Jennings Nelson win top CMA country music prizes
At the 10th CMA awards in Nashville Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson shared three wins including single and album of the year for Wanted The Outlaws with Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser. Mel Tillis won entertainer of the year and Dolly Parton Miss Vocalist along with Ronnie Milsap.
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Wanted
The
Outlaws
Jessi Colter
Tompall Glaser
Jennings
Grand Ole Opry House
Tillis
Nelson
Dolly Parton
Ronnie Ae
Waylon
Willie
Ronnie Milsap
Dolly
Willie Nelson
Conway Twitty
Loretta Lynn
Elac Nelson
Waylon Jennings
Mel Tillis
Jack Benny
Country Music Association
UPI
Watergate book by John Dean adds drama to familiar tale
Washington AP reports John Dean's memoir Blind Ambition adds humor and detail to the Watergate saga. The 415 page book recounts White House intrigue, including a scandal involving a cabinet member and a planned operation to exploit Kennedy era secrets. Dean also describes an ostentatious apartment used for probing acquaintances and an aide’s warnings about thwarting investigations.
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Washington
John Dean
White House
Simon and Schuster
Dean
Ford
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Nixon White House
Mae
Xaviera Hollander
New York
Ronald Ziegler
John J. Caulfield
Caulfield
Tony Ulasewicz
Ehrlichman
Jack
John Ehrlichman
Ixon
Tony
Kennedy
Hurricane Carter retrial opens amid tight New Jersey security
The murder retrial of Robin Hurricane Carter and co defendant John Artis began in Jersey City with stepped up security. Carter, 39, and Artis, 31, deny the 1966 Paterson bar killings. The New Jersey Supreme Court had ordered a new trial after finding a prosecutor hid evidence.
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Jersey City
N.J
Robin
Carter
New Jersey Supreme Court
Subdivision in Wyoming Faces Ground Subsidence Crisis
In Rock Springs Wyoming residents fear dangerous street collapses and shifting earth as old coal mine shafts destabilize a mobile home subdivision. Water mains have broken five times in a week, costs rise, and residents seek legal action while officials say responsibility lies with the developer and backfilling plans.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Paul Wataha
Wataha
Howard Routh
Routh
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Union vote may stretch Ford strike
The 28 day Ford strike drags on as the United Auto Workers authorize rejection of the three year deal even if production workers ratify. Early tallies show mixed outcomes with tradesmen split near whether to approve while production workers back ratification about two to one. The agreement adds seven vacation days in 1979 a 3 percent wage rise plus a 20 cent first year bump and improved benefits.
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Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
UAW
Ford
DAW
Rouge
No. 2
Dearborn
U.S. Ford
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