Meat rationing protests flare in Piotkow amid ban
Polish workers in Piotkow occupy a district government building to press for higher meat and butter allotments amid Solidarity’s strikes ban until January 15. Backed by Belchatow miners and other plants, protesters seek to meet officials while the government pledges coupons, but claim shortages persist.
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
Piotkrow
Stanislaw Kotlinksi
Mieczyslaw Jagiewski
Wall Street midday gains buoy stocks and metals rally
The Dow Jones industrial average rose to 942.92 as gains outpaced losers on the NYSE. Precious metals shares led higher with gold advancing about 20 dollars an ounce in London, while NYSE volume stood at 20.88 million shares. Also reported are cattle, hog, and sheep quotes from Kansas City and Chicago grain prices for No. 2 hard red winter wheat and corn.
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Wall Street
New York
New York Stock Exchange
London
ASA Ltd
Campbell Red Lake
Dome
Jeep responds to 60 Minutes on CJ5 rollovers
Toledo based Jeep Corp defends the CJ5 safety saying it is different and safe when driven intelligently while reviewing a 60 Minutes report that Insurance Institute tests showed CJ5 rollovers in J turns and evasive maneuvers. Jeep says it ran similar tests with no roll.
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Toledo, Ohio
Jeep Corp
60 Minutes
Insurance Institute of Highway Safety
Morley Safer
Jeep
Hospital Wedding Keeps Vows For Elderly Couple
In Hutchinson Kansas Nadeen Dennis and Earl Dowell 82 wed despite Dowell’s broken hip from a Saturday wreck near Haven The ceremony moved from a church to a hospital conference room with Dowell in bed An organ was moved in flowers borrowed and a Christmas tree provided the decor The ceremony was led by Dennis the bride’s son a minister from Washington DC and a delayed honeymoon follows when Dowell leaves the hospital.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Nadeen Dennis
Earl Dowell
Dowell
Wichita
Haven
Washington, D.C
David Dennis
Ulysses Youth Struck By Car Hospitalized
Ten-year-old Ernesto Gallegos remains hospitalized at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital after a Saturday collision on Highway 160 near Main Street. Driver Dorothy McGillivray, 68, said she did not see the youth until he ran into the road about 250 feet from Main Street. another vehicle was stopped ahead in the outside lane.
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Ulysses
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital
Ernesto Gallegos
Dorothy McGillivray
Grant County
McGillivray
Two-senator homecoming in Russell Kansas
Russell Kansas hosts a two senator homecoming with Sen Bob Dole and Sen elect Arlen Specter returning to the town of 5400. A two hour reception and open house is planned at a local fraternal lodge. Dole was born in Russell in 1923 and Specter in Wichita in 1930 later moving to Russell.
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Bob Dole
Arlen Specter
Kansas
Dole
Russell
Specter
Wichita
Second opinions spur more surgery in Blue Cross program
A Blue Cross and Blue Shield second opinion program in New York, designed to curb unnecessary surgery, has increased procedures and hospital costs. In 1500 cases, 70 percent followed the first surgeon’s recommendation, while the remaining 30 percent pursued further tests or surgery, prompting officials to re examine the program’s impact.
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New York
Blue Cross
Greater
Manhattan
William Toby
Federal Health Care Financial Administration
Steven Sieverts
Fire at Trapp Family Lodge Kills Guarded Illinois Man
A faulty oil burner sparked a blaze at the von Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont early Sunday killing Ron Becker of Salem Illinois and sending 46 guests into sub zero cold. The fire trapped residents and prompted evacuations as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze in freezing conditions. Baroness Maria von Trapp and other family members witnessed the destruction of irreplaceable mementos from their American life.
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Stove
Johannes von Trapp
Trapp
von Trapp
Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp
America
Baron George von Trapp
Ron Becker
Salem
Judy
Gino Fanicella
Sally von Trapp
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KOR
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Garden City
Holcomb
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Alcoa
Hercules Inc
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Kmart
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TW Corp
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Goldberg
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