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Teachers played no part in the walkout, Roland LaChance, president of the CTA, said yesterday. He added that the union did not encourage further protests by students; "in this business we try to work with kids, not lead them astray," LaChance said...
Students confirmed that teachers did not orchestrate the walkout, which cleared the school about an hour after classes began. "A lot of kids just wanted to get out of classes," one student, who asked not to be identified, said...
...aptly titled "Get Stuffed," are straight, cut-and-slash rock and roll. Most of the rest are gentle, inoffensive love-melodies that would bring smiles to grandma as she makes Minuteman Lemonade for granddad on the porch, and tears from heart-struck pre-pubescents. These are girl songs--from "Walkout," which concerns the obvious, to "By Yourself" (Well, you'll never let her go/'cause you kiss and love her so/A man ought to know/Or he'll soon be by himself), to the anti-drug "Last Chance...
Meanwhile, city workers almost went out on strike. Bargaining committees finally reached tentative agreement on a contract six minutes before a scheduled walkout was to have begun--and the city's largest union approved the pact by only 25 votes later in the week...
...That walkout, says Mitch Rogovin, the lawyer leading the fight to get Anderson on the ballots, made Lucey the logical choice to be the Congressman's running mate. "Anderson had taken a leave of absence from the Republican Party," says Rogovin, "and here Lucey was taking what looked like a leave of absence from the Democratic Party. He was the other side of the coin...