Siberian Tunguska Mystery Are we closer to answers now
This article concludes a six part series on the 1908 Siberian explosion, noting key figures like Leonid Kulik and Aleksander Kazantsev, debates over an interplanetary vehicle and a 30 megaton high altitude nuclear yield, and the shift in cosmology as space research progresses.
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Leonid Kulik
Aleksander Kazantsev
Tunguska
Russia
Soviet Union
Siberia
Siberian
Whitehead
Kazantsev
NASA
Mars
Venus
The Fire Came By Explodes in Siberian Sky
The article discusses extraterrestrial life prospects and rewrites the 1908 Tunguska event as a nuclear space craft crash. It blends cosmology with a speculative reconstruction of the explosion, describing an interstellar vehicle overheating and vaporizing in Siberia near the Arctic region. The piece cites The Fire Came By by Jona Baoxt and Thomas Atkins.
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John Baxter
Thomas Atkins
Siberia
Isaac Asimov
Arthur Clarke
Tunguska
Jona Baoxt
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Carswell pleads guilty battery charge in sex case
G Harrold Carswell once nominated to the Supreme Court pleaded no contest to a battery charge after an undercover officer said he was touched. A charge of lewd and lascivious act was dropped. He was fined 100 dollars. The case stemmed from an incident in Tallahassee's mall area.
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Tallahassee
Fla
G. Harrold Carswell
Supreme Court
Carswell
Leon County
Hal McClamma
Harry Morrison
Murray Wadsworth
Merton Edwall
U.S. District Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Nixon
Senate
Georgia
George Greene
Greene
Morrison
Florida
Allied Chemical faces Kepone case sentencing in Virginia
Allied Chemical Corp. awaits sentencing on 940 counts tied to Kepone pollution of the James River after being cleared on nine related counts. The company could face up to 13.5 million dollars in fines. it also won acquittal on aiding Life Science in dumping toxic pesticide into the Hopewell sewer system. Merhige dismissed 144 pollution charges and conspired charges. Allied remains involved in civil suits with potential damages over 100 million dollars.
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Richmond, Va
Allied Chemical Corp
James River
Allied
Life Science Corp
Life Science
Hopewell
Merhige
Brown Signs California Right-To-Die Measure
Gov. Brown signed a law allowing terminally ill patients to die with a doctor shutting off life support when a living will is in place. The bill, effective Jan. 1, prompted by the Quinlan case, applies only to consenting adults and requires witnesses and renewal every five years.
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Brown
California
Sacramento
Calif
Edmund Brown
Karen Anne Quinlan
New Jersey
Gray Davis
Los Angeles
FCC Chairman Defends Phone Competition Order
FCC Chairman Richard Wiley argues against claims higher rates will follow continued industry competition. He cites subsidies that kept rates low and says private line charges cover costs, while AT&T foes seek tighter monopoly powers, and hearings proceed into the proposed bill moving to the next Congress session.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Richard Wiley
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
John DeButts
Wiley
At&t
Communications Subcommittee
Congress
DeButts
Bell Telephone
Alfred Kahn
New York Public Service Commission
Glenn Watts
Communications Workers of America
Judge Denies Bond Appeal in NAACP Case
Jackson Mississippi AP Judge George Haynes refused to grant a new trial or reduce the 1.56 million bond for the NAACP and 128 others tied to a 1960s boycott of white merchants. Defendants must post by Saturday to appeal while NAACP seeks loans and state supreme court relief.
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Frank Parker
State Supreme Court
Haynes
NAACP
New York
Ford Signs Vet Bills to Extend Veteran Benefits
President Ford signed two measures giving cost of living raises to about five million veterans and survivors. One bill permanently extends an 8 percent increase plus a 7 percent boost for the first group. the second provides an 8 percent COLA for pension rates for service-connected disabilities and extends to spouses and children. The package is projected to cost about 832 million dollars for fiscal 1977.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Ford
Italian Workers Strike Aeroflot Ground Staff
Italian ground employees of Aeroflot in Rome walked out for two days in protest of two women clerks being fired. The union called the strike lawful and said it violated working discipline, marking a second two day stoppage by Fulat for Italian and non Italian airline workers.
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Rome
Aeroflot
Fulat
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Siberian Woods
Indian Ocean
Dome
Arctic
Siberian Plateau
Kepone
U.S
Robert Merhige
Ita
Smulekoffs
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