Panama Leaders Seek Changes To Salvage Canal Pact
Panamanian Gen Omar Torrijos seeks treaty modifications to salvage the Panama Canal pact as U S Senate opponents demand changes. Senate Minority Leader Baker signals possible amendments or reservations to avoid a second referendum, with Torrijos to present proposals.
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Panama City
U.S
Senate
Omar Torrijos
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Torrijos
Baker
United States
White House
State Department
Romulo Escobar Bethancort
Farallon
John Chafee
Rhode Island
Jake Garn
Utah
Canal
City Police Seize $3 Million Worth Of Drugs In 77
City police reported more than 3.3 million dollars in illegal drugs seized in 1977, with 163 narcotics cases involving 220 people. 122 cases involved marijuana or hashish possession, 38 involved controlled substances, and 12 involved heroin. Police withheld some reports to protect officers and informants. A Kansas field raid yielded a 14 acre marijuana crop near Lawrence worth about 3 million. Separate busts of 102 thousand dollars of marijuana were linked to McAllen and El Paso. Prostitution arrests rose to 148 through November 1977.
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Jack Partin
Police Department
Partin
Lawton
Kansas
Lawrence
Kan
McAllen
el Paso
Texas
Radio City Music Hall to close after 45 years
Radio City Music Hall in New York will shut down after its April 12 Easter show due to heavy losses. President Alton G. Marshall cited attendance dropping from 5 million in 1967 to under 2 million last year and projected 1978 losses surpassing $3.5 million. Mayor Koch pledged efforts to keep it open.
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New York
Radio City Music Hall
Rockefeller Center Landmark
Alton G. Marshall
New York City
Marshall
Edward Koch
Martha Graham
Ray Berger
Stormy weather triggers fatal plane crash in California
Torrential rains and gale winds flooded Southern California streets and caused a fatal Piper PA-22 crash near Cleghorn Canyon after leaving Ontario Airport. Three people died as floods damaged freeways, a Whittier home, and a San Dimas shop. Forecasters warned of more rain while Sierra snowpack rose. Temperatures ranged from 70 in Florida to minus 2 in Montana.
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California
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Sierra
Cleghorn Canyon
Ontario
Chico
Federal Aviation Administration
San Dimas
Whittier
Carter and Giscard honor veterans at Omaha Beach memorial
President Carter joined French President Valery Giscard d Estaing at a Normandy ceremony atop a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach. They laid wreaths at a bronze memorial for Americans who died in Europe’s liberation and spoke of lasting French American partnership and resolve to keep Europe’s freedom safe. The event drew 9,386 American war dead in European graves and total American service members in Europe.
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Europe
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Normandy
Paris
Giscard d’Estaing
Germany
U.S. First Infantry Division
D-Day
American Legion
Giscard
Cere
Slaying at Pocola Ends Spangler Family Rift
In Pocola Oklahoma a man shot and killed his estranged wife and her parents then wounded their teenage son before taking his own life. The victims were Charles and Mrs Lowery Vickey Spangler 19 and Donald Spangler 26. Steve Lowery 17 wounded by buckshot and Phillip Spangler 2 also injured. Authorities continue investigating motive and sequence of events.
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Pocola
Okla
LeFlore
Ray Kirkland
Charles Lowery
Vickey Spangler
Donald Spangler
Lowery
Steve Lowery
Spangler
Fort Smith, Ark
Kirkland
Phillip Spangler
Fort Smith
Joe Moore
Oklahoma
Lowerys
Moore
Aid Level To Continue Fed Student Count Drops
Lawton schools show a slight drop in federally affected students from 52 to 51 percent of enrollment as October counts shrink from 19 149 in 1976 to 18 945 in 1977. Total enrollment falls from 10 1047 to 9 690, but officials expect impact aid to stay near 1976 levels due to rising per student cost basis.
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Lawton
Howard Kuchta
Kuchta
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