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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 14, 1978 teachers1 strikes shut classrooms across the nation Indiana jury indicts Ford in fiery Pinto deaths of 3 by United press International Cleveland school administrators wednesday decided against testing their newly acquired breaking and entering techniques and called off classes for the City s 101,000 pupils. A up Survey showed teachers walk outs in 10 states interrupted the schooling of More than 300,000 students from kindergarten to College. Negotiations Between the Boston teach ers Union and the school committee broke Down one Day before the teachers strike deadline. The City s 5,000 teachers were to vote on a contract later in the Day an there was Little optimism a strike will be averted. In Cleveland teachers and non teaching employees on strike since thursday have jammed locks and sealed school buildings with chains and padlocks. School principals attended workshops tuesday to learn among other things How to break into schools. Officials had planned to Ope schools wednesday but in a sudden move called off  reductions sought a judge refused to act on the City s re quest for a Back to work order and ordered Cleveland school officials to provide data on How budget reductions could fund pay raises for the  strikers have gone without pay raises for two years while the District teetered on the Brink of bankruptcy and now Are demanding a 20 percent  judge in Bridgeport conn., sentenced another 65 striking City teachers to jail terms wednesday for refusing to obey a Back to work order. Thirteen leaders of the six Day strike were jailed tuesday for refusing to end the  schools were closed to the City s 23,000 pupils for the first time be cause there were not enough volunteers to Man  in Washington violence erupted Between teachers and non striking substitutes in Everett Wash. Police wednesday arrested four striking teachers and accused them of using a car in an attempt to Force a bus off the  bus was carrying substitute teachers who have been keeping classes open for the District s 11,600 pupils. Faculty members at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti struck wednesday the first Day of classes. Some of the Betty Ford to have facial plastic surgery Thurmont my. Up _ Betty Foresaid wednesday she will undergo facial surgery at a Palms Springs calif., Hospi Tal because i m 60 years old and i wanted a Nice new face to go with my Beautiful new  the former first lady arranged to enter the Eisenhower medical Center and will undergo cosmetic surgery thursday to re move puffiness under her eyes and tighten neck skin she said. In a Telephone interview Ford sounding Happy and enthused said of the forthcoming surgery All i can think of is the  she said her plastic surgeon is German trained or. . Mazaheri. I be seen some of his work and Well i just decided twas about time she added. I m 60 years old. I be thought of it before but never had the  Betty Ford said her husband thinks it s a Fine idea but her children thought it was silly of me to  school s 650 professors and instructor showed up but attendance by the University s 20,000 students was  walkout by faculty members at Ferris state College in big rapids mich., halted the education of 10,000 students. A walkout by teachers at the City col Leges of Chicago was in its third week with no sign of a  teachers strike in Elgin 111., idled 26, 000 pupils and a walkout in Dayton Ohio idled another 30,000. Strikes in Washington state including Seattle and Tacoma halted classes for 95,000 students and strikes in a half dozen Michigan school districts affected some 50, 000 pupils. Testifies at hearing Elkhart ind. A county grand jury wednesday indicted the Ford motor co. On three counts of reckless Homi cide and one count of criminal recklessness in the deaths of three Young women in a fiery Pinto automobile crash last  was no immediate reaction from the Auto  Elkhart county grand jury of five men and one woman had begun deliberations on tuesday in the Case which stems from the aug. 10 acc dentin which Judy Ulrich 18, of Osceola her 16-year-old sister Lynn and their Cousin Donna Ulrich 18, of Roanoke 111., burned to  grand jury said the automaker s failure to repair the Pinto fuel system was a contributing Factor in the deaths and that the manufacture of the car showed reckless disregard for the safety of other persons within said  Ford under government pressure had announced a recall of the 1.5 Mil lion pintos and Mercury bobcats be cause of concern about Gas tank explosions in rear end collisions. However the recall has t begun because dealers Lack parts to bolster the fuel  least 59 deaths have been attributed to fiery rear end crashes involving pintos. Elkhart county prosecutor Michae Consentino said the jury questioned its last witnesses tuesday. The final wit Nesses he said included the parents of one of the victims two Ford design engineers and a safety expert who participated in several studies of the  fatal Accident investigated by the grand jury involved a Pinto which had stopped on the travelled portion of the . 33 and was slammed in the nearby a Van driven by Robert d. Duggar 21. The Pinto burst into flames killing the three inside. Oswald widow says that he admired Juk Washington up Lee Harvey Oswald expressed admiration for John f. Kennedy but once defended an unrelated assassination attempt by asking what would you say about getting rid of Hitler atthe right time Oswald s widow testified today. Whatever he said about president Ken Nedy it was always Good always Marina Oswald Porter told the House assassinations committee in her first sworn testimony about her husband. She recalled he husband telling her in Minsk to hush up not to interrupt him while he was listen ing to a Kennedy speech broadcast to the soviet Union. He always spoke complimentary Okennedy. How Young and attractive the president of the United states was said Porter now married to a Texas electronics worker. Became withdrawn once the couple returned to the United states from the soviet Union he became More withdrawn she said. Little by Little he became gloomier disillusioned she said. He was dissatisfied with his  she recalled Oswald returning to the couple s apartment on the night of april 10, 1963, after he unsuccessfully attempted to kill Edwin Walker a retired army general known for his conservative  was very Pale and out of breath Porter recalled. I asked him to  said he had tried to shoot general Walker. I said How dare you claim someone Slife. And he said what would you say about getting rid of Hitler at the nighttime capable of killing i realized it was t just a Manly Hobby of possessing a Rifle she said. He was capable of killing someone. I was1 very Dis appointed. I had nowhere to  she said she did not Alert police about the attack on Walker because she was Loy Al to her husband and did not speak English. She said she married Oswald in Minsk after Only a six week courtship because he was polite and i did like  she recalled under questioning that Oswald while in Russia often would sit and write notes in English that she did not understand. She said it crossed my mind during our life in Russia. That he was making reports to somebody and he did t want me to  she said after he died Marina Oswald Porter. Calm unruffled she Learned the material was part of Oswald s diary. During life with Oswald in Minsk she re called Oswald occasionally took out his Rifle and cleaned it or examined it. And she remembered her husband was a Little Dis appointed upon his arrival Back in the United states that no reporters greeted him. Porter was brought into the Chande tiered House caucus room on Capitol Hill in the Glare of television lights under the close Protection of six . Marshalls two of them . Louis Stokes a Ohio the commit tee chairman had warned the audience be fore her entry that he would tolerate no disturbances. As he did at an earlier session when James Earl Ray confessed Assassin of Martin Luther King jr., testified Stokes warned everyone to remain seated while the witness was brought in. Porter attractive with her Light brow hair in a Page boy took her place behind her counsel James Mcdonald and appeared Calm and unruffled. Poll claims Northeast rejects Carter new York a democratic voters in two Large northeastern states say they Don t want to see president Carter run for re election in 1980, putting them at Odds with party members nationwide an associated press Abc news poll shows. Only 34 percent of the democratic Vot ers interviewed tuesday following Prima Ries in new York and Connecticut said they wanted Carter to try for a second term. Forty percent said they Don t want him to run and 26 percent Are not sure. This finding based on interviews with 4, 900 voters As they left the polling places contrasted with a National a Abc news Telephone poll in August. Half of the democrats questioned nationally in that Survey favored a Carter re election bid with 39 percent opposing it. Eleven percent were not sure. 38 percent for carte for All respondents nationally regard less of party affiliation 50 percent did not want Carter to run with Only 38 percent favouring a bid for another term. Twelve per cent of the 1,600 adults questioned aug. 7 and 8 were undecided. The sentiment against a Carter re elec Tion bid was stronger in new York than in Connecticut. In the Empire state democratic voter split 42 percent to 32 percent against a try for a second term for  Connecticut the party faithful were More evenly split dividing against Carterby a slim 38-36 margin. The poll findings reflect the sentiments of those who voted in the democratic Pri Maries in the two states but they do not reflect the opinions of All democrats in either state. Despite those who say Carter has weak support from the party political pros the poll found that those who most strongly identify themselves As democrats favor a Carter re election try. Forty four percent of those who said they were Strong democrats favored a bid for a second term versus 33 percent who oppose it. This contrasts with those who identify themselves As Only weak democrats who break 31-38 against a re election try this finding also held for those who said they attended political rallies and meeting or who belong to neighbourhood political clubs. The sentiment against Carter is at elastin part an expression of anti incumbent mood among some democrats  
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