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Cornell University service and maintenance workers, without a wage settlement since June, have set a strike deadline of next Tuesday, the president of Ithaca's United Auto Workers (UAW) said yesterday...
...puts more emphasis on poultry and less importance on red meat, sugar and fatty foods. Auto repairs are diminished too, partly because vehicles tend to last longer. But spending on entertainment, notably cable television and restaurant meals, has risen. Health care is getting less emphasis than a decade ago, which is not to say prices have fallen but only that more costs are covered by insurance...
...earned the nickname the "Harold Stassen of Arizona," Mecham squeezed into office with 40% of the vote in a three-way race that split the Democratic electorate. He blames "abuse from the press" for his current problems, and as far as the recall campaign is concerned, the veteran auto dealer shows no sign of offering voters any sort of rebate, much less a brand-new model...
...bald, bull-necked man in the dock sat impassively at the edge of his chair listening intently. Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 66, a retired Ohio auto mechanic, was on trial in Jerusalem for operating gas chambers and murdering and torturing victims at Treblinka, the infamous Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland where at least 850,000 Jews were killed in 1942 and '43. It was Israel's first war-crimes trial since Adolf Eichmann was convicted and executed a quarter-century ago. At issue, however, was not the horrors committed at Treblinka by the Ukrainian guard known as "Ivan...
...play Beserk," says Kate A. Tewes '85, who in her undergraduate years played in the Union or at Elsie's for up to 15 hours a week. "It's a god-like game, where a paranoid man is trying to go through rooms and is killing people. Then an 'Auto' comes on the screen, and he's just this smiley face whose only goal in life is to destroy you. It's a really paranoid and alienating game, and I thought it was funny. It appealed to my sense of cynicism. And I've always despised smiley faces," she says...