Trumbull County Gunman Kills Self After Shootout
Thomas Thompson 27 of Cortland shot Marilyn Tustin 23 of Warren at a Southington gas station after being refused gas on credit. He abducted Tustin from a house where she was staying with her husband and child, then killed her and himself. Chaffee and the couple’s child were unhurt? (Note: context indicates two deaths at hospital.)
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Trumbull County
Thomas Thompson
Cortland
Marilyn Tustin
Warren
Southington Township
Thomas Chaffee
Chaffee
Thompson
Champion Disposal Co
Andy Arch
Yes
Tin
Tustin
Arch
Space shuttle lands safely on desert lakebed test
Two astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton piloted the first solo Shuttle Enterprise flight from a Boeing 747 piggyback. The 75 ton craft touched down on a lakebed in California after a five minute glide, marking a milestone toward the space bus in the 1980s.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
America
Fred Haise
Gordon Fullerton
Donald K. Slayton
Haise
Near record corn crop forecast to curb food price rise
The Agriculture Department projects a near record corn crop around 6.09 billion bushels this summer, aiding food price inflation near six percent in 1978. It also predicts a record 1.6 billion bushels of soybeans and 13.5 million bales of cotton, while drought trims corn outlook from earlier forecasts.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Howard Hijort
Corn Corp
Hjort
Carter studies canal pact as ratification fight nears
President Carter spends a day with no schedule except studying the Panama Canal treaty details. Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz brief the White House on the two pact framework, with defense and state officials in on the review. The agreement sets a 1999 end date for U S control, grants Panama full Canal Zone rights within three years, and doubles payments and aid.
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White House
Jody Powell
Elllsworth Bunker
Sol Linowitz
Carter
Panama
Cabinet Room
Bunker
Linowitz
Canal Zone
U.S
Vance Secures Step Toward Full Middle East Peace Treaties
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance won agreement from Egypt and Jordan to negotiate full peace treaties rather than nonaggression pacts. Israeli and U S sources say gaps remain over terms and normalization. Begin calls the move a great achievement while noting no other major advances.
Weather and Middle East Update Brief
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with a 40 percent chance of rain tonight and Saturday, highs near 70s and lows mid 60s. In the Middle East, Dayan to clarify in a live interview while Syria weighs peace talks. Assad meets Arafat as Vance plans New York talks with Arab and Israeli ministers.
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Vance
New York
Kennedy trip ends after islander disrupts volleyball game
On Cuttyhunk Island in GOSNOLD Massachusetts Sen Edward Kennedy and family visited a local volleyball game when Asa Pain Cobb Lombard attacked the senator with harsh remarks over the Island Trust Bill. Kennedy and his family left by boat while town officials apologized and said they would contact the senator.
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Gosnold
Mass
Cuttyhunk Island
Edward M. Kennedy
Lynn Hathaway
Kennedy
Asa Pain Cobb Lombard
Ted
Asa
Miss Hathaway
Kennedys
Alpheus P. Tilton
Tilton
Cape Cod National Seashore
Island Trust
Nantucket
Martha's Vineyard
Elizabeth Islands
Cuttyhunk
Washington
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Menahem Begin
Moshe Dayan
Syria
Hafez Assad
Damascus
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Yasir Arafat
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