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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday. June 16, 1980 stateside Andrew Young applauds Clark s Mission to Iran Long Beach. Calif. A former . Ambassador Andrew Young said in an Impromptu news conference that Ramsey c Lark s diplomatic venture into Iran was a Good  Young was appointed ambassador to the United nations by president Carter in 1977. But was forced to resign last tall after Fie met secretly with a representative of the Palestine liberation organization in Dofi acc of slate department policy. Referring to the former attorney Gener Al s trip to Iran which Carter has censured he said i be told him if he needs to go Back and i can help i d go  Young added that he sees private Diplo Macy As the Only route open now to free the hostages in Iran. Young made his remarks after speaking at California state University Domingucz. For impatient new yorkers the Wall Street final new York a Home going com Muters will get their first look monday it a new afternoon dully newspaper Ibe will Street final. The final published by Michael Gold Stein who founded and then sold the successful Soho weekly news will be de signed mainly to get closing Stock prices to dashing dans running for suburban trains and buses. The paper which carries a Price of 30 cents will be sold Only at grand Central terminal Penn station and a few other stations. Besides Slock tables it will contain some financial and general news and sports scores but no entertainment Fea Tures and no pictures. The final will be put together with High Speed photo composition by a staff of 15 and rushed to a Printer a Block away where the initial 45,000-copy run will Roll  presses at 1,000 papers a minute to be delivered to the terminals. Labor dept. Reports $13.1 million Bias penalties Washington a the labor department said that during the first half of this fiscal year 120 government contractors agreed to make pay and other adjust ments totalling $13.1 million because of alleged discrimination against minority or female workers. The office of Federal contract compliance programs said the Money $7.5 Mil lion in direct Back pay to 3,100 workers and $5.6 million in pension adjustments promo lion incentives and other programs totals 40 percent More than that for All of fiscal year 1979. The figure for the first sin months of fiscal 1980, however includes a s5.2 million settlement last october with uniroyal inc., covering 750 women the government said were receiving less pay than their male counterparts. The compliance office monitors Compa Nies that have contracts with the Federal government to make sure they do not Dis Criminate on the basis of sex or race. The Agency reached settlements totalling s9.3 million with 176 firms in fiscal 1979. Man is arrested for encouraging suicide Dallas a a maintenance Man who held police and residents of his Board ing House it Bay with j8-Cjliber pistol look his own life after another Man urged him to pull the trigger police said. A 24-year-old labourer who sol. Gus Rose said encouraged Charlie Jones 49, to kill himself was arrested for aiding and abetting a suicide. Police tactical officers who rushed to Ibe boarding House found Jones holding residents at Bay with the pistol and threat ening to kill himself said Rose. We evacuated the room but the suspect stayed in there with Jones and kept telling him to go ahead and kill himself Rose said. We kept trying to talk him out of it but the suspect would just say Don t pay any attention to them do it " through words and deeds he encouraged the suicide. Finally Jones pulled the trigger the officer said. He said Jones shot himself in the neck and was dead on arrival at Parkland me Morial Hospital. The suspect was jailed on $7,500 Bond. Legionnaires disease claims 2 More in Vermont Burlington it. A two More people have died of legionnaires disease in Vermont bringing to five the number of deaths attributed to the disease this year stale officials said. Or. Richard Vogt. State epidemiologist said 13 cases of the disease have been confirmed at the Burlington medical Center Hospital this year. The disease named after members of the american legion died following a convention in Philadelphia in 1976, is a pneumonia like illness affecting the respiratory system. Firm hunks of of grading students Hartford Conn. A a company hired to Correct a proficiency test for Connecticut ninth graders May gel a Zero next to its name for failing to do its Job right. The company incorrectly interpreted zeros next to some students names As mean ing the students flunked the Reading part 2 to be sentenced in sending arms to s. Africa Burlington it. A two top officials of the space research corp. Are to be sentenced monday after pleading guilty to charges of illegally exporting military hardware to South Africa. The company also pleaded guilty to the charge of exporting howitzer shells gun violation of a United nations arms Embar go company founder Gerald Bull and for Mer president Rodgers Gregory Are to be sentenced in us. District court in rut land. It. They pleaded guilty three months ago in lieu of possible indictments by a fed free by fuck colonial Black protesters March to the Justice building in Miami. A photo 100 Blacks Lead March in riot scarred Miami of the test the zeros actually meant the students had been absent for that part Pat forgone of Ibe state department of education said the error occurred because the College Board la new York City had not been told by the contractor National evaluation systems of Amherst miss what the zeros meant. Barrels and a radar tracking system to Era grand jury that had probed the Compa South Africa in the Early to mid-1970s, in by s activities for 16 months. Miami up a troop of about 100 Young Black men chanting we want jus Tice marched on dad county s Justice building saturday in the first Large organized Black protest demonstration since Miami s bloody May 17 riots. The marchers led by a bicyclist carrying an american Flag on a six foot pole strode Down the southbound lanes of Busy 12th Avenue. The marchers were preceded by a dozen or so Landem bicycles. Behind the marchers came a motorcade of 25 cars with their lights on. Two Young marchers at the head of the column carried a bed Sheet size sign read ing March for  other placards carried by marchers pro claimed racism begets revolution and Mohawk Rule leads to . Con Ron Avion Hogansburg . Up More than 40 state troopers stood by saturday As two armed factions of Mohawk indians stood confronting one another in a two Dav standoff Over tribal government. Local officials declared a stale of emergency. The confrontation was the result of a Long simmering dispute Between non traditional indians who accept the state authorized elected tribal government and traditional mohawks who favor the an Cieni matriarchal government and oppose All official Contact with the state. The standoff was punctuated by occasional shouting police said but otherwise in indians were holding their positions the cd cited system indians told police they wanted several traditional mohawks under indictment since May 1979 in an at t met to Lake Orer the tribal police head quarters to surrender to police. Urged free the 40 million Black colonial hostages held in the  another sign said free Jones and Barnes  it referred to former Dade county school superintendent Johnny Jones and High school principal Solomon Barnes. Jones was convicted and Barnes awaits trial on grand theft charges. The charges against the two Black Educa tors stemmed from the so called Gold plumbing caper in which $9,000 Worth of luxury plumbing equipment was ordered As training aids for a non existent plumbing class at Barnes school. The last time Blacks gathered outside the Justice building May 17 was at a protest rally called by or. Marvin Dunn vice presi Dent of Florida International University. It broke up in a Melee in which an attempt was made to storm the building. Cars parked outside were smashed and burned. That rally was in protest of the acquittal at Tampa of four former Dade county police officers in the beating death of Arthur Mcduffin. A Black insurance agent in Miami. Saturday s March came just five Days after president Carter was booed and a Beer bottle thrown onto his car during his tour of Miami s Liberty cily area where the three Days of rioting began last month. That rioting claimed its 17lh life thurs Day night with the death of Jeffrey Kulp 22. Kulp his girl Friend and his brother were dragged from their car the night of the rioting. A Brick thrown by a Ritter caused the Carlo go out of control and it struck two Blacks crippling a 12-year-old Black girl. Kulp s brother remains hospitalized. The woman. Debra a Conan was rescued by a Black taxi Driver and sustained Only minor injuries. Saturday s rally was sponsored by a Loose confederation of local groups including the citizens coalition for racial Justice and the Miami Dade movement for Justice. However they got organizing assistance from Golden Frinks. National Secretary of the Southern Christian leadership Confer ence who came to Miami from Atlanta to help with the planning  
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