Foster parents fight to keep their home for elderly women
In Brookfield Wisconsin foster parents Paul and Dorothy Rush defend their eight year project housing seven elderly women as valid foster "children." City says the nine room antique house fails fire safety and zoning rules. Officials seek compromise to let the home continue with safety upgrades.
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Brookfield
Wis
Paul
Dorothy Rush
Edith Bratlay
Rush
Waukesha County
Social Services Board
Ash
William Mitchell Jr
Mitchell
Sue Campbell
Sorothy Rush
Massacre of 25 laborers near Melsetter Rhodesia
Report says 25 black laborers were killed on a plantation near Melsetter in eastern Rhodesia, in a suspected guerrilla attack. Coroners and officials were to inspect the scene as security forces search the border area toward Mozambique, amid ongoing violence and reprisals in the region.
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Melsetter
Mozambique
South Africa
Johannesburg Star
Star
Rhodesia
Carter plans wine only at White House events
President-elect Carter says he will return to a wine only policy and bar hard liquor from White House functions. In People magazine he notes he intends to resume the tradition of no strong alcohol until Kennedy era. Carter adds most residents have not served hard liquor at receptions.
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New York
Carter
White House
People Magazine
John F. Kennedy
Winter Solstice Approaches Amid Cool Fronts Tonight
Temperatures dip into the low teens under cloudy skies with a 30 percent chance of precipitation tonight and Tuesday. Tuesday's high is expected in the upper teens, while yesterday reached 55 with an overnight low of 34. Rainfall measured 0.06 inches. The forecast shows a chance of snow Wednesday and fair skies Thursday and Friday.
Carter names three more to cabinet in televised reveal
President elect Carter announced through a national news conference three cabinet picks Juanita Kreps to head Commerce Rep Robert Bergland to lead Agriculture and Griffin Bell to head the Justice Department. Thurmond indicated support for Bell while Carter also planned to name Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson to Housing and Urban Development making him the first black mayor tapped for a federal department.
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Department of Commerce
Robert Bergland
D-Minn
Department of Agriculture
Bergland
Mondale
Griffin Bell
Atlanta
Bell
Carter
Charles Kirbo
Federal Appeals Court
Thurmond
R-S.c
Washington
Newark
N.J
Kenneth Gibson
Housing and Urban Development
Gibson
Car J. Character
Cleveland
National Bar Association
Rabin faces resignation amid coalition purge in Israel
In Jerusalem Rabin's purge of the National Religious party from his coalition weakens his Knesset majority and raises the prospect of a confidence vote. Newspapers predicted he would resign to trigger elections while seeking time to meet President-elect Carter, with potential elections as early as spring.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin
Labor Party
Carter
National Religious Party
Knesset
Independent Liberal Party
Innocent Man Spent 139 Days in Jail for Murder
Philadelphia AP report details Robert Wilkinson who spent 439 days jailed before likely exoneration after witnesses recanted and confessed to the crime. Wilkinson, 27, was convicted last April for a firebomb murder that killed a Puerto Rican woman and four children.
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Philadelphia
Robert Wilkinson
Wilkinson
David McGinnis
Garcia
McGinnis
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