Longet Trial Begins With Guilty Guilty Opinions Facing Judge
In Aspen Colorado AP Claudine Longet endures juror screening in the manslaughter case over Vladimir Sabich shooting. A tentative 12 member panel is seated after some potential jurors say Longet is guilty. The defendant calls the mood heart breaking during a recess.
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Aspen
Colo
Claudine Longet
Vladimir
Spider” Sabich
Miss Longet
Andy Williams
July quake tolls in northeast China top records
The South China Morning Post reported a top secret Chinese document put the July northeast China earthquake toll at 655,237 dead and 779,000 injured with 79,000 serious cases. The paper noted no source for the leak and said the document was released at an August emergency earthquake relief conference.
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Hong Kong
China
South China Morning Post
Iowa Faces Severe Drought Threat From Record Heat
Des Moines reports the worst drought in 104 years with farmers hauling water for livestock and fears of reduced corn soybeans and hay if rain delays. Government crop experts say it is too early to gauge 1977 wheat yields, but early signs are discouraging.
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Des Moines
Iowa
U.S
Perpich
Perpich Announces $2 Million Drought Jobs Plan
Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich outlines a $2 million temporary jobs program for drought affected farm families using 1976 Public Works funds. The plan provides 15 weeks of public service work at $3.50 per hour, totaling about 930,000 jobs across 74 counties, with at least five slots per county and 40 hour weeks. The effort begins January 17, prioritizing hardest hit areas like Redwood County, while income limits apply for eligibility.
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ST. Paul
Perpich
Redwood County
Big Stone
Brown
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Lac Qdi Parle
Nobles
Ottertail
Renville
Stearns
Yellow Medicine
Ford seeks veto over RNC chairman choice
President Ford wants veto power over the selection of a new Republican National Committee chairman but likely will not push his own candidate. White House aides say the issue will be discussed when Ford meets party leaders today including Vice President Rockefeller, former Governor Reagan, and former Governor Connally.
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Washington
Ford
Republican National Committee
White House
Nelson Rockefeller
California
Ronald Reagan
Texas
John Connally
Beltrami County votes to restore extension and attorney budgets
In a long emotional four hour session, the Beltrami County board restored 4000 to both the county extension and county attorney budgets, and an additional 1000 to the county historical society. The move preserves a third county agent and follows a heated eight hour meeting with budget disputes.
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Dave Bernard
Beltrami County Board
County Historical Society
Tom Tolman
City Council clash over engineering firm selection and conflict claims
Bemidji City Council faces a heated exchange over the Dec. 20 decision to hire Rieke Carroll Muller Assoc to design the sewage plant, with councilmen accusing each other of conflict of interest and collusion while reviewing PCA input and potential shifts to a mechanical chemical system.
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Bemidji
Ralph Moberg
Larry Dow
Herb Whiting
Whiting
Stewart and Walker Inc
Minneapolis
Rieke-Carroll-Muller Assoc
Moberg
Stewart
Walker
Dow
RCM
Erspamer Advertising
Paul Larson
Larson
Doug Peterson
Peterson
Cameron McMahon
McMahon
ACM
Don Dougherty
Dougherty
PCA
Stewart and Walker
Louise Lasser Tops Worst Dressed List In Hollywood
AP report notes Louise Lasser leads the year’s worst dressed women list from designer Mr Blackwell. The ranking includes Marilyn Niska Angie Dickinson Charo Ann Miller Juliana Radziwill Loretta Lynn Nancy Walker and Dinah Shore with commentary on each style choice.
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Los Angeles
Louise Lasser
Mary Hartman
Jacqueline Onassis
Mr. Blackwell
Blackwell
Miss Lasser
Dinah Shore
California
Ronald Reagan
Nancy
Mary Tyler Moore
Ann-Margret
Marilyn Niska
Carmen
Sadie Thompson
Angie Dickinson
Charo
Ann Miller
Holland
Queen Juliana
Julie
Lee Radziwill
Lee
Loretta Lynn
Nancy Walker
Wangberg among favorites for 7th District GOP rep choice
A Polk County town meeting in Crookston hosted nine Independent Republicans vying to succeed Rep. Bob Bergland. Rev. Duane Nelson led straw votes with Lou Wangberg and Duaine Hoberg close behind, as the field narrowed ahead of January endorsements.
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Wangberg
GOP Rep
Pequot Lakes
Bemidji
Lou Wangberg
Moorhead
Polk County
Crookston
7Th Congressional District
I-R
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Duane Nelson
Duaine Hoberg
Mike Rowe
Wadena
Nelson
Hoberg
Merlyn Valan
Comstock
Ernie Theraldson
Pierz
Dave Fijeslen
Brandon
Arlan Stangeland
Barnesville
Herb Thiese
Brainerd
Lowell Anderson
Hallock
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Alec Olson
Martin Sabo
Nicholas Coleman
Wendell Anderson
Anderson
North Dakota
United Power Association
Elk River
Cooperative Power Association
Edina
Lake Superior
Reserve Mining Co
Minnesota Partnership For Progress
State Department of Agriculture
Chris Mattison
Northwestern Bell
Larry Petrowski
Thief River Falls
Lake Bemidji
Petrowski
General Revenue Fund
Tolman
Rodney Benson
Walt Fenske
Benson
Fenske
Tom
Congress
Cain
Jim Thoreen
Thoreen
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