The Nation - News from July 3, 1985

Delegates to the National Education Assn. convention in Washington turned down a bid to lengthen their officers’ terms and refused to join a farm workers’ boycott of Campbell Soup products by the United Farm Workers. A constitutional amendment to allow the teachers union’s three top leaders to serve up to six years instead of four fell fewer than 400 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage. The amendment would have kept Mary Hatwood Futrell as NEA president until 1988. She and two other officers were elected unopposed Sunday to their second, and final, two-year terms.