Beirut calm holds as Lebanon seeks path after nine month war
Sporadic gunfights persist in Beirut and Damour after a truce backed by Syria and Palestinian groups begins, while crowds hear calls to end fighting. Veterans like Saed Salam call the trek to nation-building underway as looting disrupts roads and bodies are burned in Damour.
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Trk
Beirut
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Salam Tora
Damour
Draft registration ended lottery out
KINGTON UP I Selective Service Director Byron V. Pepitone said all draft registration and the 1976 lottery drawing are canceled. He cited Defense Department manpower analyses and said conscription could resume if needed. Provisions allow future reactivation.
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UPI
Selective Service
Byron V. Pepitone
Pepitone
Defense Department
Nebraska Breezy Mild Weather Forecast
A low pressure trough from western Minnesota through southeast Nebraska shaped today’s weather with gusty northwest winds. Skies were clear to partly cloudy with mild readings, highs near the mid 40s to 50s and overnight lows in the teens to 20s. The forecast calls for fair skies through Saturday as colder air arrives.
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United Press International
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Nebraska
Strome
Finnerty
Setubal
Harsh Wind Chill Paralyzes New England in Deep Freeze
The region endures a brutal cold with wind chill up to 118 below zero atop Mt Washington while Boston reports 3 below. Commuters face delays as trains stall and brakes fail. Police note several nonfatal heart attacks from overexertion while clearing snow.
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United Press International
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New Hampshire
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Siberia
Randy Gober
Mystic River
Somerville
Mass
National Weather Service
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Fifth Avenue
Colebrook
N.H
Borden Helms
Westfield
Portsmouth
U S and Soviet Study New Arms Ceiling Formula
US officials say Washington and Moscow are examining a formula to cut the Vladivostok 1974 ceiling by about ten percent. Brezhnev and Ford may seek a long term 1977 to 1985 limit, with the USSR potentially dropping 400 missiles and bombers while the US keeps current levels. Angola intervention and Cuba pressure affect detente progress.
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U.S
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Russia
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Cuba
Angola
Colby Urges More Congress Power Over U.S. Intelligence
Former CIA Director William Colby tells Congress that oversight should increase, but he attacks leaks of secret information given to lawmakers. He proposes a joint House Senate committee to monitor intelligence secrets and warns such a panel must protect secrecy to avoid harming intelligence operations.
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Senate
Colby
Ford
Congress
George Bush
Education bill advances in legislature amid debate
Nebray lawmakers backed an education bill described as a ground rules framework for local civil matters by Senator Ralph Kelly and as a fair compromise by Senator Maurice Kremer. The measure would have allowed a rural district board of education to approve annexation of parts of its district by a larger city with 5,000 or more residents except Lincoln and Omaha.
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Nebray
Grand Island
Ralph Kelly
Aurora
Maurice Kremer
LBS
Kremer
Miatri
Board of Education
Lincoln
Omaha
High temperature tops 8 degrees at Long Beach
The National Weather Service logged the warmest Thursday reading outside Alaska and Hawaii as 8 degrees at Long Beach California. The day's low reached 29 degrees below at Glens Falls New York.
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UPI
National Weather Service
Alaska
Hawaii
Long Beach
Calif
Glens Falls
Doctors’ strike hits California clinics with partial shutdowns
General practitioners back specialists as malpractice insurance costs surge. In Los Angeles about 73 percent of 4,400 primary care physicians limited or closed practices, with two thirds of San Diego doctors taking similar actions. Pharmacists allowed safe refill of prescriptions without doctor consent when physicians were unavailable.
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UPI
San Diego
County Medical Society
Ofcs
Society of
Allen Swartz
Los Angeles Times
DeCamp bid to kill cockfighting bill fails in Lincoln
Lincoln Nebraska Senator John DeCamp led a party line bid to defeat a bill raising cockfighting fines. The measure would increase first offense penalties to 1000 and subsequent offenses to 15000, drawing opposition over concerns it could criminalize training dogs for work or assist other activities. Supporters labeled the opponent’s arguments as misleading and emphasized the bill targets cockfighting only.
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Neb
UPI
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Neligh
Bil
DeCamp
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Larry Stone
Omaha
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Ernest Chambers
William Nichol
Roney
John Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
Nebraska to hold presidential primary with crowded field
Nebraska Secretary of State lists two Republicans and nine Democrats in the May presidential primary race. Carter, Bayh, Wallace, Jackson, Shriver, Bentsen, and others appear in the early gate. Muskie and McGovern show rising support while Connally Byrd Shapp are not likely contenders.
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UPI
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Kent Ford
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Fred Jarris
George Wallace
Birch Bayh
Henry Jackson
Argent Shriver
Morris
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Robert Byrd
Milton Shapp
Frank Church
Terry Sanford
Edmund Muskie
George McGovern
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