Eighth Circuit Chief Judges Meet in Cedar Rapids
Iowa federal district court leaders from Iowa, Arkansas, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Missouri gathered in Cedar Rapids for their annual meeting hosted by Edward McManus. They discussed shared problems and concerns at the First Street court complex.
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8Th Circuit
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Edward McManus
First Street
First Avenue
Arkansas
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
Bahamas wary of PLO plot on ex shah in island escape
Bahamas police tighten security around Paradise Island home of former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after reports the PLO and Yasser Arafat called for kidnapping him. Bahamian protests grow as calls mount for the monarch's departure amid Iran’s revolutionary charges.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Palestine Liberation Organization
Iran
Paradise Island
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Javan
PLO
Hani al Hassan
Yasser Arafat
Shah
Arafat
Salathiel Thompson
Tehran
Hassan
Morocco
Egypt
Islamic Revolutionary
Woman Awakens From Yearlong Coma After Auto Crash
Karen Delahanty of Avon Connecticut regained consciousness after a year in a coma following an auto accident. Doctors doubted survival and awakening but she is alert and able to speak though paralyzed in legs and right arm. Her mother Lorraine believes in miracles and credits faith for the recovery.
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New Britain, Conn
Karen Delahanty
Miss Delahanty
Kaufman hosts midnight milk and cookie bus ride finale at Carnegie Hall
Andy Kaufman stunned 2,800 fans with a midnight snack bus trip to an undisclosed West Side location for 2,800 half pints of milk and as many bags of cookies. The prank followed a TAXI star scoreless wrestling offer and mock performances by Radio City Rockettes and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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NEW York
Carnegie Hall
Andy Kaufman
Bonnie Presser
Manhattan
New York School of Printing
West Side
Kaufman
Abc-Tv
Taxi
Radio City Music Hall
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Santa Claus
Bourne Joins U.N. Post After White House Drug Scandal
Dr. Peter G. Bourne, former chief drug adviser to President Carter, will work for the U.N. in Washington as a coordinator for a water resources project. He will earn 40,000 dollars annually after resigning from a Carter administration post amid disclosure of a prescription written under a fictitious name.
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United Nations
Peter G. Bourne
White House
Washington
U.N
Carter
Donald Casey
Bourne
Return from dead shocks Columbus parents
James and Maxine Blankenship believed they had heard the worst when their son Kenneth, 23, returned home alive after they had started funeral plans. Kenneth had loaned his motorcycle to John Snyder, who died in a crash moments earlier. Local deputies confirmed the fatal crash, with identification by radio reports and a cautious family determination.
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Columbus, Ohio
James
Maxine Blankenship
Kenneth L. Blankenship
John C. Snyder
Columbus
Franklin County
Robert West
Snyder
Blankenship
Kenneth
400000 Hurt in 78 Bike Mishaps Report
Government data show more than 400000 Americans injured in bicycle incidents in 1978 with nearly equal counts among baseball football and basketball players. Skateboard injuries declined though report cautions on hospital reporting changes and category definitions.
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Washington
NEISS
Nancy Johnston
Barnard backs active euthanasia in life quality debate
World first heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard argues doctors may have a duty to let patients die to improve life quality. He urges societal input and legal boundaries while opposing prolonged suffering from kept life support and calls fetus rights into question with questions of what constitutes life.
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Washington
Christiaan Barnard
Barnard
Official sees tight rental housing market
Washington is facing a tight spring rental market as fewer housing units are available and inflation drives up rents. Federal housing commissioner Lawrence B. Simons and others warn vacancy declines since the 1970s recession are limiting new projects, with the Northeast hardest hit and a national vacancy rate of 4.8 percent reported for the first quarter.
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Washington
Lawrence B. Simons
Federal
Jay Shackford
National Association of Home Builders
Carson hints at ABC offer but won’t commit to leaving Tonight Show
Johnny Carson tells CBS that ABC may be courting him yet declines to confirm any job move. In a 60 Minutes interview he recalls a dinner social hint from ABC after hosting the Oscars and says NBC contract runs to 1981. He notes a three day week but still about 135 to 140 ninety minute shows, aiming to stay in TV in a different role.
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New York
Johnny Carson
ABC
Carson
CBS
Mike Wallace
60 Minutes
Wallace
Bel-Air
Calif
NBC
Fred Silverman
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