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11-year-old Clearfield boy shot in stomach
CLEARFIELD (AP) —An 11-year-old boy was shot in the stomach by
his friend, police said.
The victim had an emergency operation at Clearfield Hospital after
the Wednesday afternoon shooting, then was transported to Alllegheny
General Hospital.
Police did not release the minors’ names. The 12-year-old perpetra
tor was being held for observation. Another boy who witnessed the
shooting was released.
The boys were at a home in Clearfield, about 34 miles northwest of
State College. Police said the gun was in the house, but have not said
who owns it.
“The investigation isn’t complete. The biggest thing whenever
you’re dealing with people of this age is whether (the shooting) is
intentional or accidental,” Clearfield Police Chief Judd Zimmer said.
Housing discrimination case builds in Beaver
BEAVER (AP) A wife and mother of two has alleged that a land
lord declined to rent to her after learning the family was black.
State Human Relations Commission attorney Jonathan Williams
called it the worst case of housing discrimination he has ever seen.
Velentia Pipkin, 30, filed a complaint with the commission. An
administrative law judge heard arguments Wednesday in Beaver
County Court. The commission’s 11-member board will make the final
ruling.
Joseph and Barbara Allison deny the allegations, saying they have
other tenants of mixed races.’
Williams, the assistant chief counsel for the commission, has asked
the board to fine the Allisons $27,000.
Members'of the United Auto Workers Local 909 acknowledge the
honking of horns from passing cars. The workers walked the picket
line yesterday at the General Motors Corp. Powertrain plant in
Warren, Mich.
GM workers strike forces shutdown of 3 plants
DETROIT (AP) A strike at a General Motors Corp. transmission
factory forced the shutdown of three GM auto assembly plants yester
day, less than two days into the walkout.
The Buick City plant in Flint, the Orion Township plant outside
Detroit and an assembly plant in Lansing suspended production
because of the United Auto Workers strike by 2,800 employees at the
GM Powertrain Group factory in Warren. All three assembly plants
use transmissions built at Warren.
GM’s two car assembly plants in Oshawa, Ontario, are scheduled to
shut down today.
The strike against the world’s No. 1 automaker could bring GM’s
North American assembly operations to a near standstill within two or
three weeks. Only the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., does not use
parts from Warren.
Number of new unemployment claims is down
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The number of first-time claims for
jobless benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in nearly a year,
signaling a robust job market for American workers.
New applications for unemployment insurance totaled a seasonally
adjusted 299,000 during the week ended July 19, the Labor Department
said yesterday.
That’s the lowest since the week ended July 27, 1996. The 42,000
drop followed an even larger 45,000 decline the previous week and was
more than double what economists anticipated.
China cracks down on illegal books, CDs, films
BEIJING (AP) China has seized more than 12 million publications
and 1.8 million laser discs in a crackdown on pornography and illegal
publishing, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said yesterday.
Authorities have also uncovered 40 illegal compact disc production
lines and seized about 6.48 million discs, the news agency said.
China has been pressured by the United States to stem piracy of
audio-visual products, including compact discs of music, films and
computer software.
The crackdown on pornography is part of a Communist Party moral
ity campaign that stresses decency and family values.
Racy novels, politically sensitive books and pulp fiction, often pro
duced by underground publishers, are standard fare at book stalls in
most Chinese towns and cities.
Xinhua said the crackdown on illegal publishing has boosted busi
ness for legitimate publishers since it started in winter 1996, with
sales at state-run Xinhua bookstores up 50 percent.
3 men claim ownership of Mars, sue NASA
SAN’A, Yemen (AP) Three Yemeni men claiming ownership of
Mars have filed a lawsuit against NASA for landing on the red planet, a
newspaper reported yesterday.
Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari have filed docu
ments to a Yemeni court that they say prove their claim, the weekly
Al-Thawri newspaper said.
“We inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago, the
Arabic-language paper quoted the men as saying in one of the docu
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NASA’s Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars on July 4, and its
Sojourner rover began exploring the planet and sending back photos
and data for analysis.
“Sojourner and Pathfinder . . . began exploring it without informing
us or seeking our approval,” the men said.
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