University Daily Kansan, October 3. 1983
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City Commission to make quarterly review of Watson
By the Kansan Staff
City Manager Buford Walton will be up for a quarterly review before the Lawrence City Commission tomorrow night.
The City Commission meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Watson is subject to an annual evaluation each June and public evaluations in September, December and March.
The City Commission conducted a closed-door evaluation of Watson in June, and not long afterward voted to give him a 2.5 percent merit-pay increase. It was his first merit-pay increase in three years.
Last week, Commissioner Nancy
Shontz reminded the commissioners that they had forgotten Watson's September evaluation.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the City Commission will consider a request to erect a communication tower at 2414 W. Sixth St. for Reuschoff Security Systems, Inc. Residents have opposed the tower construc- tion, and it would be dangerous because it could fall on their homes.
Last week, the Planning Commission decided to return the issue to the City Commission without any change in its recommendation
Three weeks ago the City Commission referred the matter back to the Lawrence-Douglas County Commission for further review
Workers demand pay raise Filipinos strike at U.S. bases
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — More than 20,000 Filipino workers at America's largest overseas military bases went on strike yesterday to demand a wage increase of at least 10 percent, officials said.
Spokesmen at Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base said that the strike by the maintenance personnel, military workers would not affect military workers.
"We'll be able to get our planes gassed up and off the ground, no problem," said Maj. Barry Glickman, Clark public information officer
"Filipinos are not involved in aircraft maintenance," Glickman said.
The workers demanded a pay increase of at least 10 percent but were offered raises of 4.6 percent during weeks of negotiations that ended Friday.
Officials said the walkout had no connection with recent civil unrest following the Aug. 21 assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino.
There has been increasing opposition to the American bases in recent months, with critics charging that the U.S. presence props up the 18-year-old regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.
American critics have accused Marcos of using the bases as a bargaining device to "blackmail" President Reagan into interfacing through with his scheduled visit.
Jury convicts local man of 11 sex-related crimes
Dennis M. Jackson was convicted Friday in connection with the sexual assaults of three women in July.
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The jury delivered for five hours before reaching a verdict in the two-day trial. Jackson's head was bowed as the court clerk read the jury's decision convicting him of the 11 crimes charged against him.
Jackson, 23, 2414 Ousdahl Road, was convicted of rape, aggravated sodomy and aggrivated assault against one woman and of attempted rape, aggrivated sodomy and aggrimated assault against her roommate.
The women testified that Jackson entered their apartment on July 11. He
Jackson was also convicted of aggravated burglary, sexual battery and assault against another woman who said he entered her apartment on July 22.
was convicted of aggravated burglary in that incident.
THE JURY OF nine men and three women also convicted Jackson of eavesdropping in connection with a window-peeping incident on July 27.
Douglas County District Court Judge James Paddock set 0ct. 24 as the date the defense must decide whether it will appeal the decision. Sentencing will be set shortly after that date, Paddock said.
The jury began deliberation about
2:30 p.m. Thursday. It deliberated for
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Friday. The trial began Wednesday.
BEFORE THE JURY reached its
verdict, it requested on Friday that the testimony of one of the women be read. Her testimony told of what happened to her and her roommate when Jackson was said to have entered their apartment on July 11. About 45 minutes after the testimony was reed, the jury reached its verdict.
Richard Blessner,哭 foreman, said the before the testiner was read the berry. "The berries are great."
Following the reading of her testimony, he said, the jury's opinion was solidified and it reached a unanimous vote.
would not say which charges took longer to decide.
DURING THE TRIAL, one of the victims testified that the assailant was wearing blue tennis shoes that had a yellow stripe. When officers searched Jackson's home, they found red and gray tennis shoes.
Bliesner said that some of the charges were more difficult to decide than others. Before the jury recessed on Thursday, it announced that it had determined that the charges but that it needed more time to reach a verdict on others. Bliesner
Bliessner said that the testimony about the tennis shoes did not affect his defense.
Both the defense and the prosecution had said that the important question to be decided in the trial was whether the same person had committed the crimes that occurred on July 11 and July 22. During testimony Thursday, Jackson admitted to entering the apartment of the woman assaulted on July 22, but he said he did not enter the apartment of the two women assaulted on July 11.
Chicago teachers will strike over pay-raise issue
By United Press International
CHICAGO — Teachers in the nation's third largest school district will strike today over the financially strapped school board's refusal to grant them a pay increase, union officials said yesterday.
The strike will keep 435,000 students out of the classroom.
A visibly angry Robert Healey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, walked out of negotiations about 40 minutes after he set an "absolute deadline" of noon CDT for agreement with the Board of Education on a new contract before calling the strike for today.
Healeday told reporters that there was some feeling that the board might have allowed the strike to save money. It has been estimated that the board will save more than $1 million every day the teachers are on strike.
Teachers were reportedly seeking a percent or 5 percent pay increase. Healey said the board did not even offer a 1 percent pay hike.
"THE STRIKE WHICH was voted by the Chicago Teachers Union on Sept. 15 will commence tomorrow at 7:15 a.m." Healey said.
"We feel that's contemptible," he said as he left the meeting.
Negotiations continued without Healey. A union house of delegates met to discuss for 7:30 p m CDT yesterday to discuss the debates was canceled.
The system's 27,000 teachers have been working without a contract and voted to authorize the strike more than two weeks ago. About 11,000 other employees plan to coincide a walkout with the teachers strike if their unions don't reach contract agreements with the board.
THE FALTERING TALKS resumed early yesterday. Negotiations were recessed Saturday after the union refused to accept layoffs or benefit cuts to fund a salary increase.
In more than five months of negotiations, the board agreed to give written contracts to the unions that want them, agreed to continue paying wages and deducted from employee paychecks. It involved a seniority dispute with the CTU.
The unions took wage freezes last year and are pressuring for raises this year. The board wants concessions to projected budget deficits from growing.
million Action by the Illinois Legislature and local government reduced that deficit to $168 million.
FOR THE FIRST time, jantors, engineers, lunchroom employees and other tradesmen have set their own strikes to coincide with a teachers strike. The 11,000 workers, members of the School Employee Unions, also have agreed to remain on strike even if one union has not settled its contract.
The school board will lose $2.8 million in state aid for each day the total number of days children are in school falls below 17, but it will save $3.9 million in state aid every day the workers are out. That works to a net gain of $1.1 million a day.
Last spring, the city's public schools faced a 1983-4 budget deficit of $202
The Chicago school district trails on the northwest, with 925,426 pupils, and Los Angeles, with 813,087 pupils.
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