Agricultural chiefs seek congressional hearing on looming farmers strike
American Agriculture leaders urged a joint session of Congress to hear their case as a nationwide strike looms. They warned of famine and economic chaos if parity is not achieved and said farmers would withhold buying equipment while seeking government loans using crops as collateral. The movement plans a midnight strike with 50 tractors around the White House.
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United States
Keith Thomas
Maverick Strike Movement
Carter
White House
Thomas
Leslie Bitner
Washington, D.C
Denver
American Agriculture
Springfield
Colo
Bob Keenan
Keenan
Coal strike yields spread of picket action across states
United Mine Workers and coal industry negotiators report progress on major issues while roving UMW members shut down several non union operations in Appalachia. Pickets spill from cars threaten production. vandalism and arrests reported in Pennsylvania Indiana Kentucky and Utah as strike widens.
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Kentucky
UMW
Pikeville
Utah
Lawrence County
Ohio
Ralph Zeon, Inc
West Virginia
Clarion County
Mercer County
Spencer County
Ind
Ohio River
British firemen threaten part timers during walkout
Picketing firefighters surrounded non striking part timers at Epping station and smashed a truck windshield threatening violence unless they joined a month long strike. A union spokesman condemned the violence as the government plan faced overwhelming rejection by more than 6,000 London firefighters.
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UPI
Epping
Britain
Carmarthen
Wales
Fire Brigades Union
England
Warwickshire
Scotland
Hertfordshire
Leicestershire
Bury
Manchester
Three-year-old girl survives Texas plane crash
Helicopter search teams in the Texas hill country found 3 year old Shara Sneed alive amid wreckage seven miles north of Kerrville airport. Three bodies were recovered from the light plane missing since Sunday night, carrying San Antonio attorney Gerald W. Sneed his wife Susy and two children aged three and five. The family had visited the Sneeds' parents in Winters Texas.
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UPI
Texas
Today
Shara Sneed
Kerrville
Department of Public Safety
San Antonio
Gerald W. Sneed
Susy
Sneeds
Winters
Tornado kills person in Houston area and damages homes
A tornado struck the northeast Houston area causing at least one death and multiple injuries. Dozens of homes were damaged and people trapped in a smashed trailer home. Authorities warn the toll could rise as more injuries and damage are assessed.
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United Press International
Houston
Pacific Northwest
Harris County
Corn export estimate rises to record 1.750 billion bushels
The Agriculture Department lifted its 1977-78 corn export forecast to a record 1.750 billion bushels up 50 million from prior projection and 39 million above the 1975-76 record. Exports for 1976-77 ended at 1.684 billion bushels.
Nation's Temperatures and Precipitation Table
The National Weather Service in San Francisco issues a 24 hour table ending at 4 am Pacific time. It lists measured highs and lows, precipitation amounts, and conditions for major regions. The data cover temperature ranges and rainfall or snowfall amounts.
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UPI
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Oregon
Shelter Cove
Mount Shasta
Owens Valley
Upper Deserts
Deserts
50S
National Weather Service
San Fran
Cosmonauts Use Back Door Docking At Salyut 6
Moscow Radio reports Soyuz 26 crew Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko entered Salyut 6 via the back docking entry due to suspicions about the main unit. The crew rested after two days in space and adjusted to weightlessness while ground control monitored progress.
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UPI
Moscow Radio
Konstantin P. Feoktistov
Feoktistov
Salyut
Salyut 5 Space Laboratory
Tass
Yuri Romanenko
Georgi Grechko
Space
Earth
Salyut 6
Grechko
Romanenko
Salyut 6 Space Lab
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