Florida teachers walk out as education bill looms
Florida students skip classes for a seventh day as a statewide teacher strike grows. About 430000 pupils head to beaches while 22,000 teachers stay home across 67 counties. Palm Beach votes to accept resignations of 1300 teachers. Dade and other counties face disrupted schedules. Legislators face calls for a special session to act on a $254.5 million education package ahead of a March 7 deadline.
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FEA
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Dade County
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Agreement Reached To Talk New Mexico Teacher Strike
In Santa Fe a negotiated deal ends a pending teacher walkout as the New Mexico Education Association and officials reach terms after 131 hours of talks. The plan asks Gov to appoint a nine member emergency task force to craft a comprehensive education program for the 1948 49 year with legislative action by April 15.
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Associated Press
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David F. Cargo
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Belen
James Green
India Rejects U S Russia Nuclear Treaty
Geneva dispatch reports India rejects the Soviet American draft treaty to ban nuclear arms proliferation. Ambassador Azim Husain told the Ignatian disarmament conference that the draft fails to curb superpower weapons buildup and would not be effective without disarmament by the United States and Soviet Union.
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Krupp asks rescission of 1953 holding order
The Krupp industrial group requests the United States Britain and France rescind the 1953 order requiring divestment of its steel and coal holdings. The order, aimed at limiting Krupp concentration, has never been carried out. With Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach's death and the company going public, officials say the order lacks valid justification.
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Lent Prayer for Reconciliation and Healing
The reader is urged to reflect during Lent on Christ’s coming and the cross for salvation. The prayer requests steadied vision of Jesus’ purpose, the living message of reconciliation, and healing for mankind through the cross, attributed to Amon Winfield Burggraaff of New York City.
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Market Slumps Continue as Dow Drops to 839.05
New York markets extended losses with about 100 more declines than advances on the NYSE. The Dow Jones average fell 2.72 to 839.05 as IBM and Eastman Kodak tumbled about nine points. Chrysler eyed a price rise, while analysts saw a retreat from last week’s technical rally toward February lows.
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Negro Seeks Congressional Seats In Mississippi Election Today
James Bonney reports from Jackson that 12 southwest Mississippi counties vote to choose a congressman under federal poll watchers. Candidates include Charles Evers, Hagan Thompson, Ellis Bodron, Charles Griffin, and Joe Pigott as runoff could follow the vacated seat of John Bell Williams. Weather mild as voters determine representation and party balance in a longtime segregated state.
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Vicksburg
Association For the Advance
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McComb
Washington
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Natchez
Lawmaker Calls LSD Possession Bill Unenforceable
Rep Tim Lee Carter of Kentucky says a proposal to criminalize LSD possession is totally unenforceable with up to 1 year penalties. He cites estimated 1.9 million students using the hallucinogen and questions prison for high school and college students. The bill would transfer the Narcotics Bureau to the Justice Department while other penalties for manufacture sale and distribution would be stiffened.
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Associated Press
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Kentucky
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D-Fla
North Korea says U S ships still spying
North Korea's KCNA claimed U S spy ships mingled with South Korean fishing boats and violated northern waters. It noted the timing relating to the January 3 encounter with the USS Peeble, while reporting crews were rescued after a storm and fishermen were treated before returning home.
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Communists Fail to Agree on Agenda at Budapest Meeting
In Budapest Hungary representatives of eight Communist parties opened talks but could not settle on an agenda amid a brewing rift over a world conference. China North Vietnam and 13 other parties were absent as delegates clashed over attendance scope topics and timing. A secretariat was appointed with one member from each party and chairmanship to rotate.
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Gasoline Truck Explosion Kills Six in Mexico City
A gasoline truck overturned on a crowded Mexico City street as children left a nearby primary school. The driver swerved to avoid a speeding car. Six people died and 65 were injured, many with severe burns from spilled fuel.
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Spanish coach gets six month jail term for Basque leaflets
MADRID AP reports a 19 year old law student was arrested while collecting leaflets advocating Basque independence. She Maria-Idlar Fururia was convicted by the National Court of Public Order for disseminating illegal propaganda and sentenced to six months in prison plus a $142 fine.
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