Algerian Leader Urges Continuation of Oil Embargo
Algerian President Boumedienne pressuring King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to prolong the oil embargo on the United States. El Moudjahid notes ending the embargo would be seen as yielding to American threats as Boumedienne meets with Egypt and Syria leaders in Algiers. Separately in Saigon, 57 Vietnamese were killed along the Saigon Mekong Delta highway in clashes as Communists attack to disrupt rice supply.
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Algiers
Houari Boumedienne
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
United States
Egypt
Syria
el Moudjahid
Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Benny Quiet 80th Birthday Plans Amid Small Celebration
Jack Benny, turning 80, plans a quiet day with filming a TV commercial and a small Friday celebration with close friends and wives of Gov. Ronald Reagan Milton Berle and George Burns. His one badge line remains age is mind over matter.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Jack Benny
Jack
Benny
Ronald Reagan
Milton Berle
George Burns
Optometrists Win House Backing To Administer Eye Drugs
Harrisburg AP reports a House approved bill would let optometrists apply drugs to the eye surface. A 113-86 vote followed extended debate on optometrist training and diagnostic use of drugs. Auditor General Casey flags a retirement bill as boosting lawmakers pensions by 10 percent and increasing debt by over 250 million dollars, urging Governor Shapp to veto. Commonwealth Court rules weekly pay periods for railroad workers conflict with Railway Labor Act, siding with Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland against state law. Republican Harry Fox petitions for recounts after a tight loss in the 12th District. Democrat John Murtha plans no immediate resignation or move to Congress until vote questions are settled.
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Harrisburg
House
Robert Casey
Shapp
Casey
Commonwealth
Baltimore and Ohio
Maryland
United Transportation Union
Johnstown
Harry Fox
John Murtha
Congress
Alumni Centennial Coins Go On Sale
Silver and bronze coins commemorate Corry Area High School Alumni Association's 100th meeting. Coins feature the keystone and old English letter C. Sale underway today at several city locations as part of the Alumni Centennial celebration planned for late May.
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Corry Area
Hotchkiss
South Center Street
Marine Bank
National Bank of Corry
Grice’s
Public hearings set by WQLN on February schedule
WQLN and PPTNC officials announce public hearings at WQLN Erie from 9 30 a m to 4 p m on Friday and Saturday to gather citizen input on local and statewide public television programming. A panel will videotape, with about 200 interviews planned in Erie Titusville Meadville and Corry.
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Edward P. Junker
Pennsylvania Public Television Network Committee
PPTNC
Robert J.chitester
WQLN
PPM
Pennsylvania
Peach Street
Erie
Channel
Titusville
Meadville
Corry
Channel 54
PPTN
Hershey
Exiled Solzhenitsyn Stays Hidden in Germany
Exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn remained in semi seclusion at Heinrich Boll’s country home near Langenbroich Germany after being expelled from the Soviet Union for his book The Gulag Archipelago. He told reporters he could not answer questions and planned to follow his family’s movements as they join him abroad. The Kremlin banished him, stripping his citizenship and expelling him to live abroad with his amassed fortune. Solzhenitsyn may relocate to another European country per officials.
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Langenbroich
Germany
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Heinrich Boll
Solzhenitsyn
Bonn
Bell
Russia
Tass
Moscow
West
Gulag Archipelago
Kremlin
West Germany
Switzerland
Soviet Union
U.S.S.R
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Edward Heath
Fritz Heeb
Solzehnitsyn
Leon Trotsky
Most Women Still Enjoy Valentines in Liberal Era
In Los Angeles a professor of history at California State University says women's liberation has not diminished affection for Valentine's Day. He notes most women still value chivalry and tenderness of the holiday, while a school staffer adds that the majority of women remain content with roles as wives and mothers. Thelma Solomon of Every Woman's Village cites a student body of 1,700, 75 percent women, average age 35 to 40.
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Los Angeles
John Tipple
California State University
Tipple
Thelma Solomon
van Nuys
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Washington
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Cleveland
A. Bruce Smith
Michelle McLean
Journal
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Carlisle
Theatre BE
Sao
PaNasint
Etrocom
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Morth
Center Street
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