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Americans killed in fire
. VIENNA, AUSTRIA ? An intense, choking fire
roared through a Vienna hotel packed with Americans
and other tourists before dawn Friday, killing 26
persons and injuring 17, authorities said.
A former Miss Oklahoma and two other Americans
were killed and 13 Americans were iniured.
Most of the victims were overcome in their sleep by
poisonous fumes released by burning plastic wall and
floor covering in the Am Augarten Hotel, police said.
Eyewitnesses said guests in the four-story, mediumclass
hotel hung from their room windows screaming
for help, and one woman jumped to her death from the
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All of the dead and injured Americans were believed
to be members of a tour group from Maine, many of
them in their 60s.
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Board ruled on Thursday for the 21st time that J.P.
Stevens&Co. violated U.S. labor laws in its battle to
keep its textile plants non-union.
Citing the textile giant for a 13-year string of unfair
labor practices, the NLRB ordered Stevens to give the
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
broad access to company facilities and employees
during the next two years, including an opportunity to
address workers on company time.
The labor board also ordered that Stevens' president,
chairman of the board and other directors personally
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sign a nonce promising 10 enu me company s inegai
anti-union activities. The notice must be posted at each
company facility around the country and copies
distributed to all 45,000 Stevens employees, the board
ruled.
Council meets with Soviets
WASHINGTON ? President Carter met with his
i\ationai becuruy uouncu lor tne second lime m less
than 24 hours Friday as the United States tried to keep
alive negotiations with the Soviet Union over a Russian
combat brigade in Cuba.
The breakfast meeting at the White House followed
Thursday night's hour-long NSC briefing by Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance on his negotiations with Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, which apparently
failed to resolve the dispute, at least for the time being.
Carter's meeting with his top security advisers
lasted about one hour. None of the participants were
available afterward for comment.
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Queen's accomplice charged
ASHEVILLE, N.C. ? Attorneys for former beauty
queen Joyce McKinney, who gained notoriety by
forcing a Mormon missionary to have sex with her,
have filed suit against her accomplice charging he
stole three chapters from a book she is writing.
The suit was filed Friday in Buncombe County
Superior Court against Keith May. It seeks $302,000 in
damages and an iniuction to Drevent Mav's use of three
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chapters McKinney claims he stole Aug. 18.
The pair made international headlines last year
when they were charged with kidnapping missionary
Kirk Amderson in Great Britain. McKinney was
charged with forcing Anderson to have sex with her
after she shackled him to a bed with fur-lined hand
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May also was convicted Friday of assaulting
McKinney. District Court Judge William M. Styles
ordered May to pay a $25 fine. May and his attorney
immediately gave notice of appeal. Then he was
charged with larceny and released on $500 bond.
In court Friday, McKinney testified that she went to
May's office to get some money she said he owed her.
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She said a scuffle followed to get possession of the
manuscript.
"He grabbed me around the neck, and I almost
passed out," the former beauty queen said. "He was
like a monkey on me pounding on my back and trying
to get the manuscript."
May denied choking or striking McKinney. May's
employer, who witnessed the episode, said May did not
strike or choke McKinney.
Other evidence showed that McKinney was treated
in a hospital emergency room after the incident for
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Solar program initiated
SOMERS, CONN. ? Bill Shelton, Anderson Atkinson
and Norman Theriault hope to find a place in the sun as
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Connecticut's maximum-security state prison.
"The thing that's pleasing is that this is the first
solar-energy training program in a corrections institution
in the country," said Edmund Gubbins,
superintendent of the correctional school district.
The program, which began a year ago with funding
from the federal Energy Department, is designed to
teach inmates at the Connecticut Correctional Institution
at Somers skills which will make them employable
when they are released.
The instructors say the solar-energy program, which
combines solar-energy technology with skills relating
to air conditioning and refrigeration, also builds
confidence and pride in the inmates.
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CHESTER ? State Law exempts sheriffs from laws
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Acting on behalf of himself and other county sheriffs,
Orr filed a suit last week challenging the state Human
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The suit was filed in response to a complaint from a
woman accusing him of discrimination in refusing to
hire her as a deputy sheriff. He instead employed two
men.
Reserve Deputy Sheriff Nancy G. Raines said she
applied for the job in July. She said Orr declined to
make her a regular member of the force because "he
aid not think the county \yas ready tor a woman
deputy."
Rally attracts crowd
SNELLING ? A three-day anti-nuclear rally got off
to a rain-delayed and quiet start Saturday with
demonstrations of solar energy technology and other
alternative energy sources.
Hundreds of activists began arriving Friday,
carrying simulated nuclear waste cannisters and
casks to the rally site on the outskirts of a nuclear
complex here.
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Tennessee met in Charlotte, N.C., late Friday night to
form a waste caravan for the remainder of the threehour
drive to Snelling.
A group of activists from Virginia with an 8-foot
mock cask in tow arrived in South Carolina Thursday.
Smugglers found guilty
DARLINGTON ? All nine defendants in a
marijuana-smuggling inai were iouna guiuy r riaay
afternoon.
The Darlington County jury deliberated two hours
and 20 minutes before returning the verdict.
The jury found W. Russell Jackson and Stan White,
both of Darlington, guilty of conspiracy to possess
marijuana with intent to distribute. Both were charged
only on that count.
George Gedra, Stephen Schone, James Kincaid,
Kenneth Davidson, James Dugan, Ralph Nichols and
Bryan O. Sullivan were all found guilty of conspiracy to
possess and possession of marijuana with intent to
distribute.
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