Tornado Damage Placed at 500000 in Minnesota
Civil Defense estimates place tornado damage at 500000 across Jackson and Cottonwood counties in southwestern Minnesota. The twister damaged 13 farm buildings and destroyed five homes or cabins near Fish Lake, with 15 more structures damaged. An earlier Blue Earth County storm damaged crops but brought rain to offset losses.
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Jackson
Cottonwood
Minnesota
Roger Benson
Cottonwood County Civil Defense Office
Fish Lake
Windom
Blue Earth
Tammy Wynette to wed John M. Tomlin in Nashville
Tammy Wynette, 34, will marry John M. Tomlin, 31, in a likely garden ceremony in Nashville. Wynette has four daughters and previous marriages to Billy Joe Shaver and George Jones, whose 1975 divorce followed their union. She plans to continue her music career.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tammy Wynette
John M. Tomlin
Miss Wynette
George Jones
Tomlin
Country Music Association
Nashville
Bardot forms foundation to protect nature and animals
Actress Brigitte Bardot fled a Paris news conference after being mobbed by photographers. She announced the formation of a Bardot foundation for nature and animal protection, planning a welcome center for animals, an editorials page, and prizes for environmental films and articles.
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Paris
Brigitte Bardot
Miss Bardot
Aging conference panel urges senior political clout in Minnesota
A two day aging conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter concluded with panelists Ancher Nelson, former Republican congressman, and state Sen Robert Lewis DFL Saint Louis urging senior citizens to organize. Moderator Terry Bock noted 65 to 70 percent of eligible seniors vote but few engage in campaigns or party work.
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ST. Peter, Minn
Gustavus Adolphus College
Ancher Nelson
Minnesota
Robert Lewis
Dfl-St. Louis
Terry Bock
Lewis
Carlton man sentenced for second degree murder
Chester A. Christianson 27 Cloquet was sentenced by Carlton County District Judge Donald E. Anderson to up to 40 years in Stillwater State Prison after pleading guilty to the March 6 strangulation death of Monroe Peterson in Mora.
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Carlton, Minn
Chester A. Christianson
Cloquet
Stillwater
Carlton
Donald E. Anderson
Christianson
Monroe Peterson
Mora
Indictments Target Two Nurses in VA Hospital Poisonings
A federal grand jury in Detroit charged Narciso, 30, of Ypsilanti and Perez, 31, of Evanston with murdering five patients and poisoning 10 others at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital. They face conspiracy to commit first degree murder and are indicted after eleven deaths linked to pancuronium bromide.
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Detroit
Filipina
Narciso
Lenora Perez
Veterans Administration Hospital
Ann Arbor
Mich
FBI
Ypsilanti
Perez
Leonie
P.J
United States
Ann Arbor Hospital
University of Alabama Hospital
Birmingham
Curt Branham
U.S
Jefferson Awards honor seven for public service in 1976
Washington AP Three federal officials top the Jefferson Awards list for 1976 Arthur F Burns Alan Greenspan and William E Simon join six other honorees including Rev Theodore Hesburgh Vilma Martinez S Martinez Felix G Rohanani and John D Rockefeller III. The institute began in 1973 to honor top public service achievements in the United States.
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Washington
American Institute For Public Service
Arthur F. Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Alan Greenspan
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Secretary of the Treasury
William E. Simon
Theodore Hesburgh
Notre Dame University
Vilma Martinez S. Martinez
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Felix G
MPCA rejects Milepost 20 site for taconite dumping
Minnesota Natural Resources Commissioner Robert Herbst remains firm that Reserve Mining should use Milepost 20 near Babbitt and Silver Bay, despite the MPCA board's 5-4 vote against the hearing officer's recommendation. Negotiations run to July 1 as Olson plans a second reconvening before a final decision.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Robert Herbst
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
MPCA
Herbst
Reserve Mining Co
Wayne Olson
Reserve
Babbitt
Silver Bay
Lake Superior
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Olson
Carter’s Debt Leads Democratic Campaign Woes
Carter faces about 1.75 million dollars in debt amid high delegate hopes and a busy fundraising plan including 12 events to reach roughly one million dollars. Lipshutz notes expected funds from federal matching, media reimbursements, and travel pay reduce net debt to about 600 thousand.
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Sea Island
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Carter
Robert Lipshutz
Lipshutz
Ronald Reagan
Jody Powell
Pathologist details FBI agents' wounds in Pine Ridge shooting
Rapid City pathologist Dr. Robert Bloemendaal testified in the Robert Robideau and Darelle Butler trial on Pine Ridge shootings near Oglala on June 26. He described head and neck injuries to Jack Coler and Ronald Williams and discussed bullet fragmentation and bloodstain patterns. Defense lawyers attacked the credibility of a government witness who fled the scene with the defendants.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Rapid City
S.D
FBI
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Robert Bloemendaal
Robert Robideau
Darelle Butler
Oregon
Jack Coler
Ronald Williams
Oglala
Bloemendaal
Williams
Coler
William Kunstler
John Lowe
Wilford Draper
Robideau
Butler
Fitzgerald inquiry hinges on underwater photo findings
A decision on reopening the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking inquiry may depend on a July report from the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center in San Diego. Still photos and TV footage show the wreck in 530 feet of Lake Superior, with limited scanning due to the ship’s burial in mud and the stern’s inverted position.
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Duluth
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