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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1978
Page
1
Inflation rises as the government warns prices are climbing amid economic strain. Officials cite ongoing price pressures and the challenge of stabilizing costs for households.
Cocaine smuggling from Colombia to the United States grows rapidly, rivaling coffee as the nation’s top export. About 70 percent of U S cocaine comes from Colombia with Peru and Bolivia supplying the rest. exports reportedly reached 1.5 billion last year. Officials note cocaine’s rising prestige and expanding market influence. inflation and unemployment policy debates follow.
Gail Gorski, 25, a former flight instructor, corporate pilot, FAA inspector and 1972 Kentucky Derby Queen, receives pilot wings at United Airlines. She will start as flight engineer on a 737 based in San Francisco. Miss Gorski hails from Kentucky.
Irvine California AP reports Bubbles a two ton hippo died after rolling down a hill and suffocating when rangers tranquilized her to capture her. She had escaped from Lion Country Safari Feb 20 and wandered near Clucker Lake two miles from the park. Officials and executives expressed regret as the hippo died after the two tranquilizer darts and a head down position against a tree.
Coal industry negotiators and the union return to bargaining after a 96 day strike, while federal marshals assist in securing talks and monitoring involved parties at the negotiating table.
Ethiopia brands Cuban Soviet military presence its internal matter and refuses a cease-fire in the eastern Ogaden unless Somalia recognizes the fixed border. Russia indicates it may press Cubans to depart if Somali troops withdraw, amid 16 years of regional conflict and large Soviet hardware in use.
Ohio Coal & Construction Corp. boosted security to calm workers amid a 96 day United Mine Workers strike. Production neared peak with over 6000 tons loaded for Cincinnati Gas & Electric, while pickets damaged trucks near the tipple and threats continued by phone and CB radio. Federal marshals carried out an injunction ordering UMW members to end the strike as miners stayed off the job across the state.
President Carter risks a legal clash as Agriculture Secretary Bergland moves toward cutting food stamps from striking miners. Bergland questions his authority but plans to proceed if the strike endures. AFL-CIO leader Meany denounces the plan as an outrage and vows court challenges.
In Nashville a small group of drug and alcohol patients at the state Correction Department hospital for the emotionally disturbed overpowered two guards and a nurse, broke into a pharmacy and took large drug doses before being subdued. Guard Timothy Cline was briefly held hostage by seven or eight inmates but spared serious harm. Commissioner C. Murray Henderson said discipline actions will follow.
Washington sponsors of a postal subsidy bill trim the proposal in exchange for early House action. The agreement aims to bring the measure to the floor as soon as next Thursday. Speaker ONeill had held it back weeks at President Carter's request who opposes the subsidy rise.
An unsettled weekend is expected with occasional rain tonight and Sunday. temperatures fall from the upper 30s to mid 30s tonight and tomorrow morning. Highs near 50 tomorrow, then a Monday to Wednesday pattern of chances of rain followed by fair cooler weather, with lows in the 30s and 20s by Wednesday and highs mainly in the 40s.
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