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San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 8

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San Angelo, Texas
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SAN ANGELO STANDARD-TIMES-Sundav September 1 8 A Thousands march to advocate improved working-class rights national health care reform to help the 37 million Americans now uninsured a ban on the use of permanent replacement workera during strikes parental leave fair trade child care and civil rights Some demonstrators waved nninn pennants or American flags others carried umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun during a morning full of entertainment led by Willie Nelson Both Congress and the White House were taken to task but much of the Ire was aimed at President Bush Protesters led In a chant of hey ho ho George Bush has got to go" and chided the president to spending too much time on foreign policy yon can give favored nation status to China how about favored nation status for American laid Gerald McEntee president at the American Federation id State County and Municipal Employees Organised labor which has seen its membership tumble by more than 6 million workers over the past decide wanted a noisy show of force to remind politicians with the election year coming up that America's union movement is still breathing WASHINGTON (AP) Hundreds of thoussnds of union members marched in a ateamy Labor Day rally Saturday to advocate better health can education and civil rights warning that politician! who Ignore worklng-claaa America could be turned out of office A colorful sea of workers wearing red blue green and yellow union T-shirti marched down Constitution Avenue from the Ellipse behind the White House to the Capitol to a protest aimed at calling more attention to domestic problems About 250000 people Joined the march and rally the US Park Police said The AFL-CIO citing an estimate from the DC office said there were 325000 massed ootheMalL Besides trade unions some 180 civil rights religious and environmental groups were represented A color-guard of veterans id the Persian Gulf War led the procession on a sticky day with temperatures climbing high as 96 degrees At least 65 people were taken to hospitals after being overcome by the neat including one man believed to have suffered a heart attack who wu evacuated by a Park Police helicopter that landed on the Mall said TO Hall spokesman to the DC Fire Department Several fire trucks hooked up noadea to fireplugs and aprayed the sweltering crowd to help them cool off while a group from the International Longshoreman's Association took refuge in a reflecting pool in front of the Capitol The marchers many converging on the capital after all-night bus rides said Congress and the Bush administration have neglected critical issues that affect middle-class America "We're here to iniist that democratic government the White House the Congress and the courts must assure fair play to all not Just to those with the most money the moat luck at the strongest Lane Kirkland president of the 141-miIUon-member AFL-CIO told the crowd here to remind our elected representatives that they were put there to serve not the faceless marketplace but the aspirations of real Kirkland said Thousand iff placards pushing dosens of different causes bobbed through the crowd Some called to APLaserphoto Long-haul bike Steven Roberts pedals his 350-pound recumbent Behemoth bicycle in Palo Alto Calif The bicycle is able to communicate with the world via computer cellular phone and satellite Roberts a high-tech nomad has pedaled the bike some 16000 miles Jewish leaders say videotaped CAFE THE INN PLACE TO BE Bible stories are anti-Semitic Family Entertainment Stories From the New Testament-" The first tapes of a 12-tape series were released for sale three years ago But a 30-minute commercial has brought the series national notice since April when it first aired on several cable channels Critics charge that the videotapes show Jews who do not convert to Christianity as having large noses and frightening features Mean while the Jews who convert are illustrated with handsome and noble characteristics Jewish characters in the 1 can only describe as horrific and at times grotesque in both the drawings of the characters and the backdrops used to emphasise their evil said Miami-based Arthur Teitelbium southern area director for the Anti-Defamation League of "It's a reminder of Nasi propaganda" DALLAS (AP) A series of 'videotaped Bible stories for children created and sold by a Dallas-based firm are anti-Semitic 'according to outraged Jewish leaders across the nation series puts anti-Semitism 1 into the 21st century" Rabbi Mar-'vin Hier dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation in Los Angeles told the Dallas Times- Herald Friday basically gives it an address in the living room of every American home" Hier and others are upset with the FBI calls off search for remains after recent attempts prove futile LOOP 306 KNICKERBOCKER 915-944-8082 PHOENIX (AP) The FBI says it rule out that self-professed serial killer Donald Leroy Evans told the truth about killing at least 60 people although a search was called off without any bodies being found FBI agents and sheriffs deputies on Friday concluded three days of fruitless digging on a desert ridge where Evans claimed to have buried the bodies of three female victims "There exist at present no plans burieda victim or victims at the site even though nothing was found think be in a position to totally refute his McCormick said dealing with terrain such thatafew hundred yards can make a difference dealing with the desert and several years" Evans a 34-year-old drifter has claimed he killed at least 10 people in 14 states since being discharged from the Marine Corps in 1977 to continue the search" the FBI said Friday evening in a brief statement The FBI said Evans was transported Friday to an undisclosed site outside Arixona He was flown here from Mississippi on Wednesday FBI officials did not immediately return a phone call seeking additional comment Thursday evening However FBI Special Agent Larry McCormick told The Arixona 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