Safest Year Ever for U S Airlines Cites FAA Record
The Federal Aviation Administration reports 1980 as the safest year in U S aviation history with only one fatal airliner crash among local service trunk and flag carriers, a sharp decline from 1979’s 353 fatalities.
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Chinese party chairman Hua loses grip as Hu Yaobang rises
Hu Yaobang, longtime ally of Deng Xiaoping, appears to lead the 38 million member Chinese Communist Party as Hua Guofeng is pushed toward resignation. Hua reportedly cedes control of the party and military commission, with a central committee reshuffle likely in February and possible abolition of the chairman post.
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Nationwide Homicide Up As 1980 Sets Grim Record
New York, Los Angeles and Chicago led U S cities with the most murders in 1980. Dade County up over 50 percent and Memphis up 30 percent. District of Columbia rose to 202 homicides. Overall 21 456 killed in 1979, numbers for 1980 pending.
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Holiday fires claim 46 lives across nation on New Year weekend
United Press International reports 46 people died in holiday fires nationwide including 14 in New York and seven in New Jersey. A New Jersey blaze killed seven, while Chicago and California incidents left multiple crippled victims and families grieving. In Chicago Gertrude Johnson died of smoke inhalation in an electric dryer fire near her wheelchair. In California and Chicago another fire claimed a disabled woman and her five year old son after a lantern accident during a power failure. A neighbor helped save a two year old daughter in the Widick residence east of Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles supermarket siege ends in double death
Ronald Berryman, 37, described as a three time loser, held hostages in a Ralphs Market for six hours before shooting hostage Claudio Santi and killing himself. Police used tear gas to enter at 8:50 p.m. after a silent alarm triggered by Santi.
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Judge orders arrests over Buckeye High School desegregation clash
In Alexandria Louisiana a state judge authorized arrest warrants for anyone blocking three white girls from attending Buckeye High School amid a fight with Federal Judge Nauman Scott over desegregation. The girls Ramona Carbo Michelle Laborde and Lynda McNeal were in juvenile custody after a dispute about which school they should attend.
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Jailers Held Hostage in Seven Hour Lafayette Standoff
In Lafayette Parish, two jailers were overpowered by 28 maximum security inmates who began the seven hour siege after entering a cell block to investigate alleged inmate rape. The pair barricaded in a laundry room as about 95 inmates armed with improvised weapons vandalized records and property. a deputy secreted on the seventh floor later freed the jailers.
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McHenry Attacks Brzezinski Over Policy Role
United Nations Ambassador Donald McHenry criticizes Zbigniew Brzezinski for assuming too large a role in U.S. foreign policy. It marks a second official rebuke this week from a national security adviser critic.
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Kremlin not ready for action yet against Poland says Aspin
Rep. Les Aspin says the Kremlin has not decided on an invasion and remains aligning its forces though odds favor Soviet action. He notes the impression of steady lines of authority in Moscow may be misleading as decisions are not yet made.
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