Cease-fire opens path to Lebanon peace talks
Lebanon's latest truce moves toward talks to end a 10 month civil war. Rival gunmen withdrew from Beirut districts and two-thirds of the country remains under Palestinian, Syrian-backed, and Lebanese forces. Talks aim at a permanent settlement with Moslems seeking more parliamentary and civil service representation. cabinet meets Wednesday as observers watch for progress.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Said Zuheir Mohsen
Abdel Halim Khaddam
Syria
Khaddam
Rashid Karami
Tal Zaatar
Jisr al Pasha
Knox Trail reenactors finish 300 mile Cambridge march
Knox Trail volunteers arrived in Cambridge after a snowy 300 mile reenactment from upstate New York begun December 10. Led by Pat Harrington of the Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, the group endured cold and illness yet reported high spirits, three meals daily, and historically faithful gear and costumes.
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Cambridge
Mass
UPI
Knox Trail
Pat Harrington
Watertown Arsenal
New York
Col
Henry Knox
Knox
Fort Ticonderoga
George Washington
Ms. Harrington
Bicentennial Commission
Prayer on N H ballots faces voter decision
Concord New Hampshire United Press International reports the State Board of Education voted to urge school districts to place the question of school prayer on district warrants for voter consideration. A 1975 state law already permits voluntary recitation of the Lord s Prayer in elementary schools.
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Concord
N.H
Dukakis Says Ford Administration Afraid of Full Employment
Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis criticizes the Ford administration as fearfully avoiding a nationwide full employment policy. During a New England Regional Commission meeting, Dukakis cites inflation as a distraction and notes Kennedy era full employment. Rhode Island Governor Philip Noel attacks block grant proposals while Maine’s James Longley backs local decision making on revenue sharing. Vermont’s Salmn applauds the energy bill. New Hampshire’s Meldrim Thomson and Connecticut’s Ella Grasso did not attend.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts
Michael S. Dukakis
Ford Administration
Dukakis
New England Regional Commission
Nercom
Kennedy
Rhode Island
Philip Noel
Maine
James Longley
Vermont
Thomas Salmon
Ford
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
Ella Grasso
Connecticut
Unneeded surgery cost 4 billion and lives, House panel says
Washington report says doctors performed about 2.38 million unnecessary operations in 1974, causing 11,900 deaths and costing nearly 4 billion dollars. The House subcommittee urges HEW to require second opinions for elective surgery among Medicare and Medicaid patients and to study differences in surgeon pay models.
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Craig Palmer
Washington
UPI
House
Oversight
Health, Education and Welfare
David Mathews
HEW
Congress
National Institutes of Health
American Hospital Association
Supreme Court upholds warrantless search in custody case
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 2 that custody does not by itself compel coercion to allow a warrantless search for evidence if the suspect has been read his rights. The decision, by Justice Byron White, involved Henry Ogle Watson who was arrested without a warrant and later had his car searched with consent, yielding two stolen credit cards.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Henry Ogle Watson
Watson
9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
William J. Brennan
John Paul Stevens
Tennessee
Pro Western forces retreat in Angola as Savimbi moves HQ
In Angola, anti communist forces retreat from Huambo as Soviet backed troops advance. Jonas Savimbi relocates the National Union HQ 100 miles east to Silva Porto. Cuban led MPLA pushes south with tanks. Western journalists barred from battlefield as Savimbi vows to fight to the death to defend Huambo.
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Huambo
Lusaka
Jonas Savimbi
National Union For the Total Independence of Angola
Silva Porto
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Angola
National Union
Savimbi
Byrne urges Atlantic Ocean oil and gas exploration
New Jersey Governor Brendan T. Byrne called on the Interior Department to start offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and to revamp the federal offshore energy program. Over 200 officials scientists and oil executives attended the public hearings seeking time to speak during three days of sessions on environmental impacts and energy policy.
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Atlantic City
UPI
Brendan T. Byrne
Interior Department
Atlantic Ocean
Byrne
Atlantic
Ford Administration
New Jersey
Delaware
Baltimore Canyon
Nixon
Independence
United States
Congress
Obscenity charges possible over SIU marijuana study
UPI reports U.S. Attorney Henry Schwarz would press obscenity charges against Southern Illinois University if immunity from marijuana possession is granted to fund a two year study at SIU Carbondale on marijuana effects on sexual arousal. Harris Rubin would pay about 60 adult male volunteers $10 to $25 per session to smoke marijuana and view pornographic films while their arousal is measured.
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East ST. Louis, Ill
UPI
U.S
Southern Illinois University
Henry Schwarz
Schwarz
SIU
Carbondale, Nl
National Institute On Drug Abuse
Siu-Carbondale
Harris Rubin
Rubin
Dense New England fog disrupts touring candidates and flights
About 15,000 air passengers including two Democratic presidential hopefuls faced delays as thick fog shut New England airports and slowed Boston traffic. Logan Airport canceled landings at 2 p.m. and halted departures at 3:15 p.m. Governor Wallace scrubbed a Chicopee rally after his flight was canceled. Sargent Shriver’s Boston flight was delayed about 30 minutes.
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Boston
UPI
New England
Pennsylvania
National Weather Service
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Chicopee
Barnes
Sargent Shriver
Ron Brinn
Massachusetts Port Authority
Logan International Airport
Baby Brother doll pushes realism in Mattel ads
Hawthorne California UPI Mattel Toy Co says its Baby Brother Tender Love doll is made to the last detail from hair to under shorts with a discreetly shaded nude image. TV codes block full disclosure, prompting a print campaign aimed at mothers and a noted market demand for a realistic male doll.
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Hawthorne
Calif
UPI
Mattel Toy Co
Rubenstein
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