European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday March 8, teachers strike closes schools by the associated press Public schools in Washington,d.c., were ordered closed thurs Day because of a teacher walkouts the nation s capital became the latest City to feel the effects of the wave of teacher unrest. Elsewhere strikes continue Din Florida and Pittsburgh pa., while teachers in Oklahoma an Manchester n.h., prepared to bring sanctions against that state and City after holding successful one Day supt. William r. Man Ning said he ordered the Washington schools closed because almost half the system s 7,000teachers requested leave for the Day. The teachers members of the Washington teachers Union plan a Public demonstration Tourge Congress to approve a Bill that would raise starting salaries from $5,880 to $7,000. Some parents in Pittsburg said they would move in court to have schools closed on the ground they have been made unsafe by the strike by 1,000 of the City s 3,000 teachers. Forty one of the striking teachers were arrested and fined �25 each wednesday for picketing. They were among hundreds who walked the line outside City schools in violation of a court order against picket Pittsburgh federation of teachers struck last thursday in a demand for a collective bargaining Florida an official of the huge bade county classroom teachers association told a meeting of 3,500 Miami teacher that he believed the 13-Day-old walkout would be settled Fri Day. But Tornillo executive Secretary of the group gave no reason for his optimism. About one fourth of the state s 60,000 teachers remained . Claude Kirk had until Midnight to act on a $329 million education spending and taxing package or to allow it to become Law without his signature. Kirk said thursday that he would let the Bill become Law. But Phil Constans executive Secretary of the Florida Educa Tion association which leads the stateside walkout said the legis lation still is s 27,000 teachers buoyed by a one Clay emergency convention and admonitions from their leaders prepared touring National sanctions against the state for the second time i four years. Instead the teachers began mapping plans for sanctions and possibly a strike. They labelled inadequate the plan to provide a $1,300 salary increase Ove three y e a r s. Average teacher salary is $6,180 scale now runs from $5,200 to $7,700 annually and the Manchester teachers association is seeking a scale of $5,600to $8,900. They have rejected an offer of $5,400 to $8,400. In the spotlight it s the president splane but grandson Patrick Lyndon no gent is holding the spotlight on a trip from Ramey air Force base to puerto Rico to Washington. At left Patrick Chews on a gum wrapper As the presi Dent sips Coffee. Then Grandfather re moves the wrapper and Mother Luci takes Over the baby sitting. A photos czechs insist on extradition of defector Vienna a Czechoslovakia announced thursday it would demand the extradition of maj. Gen. Jan Sejna who has defected to the United official czechoslovak news Agency ctr reported the czechoslovak foreign ministry announced that on the basis of valid agreement on Mutual extradition of criminals betwee Czechoslovakia and the United states Steps Are being take through the czechoslovak embassy in Washington to secure the extradition of Jan it added maj. Gen. Jan Senais wanted in Czechoslovakia for offences concerning property an misuse of authority by a Public Washington the state department awaited thursday the reported czechoslovak request for Sejna s extradition but officials said chances that it would comply with such a request Are virtually nil. Sejna former top political officer in the czech defense ministry his son and the hitter Fiance Are in the United states and have asked for permanent political Asylum. Theu request asunder consideration. Miniskirts banned Blantyre Malawi up Malawi where women in Rural areas still go Bare breasted has banned miniskirts and dresses. Gln sane during holdups of Cadet found innocent air Force Academy Colo. A Paul d. Speasl 21, the first Cadet to face Acourt martial at the air Force Academy was found innocent thursday on charges of forgery larceny and robbery. The verdict was handed Dow after the defense attorney maj. Richard r. Lee asked for a finding of not guilty because of insanity at the time the alleged offences three psychiatrists testified earlier in the Day that Speasl from Tucson ariz., was legally insane. One said he suffered from Homicidal and Speasl had been charged i connection with two liquor store holdups in nearby Colorado Springs thefts from the Cadet store and forgery of class mates names to checks. Speasl Absen Speasl was not in the court room. Officials said he was patient at the army s Fitz Simons general Hospital in Den ver and was kept away from the hearing because it was Felt hearing some of the testimony would he harmful to his s parents or. And mrs. George Speasl Tucson and his attractive red haired wife Irene were that the Cadet was married Means automatic Dis Missal from the Academy. Also state charges still Are pending against Speasl in connection with the two with Speasl in those cases is Walter Zehner Iii 21, stabbing kills coed continued from Paye i theater arts department de scribed As an extremely erratic but creative Man who was so highly articulate Brilliant and deeply Sensi Tive that the faculty had advanced him to candidacy for his master s degree despite occasional erratic said some of con Bales friends said he was an Ltd user but Gonzales denied he was on drugs at the time of the Letsinger a Junior major ing in slavic languages was unattractive Brilliant coed whose father is a professor of chemistry at Northwestern univer sity. Her Mother is a special Tutor for the Evanston 111., school victim had worked part time the past year at system development corporation Here As an aide to a computer program Mer who is reducing linguistic studies data for computer analysis. She planned to become a russian interpreter for the stat department. She had been dating Gonzales on and off for More than a year. He was Bora in the unite states but grew up in Argentina. Metairie la. A hearing is Setfor april 4 in new Orleans on Colorado s request that he be extradited. Two psychiatrists from Colo Rado Springs and col. John d. Gordon chief of psychiatry a Fitzsimons All testified that Speasl was legally insane. Maj. William h. Carnahan the Law officer or judge said the government had the responsibility of proving Speasl was sane beyond reasonable doubt. When no member of the 10-of-Ficer court objected to his find ing of innocent it was sustained. 3 nuclear Powers offer Protection Geneva up the unite states the soviet Union and Britain offered joint protect onto All their countries re own . They pledged to assist immediately and such country which feels it is being threatened by nuclear attack or is the victim of atomic aggression. The nuclear umbrella willbe provided for All non nuclear states signing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. By giving up their own nuclear weapons under the nonproliferation pact countries will thu shave no reason to fear for their Protection guarantees were announced in almost Iden tical speeches by the american soviet and British negotiators atthe Geneva disarmament con c. Foster the Ameri can negotiator said the agree ment is of historic signify spokesmen said it is a Milestone in cooperation. These two superpowers together with Britain Are no ready to join forces to protect smaller countries which fee they Are in danger. Above All it is Moscow s for Mer ally communist China which will be blocked from threatening or attacking other countries with nuclear such As India have been reluctant to renounce their own atomic arsenals because of China s growing nuclear umbrella will be in the form of a United nations Secu Rity Council Resolution the text of which was presented by the three Powers in Geneva. When the Resolution is Dis cussed in new York the United states Russia and Britain win declare their readiness to go to the immediate assistance onion nuclear countries signing the nonproliferation pact and feeling themselves in danger. Such nations would presumably apply to the Security Council for Protection. In weather . Temperatures l 67 l 89 Louisville 40 Memphis i 3 Miami bean 2j Milwaukee 26 mplt.-8t.pa" 4b new Orlean 33 new York 40 okla. 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