Off The Wall Start Fire Damages Las Vegas Center
A Saturday fire at 952 E. Sahara Ave in Commercial Center destroyed at least a dozen shops including Off the Wall Fashions and Pots n Pans. Damage is about 2 million dollars, with the building condemned and many stores gutted or damaged. Investigators pursue cause. no arson suspected.
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Village Square
Commercial Center
Leroy Hawks
Sahara Ave
Hawks
Metro
Las Palmas
Las Vegas
Sunrise Hospital
H and H Enterprises
Magic Number Tops as Beirut Evacuation Surges
UPI reports the United States evacuated over 300 Westerners from Beirut on a Navy landing craft code named Operation Fluid Drive. 116 Americans and 147 Britons boarded for a 40 hour voyage to Athens, escorted by armed Palestinian guerrillas and Lebanese forces.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
United States
Ford
Damascus
Syria
Spiegel Grove
Athens
Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Arab League
Mahmoud Riad
Riviera Hotel
Stan Valerga
Navy
Pat Soubra
Washington, D.C
Soviet Warships Move Through Bosphorus to Aegean
Two Soviet vessels including a landing craft and a destroyer crossed the Bosphorus with large amounts of military equipment and troops en route to the Aegean Sea. Officials said the destination was unknown and no further details were given.
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Istanbul
Turkey
UPI
Bosphorus
Aegean Sea
Turkish Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Soviet marriage crisis spurs push for family services
Moscow lawyer A Belyavsky urges a state marriage service to combat high divorce and low birth rates. He cites 20 million unmarried 20–40 year olds, 600,000 divorces yearly, and a birthrate drop from 27 to 18 per 1000 since 1950. He calls for a national center coordinating introduction, compatibility prognosis, and counseling.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
A. Belyavsky
Moskovsky Komsomolets
Belyavsky
Canadian pilots walk off over air safety protest
Canadian airline pilots abandoned flights at 3 a.m. in a safety protest linked to a dispute over French in air traffic control. Air Canada and CP Air sought injunctions while CALPA urged pilots to avoid flying amid nine near misses cited in the past month.
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Montreal
API
Canada
United States
Canadian Airlines
Air Canada
CP Air
Canadian Airline Pilots Association
CALPA
Ken Maley
Ottawa
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Sun Castle Pottery
The
Philippine House
Jeans ‘N’ Tops
Kirby Vacuum Center
Shoes By Nine
Animal Services Unlimited
Edie Adams Cut and Curl
Marge’s Hallmark
DS of Vegas Gifts and Jewels
Golden Nonsense Shop
SUN Southern Nevada
Las Vega
BELL
Nevada
New York
Jimmy Carter
Henry Jackson
Georgia
Abraham Beame
Cochairman
Queens
Donald Manes
Jackson
Morris Udall
Carter
Beame
Siberia
Bridge Perereeer
Dr. Thosteson
Seeenee
Ann Landers
Fremont
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