Jet’s body cracks in hard landing at Pensacola
An Eastern Airlines DC-9 carrying 100 people made a hard landing at Pensacola Regional Airport in rain and fog. Two to three people suffered minor injuries, with evacuees guided by chutes and taken to hospitals. Weather conditions included two miles of visibility as officials reviewed the damage.
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Pensacola
Fla
Eastern Airlines
Jack Barker
Federal Aviation Administration
Atlanta
Barker
Eastern
Robin Matell
Matell
Free funeral prize to deter drunk driving on New Year’s Eve
The Marietta Daily Journal offers a tongue in cheek contest where those who admit to planning to drink and drive on New Year’s Eve could win a free funeral from Winkenhofer McCurdy Funeral Home if they sign up at the newspaper by Thursday noon. Elliott Brack notes the program aims to highlight the dangers of drinking and driving.
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Marietta, Ga
Elliott Brack
Marietta Daily Journal
Brack
Winkenhofer- McCurdy
Smyrna
Georgia
Chilly Night With Showers Then Colder. Tuesday Cloudy Winds
A Weather report notes chilly conditions tonight with showers and possible thunderstorms ending. Temperatures fall to the mid 30s as wind remains strong. Tuesday brings largely cloudy skies with decreasing cloudiness and gusty winds, with details on page 3B.
Deaths Corrie J Gaston Edgefield Clemon Johnson Aiken Douglas Owen
Obituary notices list Corrie J. Gaston of Edgefield Clemon Johnson of Aiken and Douglas Owen of Aiken among recent deaths with plain records of their passing in local columns.
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Corrie J. Gaston
Edgefield
Clemon Johnson
Aiken
Douglas Owen
Warships Depart Barcelona After USO Club Grenade Attack
The destroyer Thorn and the frigate Donald B. Beary left Barcelona ahead of schedule after a grenade attack on the USO club killed GSM-3 Ronald Strong and injured nine sailors. The victims were from the Thorn and Beary, with Strong to be buried later in Arlington. A Catalonian separatist group, the Red Army of Catalonian Liberation, claimed responsibility.
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Barcelona
Spain
USS. Navy
U.S
Thorn
Rafael Jerez
Madrid
Donald B. Beary
USO Club
Naples
Italy
Ronald Strong
Reeders
Penn
Strong
Arlington’s
Virginia
Jerez
Robert Bryson
Red Army of Catalonian
Lawyers Boycott Trials In Gaza and West Bank
Lawyers in the occupied Gaza Strip continued a boycott of military court sessions for a second day over claims of unfair trials for about 800 Palestinians detained during clashes with the Israeli military. Defense attorneys in the West Bank floated joining the protest and condemned alleged mistreatment, saying detainees are beaten, starved, and kept in cold, windowless tents or barracks. In unrelated violence, a Jewish resident of Kiryat Arba was lightly wounded in a stabbing as he got off a vehicle.
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Abu Rahma
West Bank
Kiryat Arba
Slow Moving Snowstorm Strikes Midwest and South
A slow moving storm blamed for at least 13 deaths whipped the Midwest and headed east after shutting Denver airport and closing interstates in Wyoming Oklahoma and Colorado. It stranded thousands at Stapleton Airport and sent 25 000 to watch the Broncos win 24 0. Coastal watches grew as eight inches fell in Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota and flood damage rose in West Memphis and Millington Tennessee. Arkansas Governor Clinton urged a presidential disaster declaration as floodwaters receded in western Tennessee.
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Midwest
Arkansas
Tennessee
Denver
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Colorado
Anne Ayres
Sarasota
Fla
Stapleton International
Mile High Stadium
Broncos
San Diego Chargers
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Virginia
Delaware
Maryland
National Weather Service
Mason City
Millington
Tenn
West Memphis
Ark
Social Security Up This Week Checks Rise With New Year
The 7.51 percent payroll tax rate applies to 1988 earnings up from 7.15 percent with an extra 36 dollars per 10 000 earned. Employers share the rise and self employed face 13.02 percent next year. Benefits rise 4.2 percent for 38 million beneficiaries as checks arrive this week.
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Washington
Social Security
Dorcas R. Hardy
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Millingon
Memphis
Ruby Smith
Weather Service
John Kainrad
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Bill Clinton
Reagan
Hysear Randell
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