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Sum it- lung, a pancrea >f heart dm nchitu '<et if i j pleau aignmenl < dets xni ist Los An opped byi is besideai [)uty Lvndi! mil v them, te has a da can't sav if ^lu Stalket ' Edmondit fodc Press av, Sept, j, f here are t in history , 1972.il the live A I taken tie in a shooM police duii cs. i*s Peter ; on beards st Contiim d in Phil Houston f the Heps! ion’s first s held in t my ; Rt ol PoS [ned in !« ent Theodfl mediated il td States pr lity in W« W Londoner disputing birth control Associated Press LONDON — When she’s not doing the laundry, baking bread or buying groceries for her husband and 10 children, Victoria Gillick taunts the British medical establish ment. She and her supporters have been campaigning for more than a decade to stop doctors from prescribing birth control pills for girls under lb without their parents’ consent. The British Medical Association, the Department of Health and Social Security, family-planning clinics, the big drug companies, the education system and the feminist movement are all on Mrs. Gillick’s list of ene- And for now, the 38-year-old Ro man Catholic housewife has them all pinned down with an Appeals Court ruling in her favor. The case reached the House of Lords’ Law Lords, Britain's Supreme Court, in June, but the court put off judgment until the fall legal term. In the meantime, doctors are banned from"giving contraceptive or abortion advice or treatment to girls under 16, the legal age of consent in Britain, without their parents’ per mission. Mrs. Gillick, whose five daughters are all under 16, says it c«mes down to one question: "Who is responsible for children, parents or the state?” ' In Britain, where contraceptives are free under the National Health Service and sex education has long been taught in the schools, the rate of pregnancies among teen-age girls is about half that of the United States. Dr. Pramilla Senanayake, medical director of the Londonbased Inter national Planned Parenthood Feder ation, which has affiliates in 120 countries, says it would be “disas trous” if the appeals decision is al lowed to stand. “The Gillick case provides a bar rier between a young person and health personnel to whom they might turn for advice, including ad vice on how to prevent pregnancy," she says. “If young people know the medi cal profession has to get prior con sent before prescribing contracep tion, then they won’t turn to the doctor. They will carry on with sex ual activity and risk pregnancy.” During a birth control debate at the University of Manchester in March, about 10 i left-wing feminists shouted abuses and pelted Mrs. Gil lick with contraceptives. Some of the women were dressed as rabbits to mock the size of her family. Tentative agreement made Chicago teacher strike Associated Press Chicago teachers tentatively agreed Wednesday to end a strike that had disrupted the first day of school for 431,000- students, while walkouts in Seattle and other cities kept another 151,000 students out or class in six states. The teachers in Chicago, the nation's third-largest school sys tem, agreed on a two-year con tract on the second day of the strike after intervention by Gov. James R. Thompson. The pact still must be ap proved oy the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union, which called a strike for the third con secutive year. The union’s House of Delegates was meeting Wednesday night to decide whether to accept the pact. Jacqueline Vaughn, president of the teachers union, said she would recommend that it ap prove the contract, and that tea chers return to work pending ap proval within 10 days by the full union membership. The walkout had parents scrambling to find alternative rec reational and educational pro grams for their youngsters or seeking last-minute enrollments at parochial or other private schools. “I really have lost faith ... no one has the heart for this any more,” said Mary Aimer, a for mer PTA president. Some community centers of fered free instruction to students, and Chicago’s City Colleges’ tele vision station planned educatio nal broadcasts ranging from “Ses ame Street” to videotaped high school math and composition classes. The strike began after negotia tors reached a stalemate over a bne-year salary increase, with the board offering a 3.5 percent raise and the union asking a 9 percent increase. The union lowered its demand to 8 percent. And late Tuesday, Reilly, who shuttled between the two sides during the talks, said they had agreed to a “framework for an agreement.” Money re mained the sticking point, he said. The average teacher’s salary in Chicago is $30,000, said Board President George Munoz. No new talks were scheduled in ' Seattle, where the city’s 44,000 public school students were to nave gone back to class Wednes day. The 3,700 teachers, aides and substitutes struck Tuesday over state-imposed salary limits, class size and other issues. Elsewhere, walkouts began Wednesday in Pawtucket and Newport in Rhode Island, keep ing 12,100 students out of school and in Toronto, Ohio. Strikes continued in four Michigan dis tricts, affecting 51,400 students, and 3,100 teachers; in six Penn sylvania districts, idling 19,800 students; and in one other Illinois system, affecting 9,900 pupils. Pawtucket’s 600 teachers voted early Wednesday not to work without a contract in the 8,200- pupil system. They are seeking raises totaling 27 percent over three years and rejected a School Committee offer of a one-year contract with a 5 percent raise. In Newport, the strike by 330 teachers left 3,900 students with out instructors. Little progress was reported in efforts to end strikes in four Michigan school districts affect ing 51,400 students and 3,100 teachers. Professional businessmen become weekend cowboys Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — They are a nomadic band of weekend cowboys in pickup trucks. They suffer bro ken hones and bruised egos in quest of prize money that hardly covers expenses. Today’s rodeo rider keeps alive a W'ild West tradition, but he may earn his living in a Pennsylvania coal mine or a New York office. On weekdays, Dennis Sciabica toils in politics as an aide to a state senator. In his free time, he’s a pro fessional cowboy, wrestling steers and riding snorting bulls. “Both are high risk businesses,” Sciabica says. '“I’ve had people tell me that I sling the bull during the week and ride it on weekends.” In nine years of rodeo competi tion, he’s had his nose broken five times and his back broken once. He’s lost most of his teeth, smashed a cheekbone and dislocated his shoul der. He travels 40,000 miles a year and is happy to make pocket money. “I’m 30, my body’s 82,” he says. “But it beats the devil out of growing up.” Most weekend cowboys have reg ular jobs. On a busy weekend they may compete in as many as four ro deos, but only a few make a living at it. Entry fees range from $25 to $60 per event. A good payoff for a first- place finish is $600 to $700. Cow boys who bite the dust go home sore and broke. “If you watch your nickels, your profit margin could be $7,000 or $8,000 a year,” Sciabica says. “But I don’t think anybody gets rich riding rodeo. There’s not enough money to justify the abuse.” Qualifying for a payoff in bull rid ing means sticking to a 2-ton, ram paging hulk for eight seconds. “It’s like an entire lifetime com pressed in a few seconds,” says Scia bica, who hosts his own three-day ro- deo every year in central Pennsylvania. Sciabica is also vice president of the American Rodeo Association, one of three nationally sanctioned rodeo groups. The ARA has 1,000 members competing in rodeos staged mainly in the East, with nary a tenderfoot among them. “It doesn’t matter where you come from anymore,” says Sam Swearingen, 25, of Milroy, Pa., the ARA’s leading money-winner in sad dle bronc riding last year. “It’s amaz ing how many cowboys come from the East.” East or west, cowboys are a rare breed, according to steer wrestler Jimmy Douglas, 42, a transplanted Texan who now lives in Dayton, Pa., and operates a surface coal mine. “The same spirit that drove peo ple the whole way across this country takes the cowboy and his beat-up old trailer to the rodeo every week,” Douglas says. “The Wild West might be gone, but the Wild West inside the man isn’t gone. I think all these people are living 150 years after their time. “I’d rather rodeo every week for $100 than mine coal five days Tor $1,000. Being a cowboy is being something everybody else isn’t. Sikh extremists linked to killing Associated Press NEW DELHI, India — Three sus pected Sikh extremists firing ma chine guns burst into a city council office Wednesday and killed a prom inent politician who was a close friend of the prime minister. Slain councilman Arjun Dass, 46, was a Hindu and a member of the Congress Party of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi called an emergency meeting to review secu rity in New Delhi. In Punjab state, which has been beset for Sikh violence for more than a year, two terrorists riding a motor scooter opened fire in an in dustrial area of Jalandhar city. Police in the northern state said two people were injured, but gave no further details. A series of coordinated attacks Tuesday by Sikh extremists in Pun jab villages took the lives of four Hindus and injured 12 others. Hin- A series of attacks Tuesday by Sikh extremists in Punjab villages took the lives of four Hindus and injured 12 others. Authorities believed the violence was intended to sabotage Punjab's Sept^j0£ elections. dus are a religious majority in all of India except the Punjab. Authorities believed the spate of violence was intended to sabotage Punjab’s Sept. 25 elections, which are being boycotted by Sikh mili tants. Of ficials responded by ordering a dusk-to-dawn curfew on a section of Punjab’s border with Pakistan. An official announcement said the cur few would remain in force until Sept. 30. The curfew was imposed to “pre vent entrance or exit of disruptive elections in the wake of the coming OH THE SIDE OF TEXAS ASM elections,” according to an official statement. Dass, a member of the Delhi Met ropolitan Council, was named by civil liberties groups as one of 16 Congress Party leaders who alleg edly instigated anti-Sikh riots follow ing the assassination last Oct. 31 of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. )0 peopl four-day riots, including almost 2,000 Sikhs in New Delhi alone. Another Congress Party politician linked to the riots, national law- INSTRUMENT COURSE maker Lalit Maken, was assassinated at his home July 31. No arrests have been made. Police said they did not know whether Dass was slain because of his alleged role in the riots or as part of attempts to undermine the elec tions for a new 117-member Punjab legislature and 13 seats in the na tional Parliament. Police on Wednesday night re leased photographs of four men, three bearded and f.irbanned and one clean-shaven. A television announcer said the four, who were not named, were be lieved involved in a number of crimes, but he did not say they were suspects in Dass’s murder. The clean-shaven man was Lai Singh, a Sikh terrorist wanted by the FBI for allegedly plotting to kill Ra jiv Gandhi during the Indian lead er’s visit to the United States in June. REMEMBER Grandma and Grandpa with a Hallmark card! Grandparents Day is Sunday, Sept. 8. 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