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Witnesses said the window was broken by a thrown skateboard...
...janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown out of the lifeboat." The company's semiskilled assemblers now make $13.23 an hour, 6 cents an hour less than their colleagues at GM and Ford. Management says it has already agreed to parity for its Canadian employees and plans to do the same in the U.S., but no final accord...
...came on Monday, when the body of Leon Klinghoffer washed ashore near the Syrian port of Tartus. The Achille Lauro was off the Syrian coast when the retired Manhattan appliance manufacturer, who was partly paralyzed by two strokes and confined to a wheelchair, had been killed and his body thrown overboard. Abbas and P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, among others, had publicly questioned whether Klinghoffer had actually been shot. The Syrian government of President Hafez Assad, a foe of Arafat's, quickly reported the discovery of the corpse, and an FBI agent flew to Damascus to help make an identification based...
...made before the Agrava panel, a fact-finding commission appointed by Marcos after Aquino's death. After ten months of investigations, the panel recommended that the defendants, all military men except for one civilian, be tried for conspiracy to kill Aquino. Ver's original Agrava-panel testimony was thrown out last August after the Supreme Court upheld an earlier decision that Ver's right not to incriminate himself had been violated...
...passer in Harvard history, has improved as the season has progressed. But the two-year starter's completion percentage is still only .427. A week ago he only went to the air 15 times, but that probably will change this week. Knows Multiflex well. Can run and throw. Has thrown three touchdowns on the year. QUARTERBACK: Senior Doug Butler, the alltime leading passer in Ivy League history and one of the finer signalcallers in the entire country, totes his act into town today. The holder of virtually every offensive record at Princeton, Butler will provide the Crimson with its biggest...