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Newspaper
Lincoln Journal
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1977
Page
3
New Yorkers recall the 1965 blackout when lights failed across the upper East Coast and parts of Canada. The outage, caused by a Niagara Falls power plant fault, halted trains and elevators, shut airports, and paused most newspapers except the New York Times.
Report from New York City during the blackout describes residents scrambling for light and normalcy. Candles appear in Queens apartments as people cope with darkened streets and stalled elevators. Stories include a peddler selling light-up toys, cabbies exploiting the outage, and the Mets Cubs game disrupted at Shea Stadium.
Hundreds of Filipino nurses picketed the federal building to protest the conviction of two VA hospital nurses involved in patient poisoning. They carried signs stating nurses are here to heal not to kill or poison.
The debate over pension eligibility for retired military personnel who work as civilian government employees is likely to be revived as the Senate weighs the defense appropriation bill. The measure is tentatively set for consideration next week.
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