18 May 1977
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1977
Page
1
William Wiest, 19, crawled 16 miles to his former fiancée Robin Kent, 17, in Orlando to prove his love. She refused and hurled a hairbrush at him after deputies advised him to leave. the couple had broken the engagement over a trivial matter.
With nearly half the votes counted Israel's Labor party suffers a crushing defeat as Menahem Begin's Likud leads with about 41 seats in the 120 seat Knesset to 33 for Labor. Begin vows to form a broad coalition and pursue peace talks while Washington weighs implications for Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
A National Cancer Institute study of 5455 ovarian cancer patients shows 13 cases of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia among 4324 treated with alkylating chemotherapy, a 21 fold increase and 171 fold when followed over two years. Researchers caution against alarm while noting long term treatment benefits.
A digest of content including advice column by Ann Landers, bridge and entertainment notes, comic summaries, crossword puzzle hints, essays on television topics, theater notices, vital statistics, want ads, and a section on county and state women’s news.
Weather notes show partly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with a low in the lower 60s tonight and a high in the 80s on Thursday. Rain chances are 20 percent for both periods with yesterday’s high at 88 and overnight low at 64.
In Damascus and other capitals Arab broadcasts denounce Menahem Begin as a terrorist and predict a drift toward a fifth Arab Israeli war after Likud victory. Radios in Syria Iraq Saudi Arabia Kuwait condemn Begin and say peace talks are jeopardized.
In Geneva the United States and Soviet Union with 31 other nations signed a convention banning environmental war techniques that cause widespread and lasting damage. The ceremony at the Palace of Nations kicked off three days of disarmament talks amid concerns on nuclear arms and Middle East peace.
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