difference between full breast removal and radiation focused treatment. He notes many patients may avoid radical surgery while preserving the breast, using biopsy followed by radiotherapy to control residual disease.
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ST. Louis
UPI
American Medical Association
Melvin Deutsch
Deutsch
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