Midwest storm leaves 15 dead across region
The storm caused 15 deaths in the Midwest from heart attacks while shoveling snow and during related accidents in Wisconsin Michigan and Illinois. Milwaukee saw nearly 11 inches of snow with frigid air as the Northeast braces for a major blizzard.
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Sadat Seeks Cairo Talks as Arab Summit Plans Form
Sadat invites all Mideast parties including the United States and the Soviet Union to meet in Cairo to prep for Geneva peace talks. Libya and Algeria push a rejectionist summit in Tripoli with Iraq Syria South Yemen and the PLO urged to attend. The U.N. General Assembly condemns Israel and oil is found offshore in the Gulf of Suez.
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Protesting farmers flood Plains streets in tractor jam
Thousands of farmers paraded through Plains Georgia clogging Main Street with 10 000 to 15 000 tractors in a show of protest. They decried farm financial hardship and warned of a possible sale of large farms to oil interests amid a looming Dec 14 farm strike sponsored by American Agriculture.
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Miss Teen-age America Named In Dallas Pageant
Leslie Owen Griffiths of Anchorage Alaska, age 15, was chosen Miss Teen-age America at the Dallas event. She received a gold and enamel medallion as the pageant’s top teenager. First alternate Ramona Lynn Easter, second Taméra Kay Nerby, and third Jill Karen Hahn joined the eight semi finalists.
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Ansbach
Germany
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China tests intermediate range ballistic missile in China
Tokyo Shinbun reports China fired an intermediate range ballistic missile from Kirin province hitting a desert target in Sinkiang Uighur region. The weapon’s range is about 2100 miles and could carry nuclear warheads if deployed.
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Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Actor Cyril Ritchard in critical condition after heart attack
Award winning actor Cyril Ritchard aged 78 was listed in critical condition after an offstage heart attack near the end of a matinee in Chicago. Northwestern Memorial Hospital said his condition was critical and extremely unstable.
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President Carter Relative Drama Prompts Fayetteville Wedding
Carol Lee Gainey, a Raleigh dental hygienist, plans to marry Scott Carter Stapleton on December 17 in Fayetteville. She calls the president “Uncle Jimmy” and notes it’s uncertain if Carter will attend.
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Woman rescued from abductor in Florida after Cleveland area kidnapping
Linda Sharpe a 29 year old school teacher recounts escape from George M Lewis 27 who abducted her from Middleburg Heights Ohio. She was held in a trailer in Holiday Florida for about ten days after being moved in a bag and restrained. Lewis faces charges including kidnapping robbery and assaulting an officer.
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Ohio
NASA asked to resume UFO investigations by White House request
President Carter called on NASA to take up UFO inquiries where the Air Force left off a decade ago. NASA official Dave Williamson said the agency is reluctant, noting no measurable UFO evidence exists and a photograph is not a measurement. Carter had reported a Georgia sighting in 1973 near Griffin.
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