Word: cullinane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the union. The teachers' salaries will be frozen for a year and a half, and they will get only 5% raises in each of the following two years. The teachers did win guaranteed teacher-pupil ratios for special programs, but at a terrible price. Union President Martin Cullinan is serving 20 days in jail for disregarding a court order to go back to work. The union must pay $170,000 in fines, which will eventually go to the school district, and each teacher has been fined two days' pay for every day on strike. The average loss...
...newsmen as the Abominable Snowman. Thus it surprised the veteran journalists who had been trying to corner Vesco in his Costa Rican refuge that the first substantial interview with him appeared in the April 5 issue of the fledgling biweekly New Times-and was written by a novice, Neil Cullinan, a political science professor at Fort Valley State College in Georgia. Cullinan's coup was quickly matched by Washington Post Reporter Laurence Stern and CBS'S Walter Cronkite. All three interviews yielded fascinating material on the fugitive's mood and lifestyle. They also demonstrated that reaching such...
...Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...