China Likely to Name Hua Kuo-feng as Party Chairman
Chinese leaders await a Communist Party Central Committee meeting before confirming Hua Kuo-feng as Mao’s successor. Hsinhua reports say the army backs a Hua headed Central Committee, a crucial factor in the power struggle since Mao’s death.
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Tokyo
China
Communist Party Central Committee
Hua Kuo-feng
Mao Tse-tung
Hsinhua
Central Committee
Hua Kuofeng
Hua
Mao
Chou En-lai
Peking
Chou
Teng Hsiao-ping
Huan
Teng
Chiang Ching
Senior Citizens Seek Coalitions to Pressure Legislature
Senior citizens form a statewide lobby to press the 1977 legislature for aid to the elderly. Norm Schut plans 10 seminars statewide and aims to create a coordinating council to influence 1978 elections and secure meals, health care, housing, tax breaks, and transportation.
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Seattle
Norm Schut
Detroit
Frances Mayhew
Schut
Inmates Evacuated After Dual Blazes at Lorain County Jail
Two fires at the Lorain County Jail in Elyria forced the evacuation of 80 inmates Sunday night. Two prisoners were hospitalized with smoke inhalation and serious burns. Ann Dean, 60, and Ernest Sheldon, 49, both from Elyria, were in critical or serious condition. Six others, plus three firefighters and a deputy, were treated for smoke inhalation. Police investigate possible second arson as fire crews battled the blazes near the women’s cell block.
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Elyria
Ohio
Lorain County
Ann Dean
Ernest Sheldon
Hiroshima bomber reenactment draws crowds at Harlingen airshow
Paul Tibbets piloted the B29 named Fifi over Harlingen Texas in a replica atomic blast for CAF fundraisers. About 40 000 spectators paid up to 5 dollars for the show while an atomic effect was staged with a bomb bay reveal and a mushroom cloud.
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Harlingen
Tex
Hiroshima
Japan
Paul Tibbets
Air Force
Rio Grande City
Tibbets
Fifi
Victor Agarther
Confederate Air Force
CAF
Stamp program helps USPS cut deficit amid commemorative stamp row
The Postal Service says its commemorative stamp program funds outreach to new collectors and children, while some longtime philatelists accuse profiteering. In the last fiscal year the program earned 91.1 million dollars on an 11.2 million outlay, mainly from unused stamps and philatelic items. USPS officials emphasize public enjoyment over pleasing serious collectors, noting a rise in commemoratives this year and protests from plate block collectors.
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Washington
Postal Service
Stamp collecting costs rise with more stamps and plates
James DeVoss of the American Philatelic Society says the Postal Service has been taking collectors for a ride as 13 cent stamps and plate blocks become pricier, increasing the hobby’s expense.
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James DeVoss
The
American Philatelic Society
Postal Service
Palestinians Attack Syrian Embassy in Rome Surrender after Hostage Hold
Three Palestinians stormed the Syrian Embassy in Rome injuring an embassy counsellor and taking five hostages for two hours before surrendering. The attackers cited Syria's actions in Lebanon as a motive. embassy staff and officials confirm the incident amid ongoing Lebanese civil conflict tensions.
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Rome
Lebanon
Hanen Hatem
Bas
Farouk al Sharae
Syria
Lie
Damascus
Youssef Miro
Couple killed in plane crash near Lancaster Ohio
A man and his wife died when their single engine open cockpit plane struck high tension wires and crashed into a creek about 10 miles south of Lancaster on the Hocking Logan County line. Vernon Curren Sr. aged 44 and his wife Wilma, 39, of Prospect were identified as the victims. The plane was described as two seats with an open cockpit and labeled experimental.
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Lancaster, Ohio
Here
Hocking
Logan
Highway Patrol
Vernon Curren Sr
Wilma
Prospect
Chilly Southwestern Ohio Tonight Then Warmer Tomorrow
Forecast calls for a chilly night in southwestern Ohio with clear skies and a low around the mid 40s. Tomorrow should see a high in the low 70s under sunny skies as the warming trend continues. Middletown official high yesterday was 60 with a 33 degree low this morning. Weekend rainfall totaled 0.28 inches.
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Ohio
Middletown
Connee Boswell Big Band singer dies at 68 in New York
Connee Boswell, famed Big Band era vocalist and member of the Boswell Sisters, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City at age 68 after a career spanning film, records, and stage. Confined to a wheelchair since polio, she continued performing from a wheeled stool and remained active in recording and touring until late in life.
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Connee Boswell
New York
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Miss Boswell
Mt. Sinai
New Orleans
Boswell
Connee
Harry Leedy
Bing Crosby
Yes
Basin Street Blues
Alexander
Martha
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Oscar Hearde
Elder Citizens Coaliion Board
Sehut
State Department of Social and Health Services
Rebel Field
Donald McDowell
USA
Lancaster
Acgent
Decca
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