Holiday surge boosts early December new car sales
Detroit report finds UPI surveyed dealers noting a 35 percent rise in early December new car sales over last year as buyers show price sensitivity and fuel economy concerns. Analysts estimate 195000 sales for Dec 1-10, with GM predicting 1976 total at 10.25 million.
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UPI
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Thomas A. Murphy
Reagan pushes responsible Republicanism at Houston confab
Ronald Reagan addressed party leaders from 13 southern states in Houston urging the Republican Party to make responsible Republicanism its core platform for 1976. He framed the stance as essential to party unity and electoral success.
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Ronald Reagan
Southern Republican Conference
Houston
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UPI
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Dutch plan to storm hijacked train over Molucan holdouts
Dutch authorities weigh three options to free 24 held aboard a Groningen to Amsterdam train seized by five South Moluccan gunmen. Mediators report cordial exchanges as police and Marines plan a possible forceful rescue if captives face fatal harm.
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Netherlands
UPI
Amsterdam
Pacific
Teen squad arrests swarm Californ ia campuses
On the eve of marijuana law liberalization undercover officers dressed as students arrested 59 youths yesterday on nine campuses for marijuana possession and obtained warrants for 17 more, raising totals to 285 arrests in three months.
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UPI
California
Mariene Law
Teen Squad
Congress fears U S Angolan involvement in Vietnam scale war
Washington reports rising congressional alarm over clandestine U S military aid to Angola and a hard line State Department stance. Kissinger warned at NATO Brussels of a Soviet foothold while lawmakers press for Congressional authorization and debate aid levels amid allegations of secrecy and possible escalation.
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UPI
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Brussels
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Zaire
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Vietnam
Don Bonker
D-Wash
Dick Clark
Iowa
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Sen
Clifford P. Case
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Moscow
Weather slows traffic as Las Vegas sees rain and snow
Southern Nevada drivers faced slick roads as rain and snow moved through with winds up to 30 mph. Nevada Highway Patrol cited accidents at Mount Charleston but no injuries. McCarran Airport recorded .05 inches of rain by 5 p.m. with more showers likely through Sunday and temperatures near 30 overnight and around 50 today.
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Metro
Weather Bureau
Five Indicted in Troy Kidnapping Case
A Rennselaer County grand jury indicted three men and two women over a two month confinement and torture of James Whitback 27. Whitback remained in critical condition at Albany Medical Center after being dumped from a car October 30. Irene Richardson and Mary Jane Richardson were charged with kidnapping and assault. Charles H. McIntosh 30 faces two counts of first degree kidnapping and two counts of second degree assault.
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N.y
UPI
James Whitback
Washington Park
Troy Whitback
Albany Medical Center
Irene Richardson
Mary Jane Richardson
Charles H. McIntosh
Langley Base uses discharge grounds in LGBTQ case
Hampton, Va. UPI The Langley Air Force Base commander who earlier this year discharged Sgt Leonard Matlovich for homosexuality weighs a recommendation to discharge him on the same grounds The discharge board recommended Thursday that Sgt Richard W Hicks 23 be discharged also through the same process.
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Hick
Alton Thogersen
Thogersen
Hicks
Matlovich
Vietnam
Air Force
John McLucas
Two Southern California youths held on auto theft charges
Harold Stinson and Ene Rodney Hill, 18 and 19, were taken into Las Vegas Metro Police custody on auto theft charges after allegedly stealing two cars in Las Vegas and a motor home in Los Angeles. They were nabbed at Stateline trying to return to California in a late model Thunderbird. A Lincoln Continental stolen from Caesars Palace remains missing. Police say the suspects damaged the stolen car during escape, and the pair also drove the motor home toward the Nevada border before abandoning it.
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AMC
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Los Angeles
Highlander
Western St
Metro
Noain
California
Las Vegas Metro
Nevada-California
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Ene Rodney Hill
Long Beach
Stateline
Las Vegas
Caesars Palace
Sharks Close Five NSW Beaches After Mass Sightings
Authorities shut five New South Wales beaches after 500 sharks were spotted near the coast from Sydney to Terrigal. Surf rescue pilot Ian Baldham said the sharks filled the 62 mile stretch with sightings in breakers and along the shore. Hammerheads were also seen near Sydney harbor as warm currents and large schools drew the predators.
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Australia
UPS
New South Wales
Ian Baldham
Terrigal
Sydney Harbor
Kidnapped bank executive slain after abduction in Ohio
James L. Crawford, 25, assistant manager of a National Bank of Detroit branch in Grosse Pointe, was abducted December 5 and fatally stabbed 23 times. Four suspects, three men and a woman, were arrested. Crawford staggered a quarter mile before dying, his body found by a police dog along a rural road.
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Ohio
UPI
Licking County
George A. Gressle
James L. Crawford
Grosse Point
Mich
Ofice
National Bank of Detroit
Crawford
Gressle
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