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Swine flu case confirmed
ATLANTA—Government scientists said yesterday that a Wisconsin farm worker had the first confirmed case of swine flu this fall. Vaccinators are looking for cases of the virus.
"Further investigation is necessary before the significance of the swine flu can be assessed," Don Berreneth of the National Center for Disease Control (CDC) said. "There is, however, no indication that there is extensive upper respiratory illness in that area."
The swine flu suffered during Thanksgiving week by Don Harris, a 23-year-old Brodhead farm employee who has since recovered, was diagnosed by Dr. Brendon Easterday, a University of Wisconsin influenza expert who had gone to the farm to check an outbreak of swine flu among those. Berroth said.
Easterday confirmed that several of the hogs had the disease, but said that the CDC wasn't sure how Harris had got the illness.
BALT/MORE - A mistrial was declared yesterday in the political corruption in Gov. Marvin Mandel and four others, but federal prosecutors said they will "hold court."
U. S. D. Judge John Pratt agreed with defense lawyers who argued jurors might be affected by a television newscast they saw about alleged attempts at jury murder.
Pratt's decision came as proceedings entered their 92nd day.
There may have been other instances in which jurors heard of the alleged fixing, Frat said, and that, combined with the television incident Friday evening, made it difficult for them to come forward.
Mandel and co-defendants D. Wale D皋, Ernest Cory Jr., and brothers William Harry Rodigers III were accused of violating the federal antireaching律令.
University study to bring classes into homes by TV
A system for bringing the classroom into the homes of University of Kansas students through television is being studied by the University of the Division of Continuing Education.
Alternative programs also are being studied at KU for the nontraditional student, defined as a student not seeking a degree, or a student who has enrolled in college several years after high school graduation.
Senecal is working with the University of Mid-America (UMA), an open-learning institution, to compose of midwestern universities, including the University of Kansas. UMA offers both credit and noncredit courses to their students to use their educations at college campuses.
SENECAL SAID a home delivery system was not feasible now because there was no space in the building. The operating center would have to concentrate on the urban centers, ignoring the rural areas, and having staff to handle deliveries.
The system Senecal is studying would enable UMA students in Kansas to receive classroom lessons aired on educational television stations.
If the lessons were to be broadcast, on cable television or on commercial stations, tapes would have to be sent to each cable station, and the cost of buying time on commercial stations would be too expensive, Senecal said.
Although the implementation of a television delivery system may be long in coming, KU is working on other programs to reach nontraditional students.
ANOTHER PROBLEM with the television delivery system is that the kind of classes offered—first and second-year college courses—are available at the various colleges and universities in Kansas, Senecal said.
"We're very cogent of the fact that most of courses offered at UMA are also available at the 19 junior colleges, 19 universities and the agent's institutions in Kansas," he said.
THROUGH CONTINUING Education, UMA has produced 10 videotapes to train nurses at the KU Medical Center next spring. Senecal said the tapes would be on subjects not dealt with in traditional lectures.
Another approach by UMA to reach nontraditional students is the FIRST (For information and Referral Services Toll-free) line, which provides toll-free
telephone service to students wanting information on career or educational opportunities in Kansas. KU, in cooperation with Kansas State University, has operated the statewide inward WATS line since February.
"Gender-based discrimination does not result simply because an employer's disability benefits plan is less than allowance." Mr. Quigley asked said in the court's majority opinion.
BRENNAN, THE pre-eminent leader of the court's liberal minority, noted that GE originally offered no benefit plan to female workers because, in the words of one history of the company, "women did not recognize the responsibilities of life for they probably were hoping to get married soon and leave the company."
The ruling means that a company voluntarily setting up a new disability plan for employees doesn't have to include a provision to continue the salary of a woman absent from work because of pregnancy. It also means that current plans that have no maternity disability pay don't have to be changed.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Company disability and sick leave programs don't have to include coverage for pregnancy, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
High Court says maternity pav isn't required
"It is the capacity to become pregnant which primarily differentiates the female from the male."
The court said in a 6-3 decision that a General Electric disability benefits plan that excluded pregnancy coverage didn't violate the Constitution, protection safewards of the Constitution.
The decision brought immediate reaction from women's rights groups. Karen Dee, a prominent international Organization for Women, called it sulting to every mother in the country."
"THE COURT stated that men and women are treated equally under such a plan because, if a man is pregnant, he will be treated in the same manner as a woman. Such a definition of sex discrimination is indeed unique," she said.
Linda Dorna, the attorney who wrote a brief on behalf of the FederalEqual Employment Opportunity Commission in support of women workers, called the "the most significant reversal women's rights groups have had in the courts."
THE DECISION, according to GE's arguments throughout the long legal battle, was to continue the war.
David Fitzmurray, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, said he would seek legislation to make limitation because of pregnancy illegal.
A GE spokesman at company headquarters in Fairfield, Calif., plans to deputize the decision.
Stevens said GE's exclusion of pregnancy from a wide-ranging plan that included disability benefits for those recovering from injury or pregnancy has been intercepted as sexually discriminator.
Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Potter Stewart, Byron White, Lewis Powell Jr., and Harry Blackmun concurred. The Supreme Court decided Marshall and John Paul Stevens dissented.
declined to estimate how much it would save the company.
Brennan took the court's majority to task for ignoring what he said was a long history of GE discrimination against women workers. He called the company's "discriminatory attitude" a motive in its policy.
The majority ruled, however, that the plan didn't exclude anyone from benefits offered. It merely removes one physical disability — from the list of disabilities covered.
Waldheim re-elected as leader of U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian diplomat who has tangled with the United States over Vietnam and other issues during his five years as U.N. secretary-general, won a second term as leader of the world body yesterday.
The Security Council recommended the 57-year-old Waldheim for re-election in the second round of secret voting after a first-round veto by China, diploma said.
The General Assembly will make the final decision—generally a formality—with a few叮
Although the names of several other candidates had been mentioned in recent months, diplomats emerging from the closed meeting said former Mexican President Luis Echeveria was the only other person actually considered.
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