Terre Haute Welcomes Martin With Unusual Tour
Comedian Steven Martin visits Terre Haute Indiana for a tongue in cheek city showcase. He tours a fertilizer plant a car wash and a fried chicken bucket while town officials greet him at the airport and later city hall. The visit includes gifts a restaurant luncheon and train traffic jokes as locals celebrate their farming community.
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Ind
Steven Martin
Martin
America
Playboy Magazine
Indiana
Real
Vicki Weger
William Brighton
Maxim’s
Paris
Playboy
Weger
CF Industries
Jones and Beezy
Smiley
Haughey named prime minister designate in Ireland
Fianna Fáil members chose Health Minister Charles Haughey 54 as prime minister designate after Jack Lynch announced his resignation. Haughey is seen as more sympathetic to IRA aims than Lynch. Lynch had led as prime minister for nine of the last 13 years.
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Dublin
Ireland
Charles Haughey
Fianna Fair Party
Haughey
Jack Lynch
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Lynch
Stroller Goes From Baby Transport to Christmas Tree Carrier
Minneapolis housewife Sherry Hubbard uses a stroller to carry her 1 year old Hanna on her back while the stroller also hauls the family Christmas tree along a snowy sidewalk showcasing versatile, energy efficient use.
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Sherry Hubbard
Minneapolis
Hanna
Carter plans standby gas rationing with coupon basis
Washington AP report details a new standby rationing plan pegged to vehicle registrations. The plan would activate if supplies fall 20 percent for 30 days, giving ordinary motorists 75 percent of normal use, with extra rations for farming and public services. Duncan cites voluntary state targets and possible nonrationing options while aiming to cut 1980 gas use to 7 percent below 1979.
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Carter
Energy
Charles W. Duncan
Duncan
House
Congress
Ing
Energy Secretary
Fire kills four in Ogden Skid Row hotel blaze
A man attempting to keep warm allegedly started a room fire at Reed Hotel in Ogden. Four people died and 14 were injured, with at least four critically, as flames swept the second and third floors. Police arrested Robert Leatherman on a negligent homicide warrant.
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Ogden
Utah
Robert Leatherman
Charles Buzick
Buzick
J.W. Stevens
Reed Hotel
Carter pushes NATO unity on new nuclear missiles
President Carter sought to keep NATO intact amid Soviet propaganda by urging Norway and planned talks with Denmark and the Netherlands to back a new generation of missiles in Western Europe. He met Norway's Prime Minister Odvar Nordli and planned a meeting with Dutch PM Andreas van Agt.
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Kjeld Olesen
Cyrus R. Vance
White House
Zbigniew Brzezinski
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Brussels
U.S
Washington
Carter
Norway
Netherlands
Europe
Odvar Nordli
Andreas van Agt
Libyan Offer To Compensate Fails To soothe U S embassy ransacking
U S officials say Libya promises compensation for damage to the Tripoli embassy after about 2000 demonstrators burned it. Washington seeks assurances of protection for American diplomats as the embassy remains closed and personnel relocate to another building.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Tripoli
Libya
Tax cut sentiment grows in Senate as 1981 plan falters
In Washington, sentiment for a major tax reduction rises with election near. Senators narrowly rejected Republican windfall profits amendments to cut taxes in 1981 and beyond, while a smaller deduction restoring state and local gasoline tax deductions remains under consideration. President Carter’s advisers warn tax cuts now may spark inflation.
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Washington
Senate
Russell B. Long
D-La
Carter
Henry Bellman
R-Okla
Jury interference in Black Tuna trial investigated
A judge faced threats as a $1 million plot to derail the Black Tuna drug-smuggling trial led to indictments of seven people including three defendants and a defendant’s wife. FBI officials described plans to remove the judge, bribe jurors, and kill a witness during the halted trial.
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Miami
FBI
Arthur Nehrbass
Ronald E. Reese
Reese
Britain picks Soames as Zimbabwe Rhodesia governor
The British government names Lord Soames as governor of Zimbabwe Rhodesia to lead a transition to independence next year. A cease-fire deal faces threats from the Patriotic Front over troop withdrawals and camp arrangements, while U S sanctions are set to lift once the governor assumes control.
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UPI
Britain
Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
London
Patriotic Front
Wartorn
Margaret Thatcher
Lord Soames
Dur
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Soames
Sir Winston Churchill
Thatcher
House of Lords
U.S
Abel Muzorewa
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