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Show Viewed With Caution Thursday January 3. 1980. THE HERALD. Prov Utah— Tentative Proposal Offered To Bail Out Chicago Schools CHICAGO (UPI) City officials and leading bankers late Wednesday proposed a tentative plan tobail out the nearly bankrupt Chicagoschool system and possibly avert a weekend cl, sroom shutdown. However, sources cautioned the plan is not likely to raise enough money quickly enough to meet Friday's teacher payroll. Teachers have threat ened to walk out if they miss their se cond paycheck in two weeks The complicated bailout plan in volves the city’s largest banks lending the city money to buysecurities from paid by Friday Teachers were hit with their first payless payday Dec 21 four days before Christmas the Board of Education. That. in turn could induce the state to contribuie some of its $400 mullion surplus to the school system. Prior to the announcementofthe ten tative bailout plan an indefinite closureof the classes for a half million Chicago Teachers Union declined to public school pupils appeared immi- the board did not close the schools Michael Healey president of the speculate what the teachers would doif nent Members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted 19 154 to 2,358 late Wednesday to ask the Board of Education to close the schools if teachers are not It would be a tremendous breach of faith. The teachers have demonstrated $100 million worth of faith“ said Healey Cleveland Teachers Vote on Pact CLEVELAND (UPI) — Cleveland Teachers Union leaders urged their 5.000 striking membersto vote today to accept the school board's latest contract offer and end an liweek strike that has shut down Ohio's largest Earthquake in Azores Kills 50, Injures 400 A woman, with her child in her arms, looks at her home after it had been demolished by a mighty earth- quakethatrolled across the island chain in the Azores, killing 50 people and injuring nearly 400 others. Thou sandsalso were left homeless. Nearly 60 percentof the villages on the islands of Terceira, San Jorge and Coverup Payoffs Are Charged WASHINGTON (UPI) — It all started when C. Philip Liechty. a former CIA officer who wasfired last year, wentto courtin a dispute with his estranged wife over custody of their 8year-old daughter. Now theflap hasballoonedintoa fullscale battle in which Liechty is suing his foriner CIA boss. and charging top agency officials with a cover-up of South Korean payoffs to congressmen. The Justice Department entered the picture Wednesday in an attempt to a muzzle Liechty. It asked a judge to block disciosure of any classified information in court — including details of the alleged coverup — on grounds that it would cause “serious harm’’ to the United States. finish his assignments. Liechty filed suit against Bodroghy, contending he actually was fired because he kept proddinghis superiors DETROIT (UPI) — U.S. auto production, paced by a sharp 30 percent decline in December, dropped almost 10 percent in 1979. The “Big Three” U.S. automakers said Wednesday they built 8,041,556 cars in 1979, down 9.9 percent from 8,923,971 last year. Wednesday and provides for an im- teachers a 24 percent pay increase dur- mediate 10 percent payhike. 4 percent ing the next 16 months. Teachers were set to vote on the proposal today at eachof the district's 146 schools. If they acceptthe offer, teachers and administrative staff would report for work Friday and classes would resume morein September, an additional 5 percent Jan. 1 1981, and 5 percent morein Monday annual salary of $10,800. The highest- warned Wednesday the financially with the 10 percent raise. But a source close to the talks Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Frederick Coleman, who last Monday ordered representatives of bothsides in the dispute cloistered at a downtownhoteluntil an agreement was reached, said “We think it (the ten- April 1981 tative agreement) is a good resolution of our problem.” The immediate 10 percent pay raise would give the lowest-paid teachers an Coleman also tabled until after the ratification vote an orderheissued last Mondaydirecting strikers to return to work. paid teachers would make about$22.000 And the Columnist Seeks ‘Tormented Man’ information about Korean payoffs to members of Congress. Liechty, who was assigned to South LOS'ANGELES(UPI) — Ina plea to Korea from 1969 to 1973. says he former CIA supervisor, Robert reported information about the payoffs a man whohasthreatened to commit Bodroghy, allegedly told her lawyers to high agencyofficials in 1974 after random murders. columnist Bob Greenetoday urged the mantocall him he was sacked last year for failing to returning from Korea. to discuss ‘‘the tormentthat has driven Liechty and his ex-wife were involved in the custody fight when his you to your threats.”’ Falling production will mean inIn December, General Motors Corp. Ford MotorCo. and Chrysler Corp.said definite layoffs for approximately they produced 427,598 cars in the 140,000 U.S. auto workers early this month, down30.1 percent from 611,390 month in December1978. American Motors Corp. bucked the Final industry sales figures for industry trend with increased producDecember and for the year were ex- tion both in Decemberandfor the full pected to be released today. calendar year. as compared with 1978. said, would rise to about $17 500 with the immediate increase staff The tentative contract would give to turn overto the Justice Department '79 Car Production Shows Decline averageteacher salary. school officials The tentative pact was reached school system. Graciosa were destroyed. strapped school board will have serious difficulty raising the necessary funds to pay for the proposed contract even with major cutbacks in programs and Greene. a syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist. flew to Los Angeles Tuesday to help authorities contact a “lonely and unwanted”’ man who vows. to begin killing Los Angeles County residents because he is depressed and frustrated. In letter sent to Greenein care of a local Los Angeles paper the man threatened to randomlykill people. “What you should knowis that you are not alone anymore.’ Greene wrote in his column. “The people who have read your words have been moved to care deeply about you. Some have wept whenhearing abouthow badly you have beentreated."” “Tt is not necessary for you to commit murderto get attention,” he said. “We wantonly one thing,for you to get in touch so that we can talk about the torment that has driven you to your threats of murder.”’ Greene's column appears in an estimated 120 newspapers. Today's column ran on the front page of the Daily Signal in the community of Huntington Park. where the letter writer apparentlylives. Included in the column is a special telephone number the letter writer. who signed himself ‘‘Moulded to Murder,” can use to contact Greene. who has secluded himself in a Los Angeles hotel room. “This is not a police phone number.”* Greene said. “‘] am sitting in a hotel room waiting for your call. We know that by printing the numberin the newspaperwerisk thepossibility of getting manycrank calls. We hope that people fave the wisdom notto dial the number in fun. Child Abuse Cases Stirring Big Concern in the Nation By GORDON BOCK United Press International A Florida mother charged with drowning her three young daughters on New Year’s Day told police the children ‘would be better off in heaven.’’ A mother in New York City tried to ‘‘get the devil out” of her 20month-old son by scalding him with water andplacing him in a hot oven. In Tennessee, authorities said a formerjail guard severely beat a 21month-old girl, the daughter of the woman with whom he wasliving. And in Kansas, Michael Saad, 3 monthsold, clings to life surrounded by a maze of tubes that lead to lifesupport machine. A judge in Wichita must determine today whether to upgrade the charges against Thomas Saad, 25, the child’s stepfather. The boy has beenlying unconscious and motionless on a hospital bed since his arrival at Wesley Medical Center Christmas Eve with numerous bruises and head injuries, a broken arm and a fractured rib. There are medical indications that the child may already be dead. but Saad’s court-appointed attorney obtained a court order Friday prohibiting hospitalofficials from taking the boy off the machines until the court determines whetherheis dead oralive. Police in Leesburg, Fla.. charged Dianne Evers with drowning her three daughtersin the bathtub on New Year’s Day. She was ordered held without bond on three counts of first-degree murder. 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