Meteor disaster epic promises world ruin on screen
Hollywood director Ronald Neame describes Meteor as the granddaddy disaster film with tidal waves avalanches and a fully ruined New York. The plot centers on a comet colliding with a meteor creating splinters that devastate Siberia the Austrian Alps Hong Kong and Italy before a mud flooded New York. Cast includes Sean Connery Natalie Wood Brian Keith Karl Malden Henry Fonda.
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Austria
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Brian Keith
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India exports ban prompts monkey supply from Bangladesh
An Oregon firm says it can ship 3,000 rhesus monkeys to the U S for NIH research and polio vaccine testing despite India's export ban. Mol Enterprises of Portland has a Bangladesh deal to export the primates in exchange for breeding farms and local training, with 6,000 monkeys needed by early 1979.
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University of Oregon Medical School
Bangladesh
Robert A. Whitney
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Washington
Whitney
India
Mayberry
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Inmates slash wrists after escape attempt in Springfield
Two St. Louis inmates Raymond Milentz and Dennis Kirksey slashed their wrists after a failed jail escape from Springfield federal detention. They were treated and returned to custody as investigators sought a girlfriend tied to the plan. Both face federal kidnapping and murder related charges and await trial after a prior escape incident and a later auto crash linked to the case.
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Larry Allen
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Allen
Ackerman
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Freedom
Missouri State Penitentiary
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Two Timpani Recovered in Burr Ridge Lot
FBI Secret Service and Burr Ridge police close the Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra theft case after two timpani were found in a vacant lot Tuesday. The instruments were the last stolen items from the Yugoslav touring ensemble.
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Yugoslavia
Woman pleads innocent to killing husband
Nola Jean Weaver aged 34 pleaded innocent at arraignment on murder charges in the death of her husband. The Elk Grove High School physical education teacher is free on 100000 bond and faces pre trial motions on February 21. Weaver was shot in the head December 5 after claiming intruders killed her husband for a bank theft rumor.
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Waukegan
Ill
UPI
Nola Jean Weaver
Lake County
Fred Berger
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