Shevchenko's wife suicide shocks UN diplomat in Moscow split
Soviet diplomat Arkady Shevchenko called his wife Leongina Shevchenko’s death by overdose a heavy blow as he sought U.S. help to bring their 16-year-old daughter Anna to America. He had stepped down from his UN post after defying Moscow.
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UPI
Arkady Shevchenko
Moscow
Washington
United States
Shevchenko
Leongina
Anna
Soviet Union
U.S
Ernest Gross
Gennady Shevchenko
Geneva
Births in Mercy area and outside towns listed
May 9 and May 10 births announced for several families in Mercy and surrounding areas. Daughters born to Williamson Curr Ringgenberg Squires Northrup plus sons to Barnd Hall Yakish Sargent and others. Out of town birth reported Milwaukee for Claffey daughter.
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Oth St
Michael Curr
Old Marion Road
William Yakish
Staub Court
James Barnd Jr
25Th Ave
Marion
Dennis Ringgenberg
10Th St
Robert Squires
Vinton
Warren Hall
Monticello
Neil Sargent
Mount Vernon
Carol Ann Northrup
Central City
Milwaukee
Mike Claffey
Claffey
Waldo Berger
33Rd St. SE
House may split energy bill sidestepping oil tax
House leaders signal plans to separate the five section energy measure and pass three non tax elements. Conferees have tentatively approved energy conservation programs industrial coal conversion and electricity rate guidelines while natural gas pricing remains unresolved.
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Washington
House
Carter
Thomas O’neill
D-Mass
Senate
Jogging Not Reducing Heart Attack Risk in Pigs UC Study
University of California researchers found that jogging 25 miles a week did not lower heart attack risk in pigs. Pigs on treadmills lost 20 percent of body weight but showed no improvement in circulation indicators of heart attack risk, challenging human extrapolation.
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LA Jolla
Calif
University of California
Max Sanders
Uniform octane rating bill heads to final approval
Legislation creating a uniform octane rating system for gasoline passes the Senate 95 to 0 and would shield service stations from arbitrary contract cancellations by fuel distributors. A House-Senate conference will reconcile differences with a House measure.
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Washington
Senate
House-Senate
Civiletti Confirmed as Deputy Attorney General
Benjamin Civiletti’s confirmation as deputy attorney general ends a 17 day process marked by Senate opposition. Twenty two Republican senators voted no while seventy supported his appointment amid investigations into the Carter administration’s U.S. attorney replacement in Philadelphia.
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Washington
Benjamin Civiletti
Senate Judiciary Committee
David Marston
U.S
Philadelphia
Kunstler to appeal NY ruling on Little return to North Carolina
Radical lawyer William Kunstler says he will pursue a federal appeal after New York Court of Appeals ordered fugitive Joan Little to return to North Carolina by May 19 to finish her burglary sentence. Little has said she would rather die than go back, citing the 1970s jailer Abuser case that drew national attention.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
William Kunstler
New York State
Joan Little
North Carolina
State Court of Appeals
Miss Little
Speedup Proposed for Tank Car Safety Equipment
The Adams administration proposes accelerating the installation of new safety devices on railroad tank cars carrying dangerous chemicals after deadly wrecks. Public comment runs until June 26 before a final rule is issued.
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Washington
Federal Railroad Administration
National Transportation Safety Board
Transportation
Brock Adams
Adams
Jetliner Crashes in Escambia Bay. 58 Aboard
Federal investigators opened inquiries into Flight 193 as the National Airlines three engine jet crashed into fog ridden Escambia Bay three miles offshore from the Pensacola airport. Fifty eight aboard. three of fifty two passengers drown. Investigators report no immediate reason for the notrequired altitude at impact.
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Pensacola
Fla
National Airlines
Escambia Bay
Gulf Oil Sues Westinghouse In Uranium Price Fix Case
Gulf Oil accuses Westinghouse Electric of false claims to boost nuclear plant sales and monopolize uranium business in a Chicago federal suit that counters Westinghouse’s prior action. The Justice Department also charges Gulf with antitrust cartel activity from 1971 to 1974.
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Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil Corp
Energy Company
Gulf
Chicago
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Justice Department
International Uranium Producers
Youth killer faces 40 to 70 year term in elderly neighbor's death
Detroit AP report notes 16-year-old Lark Baker pled guilty to second degree murder in the last year slaying of Alice Mangian 83 a widow found beaten and lashed to a chair in her southwest Detroit home. Judge Ravitz urged extreme parole caution to protect public safety.
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Lark Baker
Recorder’s Court
Alice Mangian
Justin Ravitz
State Parole Board
Baker
Carter urged to promise Israel more F 15 jets
Washington AP Two cabinet officials urge President Carter to promise 20 additional F-15 fighters for Israel to win congressional approval of the arms sale to Israel Saudi Arabia and Egypt by 1983 The plan would raise Israel's total jets to 110 matching Saudi totals and could win votes in the House committee May 28 deadline looms.
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Carter
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
White House
Cyrus Vance
Harold Brown
House International Relations Committee
Congress
House Committee
Henry Kissinger
Brown
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