Picasso Portrait Breaks Auction Record at Five Million
New York AP Picasso Self Portrait Yo Picasso sold for 5.3 million, the highest price for a Picasso and 20th century painting at auction. Renoir Two Young Girls Reading fetched 2 million, a Renoir record. both works bought by private collectors. Previous Picasso peak was 3 million for Saltimbanque in 1980.
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New York
Pablo Picasso
Yo Picasso
Sotheby Parke Bernet
Picasso
Auguste Renoir
Renoir
Juliet
J.M.W. Turner
Nerve gas funding drives Senate approval debate
Washington AP Senate narrowly backs a 20 million nerve gas program to produce binary agents DF and DC at Pine Bluff Arkansas. House measure includes the funds and a conference committee will merge it into the final 1981 supplemental bill amid disputes over disarmament and potential US-Soviet conflict.
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Washington
United States
Senate
House
Soviet Union
Pine Bluff
Ark
Congress
Carter
Army
U.S
Three Missouri men face reduced charges in pop machine case
Michael Rellihan James Newman and Delbert Vanderpool were charged after a Best Western motel intrusion. Burglary charges were dropped and misdemeanor opening coin operated machine and tools charges filed. All pleaded innocent and await separate Sept 8 trials. bond remains. Police found a master key and several hundred dollars in coins.
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Missouri
Michael Joseph Rellihan
Independence
James Clifford Newman
Blue Springs
Delbert Max Vanderpool
Paul Handy
Handy
Best Western Motor Inn
East Uss50
Garden City
Three Finney County men charged with marijuana and minor intoxication
Michael Oscar Bergkamp, 40, pleaded innocent to one count of possession of marijuana and posted $500 bond ahead of a June 11 trial. John F. Martinez Jr., 20, faces marijuana possession and felony theft charges after allegedly stealing a pickup. he remains jailed on $10,000 bond with a Thursday preliminary hearing. Don Frederick Hemmert, 20, charged with two counts of furnishing intoxicants to minors for allegedly giving 6 percent beer to two 17 year olds. he awaits a June 18 trial after posting $500 bond.
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Finney County
Michael Oscar Bergkamp
N. 10Th
Bergkamp
John F. Martinez Jr
W. Fair
Ned Phelps
Martinez
Don Frederick Hemmert
E. Fair
Hemmert
Off Duty Junction City Officer Dies From Chest Wound
Authorities identify Patrolman Thomas S. Colgate Jr. in his mid 20s as the officer who died of a chest wound around 11 p.m. Thursday night in Junction City Kansas. The incident involved an off duty officer.
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Junction City
Kan
Thomas S. Colgate Jr
Deaths Margaret Brookshire 69 Garden City resident
Margaret Brookshire 69 of Garden City died Thursday at St. Catherine Hospital. Born June 18, 1912 she married R. M. Brookshire on November 19, 1940 at Lakin. She was a homemaker and First Christian Church member. Survivors include her husband and two sisters Joyce Baldridge Satanta and Peggy Decker New Iberia Louisiana. Funeral Sunday at 3 p.m. Garland Funeral Chapel Rev. Cecil Swindle officiating. Burial Valley View Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel all day Saturday and until service time Sunday.
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Margaret Brookshire
St. Catherine Hospital
Garland Funeral Chapel
Cecil Swindle
Valley View Cemetery
Subscriptions and Rates for Finney County Newspaper
Subscription terms list monthly prices by carrier in county three dollars and seventy five cents per month and outside Finney county three dollars and twenty five cents per month with payment in advance and tax noted. Names Fred Brooks John Frazier LeRoy Allman appear as editor publisher and staff roles.
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Fred Brooks
John Frazier
LeRoy Allman
Finney County
Syrian missiles claim two Israeli spy planes over Bekaa Valley
In Beirut and the Bekaa Valley region, Syria reported Syrian surface to air missiles downed two Israeli spy planes during a spying mission. One drone was also shot down, with wreckage collected. The incidents come as U.S. envoy Habib resumes talks with Lebanese leaders amid regional tensions.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Bekaa Valley
Damascus
Israel
Kafraya
Jib Jannin
Chtaura
Bekaa
Syria
Tel Aviv
Reagan
Philip Habib
Elias Sarkis
Habib
Sarkis
Shafik Wazzan
Middle East
Algeria
Palestine Liberation Organization
Sidon
Brezhnev warns flames of war in Middle East
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev stated the flames of war threaten the Middle East and urged international conferences on the Arab Israel conflict the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. He blamed U S pressure on Iran and potential intervention against the Afghan revolution. Iran and Iraq fight amid long running proxy conflict with Soviet support for Afghanistan.
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Tbilisi
Middle East
Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Persian Gulf
Afghanistan
Brezhnev
Mideast
Washington
Iran
United States
Iraq
Soviet Union
Hussein visit to Moscow fuels plans for Mideast talks
Jordan's King Hussein begins a three day visit to the Soviet Union amid tensions over a broader Mideast conference. Moscow seeks to reassert influence and discuss peace in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan while opposing the Camp David accord and urging separate talks on regional security.
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Hussein
U.S
Israel
Moscow
United States
Egypt
Brezhnev
Persian Gulf
Afghanistan
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United Cash Management
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Telegram Publishing Co., Inc
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