Cicely Tyson Marries Miles Davis in Thanksgiving Ceremony
Emmy winner Cicely Tyson and jazz icon Miles Davis wed in a midnight Thanksgiving ceremony at Bill Cosby's Massachusetts home. Andrew Young officiated. Cosby served as best man and gave away the bride. Guests included Dick Gregory Gloria Foster Al Freeman and Clarence Williams.
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Hollywood
UPI
Cicely Tyson
Miles Davis
Atlanta
Andrew Young
Massachusetts
Bill Cosby
Miss Tyson
Davis
David Brokaw
Cosby
Young
United Nations
Dick Gregory
Gloria Foster
al Freeman
Clarence Williams
Jane Pittman
Downbeat
Miles Smiles
Soeerer
Nefertiti
Sagan withdraws as witness in Arkansas creationism suit
Author Carl Sagan withdraws from testifying for plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging Arkansas 1982 creationism law. Plaintiffs contend the law requiring teaching creationism with evolution violates church state separation. Trial set to begin December 7 in U.S. District Court. Dearley represents the plaintiffs.
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Little Rock, Ark
Carl Sagan
Public Broadcasting Service
Robert M. Dearley
Little Rock
Sagan
U.S. District Court
Nine songwriters elected to Hall of Fame in New York
Bob Dylan, Jerry Herman and Paul Simon lead nine post-1950 writers elected to the National Academy of Popular Music Hall of Fame. Also honored are pre-1950 peers Gordon Jenkins Harold Rome and Meredith Willson plus three deceased writers Rube Bloom Jerry Ross and Al Stillman.
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New York
UPI
Bob Dylan
Jerry Herman
Paul Simon
Jerry Ross
al Stillman
Reaganville protest near White House ends with nine arrests
Park Police arrested nine demonstrators near the White House for camping without a permit as they planned to reopen a Lafayette Square tent city. The group, including Mitch Snyder, planned to return with tents while opponents argued the action would disrupt peace and quiet across from the presidency.
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Washington
UPI
Park
White House
Reaganville
Lafayette Square
Pennsylvania Avenue
Executive Mansion
District of Columbia Superior Court
Lafayette Park
Wendy Bobbitt
Community For Creative Non-Violence
Mitch Snyder
Richard Miller
Justin Brown
Carol Fennelly
Patty MacDonell
Robert Ducan
Elizabeth Tiernay
William Thomas
Herman Antoine
Herbert Hoover
Snyder
Federal
Charles R. Richey
American Civil Liberties Union
Rescuers Seek Survivors After Sunken West German Freighter
Off Bermuda the Elma Tres sank in 12 to 15 foot seas with 24 crew aboard. One dead and one rescued, 22 missing as foul weather halted searches. The Royal Eagle, Chancellorville and three Coast Guard aircraft aided in the manhunt for survivors.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Atlantic
U.S. Coast Guard
Royal Eagle
Coast Guard
Jim McGranahan
New York City
Navy
U.S
Chancellorville
Sable Island
Halifax
Black Sea
Montreal
North America
Boston
McGranahan
Haig Shamir hold talks on Sinai peacekeeping impasse
Secretary of State Haig and Israeli Foreign Minister Shamir met for 74 hours and expressed optimism on possible proposals to resolve Israel's veto of European participation in the Sinai peacekeeping force. Shamir planned to return to Israel, while Begin faced surgery and hospital Cabinet deliberations.
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Washington
Alexander Haig
Yitzhak Shamir
Shamir
Israel
London
State Department
Haig
Menachem Begin
Sinai
Begin
Uri Porat
Independence guerrillas fire on Fort Buchanan guardhouse and bomb San Juan power plant
UPI reports nine shots from a light rifle struck a U S Army guardhouse at Fort Buchanan near San Juan injuring a military policeman who was taken to a VA hospital in satisfactory condition. A separate bombing at a city power station caused flames to rise 15 feet, cut electricity to Condado, and left two dead with at least 12 hurt.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
UPI
U.S. Army
Fort Buchanan
United States
Veterans’ Administration
U.S
Army Reserve Officer Training Corps
Condado
Tehran bombing hits crowded Wali Assr street
In Tehran on Friday a bomb exploded on the Wali Assr shopping thoroughfare killing two people and wounding 12, marking the third attack in the capital that week. Eyewitnesses report windows blown out and a supermarket damaged as Hashemi Rafsanjani had denounced prior bombings.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Tehran
Hojjatoleslam Hashemi
Rafsanjani
Wali Assr
Hyatt Chicago ordered to limit access over structural defects
City and Hyatt engineers found inadequate supports in the cocktail lounge reception area and a bridge linking East and West towers. Access cuts restrict bridge capacity from 124 to 60, reception to 130 from about 400, and cocktail area to 10 people from 10 tables.
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Chicago
Hyatt Regency
Hyatt
Kansas City
Kansas City Hyatt Hotel
Nick Fern
Department of Inspectional Services
Chicago Hyatt
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elliot Richardson
Adlai Stevenson
Linus Pauling
Peoples Unitarian Church
3Rd Ave
Cedar Rapids
Sandra Alley
Park Police
Haig, Shamir
Collmay
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Santa
Ardan
Godfather’s Pizza
1St Ave. S.E
Ae Grew
TV Rey Sin
Erith
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