Court Fight Over Return Of Crown To Hungary
Federal judge to rule by Jan 4 or 6 on injunction to prevent transfer of the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary. Senator Robert Dole leads suit claiming U S possession safeguards it from Soviet forces and cites 1947 Paris Peace Treaty terms. Crown delivery to Budapest scheduled Jan 6. case tests treaty approval requirements.
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Kansas City
Kan
St. Stephen
Hungary
Budapest
Earl Fr. O'Connor
Robert Dole
O'Connor
U.S
Carter
Dole
R-Kan
U.S. District Court
Washington
U.S. Senate
7Th Army
Europe
United States
Firefighters Injured In K C Blaze
New Orleans AP report says a fire broke out early today atop grain elevator silos after an explosion two days earlier. Water supply was hard to reach the blaze as crews worked to prevent further detonation of explosive grain dust and assist recovery for missing and killed in the Continental Grain complex blast.
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New Orleans
Dwight Duay
Westwego
Duay
Mississippi River
Continental Grain Co
Ehrlichman Granted Brief Christmas Furlough
Ex-Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman, serving a 1 1/2 year sentence for Watergate cover up, leaves Swift Trail Federal Prison for a five day Christmas furlough with 14 other inmates including former Oklahoma governor David Hall who faces four concurrent terms.
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Ehrlichman
Dear Santa Letters From Lynn and Derrick Landrum
Two holiday notes from children request gifts for Christmas. Lynn Landrum, age seven, asks for a baby alive set, blankets, a sewing machine, a dressing table, and toys, promising homemade candy and cookies for Santa. Derrick Landrum, age two, asks for a truck, a farm set, and gum, and mentions friends and relatives.
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Santa
Teachfer Lynn Landrum
Derrick Landrum
Man walks 310 miles across Iowa for patriotism
Alan Jones, 30, a former Marine now living in Spirit Lake, begins a 310 mile winter trek across Iowa from South Sioux City to Dubuque carrying U S and Iowa flags. He aims to end by year end with a Mississippi dip and plans a future handcuffed swim down the Missouri River next spring.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Alan Jones
Jones
Mississippi River
U.S
Dubuque
Mississippi
Rockwell City
Spirit Lake
New Titles At Library Mexico Audrain adds many new adult books
The Mexico-Audrain County Library updated shelves with numerous new adult titles across fiction and non fiction. Notable fiction includes works by Bennett Cory Haldeman Harrison Knott Slear and others. Non fiction adds guides on photography design posters and scientific indexes along with regional reference volumes.
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Mexico-Audrain County
Fiction Bennett
Desmond Cory
Stanton Forbes
Joe Haldeman
Harry Harrison
Caulder
Will C. Knott
John Reese
Genevieve Slear
Robert J. Steelman
Switzerland
Nash Webster
Carter budget cuts Navy ship plans in record defense proposal
President Carter's fiscal 1979 defense request totals about 126 billion dollars, a record high. Navy shipbuilding is cut about 20 percent from 19 to 16 ships, with several nuclear vessels delayed. Army and Air Force gains noted, while overall growth relies on inflation and real asset expansion.
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Washington
Carter
Navy
Pentagon
Congress
Ford Administration
U.S
Europe
Defense
Harold Brown
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Brown
OMB
Ford
Judge Sentences Escaped Murderer to 12 Prison Terms
Bloomington judge imposes 12 sentences ranging from 20 to 200 years on Roy Schultz for abducting a Metamora family and terrorizing them in a motel. He already holds a life term in Kansas for killing a police officer. The judge noted he would be returned to Illinois if released.
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Bloomington
Ill
Roy
Schultz
Springfield
Salina
Kan
Wayne Townley Jr
Kansas
Illinois
Metamora
Uv Townley
Wille County
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David Gates
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Chiang Ch'ing
Dwan L. Tai
Consumer Reports
State of Missouri
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Pepsi
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Mexico Ledger
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