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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last. The problem is money. The competition between the A.B.A. and the N.B.A. for talent has raised the average player's salary into the $100,000 range-far above what gate receipts justify. Because, in part, the A.B.A. operates in smaller cities and has no national TV contract, four of the ten teams have folded in the past seven months. Right now the most realistic hope is a merger with the 18-team N.B.A., which would eliminate inflationary bidding for players. A.B.A. Commissioner Dave DeBusschere has already submitted a memorandum of proposed terms to Larry O'Brien...
Balsam said that summer employment will be the "number one burning issue" when discussions about the employees' contract, which expires on June 19, begin...
John Patrick Tully, a pouty, blue-eyed cocaine smuggler and confessed contract murderer, is just the sort of criminal former Philadelphia Superpro-secutor Richard Aurel Sprague loved to put on ice. No longer. In fact, the fighting D.A. is currently serving as Tully's lawyer. Sprague, 50, who gained national fame when he traced the killing of Union Insurgent Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski and his family up a chain of conspiracy until former United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle was convicted of first-degree murder, has walked through a legal looking glass and emerged as a slugging defense attorney...
...cost a lumber company about 50% less than cutting only selected trees. The industry thus was shocked when a higher court last August upheld the Monongahela decision. Then in December a federal judge in Anchorage cited the same decision and voided Ketchikan Pulp Co.'s 50-year contract to take 8.2 billion board feet of timber out of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The ruling cast grave doubts on the legality of clear-cutting in the 53 million acres of national forests in eight other Western states, including the main producers of softwoods, Oregon and Washington...
...disturbs Miller most about the opposition is its chilling effect on his campaign to reform the U.M.W. In four years, the curt, pasty-faced Miller, a 22-year veteran of the mines and a victim of black-lung disease, has accomplished a lot. In 1974 he negotiated the richest contract in U.M.W. history, providing miners a 54% wage-and-benefit increase over three years. He has given members the right to elect board members and district officers, increased the union's safety staff, and lobbied toward passage in Congress a bill liberalizing compensation for black-lung sufferers...