Violence at Lorain USX escalates with 14 arrests
More than 150 officers cleared a Lorain USX plant entrance as a trainload of steel pipe departed. Fourteen steelworkers were arrested and six injured including USW officials Al Pena and Frank Valenta. Valenta treated for a broken nose and cuts. Pena observed for heart issues. Officers and union members clashed amid a tense standoff.
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Sheffield
East River Road
Lorain
Roger May
Roger Chandler
Lorain County
Pena
Jack Broz
Elyria
Amherst
Sheffield Village
Avon
Huron County
Thanksgiving 1986 celebrates progress and persistent disparities
A Conference Board and Census Bureau pamphlet lauds 20th century gains in work hours wages wealth home ownership and life expectancy while noting persistent gaps in black and elderly poverty women headed families and homelessness. It credits productivity gains from machines and electronics, with a warning of uneven progress.
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Conference Board
Census Bureau
America
Reagan approves plan to exceed SALT II limits
President Reagan has finalized a decision to surpass SALT II caps by deploying the Air Force 131st B-52 bomber equipped to carry nuclear cruise missiles. The aircraft will be based at Carswell AFB Texas this Friday, with no retirements of Poseidon submarines. This marks a formal rejection of maintaining SALT II limits without a new pact.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Pentagon
Air Force
Carswell Air Force Base
Texas
Carter
Senate
Poseidon
Defense
Caspar) Weinberger
Congress
Weather outlook shifts to sun this afternoon
Region starts cloudy with a gradual clearing trend as the day warms to the upper forties. Tonight stays mostly clear with a low around the mid thirties and no precipitation expected.
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