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Clinton promotes tougher school policies to assist teactif,
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Offering
America's teachers relief from troubled
students. President
Clinton promoted
wider use of school
uniforms, tough cur
fews and anti-gun
policies designed to
restore “order in our
children's lives" and
discipline in their
schools Monday.
“We either have
discipline in the
classroom or we
have disorder and, quite often, danger,"
Clinton said in an address to the na
tional convention of the American Fed
eration of Teachers.
Clinton also announced he would
lead a White House conference on
Clinton
school safety Oct. 15, which he will pro
claim “national school safety day."
Coming just three weeks before Election
Day, the conference will put a focus on
an issue Democrats see as a winner
among voters.
The conference will include educa
tors, law enforcement officials and fam
ilies touched by school violence.
Citing such measures as stricter cur
fews and the wider use of school uni
forms, Clinton urged the teachers and
their school districts to pursue “a new ap
proach to restore discipline in our schools
and order in our children's lives."
“Teachers can't teach if they have to
fight for respect or fear for their safety,"
Clinton said.
After his address to the teachers'
union, Clinton was attending a fund
raising lunch for Rep. William Jefferson,
D-La., expected to raise $250,000. Before
returning to Washington the president
was to headline a Demo
cratic National Commit
tee fund-raising dinner
which, at $10,000 per
person, was expected to
collect about $200,000,
DNC officials said.
The speech was de
signed as a broad-brush
defense of Clinton's ed
ucation proposals,
some of which are un
der attack in Congress,
but its focus was on
school discipline.
“While we've made
great advances in reducing crime over
all across the country, the president
wants to reinforce the message of how
crucial it is that schools are safe and
that discipline is restored," White
House spokesperson Joe Lockhart said
aboard Air Force One
en route to New Or
leans from Clinton's
three-day weekend
stay in Arkansas.
With Washington's
powers over educa
tion limited, Clinton
was promoting suc
cessful programs in
local communities.
He told the AFT
convention he was
particularly im-
pressed with a Mil
waukee policy that allows police to stop
and question youths on the streets dur
ing school hours.
tt Teachers can’t
teach if they have to
fight for respect or
fear of their safety.”
— Bill Clinton
President of the United States
Clinton said he has rev,
statistics that showed three i
students say they havetroubl
ruptive classmates and
of teachers say undiscipline,
take up most of their time.
Little that the president
was new.
But aides said he wantedtt
his school discipline pack;
from the 1996 campaign,
eludes suspending students
guns to school.
Clinton arrived inNewOr!
day after a weekend of golf
cal fund raising in his homes:
While there, he planned
two fundraisers for Louisiai
rats. He had dinner Sunday-:
Sen. John Breaux, D-La.,and
party leaders.
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General Motors’ Saturn empl
vote in favor to authorize si
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) —
Workers at General Motors' only
U.S. plant still turning out cars —
the Saturn division, where the
company boasts of harmonious
labor-management relations —
voted overwhelmingly to autho
rize a strike.
"We can't continue to live a lie
that this partnership is alive and
healthy and well when it's not,"
Mike Bennett, bargaining chair
for the union local at Saturn
Corp, said.
The strike-authorization vote
Sunday was another blow to the
strike-crippled automaker. Nego
tiations have slowed and the
United Auto Workers union
called a labor summit Monday in
Flint, Mich.
Talks between the union and
the company resumed Monday at
one strikebound Flint parts plant,
the Delphi Flint East plant, while
talks at the Flint Metal Center will
be in recess until today.
Saturn promotes itself as "a
different kind of car company." It
uses a team approach in the facto
ry and has a reputation for strong
management-employee relations.
Of the more than 5,000 Saturn
workers who cast ballots, 96 per
cent voted for strike authoriza
tion. A strike technically could be
called by the end of the week,
though negotiations are sched
uled to resume today.
The UAW often
strikes to put pressuiej
agement during negofe)
The union has obtain
rizations in recent mont
strikes at an assemblypk
and three parts plants :!
Ohio, and Indianapoliskj
to order walkouts there
Saturn President Dos
played down the votes
does not indicate a striki
nent. He said Saturn will #
its operating schedulean:
ue turning out cars.
"We recognize web:|
issues to work through j
said in a statement.'Ikj
tinue to talk through e#il.
them and resoKe i-'-i;!- ‘ 1
always done in the pasy'q
spirit of partnership."
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ter dissident employee'!
referendum on their utfl
tract with GM. WorkJ
overwhelminglyT n(
"risk-and-reward conbWLj
than abandon it for the®
all other UAW workershh®.
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lion since workers at th ersal
plants in Flint walkedoB>re
June 5 and 11. MorePBckl
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have been affected an ||thel
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Heat-related death toll
enters triple-digit figur
DALLAS (AP) —Temperatures climbed toward stiflingloj Ay
today across most of the country, with no immediate relief ins 1 :- E|| ec
heat wave blamed for at least 113 deaths. haver
The temperature in Dallas hit 91 by late morning and vva5 !; x [T ai|
top 100 degrees for a 15th straight day. The punishing heat f® I
claimed 79 lives in Texas, including 43 illegal immigrant a p ro |
crossed the border from Mexico. u g
"It looks like this trend should continue another weekTL |al,
from what we can see," said Roland Nunez, a meteorologist o j £
tional Weather Service. . I
The searing heat has also contributed to at least 22 deaths in ^
nine in Oklahoma — where temperatures also climbed into r
fore noon — and one each in California, Arizona and Missouri^ [j j
And authorities in Oklahoma, Louisiana and lexas werei
ing additional deaths to determine if they were heat-relate •
"There are probably many more out there that we hawn
yet," said Dr. Louise McFarland, Louisiana's state epid 6 ^ "^,
The humid Northeast was expected to be the next hard-hitreg®
temperatures expected to rise into the 90s today. Temperatures ‘ |
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broken Sunday. Pueblo and Grand Junction, Colo., both rtp ( ['wills
highs of 104. ijrig tl
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Las Vegas. California's Death Valley reached 124 and Lake ' ; Ve | 0
Ariz., made it to 110. , nt kf ro j e
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had 42 consecutive days of 100-degree temperatures. 0neU fuj T
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weather like this, the luxury of air conditioning becomes sora
a matter of life and death." ^
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a water main breaks every day. Dallas had 67 ruptured mains
. . 'Oklahoma, where heat-related crop losses could cos ^ 1urn
bdUon, churchgoers heeded Gov. Frank Keating's call to P r 0 )d
It s so hot the fields are melting," farmer Jack Musgr°v ^
usgrove, 79, said he has seldom seen the lack of rainD
in io state this summer. He said there was little he could 0
ty s Health and Human Services unloaded box fans
that were donated to the agency. ,
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