n/PajH ter 3,| ; national Battalion/Page 9A September 3, 1982 Substitutes threatened, harassed lince 18| Some teachers still on strike MX CES »ns lypinji S550, ret pteja 52+05)s; 't'rtations I Univtr* United Press International A bomb threat forced grade school children taught by non union teachers to evacuate a school in southeast Ohio — where substitute techers are dodging other harrassment attempts in this most explosive of strikes by 6,800 teachers in five states. | The strikes are affecting almost 150,000 students. 1 Agreements were reached Wednesday in several of the na tion’s largest districts, including Philadelphia, Flint, Mich., and Providence, R.I. But teachers in Detroit, St. Louis, Fort Lauder dale, Fla., and hundreds of other districts were still without contracts. The Ohio dispute flared in New Matamoras, where the Wednesday morning bomb threat cleared an elementary school taught by non-union teachers. A teacher was arrested in the same county Tuesday and charged with disorderly con duct. Police said substitute teachers were harassed while going to class and tires on a car belonging to one was slashed and windows smashed in others. A judge later issued a restraining order, limit ing pickets to two per school. In all, Ohio had 500 teachers on strike at schods with 9,600 students. Strikes also affected 2,000 teachers and 61,000 students in Pennsylvania; 2,800 teachers and 48,500 stvdents in Illinois; 1,000 teachen and 20,000 stu dents in Michigan; and 500 teachers and 6,800 students in Montana. Pay and /he number of stu dents per cassroom are factors in most of the strikes. By an 4-1 vote Wednesday, the Philadelphia Board of Edu cation ^proved a three-year contractwith unionized teachers calling ^or an 18 percent raise in pay. Nearly 34,000 students in Flint, Mich., were told to return to classes today after teachers agreed to a new pact also calling for 18 percent pay increases over three years. But Detroit, a district with 200,000 students and 11,000 unionized teachers, moved clos er to a strike as teachers resisted demands for concessions of up to $2,300 per teacher. “The closer we get to opening date (Wednesday), the more likely it is there will be a strike,” said John Elliott, union presi dent. Contracts also remained unsettled in Grand Rapids, Pon tiac and about 250 other Michi gan districts. In East St. Louis, Ill., officials tried to open school but only one of 1,300 teachers showed up for work. Teachers are asking for a 25 percent raise over two years in the 20,000-student district. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where a brief strike earlier this week delayed the opening of school, negotiators were at an impasse but schools remained open. “We’re just sitting and wait ing,” Cathy Wheeler, a union ex ecutive said. Fort Lauderdale is the nation’s ninth largest dis trict, with 124,000 students and 4,500 teachers. Applications and interview Sign ups in Room #216 MSC Application Deadline Saturday, Sept. 3 4 p.m. Interviews begin Sunday, Sept. 5 i-6p.m. end Thursday, Sept. 9 9:30 undsTwo druffs may cause jitters, Dnm O / but they stop flu, study says 24 hd United Press International mire. ■VASHINGTON — Two re lated drugs, taken in pill form twice a day, can prevent the most Hnmon kind of fin in most peo- /\§^i pie, a study in Vermont indi- cktes. """•■•The influenza program offic er at the National Institute of PWpergv ,uh1 Infectious Diseases Deacc'iiid the study erased doubts ab out the drugs warding off in fluenza. Dr. John LaMontagne saiti one of the drugs, amantadine (Symmetrel), is available com mercially but has not been wide ly used, partly because of con cern about such side effects as insomnia, nervousness and dif ficulty in concentrating. The other drug, rimanta dine, is still experimental and has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis tration for general use in the United States. The drug is used in the Soviet Union. LaMontagne said the study, conducted by scientists at the University of Vermont and re ported in the New England ""Fly-away cost of airplanes angers U.S. Navy secretary Pamtirc IOTOR INC. • Since IE 23-8111 United Press International 1 WASHINGTON — Navy Secretary John Lehman is de manding that the major builder of carrier-based FA-18 Hornet planes lower its price or lose its $40 billion contract with the Navy. I “The price must come down or we’re not going to buy it,” Lehman told The Washington Post. I The supplier, the McDonnell Douglas Corp. of St. Louis, set the price of the Navy’s newestjet at $22.5 million each for fiscal 1984. i Lehman was not available for comment, but Navy spokesmen said he is concerned about the cost increase. [j, “He feels the Navy has alter natives and is prepared to accept —T alternatives if we do not get an } GOli acceptable price,” a spokesman won mi said. Room The alternative is to buy ngCenw m ore F-14 Tomcat fighters and „ Brya’ iperieml red. Aiik IV A NTH ted, fail is Apts •vt d. S98-95fj house if ■4 (X) plus 4 pm, I, own es. 845-ill ■5-8290 (il both as a fighter and an attack craft, is designed to complement both of these while replacing the older McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom and Vought A-7 Cor sair. In a statement, McDonnell Douglas said the company sub mitted a price proposal to the Navy in April. The statement did not cite a price or say whether the proposal was drawn at Lehman’s request. 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