Father charged in girl's kidnapping case in Louisiana
Ronald Hocum was arrested after a televised plea for his daughter's return. Clay Gaulon and Levi Cage were also jailed in the plot, with a fourth man sought. Lori Hocum, 17 months, was found wandering in a New Orleans shopping center hours later. Gaulon and Hocum were linked to planning and babysitting the child before release.
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Metairie
Ronald Hocum
Jefferson Parish
Harry Lee
Clay Gaulon
Levi Cage
Gaulon
Lee
Hocum
Lori Hocum
New Orleans
Western Reserve Life Insurance
Bill Schaff
Schaff
Man Threatens Jump From Golden Gate Bridge
An unidentified man perched on the outside railing during rush hour and threatened to jump to his death three times. Bridge workers and Highway Patrolman Mark Lynn talked with him for over an hour before they pulled him to safety.
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Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Mark Lynn
Surprise 70th birthday party for President Reagan at White House
Reagan arrived in the East Room for a black tie dinner dance hosted by Nancy Reagan. Guests included Jimmy Stewart Frank Sinatra Walter Annenberg and many California friends while Vice President Bush White House staff and relatives joined a large homemade card from Tampico Illinois.
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Washington
Reagan
East
California
Nancy Reagan
White House
Roosevelt Room
Oval Office
Tampico
Ill
Jimmy Stewart
Frank Sinatra
Walter Annenberg
Kitchen Cabinet
George Bush
Maureen
Neil
Brother charged in forgotten Ramapo murders
Ramapo town clerk Robert Nugent and banker Charles Simpson were killed on an upland Ramapo mountain trail in 1952. On Friday, John Louis Youmans, 54, was held without bail after his sister's long-silent accusation led to indictment and arrest.
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Goshen
N.Y
Harry Truman
Korea
Gary Cooper
Robert Nugent
Ramapo
New Jersey
Charles Simpson
John Louis Youmans
Youmans
Sterling Forest
Nugent
Joseph Hurbanek
Composer Hugo Montenegro Dies in California at 55
Hugo Montenegro, famed for western film themes including The Good The Bad and The Ugly and Hang Em High, died at his Palm Springs home at age 55 after months of illness due to emphysema. He also wrote music for television such as I Dream of Jeannie.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Hugo Montenegro
Clint Eastwood
Montenegro
Jeanie
Ankara
Turkey
Istanbul
Mahmut Dikler
Dikler
Turgut Ergulen
Turkish Peoples’ Liberation Party Warriors
Oil barge explosion leaves four workers missing
An explosion and fire on an oil storage barge in Terrebonne Parish left four workers missing and feared dead. The barge owned by Union Texas Petroleum Co. was at Orange Grove Tank Battery No 1 on Bayou Black. Antil Construction Co. workers were at the site when the blast occurred.
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Houma
Terrebonne Parish
Danny DeRoche
Sheriff's Office
DeRoche
Union Texas Petroleum Co
Lafayette
Rod Erskine
Union Texas
Orange Grove Tank Battery No. 1
Bayou Black
Erskine
Antil Construction Co
Vatican
Rome
ANSA
Comrades For Feminine Counter-Power
China
Mao Tsetung
Jiang Qing
Gang of Four
Peking
Harris defense rests as psychiatrist probes drug withdrawal in Tarnower case
Jean Harris's lawyer ends his presentation after a Manhattan psychiatrist testifies she may have been withdrawing from drugs on the night Doctor Herman Tarnower was killed in Purchase New York. Prosecution ready for rebuttal as trial moves toward defense exhibits on Monday.
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White Plains
N.Y
Jean Harris
Scarsdale
Herman Tarnower
Westchester County
Russell Leggett
Joel Aurnou
Manhattan
Harris
Tarnower
Bay Area transit workers attacked amid call for protection
San Francisco mayor orders armed undercover officers on buses after two more drivers are attacked. A $5,000 reward is offered for information on the fatal bus driver shooting, with $2,500 more from the Transport Workers Union. Three shootings in less than a month have left two drivers dead and others assaulted.
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San Francisco
Dianne Feinstein
Basque separatists kill kidnapped engineer at Lemoniz plant site
Basque ETA shot and dumped Jose Maria Ryan near Bilbao after his company Iberduero refused to demolish the $1.6 billion Lemoniz nuclear project. The father of five was seized Jan. 29 and killed within a week in a forceful warning.
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Bilbao
Spain
Jose Maria Ryan
ETA
Ryan
Lemoniz
Basque Land and Liberty
Iberduero
Four Miami rioters convicted in white beating deaths case
A bi racial jury in Miami convicted three young blacks of second and third degree murder in the three white men’ s deaths during race riots. A fourth defendant was acquitted. The rioting followed the acquittals of four white ex police in the McDuffie case.
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Miami
Samuel Lightsey
Lawrence Capers
Leonard Capers
Patrick Moore
Benny Higdon
Robert Owens
Charles Barreca
Liberty City
Arthur McDuffie
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U.S. District Court
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McKenzie
Charles Bridges
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Westdale Mall
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