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Under the settlement that ended the walkout, the hospitals agreed to form committees of interns, residents and physician members of their medical executive boards to work out separate agreements on work hours and patient care tailored to meet each institution's financial and medical needs. The hospitals also agreed to a C.I.R. demand that no intern or resident be required to work more than one out of every three nights, a practice most of these institutions now follow anyway...
...world's most famous believer in inerrancy is Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam...
Violence on the floor was nonexistent except for a small fracas occasioned by a confrontation between a labor representative and Willie Brown, a black caucus member and Los Angeles Assembly man who had led a walkout of blacks and some reformers at an executive meeting of the Charter Commission in August. The labor delegate apparently had charged that blacks were applying undue and unprincipled pressure to gain passage of affirmative action guidelines...
...only bright spot was an end to the 85-day walkout by United Parcel Service workers in the New York City area. The settlement means that UPS's 4,500 drivers and inside workers will earn $7.59 an hour after three years, compared with their current pay of $5.92. They also won a cost-of-living escalator and fringes that will lift their wage-and-benefit package by some...
...workers in the steel industry and coal-hauling railroads, had a hand in last week's laying-off of 130,000 auto workers and, by Government estimates, could add as many as 400,000 workers to the country's six-per-cent-plus unemployment figure if the miners' walkout lasts another two weeks...