New Year Weather Heads South East Triad Night
The forecast warns of a cool night across the Triad with a shift from south to northeast winds. Skies expected fair to partly cloudy, with highs mostly in the 60s and 70s in the southeast, and lows in the upper 30s to 40s. Increasing clouds and a chance of light rain from the southwest Saturday, then cooler highs in the 50s and a 30 percent Saturday rain chance. Long range calls for showers Sunday through Tuesday.
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Triad
North Carolina
Fresh Hope For Victims Of Leprosy
Researchers report a second armadillo at the Carville leprosy center has contracted the disease, boosting optimism that leprosy in humans could be curable. The development follows earlier work on 77 armadillos injected with the bacteria since 1970, aiming to produce vaccines or cures.
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Washington
Louisiana
U.S
Carville
United States
Star
Carville Hospital
Mrs Nixon Begins Second Foreign Trip as First Lady
Mrs Richard Nixon heads a five member U S delegation to Liberia for the inauguration of President William Tolbert in Monrovia and conducts official visits to Ghana and Ivory Coast. She sails New Year’s Day for a nine day 10000 mile trip, with hospital school tours and meetings with women leaders.
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Washington
Africa
Richard Nixon
Peru
Nixon
U.S
Liberia
William Tolbert
Monrovia
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Andrews Air Force Base
Eisaku Sato
California
Atlantic
Tolbert
William Tubman
Tubman
Accra
Abidjan
Ivorest
African Riviera
Dowdy Convicted in Bribery Scheme in Congress
Rep. John V. Dowdy, a 10 term Texas Democrat, was found guilty on eight counts in a $25 000 bribery case. Jurors convicted him of conspiring to accept a bribe and lying to a grand jury in a trial that also tied him to efforts to shield Cohen s Monarch Construction from a Justice Department probe. Dowdy faces up to 40 years and 40 000 in fines with sentencing delayed seven days for possible new trial.
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Baltimore, Md
John V. Dowdy
Dowdy
Nathan H. Cohen
Justice Department
Cohen
Maryland
U.S
Thomas J. Lane
D — Mass
Congress
Leon H.A. Pierson
Boy Killed Accidentally By Shotgun
An 11 year old Apex boy, Matthew J. Gooch, was killed in Durham County when a .410 shotgun he and 13 year old Paul Thomas Foster were playing with discharged. The shooter, Foster, did not know the gun was loaded and pulled the trigger.
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Durham
Durham County
Marvin Davis
Davis
Matthew J. Gooch
Paul Thomas Foster
Young Foster
Indictment Expands Pentagon Papers Case in Los Angeles
A 15 count indictment adds Rand Corp. associate Anthony J. Russo and Ellsberg as co conspirators with others over stealing concealing and transmitting top secret DoD papers on the Vietnam war. Vu Van Thai and Lynda Sinay named as unindicted coconspirators.
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Los Angeles
Daniel Ellsberg
Anthony J. Russo
Rand Corp
Ellsberg
Russo
Vu van Thai
United States
Lynda Sinay
Ellsberg and
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S
Pentagon
New York Times
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