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SECTION 2 - PAGE S - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29,1984 National news Law may decrease teachers' strikes Mediation required if there's no contract before the school year Nicaraguans flee to Miami By United Press International N CHICAGO - A new law is pro­ viding hope for school districts that teachers' strikes can be averted this fall. At least one dozen of Illinois'. 1,010 elementary and secondary education districts face the possibility of strikes this fall, but despite tight budgets and salaries that teachers say are too low, the new law has decreased the likliehood that those strikes will occur. "It's really been a different pro­ cess this year because of the new law," said Virgil DeBoer, a field service director for the Illinois Federation of Teachers. "It's a 7 lawyer welfare bill -- all of the lawyers have jobs now." % Under the new law, which is ad­ ministered by the Illinois Educa­ tional Labor Relations Board, if school districts do not have a con­ tract 15 days before the beginning Stars bear your name, for a fee By United Press International HOUSTON - For $35, anyone can have his name entered on a glittering register whose stars in­ clude Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. The non-profit Cheon Star Educational Trust of Houston, in an effort to raise funds for astronomy students and gifted children, will register a star in your name or the name of a friend for a $35 donation. Spokeswoman Ronnie Guinaugh said the group names stars that have been identified by coor­ dinates and discovered before 1983, but -- for various reasons -- never were given a proper title. "There are billions of stars that have been discovered, but are just not of enough interest to the scien­ tific community to be named," she said. "Many have been measured and they have coor­ dinates in catalogs, but they don't have a name. "They're just twinkling out there and doing nothing. People are always looking for unique gifts and this certainly is one. People can bestow stars on eaclfother." Each person who "buys" a star receives a plaque in gold lettering stating their name, the coor­ dinates of the star and any special date they want on it. The package also includes a star map. "Engelbert Humperdinck, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Mani Hamill have stars nam­ ed after th#n," Ms. Guinaugh said. Y O l ( W R K N 1 A N AQIA SENTRY W A T F R C O N D I T I O N E R •LOW „ MONTHLY RENTAL •NO INSTALLATION CHARGE •FREE WATER TEST •30 DAY FREE TRIAL HICK5GA5 of the school year, mediation must be imposed. The mediation requirement is designed to protect the rights of all involved in the dispute, board director Robert Perkovich said. School years statewide vary, but generally begin between the end of August and the end of September. By the end of last week, the board had received 12 notices of intent to strike from districts statewide, but that does not mean the strikes are imminent, he said. "There can be any number of reasons why a party wouldn't strike after giving notice of intent to strike," Perkovich said. "At this point, I don't see any evidence of increased activity, relative to other times. That's a pretty fluid situation, however." The board has also received about 60 requests for a mediator and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has recieved about 150 mediation requests from school districts in Illinois, Perkovich said. DeBoer, who is responsible for trying to iron out disputes in 20 Southern Illinois districts, said eight districts have not drawn con- t rac t s ye t and a re s t i l l negotiating. "But the people I'm talking to really don't normally settle before this," he said. "I panic because there are eight, but a few might settle (before school starts)." And while the rumblings of strike are louder farther north, disagreements could be worked out the day school begins and after in order to avert strikes, officials said. F o u r s u b u r b a n C h i c a g o d i s t r i c t s , B u f f a l o G r o v e , Evanston, Bremen District 228 and Midlothian, have threatened strikes over longer school days and salaries. In northwest suburban Buffalo Grove, negotiations broke down at midnight Friday and teachers gave notice they will go on strike. " M e d i a t i o n b e t w e e n t h e Kildeer-Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 Board of Education and the District 96 Education Association ... broke down," said Mark Reins- tein, regional director of the Il­ linois Education Association. Na­ tional Education Association Region, 38, Lake County. *£"No meaningful movement was made by the board all night," he said. Salaries, class size and teacher vacancies are among the issues under negotiation. Clashes for the district, located in the Buffalo Grove-Long Frove area, were set to begin Aug. 29. There are 105 teachers and about 1,800 students in the district, located in the Buffalo Grove-Long Grove area. Evanston Elementary School District 65, has set up a "crisis center," where teachers can go to discuss details of the looming strike that centers on a dispute over a half-hour extension of the school day. The school board agreed Friday to re-open negotia­ tions with teachers. - "We are confident our team will work diligently for a settlement, but time is running out," teacher spokeswoman Priscilla Smith said. "As of now, plans for a strike are going forward." The Chicago Board of Educa­ tion, with a deficit that has caused a skeleton budget, has requested state mediation in a dispute over $34.6 million in budget cuts, employee con t r ibu t ions to medical insurance and a cut in the number of school days. * Across the state, the nearly 102,000 public school teachers made an average of $23,153 for the 1983-84 school year. Chicago teachers averaged $26,296 for the year, State Board of Education spokesman Lee Bartolini said. The majority of those teachers work a nine-month school year and about half have master's degrees, he said. By United Press International MIAMI -- About 100 Nicaraguan youths flee to Miami every month to avoid mandatory military ser­ vice in their country, a Marxist state that is fighting a guerrilla war against U.S.-backed rightist forces, it was reported Sftnday. Nicaraguans from 15 to 22 years old have told Immigration and Naturalization Service officials in Miami they were sent to the United States by their parents, who feared they would be killed in combat, the Miami Herald said. Terry Phillips, an INS super­ visor who reviews asylum peti­ tions, estimates there are 7,000 parentless youths among Miami's 30,000 Nicaraguans. "Their parents, in their minds, are looking to send them to this great nation of ours, where there is freedom and peace. It's pro­ bably logical. They don't want to serve in a communist army," said INS district director Perry Rivkind. "It's a very sad situa­ tion, a toughy." "We would rather be in a jail here than be sent back to Nicaragua," said Eddy Ortega, a 15-year-old Nicaraguan who arriv­ ed in June. "Kids like me are be­ ing sent to fight the contras (guerillas) without training. They send us ahead of the army, as if we were bait." Many of the youths said they entered the United States by way of Mexico where they paid illicit escorts a few hundred dollars to help them cross the border. They then contacted relatives and friends in south Florida who sent them money for bus or plane fare to Miami. Those without family called a Cuban priest who found them shelter and jobs. Implant may curb food urge By United Press International CHICAGO -- A neurosurgeon expects to seek permission in a few months to begin implanting electrodes in the brains of dangerously overweight patients to help them control their ap­ petites. The electrodes can also be used to stimulate the appetites of ahdrexia patients, according to F r e d e r i c k D . B r o w n , a tion can curb animals' appetites, and he plans to study whether a jolt of electricity also can have the opposite effect. He stressed that the operation would be used only as a last resort when all other methods to help an obese patient have failed. 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