European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday september 14, 1985 the stars and stripes Pago 5 judge orders . Teachers Back to class by the associated press a Rhode Island judge on thursday ordered 600 strik ing teachers logo Back to work As teachers and school boards negotiated walkouts across inc country. One Hundred teachers in suburban Detroit voted to return to classrooms without a contract. Teachers in a Olcha Star Al. Ratified a new contract and ended their strike. Walkouts by 7,400 teachers continued in Seattle Michigan Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois and new York. Keeping 107.000 students Home from school. Rhode Island Superior court judge Corinne p. Gran de ordered teachers in i a Tucket to end a we Klong strike ruling that it had caused irreparable harm to the City s 8.200 schoolchildren. Union officials refused to say whether they would comply with the Oruci until after the judge issued a full ruling. Defiance of the order could Lead to contempt charges. Teacher strikes arc illegal in Rhode Island but courts can intervene Only after school officials prove the walkout is damaging to students and a Quick settlement is unlikely. The teachers in the state s second largest school sys tem want a 27 percent hike Over three years but the District has stood by its offer of a one year pact with a 5 Charity misused Money for kids lawsuit claims Hartford. Conn. A a Charity that raised $237,000 last year to Grant children their dying wishes spent Only $10,000 for that purpose and used the rest for fund raising salaries and luxuries including renting a videotape player and a Ralpd movie authorities said thurs Day. The reality is the dream has become a Nightmare attorney general Joseph 1. Lic Barman said of the Genie project. In a lawsuit aimed at closing Down the Charity lib or Man said the Money not spent on the children was used to the operators inflated salaries hire a professional fund Raiser buy jewelry and rent a car a videotape player and a movie entitled sex in the three years i have been attorney general 1 have not seen a Case that has made me angrier Lieberman said. The Genie project was formed in october 1982 by Michael and Suzanne Bales a couple who said they got the idea after Reading an article about a similar organization in a National Magazine. The Genie project was not affiliated with any National organization. Francis m. Donnarumma an attorney for the a attics said there had been no Effort to defraud the Public or misuse charitable funds. Report backs nuclear Winter theory percent raise. In Ecorse mich., striking teachers voted to end the strike they began monday after school Board officials said they would support a property tax increase and present the proposal to voters next month. The strike was an unqualified Success said Gary Sammons. Chief Bargainer for the Ecorse federation of teachers the Board guaranteed to resume bargaining after the millage tax assessment and make employee compensation a District s 2,000 students were to return to class Friday. Two other strikes in Michigan continued involving 1.643 teachers in Flint the state s second largest District and 258 teachers in Marque Etc. The walkouts kept 33,877 students out of classrooms. In Colchester vt., teachers voted 140-6 thursday to accept a contract settlement recommended by their Union ending a four Day strike and paving the Way for classes to resume Friday for 2,500 students. The one year contract provides an annual starting salary of $14,100, or $275 less than the base for which the teachers had been holding out. In Seattle talks were scheduled to resume late thurs Day Between the Union and school District which arc at Odds Ovici class Sie and other issues. The City s 3,700 teachers secretaries and aides went on strike sept. 3, the Day before school was to begin for 43,500 students. In Western Pennsylvania 18,200 students had another Day of vacation due to walkouts by 1,062 teachers in Mon our Southwest Butler Peters township. Blairsville Saltsburg and Albert Gallatin districts. A walkout by 180 teachers in Charleston iii., Cal Rcd its second Day thursday. Jackie Adkins president of the teachers Union said both sides were making concessions in negotiations. At . Post a Branch of Long Island University in new York a strike by 375 faculty entered its fourth Day in a salary dispute and no new talks were scheduled. Classes have been cancelled for the school s 12,000 full time and part time students. In Ohio talks broke off thursday in Toronto where a strike by 70 teachers entered its ninth Day. Cancelling classes for 1.200 students. In Canton a strike continued by teachers at the Surk county Board of mental Retar Dation and developmental disabilities which has kept its schools open during the walkout. Wide Load Nathan Lehman left and Lester Lefevre shake their Heads in disbelief As they Surrey the damage done when i huge Maple tree toppled onto their pickup Nick during a violent storm that hit the Lancaster pa., urea. The tree Only narrowly missed the cab where he men were sitting. Mass famine would follow atomic War Washington a billions of people who survived the first blasts of a nuclear War would face starvation an inter National scientific group reports in a new study supporting the theory of a global nuclear life in target areas would be wiped out by a nuclear attack. But one of the report s authors said famine conditions in unscathed areas would kill far More people As hundreds of millions of tons of Black smoke Cut sunlight and robbed crops of warmth and Light from the Sun. We arc left with images of Ethiopia and the Sudan As being More representative of what the world would look like after a nuclear War for most of the people than the sorts of images we have of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or. Mark Harwell of Cornell University said at a thursday news Confer ence on the report. He said estimated famine deaths of 1 billion to 4 billion of the world s 5 billion people. Direct blast and radiation effects of actual attacks would kill several Hundred million he said. The two volume report prepared by a special committee of the International Council of scientific unions suggests that Black smoke from nuclear attacks on Urban areas the main trigger for a nuclear Winter would cause sudden and perhaps Long term declines in temperatures and in Light reaching the Earth even in nations far from those attacked. The chairman of the study group sir Frederick Warner of Britain former chair Man of the British National committee on problems of the environment said this Effort represents the consensus of a prestigious body of scientists. It would be a grave error to ignore their findings. The potential environmental damage of a nuclear War demands that we develop a new perspective when considering such con he said. Reagan administration officials have said repeatedly that they accept the general concept of nuclear Winter but believe it is one More reason to Slick to their policy of seek ing arms control while continuing to build new nuclear weapons As a deterrent to soviet attack. Harwell associate director of the ecosystems research Center at Cornell told reporters the new report s conclusions Don t represent the views of political activists or environmental extremists or people with any particular policy position but rather we feel this is a sober assessment by 200 of the top world scientists on agriculture and ecologic the group s report said it a s a Plau sible scenario that a nuclear Exchange would include about 6,000 Megatons of explosive Force divided among More than 12,000 warheads. There was an Assumption that an attacker would hit Urban areas and fuel sources rather than just Remote missile silos igniting fires that would Send hundreds of millions of tons of Black sooty smoke into the atmosphere. Harwell said devastating food problems could be caused by a relatively mild nuclear Winter. For example he said a drop of about 5 to 10 degrees fahrenheit Over a growing season could essentially eliminate agriculture production in the Northern Hemi he and others said such a temperature decline was at the optimistic end of most estimates. Scientists from 30 nations including the soviet Union contributed to the report. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 14, 1945 a report by atomic bomb project officials at Alama Gorp n.m., contradicts original reports by Raduj Tokyo that the area of Hiroshima had be come too dangerous for human habitation. The report said that 11 Days after the blast Hiroshima was Safe from dangerous rays. 30 years ago today. Sept. 14, 1955 Sharon Kay Ritchie the new miss America said during her first press conference in new York that she has posed for her last bathing suit picture. The Colorado woman said there is nothing queenly about cheesecake 20 years ago today. Sept. 14, 1965 the Indian army has driven to within two Miles of the big Paki Stan military base of Sialkot. 10 years ago today. Sept. 14, 1975 Portugal s Only regional military commander with known communist sympathies Brig. Gen. Eurilio Corvacho has been fired and replaced by a moderate military sources in Lisbon said
