City seeks churches to house 36000 homeless nightly plea
New York Mayor Edward Koch asks each church and synagogue to shelter ten vagrants per night after a consent decree to provide overnight shelter. Officials cite crowding in city facilities and neighborhood resistance to new shelters as barriers while churches weigh fire, health, and security needs.
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Lower East Side
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Queens
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Edwin O’brien
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Broadway
Paul Selden
Nobel Prizes Awarded Amid Protests and Banquets
In Oslo King Olav awarded the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees with Hartling saying prize funds will aid medical equipment for disabled refugees. Police arrested 15 protesters outside the hotel during a hydroelectric dam demonstration in northern Norway. In Stockholm laureates, including Torsten Wiesel, received prizes as King Carl Gustav hosted a banquet for ten laureates. The prize totals reached a record 181000 dollars per prize.
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Norway
UPI
Olav
U.N. High Commission For Refugees
Paul Hartling
Hartling
Lapp
Stockholm
Sweden
Torsten Wiesel
Andrei Sakharov
Carl Gustav
Roger Sperry
David Hubel
Elias Canett
James Tobin
Roald Hoffmann
Japan
Kenichi Fukui
U.S
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Artur Schawlow
Kai Siegbahn
Desi Arnaz in serious condition with intestinal ailment
Desi Arnaz, 64, was hospitalized in San Diego after stomach pains and diagnosed with a diverticulitis flare up. He previously underwent multiple surgeries in 1969 70, and his condition remains serious as spokespeople provide updates on his health.
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Calif
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Lucille Ball
Arnaz
Scripps Memorial Hospital
del Mar
Linda Nygren
Scripps
Edie
Marvin Moss
Miss Ball
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to disband February
The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, longtime Gilbert and Sullivan producers, will disband in February with a possible revival if funding is found. Trustees said the 106 year old touring troupe will give final curtain on February 27, ending weeks of speculation over its future.
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D’oyly Carte
Riley
Drury Lane Theater
London
D’oyly Carte Opera Company
Diggs Denied Maryland Apprentice Funeral Director License
Former Michigan congressman Charles Diggs aged 59, known for Detroit’s House of Diggs, has been denied an apprentice funeral director license in Maryland due to his mail fraud conviction. Diggs served 10 months in federal prison for a payroll kickback scheme and now seeks licensure after moving to Prince George's County. He works at a Baltimore funeral home handling paperwork while awaiting approval.
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UPI
Michigan
Charles Diggs
House of
Alabama
Diggs
Prince George’s County
Maryland
Detroit
Baltimore
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