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University Daily Kansan, September 29, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Mayors request more money for U.S. nutrition programs
WASHINGTON — The nation's mayors, saying that local efforts cannot meet the growing problem of hunger in America, called yesterday for $900 million in additional spending on recently cut federal nutrition programs.
New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial said surveys of cities had found a dramatic increase in emergency food assistance needs, long lines of people waiting for free cheese from the federal government and more families eating at some kitchens.
He said that the U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting last month on the issue, "realized the magnitude of the problem was so great that there was no way that people in cities — the public and private sectors working together — could respond to the problems using the resources available to them."
Nicaraguan rebels strike border post
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan rebels commanded by former Sandinista leader Eden Pastora yesterday attacked a border post in southern Nicaragua, where the government said its troops killed the leader of a weekend guerrilla attack.
In southern Nicaragua, 400 rebels of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, commanded by Pastora and known as ARDE, attacked the base of the rebel group.
In Guatemala, four leftist guerrillas died in a clash with soldiers in the western highlands and a bomb exploded in a wealthy section of the capital in a rising wave of rebel violence, authorities reported.
Conviction of ex-governor upheld
CINCINNATI — A divided federal appeals court upheld yesterday the convictions of former Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton and two of his aides for peddling state liquor licenses in a kickback scheme.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 64 that Blanton and his assistants received a fair trial in a case were convicted in June 1881 by the United States Supreme Court.
The ruling reversed a decision from a three-judge appellate panel, which overturned the convictions because of possible juror bias from excessive pretrial publicity.
Blanton, Tennessee governor from 1975 to 1979, said he had not decided whether he would appeal the decision.
Teamster found guilty of embezzling
CLEVELAND Former Teamsters official Allen Friedman, the uncle of union President Jackie Presser, was convicted yesterday by a judge for assaulting an officer.
After five hours of deliberations over two days, the nine-woman and three-man U.S. District court jury found Friedman guilty on all four counts of embezzlement. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, but a sentencing date was not set.
When the verdict was announced, Friedman, 62, of suburban Beachwood, sat stone-faced, but his wife, Nancy, who testified on his behalf, went openly.
Socialite faces death for killing father
The verdict could have have implications for Presser, who is a target of a federal investigation.
SALT LAKE CITY — New York socialite Frances Bernice Schreuer will become the first woman in Utah shot by firing squad if a jury hands her the death penalty for being the mastermind behind the slaying of her wealthy father.
Schreuder, 45, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1978 slaying of auto parts magnate Franklin James Bradshaw, 64. Jurors delivered the verdict late yesterday and were scheduled to return Oct. 3 to issue a sentence.
The heiress faces death by firing squad or life in prison.
Schreuder, a socialite and member of the New York City Ballet board of directors, turned pale but otherwise showed no emotion when the
She is the first woman to be convicted of first degree murder in Utah in 28 years.
AFL-CIO expected to back Mondale
WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO leaders are expected to support Walter Mondale Saturday for the federation's presidential endorsement, despite Sen. John Glenn's complaint that their action will not reflect common sentiment.
Formal AFL-CIO endorsement is set for Wednesday during the federation's 15th biennial convention at Hollywood, Fla., and will break a tradition of withholding support until after both national conventions. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland fostered the precedent-setting menu.
The choice of former Vice President Mondale became clear in August when the AFL-CIO Executive Council met in Boston and decided to move up the endorsement timetable from its original mid-December date despite the objections from campaigns of Glenn and Sen. Alan Cranston.
LOS ANGELES — Men with leadership qualities have nearly twice the amount of the messenger brain chemical serotonin as non-dominant men, said a UCLA psychiatrist who conducted an eight-year study on monkeys and humans.
Michael McGuire said yesterday that the study revealed a higher level of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the blood of dominant males. He said the study indicated that leadership potential might depend on the level of the chemical.
Serotonin is one of several chemical messengers in the brain. Called an "enabling" neurotransmitter, its presence influences the probability that other neurotransmitters will be active.
McGuire said his research might have important implications for better understanding of mentally ill people.
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Today, the weather will be fair with a few showers scattered across the nation.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
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Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-60s
Two troubled steel firms merge to form LTV Steel
DALLAS — Two financially troubled steel businesses merged yesterday, and workers at two other companies took pay cut caps. A number of those hopes would not be granted.
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the giant LTV Corp. of Dallas, acquired Republic
By United Press International
IN A JOINT announcement, Hay and Republic Chairman E. Bradley Jones said the merger would create a stronger, more efficient steel company better able to compete in a changing world market. The two businessmen also said that LTV Steel would make more efficient use of scarce capital
Steel Corp. of Cleveland in the merger, creating the second largest steel company in the U.S.
Severalai steel corporations hav-suffered losses in recent months. In the first six months of 1983, J&J suffered a cost of $27 million. It lost $237 million in 1982, and in its 44-year history, and lost $80.25 million in the first six months of 1983.
The merger combines the operations of two money-losing steel corporations — J&L, the nation's third largest, and Republic, the nation's fifth largest. LTV Chairman Raymond Hay said that Steel would be ranked fourth behind Steel, would rank second only to U.S. Steel. Bethlehem Steel was the second largest company.
Republic closed two plants in the Youngstown, Ohio, area last year, and its financial plight sparked rumors that it might file for bankruptcy.
Both companies at full capacity would employ about 60,000, but current work forces are at about 40,000. The company is bringing additional layoffs, analysts said.
In Cleveland, Ail Forney, president of Steel Workers Union 1157, said that protecting the jobs of his 2,300 union members would be a top priority. He said he was apprehensive about LTV's of closing plants that lose money
FORD MOTOR CO. said yesterday it would call back 650 to 750 laid-off workers at its Rouge Steel mill, beginning Monday. The workers are being called back because of a newly approved union concessions contract.
In the past month, Ford laid off 1,000 Rouge Steel workers to cut costs at the plant.
UAW members at Rouge Steel on Friday approved a pact calling for $13 an hour in concessions to keep Ford out of the market. The announcement the possible shutdown Sept. 10.
The callbacks will come from among the workers just laid off.
THE CONTRACT WAS reached during an all-day bargaining session three days after the Ford announcement. The shutdown would have put about 3,500 hourly and 800 salaried employees out of work.
Rouge Steel workers make about $28 an hour, $5 an hour more than their counterparts in the rest of the steel industry. Ford maintained it could not operate the mill profitably without the concessions.
The concessions approved by the workers included a 20 percent cut in an incentive payment, which is based on the mill's productivity. Employees also leave a week's vacation time and severance pay. They will take cuts in cost of living allowances.
In Seattle, the 100 employees of the Leckenby Co. steel plant on Harbor Island voted by a 2-1 margin to accept a wage cut of 25 percent. Company officials had said the wage cuts were the only alternative to going out of business.
down everywhere, and this industry is particularly hard hit," said Wayne Barber, whose pay is being cut from $13.29 an hour to $9.97.
LECKENBY'S ONLY COMPETITOR in the steel fabricating business, Isaacson Steel, folded last July because of stiff competition from the cheap labor firms of Korea and Japan.
"You have to roll with the punches," said Mattie Morse, a welder who supports two college-aged children. "You're between a rock and a hard place — you take it or you're out the door."
"You look at the economy and it's
L. O. Wright of Washington Employers, the firm representing Leckenby management in labor matters, said he was pleased with the acceptance in his 25 years in the business.
"We're reading about 10 and 15 percent," Wright said, "but I've never heard of anything close to 20."
LECKENBY WORKERS WERE sobered by the shutdown of Isaacson and their vote came over the weekend — before a strike by West Coast metal trades workers in the shipyards had ended. The shipyards are a chief source of demand for fabricated steel products.
Leckenby Chairman Ben Weeks praised workers for their acceptance of the wage reduction, saying he appreciated it and was helped to help the company during tough times.
Many workers, however, weren't talking about helping the company and quite a few were too angry to talk. Some said Leckenby would have hired others who were without the agreement. Others said the business would have relocated.
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