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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1976
Page
1
The Miss America Pageant added a constitutional rule prohibiting contestants from being or having been pregnant. Director Albert A Marks said the clause aims to prevent eligibility due to prior motherhood or pregnancy and would also apply to abortions. The update follows existing single status and prior marriage restrictions.
Palestinian Liberation Army units occupy large parts of eastern Lebanon and police western Beirut warning looters will be shot. A truce brokered by Syria appears to hold with Palestinian patrols in Beirut and Syrian observers arriving to supervise. Several looters killed and 14 dead, 22 wounded, as airport reopens and a new reconciliation cabinet hint emerges.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived in Madrid seeking to advance Spain US defense talks amid a bases dispute. The visit signals a push to resolve standing issues and ease tensions between the two allies.
Sanford announces withdrawal from the 1976 presidential race citing superficial coverage and campaign challenges. He plans to return to Duke University presidency, endorsing no candidate and taking no further role in the campaign. Meanwhile Kissinger signs Madrid bases pact and discusses arms talks with Brezhnev. NATO ministers in Brussels consider Soviet proposals and cruise missiles in a broader accord.
London Daily Telegraph correspondents report MPLA forces backed by Cuban troops and Soviet heavy weapons rolled 140 miles south in 10 days and captured Novo Rodondo and the Caninda road bridge over the Queve River, exposing Lobito and Benguela. UNITA supposedly would have blown the bridge if retreating.
Vaughn D. Greenwood, already jailed for a hatchet attack and a Burt Reynolds home burglary, was indicted by a county grand jury on 11 killings blamed on the "Skid Row Slasher." Police say most victims were derelicts slain in skid row between Dec 1974 and Jan 1975. Greenwood faces arraignment after transfer from Folsom Prison.
New York AP reports a 15 cent per pound wholesale hike on major American brands, with General Foods Corp as the maker of the top selling label. Stores will decide on passing the increase to consumers. current store price runs about 1.59 per pound. Industry spokesmen note a 63 percent rise in import costs since last July due to frost in Brazil.
Anchorage AP reports Mt St Augustine on an uninhabited island erupted with two mushroom clouds eight miles high off the Alaskan coast near Cook Inlet. No damage or threat to population centers or shipping. scientists cannot predict if activity will rise or subside.
Cloudy skies forecast for the Middletown area with lows in the low 30s. Chance of rain Sunday with highs in the low 40s. Extended outlook shows a chance of snow Monday, then fair skies Tuesday and rain or snow Wednesday.
The actor singer and activist Paul Robeson died at age 77 after a stroke on December 28. Funeral planned for Tuesday at Mother AME Zion Church New York with private burial. Robeson rose from Rutgers football All American to Broadway star famed for Othello while facing bans and passport revocations for his views. Rutgers honors him with a student center and a move to Hall of Fame underway.
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