Coal Bargainers To Resume Intensive Talks Today
Bargainers for the United Mine Workers and the soft coal industry recessed after hours of talks and plan to continue negotiations today to end the 95 day strike. UMW officials declined comment, federal marshals prepared to serve court back to work orders, and leaders urged a weekend push toward a contract while the union council and rank and file consider any agreement. The Justice Department admitted missing summons copies in Taft Hartley papers, affecting 1,450 defendants.
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Camicia
Pittston Coal Co
UMW
Arnold Miller
Kenneth Dawes
Miller
Justice Department
Mark Sheehan
Face Shapes and Fates in Personology
Hub discusses how face and personality allegedly correlate through personology, citing Nancy Ross of Bellevue. The piece notes life marks the face, with analysts claiming eyes reveal traits and beauty impacting perception, while cautioning about aging and appearances.
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Nancy Ross
Bellevue
Wash
Hub
Nancy
Robert Whiteside
Interstate College of Personology
San Francisco
Ana Hub
Russians Seek Cuban Troop Cuts In Ethiopia Peace Plan
Washington reports say the Soviet Union will press Havana to cut Cuban forces in Ethiopia once Somalia withdraws. A joint effort with the United States may place a peacekeeping force in the Ogaden, likely drawn from the Organization of African Unity, to enforce a cease-fire. Officials caution that 12,000 Cuban troops complicate success.
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Washington
Soviet Union
United States
Ethiopia
Somalia
Organization of African Unity
Ogaden
U.S
Havana
Senate approves Panama Canal intervention amendment
The Senate voted 84 to 5 to add a provision to the Panama Canal treaties allowing U S military intervention if a nation blocks the waterway. The amendment mirrors a Carter Torrijos joint declaration from October and does not renegotiate the main treaty. Senators sought possible renegotiation of U S troop presence after 2000. Mondale met with uncommitted members as Byrd and Baker backed the amendment.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Carter
Omar Torrijos
Howard Baker
Panama
U.S
Panamanian
Edward Brooke
R-Mass
Sam Nunn
D-Ga
Herman Talmadge
Dennis DeConcini
D-Ariz
Nunn
Talmadge
Panama Canal
Robert Griffin
Michigan
Jesse Helms
North Carolina
William Scott
Virginia
James Allen
D-Ala
New Hallucinogen Cyclohexamine Appears Among Addicts
Narcotics officers report a dangerous new drug named cyclohexamine found in the community. Described as a hallucinogen similar to PCP and phencyclidine, it is not yet banned under state law. Officers bought small samples, noting production in an illicit lab and sales in sizable quantities with little risk of arrest.
Oklahoma Wheat Farmers Face Multi Million Dollar Losses
Oklahoma City AP reports state wheat growers estimate losses at 37.6 million dollars due to severe weather. President Jim Billington of the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association cites six weeks of lost grazing from snow ice and frozen fields and high costs for hay and supplemental feeding totaling about 7.5 dollars per animal over the period. He notes grazing losses at 15 dollars per acre across 2.3 million acres and 400000 stockers or cows affected.
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Klahoma City
Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association
Jim Billington
Altus
Billington
Oklahoma Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Bellmon Bill Seeks Added Voluntary Set Aside Plan
Senator Henry Bellmon co-sponsors the Emergency Agriculture Act of 1978 to require the Agriculture Department to add a voluntary set aside for wheat, feed grains, cotton and soybeans. The measure targets large acre reductions to balance supply and demand and lift farm prices, while permitting grazed or hay production on set aside land. The bill aims to accelerate price support amid a weak market, with administration actions criticized.
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Henry Bellmon
Agriculture Department
Bellmon
Rotary of Agriculture
Bellman
Adinistration
Latins Plan Coffee Withholding To Raise Prices
Eight coffee producing nations agreed to withhold 528 million pounds from world markets to lift prices from about 1.80 to 2.00 per pound. Mexico's Fausto Cantu Pena said the move targets wholesale rates, not a boycott, and retail prices should stay unchanged. Brazil and Colombia did not attend.
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Salvador
el Salvador
Fausto Cantu Pena
Mexican Coffee Institute
Brazil
Colombia
Cantu Pena
Weather outlook for today through Sunday
Fair to partly cloudy conditions through the period with cooler temperatures tonight. Winds shift from northwesterly to light, ranging about 10 to 20 mph as the day progresses.
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Deedy
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