Israel Egypt Begin Talks Open Historic Cairo Negotiations
Egypt and Israel began formal talks to end 29 years of conflict amid disputes over the Palestinian issue. Negotiators Esmat Abdel Meguid and Eliahu Ben Elissar sit at a large round table as Washington and Carter influence loom. Begin reportedly carries a peace plan offering wide Sinai withdrawal and semi autonomy for the West Bank.
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Fatal Plunge Over Colorado River Truck Crash
The body of 41 year old Ben Vasquez of Phoenix was recovered after the truck he was driving plunged 300 feet through a retaining wall near Boulder Dam. Rescuer crews evacuated 42 year old Alice Lama of Phoenix in guarded condition with multiple fractures after a 300 foot fall to a Las Vegas hospital.
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Where I Stand by Hank Greenspun
Column expressing views on the 1977 Ford RNC survey and U S defense policy. Greenspun criticizes fence sitters while answering questions on Korea troop withdrawal bomber production and Soviet aims with strong anti communist stance. The piece notes missed deadline and reflects on global freedom and nuclear deterrence.
San Francisco Sniper Shot Down
A lone gunman named Floyd Thompson, about 40, barricaded in a dilapidated San Francisco apartment, was killed after wounding a firefighter and exchanging shots with police for nearly three hours. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and possible smoke inhalation. motive remains unclear.
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Trapped tenant fires apartment, shoots first responder
In a south of Market Street second story unit in San Las Vegas Nevada a tenant identified as Thompson started a small fire in bedding and fired a .38 revolver at firefighter Kevin Gonzales wounding him in the arm. Police later found Thompson unconscious near a smoldering mattress.
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Boy Arrested In Deaths Of 4 Neighborhood Kids
A 14 year old boy, William P. Dyer, is charged with four counts of capital murder for the shootings of four Swift children in Camden County Missouri. Dyer, arraigned as an adult after waiver of jurisdiction, is jailed without bond. another suspect, Ray E. Richardson, 20, faces four capital murder counts.
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Las Vegas Teenager Chokes To Death
A 17 year old Las Vegas girl, Teresa Armentrout of 855 North 18th St, choked at home during dinner and died at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital after paramedics failed to revive her. An autopsy is planned to determine the cause.
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Hughes aide testifies on self injection before Hughes death
John Holmes, aide to Howard Hughes, testified he did not know Hughes was near death until the day before his passing. He said Hughes injected codeine with a syringe a couple of days earlier and may have done so for a period before that while four doctors treated him in Acapulco.
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SUN Apologizes For Late Delivery
The SUN apologizes for a late newspaper delivery on Wednesday due to a malfunction in the inserting machinery in the mail room. The delay was not caused by the newspaper carrier.
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Federal government to intervene in Clark County jail suit
U.S. Attorney B Mahlon Brown says the government will intervene in a civil case filed by jail inmates over overcrowding poor health care and dehumanizing conditions at Clark County Jail. The suit names Sheriff Ralph Lamb and Metropolitan Police Commission members and seeks remedies including racially segregated issues. Negotiations for out of court settlement began with attorneys from both sides.
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Jail conditions prompt out of court settlement talk
The Sun reports Bartley will present a proposal to the six member police commission, with Brown and Cory preferring a possible out of court settlement. The Clark County Jail is described as deplorable and dangerous with reports of sexual assaults riots and inmate deaths since 1975. Two Justice Department attorneys audited the jail in September.
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