Giant 450-pound giant squid washes ashore in Massachusetts
Dr Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian Institution examines the remains at the New England Aquarium in Boston after the giant squid washed ashore at Plumb Island Newburyport. The body length excluding tentacles measured seven feet. The last such event in Massachusetts occurred in 1908.
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Clyde Roper
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
New England Aquarium
Boston
Plumb Island
Newburyport
Mass
Aquarium
Massachusetts
Japan Likely to Overtake U S as Largest Automaker in 1980
Japanese auto makers project a 10 percent production rise in 1980 reaching about 10.6 million vehicles, aiming to surpass the United States as the world’s leading car producer. Toyota and Nissan expect strong growth with export boosts, while plans to build in the United States are briefly evaluated.
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Tokyo
United States
Japan
Toyota Motor Co
U.S
Toyota
Nissan Motor Co
Nissan
Honda
Ohio
Conferees weigh windfall for individual taxpayers
A House Senate conference committee cleared a path for final action on Carter era windfall profits tax on oil after breaking a stalemate. They kept the oil tax in effect through Sept 30 1990 and weigh funding an income tax cut up to 201 a year for individuals and 400 for couples.
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Washington
House- Senate
Carter
Conference Committee
Fires in Brooklyn apartments kill nine including mother and children
Two separate blazes in Brooklyn brick apartment buildings killed nine people, including a mother and her five children. Officials blamed youths using gasoline after a quarrel for the first fire, while the second blaze caused three deaths and five injuries with the cause still unknown.
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New York
Brooklyn
FBI sting tale: Kelly admits cash to fuel personal probe
Florida Republican Rep Richard Kelly says he took $25000 in cash from FBI operatives posing as Arab financiers as part of his own investigation into crooked figures. He kept the money in his car and later returned all but $174 spent, while the Abscam operation faces broader political corruption probes across Congress and New Jersey officials.
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Congress
FBI
Richard Kelly
Florida
Justice Department
Philip Heymann
House
Senate
New Jersey
Brendan Byrne
Trenton
N.J
Joseph Lordi
State Casino Control Commission
Albert Merck
Byrne
Lordi
Newark
Joseph Silvestri
Silvestri
Joseph Maressa
Atlantic City
Maressa
Kelly
NBC Nightly News
David Brinkley
Gino
Heymann
Thomas P. O'Neill
Benjamin Civiletti
Howell Heflin
D-Ala
Williams
Howard Cannon
Las Vegas
Heflin
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Murphy
John Murphy
D-N.y
Frank Thompson Jr
D-N.j
Michael Myers
D-Pa
Raymond Lederer
John Jenrette
D-S.c
John Murtha
Dpa
Abscam
Oil chiefs warn of production cuts without fair returns
Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani said oil producers may cut output unless they receive a reasonable return above inflation. He cited inflation eroding profits and said the view is shared by Gulf Arab states. The remarks came at an international business symposium in Davos Switzerland.
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Davos
Switzerland
Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Yamani
Arabian Gulf
Afghan prisoners to be visited by Red Cross
The Soviet backed Afghan government will allow an International Red Cross team to visit political prisoners in Afghan jails. The IRC said this followed a complaint that the government had reneged on a promise to permit such visits.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Red Cross
IRC
Canada would bar draft dodgers if U S drafts again
External Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald said Regina would not open its borders to draft dodgers if America reinstates the selective service. She noted Canada would not return to the Vietnam era open policy that accepted about 50 000 to 100 000 Americans.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
UPI
Canada
America
Flora MacDonald
Miss MacDonald
U.S
Vance to Europe for Western ally talks on Afghanistan
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will travel to Europe in about two weeks to confer with Western foreign ministers in Bonn about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The discussions aim to coordinate policy and include possible military and economic aid to Pakistan with a tentative meeting around February 20.
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UPI
Cyrus Vance
Europe
Afghanistan
Vance
Bonn
West Germany
Pakistan
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