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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1986
Page
8
Accu-Weather forecast for Bluefield and Princeton notes cloudy periods with sun and cooler conditions. Highs near 38 today and 36 tomorrow, with lows around 28 today and 26 tomorrow. Yesterday’s temperatures reached 34 high and 27 low.
The nation faces a partly sunny to cloudy pattern with highs around 40s and 50s in scattered regions. Record temperatures are cited for Dec 29 including 66 high in 1984 and 3 low in 1961. Forecasts predict showers from Washington to California, snow in the Great Lakes, and rain across Texas and Louisiana.
More than 50 Soviet emigres gathered at Kennedy Airport to fly back to Moscow, the largest group ever to leave the United States at once. Many say they cannot adapt to American life. 55 were slated to depart on an Aeroflot flight late Sunday. The exodus follows earlier returns in October and November.
Brandon Lee, a Plano fourth grader, bent to stroke Katy the boa constrictor during a school lunch event. Barbara Lee, his mother, paid 165 dollars to benefit the PTA, as Jim Dunlap the snake owner and Bibs Toney the PTA faculty representative joined the lunch.
In Des Moines the Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows U S Senator Gary Hart of Colorado as the top choice for the 1988 presidential nomination with 56 percent support among 204 Iowa Democrats surveyed December 8 to 16. Mario Cuomo follows with 13 percent, then Bradley 5 percent, Jackson 4 percent, Babbitt 3 percent, and Gephardt Biden Bumpers Nunn Dukakis Robb each at 1 percent.
Orlando experts warn of a rising trend of child crime from armed robbery to murder with 1,311 youths under 18 charged with murder nationally last year. Florida cases include Jeffrey Bailey, 10, charged with second degree murder after drowning 3 year old Ricardo Brown, moving to adult court. other incidents include a 6 year old pushed into a pool. Kathleen Heide of USF notes about 10 percent of adolescent killers are nihilistic and crime may be a sport or result from abuse. The old rule of seven guiding criminal responsibility fades as age thresholds shift.
James J. McAdam Jr a 40 year old from Woodbury New Jersey endures an environmental allergy that confines him to a bedroom clad in aluminum foil. He avoids dust chemicals and fumes using filters and a strict living regimen while doctors note the rarity of his condition.
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