Carlin returns to Topeka after honeymoon
Governor John Carlin resumed duties in Topeka after a three day honeymoon with Karen Hurley. Details of the honeymoon location remained private. The Carlins flew out of Topeka on a state plane and returned late Monday. Carlin met staff after arrival and planned a Denver meeting later that day.
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Kan
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Carlin
Bill Hoch
Kansas
Hoch
Carlins
Topeka
Karen Hurley
First Lutheran Church
Patrick
Marci
Lisa
Statehouse
Air Force laser probe fails in first test over California range
Air Force researchers failed to shoot down a 2,000 mph Sidewinder air to air missile with a laser from a modified KC-135 over China Lake California. Spokesman Col. Bob O'Brien said the test failed and reasons remain under study. Officials stressed a practical laser weapon is years away despite ongoing research since the 1960s.
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Air Force
Bob O’brien
Air Force Systems Command
China Lake
Calif
O’brien
Airborne
Israel strikes Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon
Israeli jets attacked Palestinian strongholds in southern Lebanon with artillery shelling rocket sites near Abul Aswad and Beaufort Castle. State radio reported 15 killed or wounded in Lebanon while the PLO denied casualties. Across Beirut clashes continued and Habib prepared to resume diplomacy amid Syrian missile tensions.
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Lebanon
State
Zahle
Christian Voice of Lebanon
Yasser Arafat
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Israel
PLO
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Tyre
al Fatah
Arafat
Mediterranean
Beaufort Castle
Free Lebanon
Syria
U.S
Philip C. Habib
Mideast
Tishrin
Habib
Menachem Begin
Gunman holds 120 hostages at New Haven nursing home
Dominic Giordano, 59, seized the New Fairview Hall Convalescent Home in New Haven after entering with a shotgun and handgun about 11 p.m. Monday. For roughly 72 hours he held about 120 elderly patients, two nurses, and delayed police efforts before being subdued and taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital. He had recently been diagnosed in personal crisis and depressive at a Veterans Administration hospital.
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New Haven, Conn
New Fairview Hall
Dominic Giordano
New Haven
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Giordano
Denise
Edward Morrone
Morrone
Robert Silver
Silver
Veterans Administration Hospital
West Haven
Man accused in fatal fire in Egan Louisiana
Ronald H. Enos, 31, held on 3 million bond after a fatal blaze that killed his three daughters Tessie Ray Smith 5 Stacy Enos 2 and Amanda Enos 4 months. He allegedly beat his wife Susan Enos and shot at them before the house burned. Enos captured naked while allegedly attempting to steal a neighbor's car.
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Enos
Crowley
Elton A. Arceneaux
Harvest frost damage clouds Kansas wheat outlook
Topeka AP report says frost May 9-10 masked by cool wet weather. statewide 20 percent of wheat has turned color, well ahead of last year. Wheat heads nearly all formed. frost may trim 1981 crop from 412.5 million to about 300-320 million bushels. Corn, sorghum, and soybean planting lag. moisture adequate to good with improving pastures.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Cryonics suit goes to jury in California case
Jurors begin deliberations in what may be the first cryonics lawsuit. Relatives of four bodies frozen by the Cryonics Society of America accuse former president Robert Nelson of fraud and emotional distress after a mausoleum in Chatsworth revealed rotting bodies upon opening last March. Defendants argue the work was experimental and no promise of indefinite preservation was made. The families initially sought 10 million dollars but now pursue unspecified damages.
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Los Angeles
Cryonics Society of America
Chatsworth
Robert Nelson
Superior Court
Nelson
Joseph Klockgether
Robert G. Winterbotham
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