Tehran deadly protests flare as troops fire on mourners
Riots and gunfire rocked downtown Tehran as troops opened fire at anti shah demonstrators during Moharram mourning. Witnesses spoke of deaths and injuries while clashes with Iran Air workers shut flights and a power blackout paralyzed the city.
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Tehran
Iran
UPI
Roohallah Khomeini
Gholam Reza Shari
Radio Today
Khomeini
France
Moharram
Iran Air National Airline
GM AT&T Back Carter Wage Price Guidelines
General Motors and AT&T back President Carter's wage price guidelines to fight inflation while AFL-CIO and a Western pulp workers union oppose or challenge them. GM and AT&T pledge compliance. AFL-CIO warns of inflexibility and consumer harm. a Portland union sues to challenge agency authority.
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Washington
UPI
General Motors
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Carter
White House
Afl-Cio
Office of
Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers
Portland
Ore
Former sheriff jailed for smuggling marijuana in Alabama
Former Dallas County Sheriff James G. Clark received a two year prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to import more than three tons of marijuana from Colombia. He was among five men linked to a case arising from 6600 pounds of marijuana found on a disabled plane at Montgomery airport valued at about 4.3 million dollars. Clark led a posse during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. He faces further legal proceedings including an indictment in New York on racketeering and fraud charges related to an advance fee loan scheme.
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Montgomery, Ala
UPI
James G. Clark
Dallas County
Colombia
Robert E. Warner
Clark
Montgomery City
Edmund Pettus
Selma
Montgomery
Martin Luther King
Alabama
Congress
New York
Trident Consortium
FBI captures jail escapee in Los Angeles
FBI arrested Billy McKinney, 25, in Los Angeles after he called the Cleveland FBI five times to arrange surrender. He faces unlawful flight to escape, kidnapping, and interstate vehicle theft charges. McKinney had fled a Marion County jail escape with accomplices, including John Conte, who was killed, while Pilkington remained at large.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ohio
FBI
Cleveland
Billy McKinney
Los Angeles International
John R. Kronenberg
McKinney
George Lyford
David Pilkington
Marion County
Conte
Pilkington
Earthquake levels town in Mexico near Oaxaca
A 1200 person town near Oaxaca was leveled by a strong quake and aftershocks last Wednesday leaving San Baltasar Loxicha with a ruined church and city hall and about 90 percent of homes destroyed. No deaths reported in the town. Emergency lines show 20 nearby towns cut off while Mexico City, Oaxaca City, Veracruz and Puebla report damage and nine deaths overall.
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Mexico City
UPI
Pacific Coast
Oaxaca
Mexico
San Baltasar Loxicha
Oaxaca City
Veracruz
Puebla
European firms eye $33 million Season-All takeover
Two European companies Redland Ltd of Great Britain and Brans and Co of West Germany may buy Season-All Industries Inc in a $33.3 million deal. Season-All, founded in Pittsburgh in 1947, employs about 1,000 people across Indiana PA, Punxsutawney and Yatesboro PA, and Decatur IL. Redland operates in 28 countries.
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Indiana, Pa
UPI
Season-All Industries Inc
Redland Ltd
Great Brittan and Brans and Co
West Germany
Season-All
Pittsburgh
Indiana
Punxsutawney
Yatesboro
Pennsylvania
Decatur
Ill
Three die in Virginia head-on Interstate 95 crash
Virginia State Police investigated a high speed head-on crash on I 95 just north of Route 1 in which three people died. Ralph Bricker 30 of Fort Lee and his mother Mary Bricker 65 of Carlisle were in a van hit by a southbound car whose driver was not identified. Coroner’s report may explain the car’s wrong lane travel.
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Richmond
UPI
Virginia
Carlisle
Ralph Bricker
Fort Lee
Mary Bricker
HEW presses Philly schools over federal guidelines
HEW scrutiny targets Philadelphia School District on racial student assignment bilingual programs and services for the handicapped. A court-ordered special education committee meets Monday as the regional HEW office wraps its review expected to end next spring.
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Philadelphia
UPS
U.S
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Pair steals box of garbage in Suffolk County robbery
Kenneth Weiler, 23, delivering for Golden Tobacco Co in Medford New York, was forced by two men to lie face down after a "cold hard object" was placed at his head. The robbers grabbed a cardboard cigarette case from the truck cab but fled into woods with a box of garbage leaving behind a separate box containing $5,500 in cash receipts.
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Medford
N.Y
UPI
Suffolk County
Kenneth Weiler
Golden Tobacco Co
Weiler
Steel price hikes announced by J&L and Wheeling-Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh based Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp said they will raise prices on flat rolled hot rolled and cold finished bars welded pipe and structural products by about three percent. The increases align with Carter administration anti inflation price guidelines and take effect January 1.
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IRS
Murphy
Pittsburgh
UPI
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp
J&l
LTV Corp
Wheeling-Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
Autopsies Planned for Guyana Mass Death Victims
Coroner Cyril Wecht says he is gratified by U S authorities deciding to perform autopsies on a limited number of victims from the mass death in Guyana. The move aims to determine whether deaths were from self harm or homicide as families demand closure. In Pittsburgh, Leo Keppel dies in a Garfield district three-building fire, five tenants escape, body found in first floor unit.
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Pittsburgh
API
Allegheny County
Cyril Wecht
U.S
Guyana
Wecht
Justice Department
Jim Jones
Peoples Temple Cult
UPI
Leo Keppel
Garfield
Keppel
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Anwar Sadat
Oslo
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Frank Gorell
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