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CWA members have voted 4-1 to authorize a strike against Alltel in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio and Alabama.

Despite angry protests from CWA, prominent politicians and editorial writers, Ameritech on Aug. 14 announced that the company plans to move ahead with its controversial decision, first announced last March, to close two consumer offices.

CWA President Morton Bahr and other labor leaders are urging union members throughout the country to quickly speak up in support of President Clinton's Patients' Bill of Rights.

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Dr. Wayne Moore, head of the Washington, D.C. Emergency Medical Service is in a meeting at Fire/EMS headquarters. Almost simultaneously both his and Fire Chief Donald Edwards' beepers go off and the phone rings. The messages are the same: "U.S. Capitol. Shooting incident. Two persons down."