Argo Merchant oil spill threatens coast and fishing grounds
Nantucket Massachusetts reports 50 mph winds and 15 foot seas hindering Coast Guard efforts to sink the split Liberian tanker Argo Merchant. Officials warn the 7.6 million gallon spill endangers Georges Bank fisheries while crews attempt to lighten and sink remaining cargo. Captain Papadopoulos faces deposition as Cape Cod fishermen seek 60 million in damages.
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Nantucket
Mass
Coast Guard
Rich Georges Bank
Massachusetts
Washington, D.C
Argo Merchant
Russell Train
US Environmental Protection Agency
Equator
Tam
Georges Bank
James P. Stewart
Venezuela
Salem
Stewart
Argo
George Papadopoulos
Cape Cod
Disgruntled mechanic surrenders after DC8 hijack drama
SAN FRANCISCO AP A hijacker took two hostages and seized a DC8 jetliner for about 15 hours. Palm J Hinnant 37 surrendered at 6 30 am after one hostage Richard Funk 38 was rushed to Peninsula Hospital and another hostage Jerry Dusenberry 42 released unharmed. FBI agent Charles Bates led the arrest as friends Jones and Hamlet departed the plane amid police action.
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San Francisco
Palm J. Hinnant
Richard Funk
Peninsula Hospital
United Airlines
Hinnant
Jerry Dusenberry
Charles Bates
FBI
Jones
Clarence Hamlet
United
Dusenberry
Funk
City Commission repeals 1945 parking law in Middletown
The Middletown City Commission voted to repeal the 1945 ordinance that allowed night parking enforcement from 2 to 5 a.m. and cited it as long unused. Judge Lamb announced fines for those cited would be canceled, and residents were urged to donate $2 to the Salvation Army instead. The meeting touched on labor tensions with the police and concerns about biased enforcement in the South End.
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City Commission
Middletown
J.T Lamb
Salvation Army
Commission
Tom Blake
James Saunders
South End
Saunders
Ray Fening
Fening
Mary Alice Mack
Blake
Tilmon Ellison
David Click
Monroe St
Russ Dwyer
Weather outlook with cold temps and flurry chances
Cold weather continues with a 30 percent chance of snow flurries tonight and 20 percent Thursday. Tonight will be cloudy with a low in the mid teens. Thursday will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 20s. Yesterday reached 18 degrees, with an overnight low of 8. Expect clear to fair skies Friday and more snow chances Saturday and Sunday.
Scrooge would humbug cost of dinner today
Washington AP reports on a humorous current take inspired by Charles Dickens. The Bob Cratchit family is invoked to illustrate inflation and the cost of a holiday dinner in modern times.
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Scrooge
Washington
Bob Cratchit
Charles
Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge
Agriculture Department
United States
Department
Economic Research Service
Corinne le Bovit
Vivian Wiser
The
Agency
Medicare premium rise to 7.70 as costs climb
About 25.4 million beneficiaries will pay 50 cents more monthly for hospital and medical insurance starting next July. The Department of Health Education and Welfare announced the hike to cover rising medical costs. The premium will become 7.70, up from 7.20, costing about 152.4 million annually for 12 months. Hospital inpatient costs will rise to a $124 deductible for the first bill, and outlays for Medicare plus supplementary medical insurance are projected to climb from 6 to 7.4 billion in fiscal 1978. The SSA notes 2.5 million disabled under 65 are in the supplementary program.
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Washington
Medicare
Department of Health Education and Welfare
David Mathews
Mathews
Social Security Administration
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Lynn Hein
U.S. Shores
Cmdr
Hein
Joseph Beaver
G. Papadopoulos
Huacker
Lincoln Jones
Warren Hanson
Ann Landers
Comics County
Area
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