Ohio layoff protest by truckers threatens more jobs
The Associated Press reports 6000 Ohio workers told not to report to work as independent truckers protest high fuel costs. Shutdowns calm in Middletown area while other industries slow or plan layoffs by week’s end. Firms deploy convoys. Consolidated Freight offers 10000 reward for info on truck shootings. Three arrests of truckers and a woman driver beaten reported Saturday.
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Associated Press
Consolidated Freight
Akron
United States
Senate
Walter
F. Mondale
D-Minn
General Accounting Office
U.S
Lester L. Wolff
D-N.y
Missing Friends of Comedian Sandy Baron Spark Alarm
Friends and family of comedian Sandy Baron search for him after he vanished following a New York dinner on January 9. They fear personal problems or mental low mood may have driven him into hiding. The case remains unresolved with no confirmed sightings.
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Sandy Baron
New York
Great Train Robbery fugitive Ronald Biggs arrested in Rio
Ronald Biggs, a 44 year old London gang member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery, was seized in Copacabana Rio de Janeiro. Police say he was living with a Brazilian woman in a hotel room as detectives closed in. He fled British prison in 1965 after a 1963 loot heist.
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Brazil
Britain
Rio
Copacabana
Ronald Biggs
Gunmen seize two hostages on Greek freighter in Karachi
Three gunmen aboard a Greek freighter in Karachi seized two hostages and threatened to blow up the ship unless Greece frees two Palestinian terrorists sentenced to death for killing four Americans and an Austrian at Athens airport. The attackers identified as Muslim International Guerrillas demanded action by 4 p.m. Sunday.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Athens
Abd el Shafik
Khantouran Palaal
Muslim International
Singapore
Japanese Red Army
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Probation stance sparks debate in Butler County court
Judge Fred Cramer defends probation for first time offenders as public calls for harsher penalties rise. Shawnee Lee’s analysis appears on page 25. The Exorcist publicity prompts film staff reviews on page 26. Citizens urged to consider spring vegetable gardening amid rising produce costs. coverage on page 46.
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Butler County Common Pleas
Fred Cramer
Shawnee Lee
Journal
Nixon to Meet Gromyko in White House Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will meet President Nixon in Washington on Monday, White House said. Nixon plans a tentative trip to the Soviet Union around June. his last visit was May 1972. Gromyko will fly from Havana aboard a Soviet aircraft after visiting Cuba with Brezhnev.
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Washington
Andrei Gromyko
Nixon
White House
Soviet Union
Russia
Gromyko
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Cuba
Havana
Middletown Area Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy and cool today and tonight with a high in the mid to upper 30s and a low around the low 20s. Monday brings fair skies with a high in the upper 30s to low 40s and a 10 percent chance of rain.
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Middletown
Governors Seek Aid From 50 States Over Truckers Shutdown
Energy Secretary William E. Simon and three Cabinet members labeled the independent truckers shutdown a serious threat to national economic well being and safety. They telegrammed the nation s 50 governors asking for personal assistance to restore order and commerce.
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Washington
William E. Simon
Simon
Commerce
Frederick B. Dent
Labor
Peter J. Brennan
Transportation
Claude S. Brinegar
Nixon oil ceiling denial questioned
Sen. Henry M. Jackson challenged the Nixon administration on refusing a domestic oil price ceiling for new oil since 1972. He urged a full report from William E. Simon and warned the plan may be unlawful. Fannin pressed against a rollback, economists warned it could slow domestic fuel alternatives. Independent truckers continued protests over fuel prices amid a GAO study showing higher exports but lower production in 1973.
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Henry M. Jackson
Nixon
Washington Democrat
Senate Interior Committee
William E. Simon
Jackson
Congressional
Sen
Paul Fannin
Arizona
On the Interior Committee
Fannin
U.S
Congress
Senate House
Interior Panel
John Emerson
New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Nixon Sees Three Budges of Good News in State of the Union
Nixon’s State of the Union speech offered three items of “good news” about recession, energy, and embargoes, but critics question whether these aims are achievable. Officials and analysts debate definitions of recession and the timeline for energy relief amid ongoing Arab oil embargo doubts.
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