Shultz luncheon gaffe over Taiwan silverware at Chinese visit
Washington AP: Secretary of State George P. Shultz hosted Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian with careful table settings but an apparent protocol slip as utensils bore Taiwan origins. The incident echoes a 1975 Ford dinner misstep with Taiwan chop sticks.
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Wu Xueqian
Taiwan
Gerald R. Ford
Beijing
U.S
China
Mostly sunny and warm today with a 67 degree high
Accu Weather calls for mostly sunny skies, breezy and warm with a high near 67. Tonight turns increasingly cloudy with a chance of a late shower and a low around 46. Details A-8
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Felts Arrests W H Hall On Train Bound For Radford
Baldwin Fels detective T L Felts of Bluefield arrested W H Hall at the depot on a train bound for Radford. Hall faced charge of seduction by local officials dated March 8 1898.
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Two BSC nursing students killed in milk truck crash
A milk truck overturned on a car near Bluewell Monday morning, killing Pamela Ball 19 and Anna Virginia Shrader 20 both BSC nursing students. Driver John Dickerson 19 was flown to WVU Medical Center in very critical condition. Front seat passenger James Ball 20 admitted stable at BCH. truck driver Gary Wayne Holland 36 treated and released.
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McComas
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Montcalm
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John Dickerson
West Virginia University Medical Center
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James Ball
Gary Wayne Holland
Roanoke
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Lorton Lick Road
Route 71
Old River Road
Sysco Food Service
William Gearheart
Residents urge removal of dangerous Montcalm curve
outraged residents held a Monday town meeting at Montcalm Fire Department to demand the Route 71 Route 15 curve be softened or removed after a crash killed two nursing students and injured two others. Bus driver Johnny Clower described the blind curve as risky for daily student trips to Montcalm Elementary and High School.
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Montcalm High School
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Montcalm Fire Department
Charleston
Ralph Munsey Sr
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State Department of Highways
Norma Shrader
Ann Shrader
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Tazewell county schools report a reasonable budget plan
TAZEWELL Va The school system proposes a "reasonable and realistic" 1988 1989 budget amid state funding delays and tightened local finances. Superintendent Frank Cosby notes potential local funding gaps, rejects school closings, and outlines about 500000 in savings from about 5 percent teacher cuts and retirements. A public hearing will be held next Monday.
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Tazewell County
Frank Cosby
Cosby
Gerald Baliles
Board of Supervisors
Bush's Super Tuesday Day Drives Republican Drive
A New York Times News Service report outlines George W. Bush's campaign momentum on Super Tuesday highlighting wins and strategy, with emphasis on key states, delegate gains, and the evolving Republican effort across multiple primaries.
Regional primaries reshape South race in 14 states
Voters across the South face a first ever regional primary as 753 Republican and 1,307 Democratic delegates are at stake. Candidates blitz air ports with last minute appeals while Democrats run telephone banks and ads in Virginia. Republicans call the pace “business as usual” amid widespread nominating activity in 14 southern and border states plus three extra contests.
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Virginia
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Washington
Senate weighs reviving gas tax plan in West Virginia
Senate leaders indicate support to revive Gov Arch Moore’s gasoline tax increase if the House agrees but House Speaker Chuck Chambers rejects. The session focuses on budget bills education property reappraisals sales tax and solid waste while House panels move on abortion limits for welfare mothers and harsher penalties for harming children.
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Senate
Arch Moore
House
Chuck Chambers
House Judiciary Committee
Wallace
House Education Committee
West Virginia Turnpike Commission
Chambers
House Finance Committee
Moore
D-Cabell
Si Boettner
D-Kanawha
Senate Democrats
Boettner
Virginia House revives speed limit measure
The Virginia House revived a plan to raise the rural interstate speed limit to 65 mph and to require covering truck loads. The House passed a Senate traffic accident reports bill 62 to 36 with the amendments and sent it back to the Senate for concurrence. The Senate committee had previously killed the 65 mph speed limit and a covered truck bill.
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