Kennedy Center Honors salutes Ball Charles and more
Legendary entertainers Lucille Ball Ray Charles Yehudi Menuhin Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy Antony Tudor receive Kennedy Center Honors in a gala with a White House ceremony earlier. TV stars and music legends praise Ball and Charles as Fox include Desi Arnaz tribute and a Wonder led sing along.
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Stevie Wonder
New York City
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Walter Matthau
Little Ricky
Eisenhower
Ike
Lucy
Desi Arnaz
Robert Stack
Arnaz
Viv
Vance
Fred
Crawley
Charles
Quincy Jones
Walter Mondale
Dan Rather
Wonder
Blind
Uncle Ray
Florida School For the Deaf and the Blind
Menuhin
Peter Ustinov
Unicef
Ustinov
Ustinov, ‘‘and His Life Has Been A Triumph of the Spirit.” Cronyn and Tandy
Kennedy Center
Liv Ullman
Edward Albee
Jose Ferrer
Rosemary Harris
Tudor
American Ballet Theatre
Agnes deMille
Margot Fonteyn
Western Europe leaders unite at key summit
London meeting of 12 EEC nations produced broad agreements on combatting terrorism AIDS drug trafficking and unemployment. Thatcher urged unity and warned against US political squabbles over arms. Final statement pledged no concessions to terrorists, shared lists, tighter asylum rules, visa harmonization, cross border drug actions and stepped up AIDS education.
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Europe
European Economic Community
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher
Soviet Union
America
Free World
FAA doctor faces House panel probe
Pittsburgh FAA doctor Dr Frank Austin Jr faces House Government Operations subcommittee scrutiny over recertifying pilots as fit to fly. The Pittsburgh Press notes he allowed more than 250 pilots to return to cockpits after being grounded by FAA physicians, raising safety concerns.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
House
Federal Aviation Administration
Frank Austin Jr
Pittsburgh Press
Austin
Cardiss Collins
D-Ill
Government Activities and Transportation
Federal Air Surgeon
Day of firefighting leaves brakeman a hero
Willy Parnham of Pittsburgh's North Side battled a freight train car collision fire at work, then woke to a second home blaze that forced him from his house while his children had already left for school. He saved an injured 16 year old in the first incident and faced displacement after the second fire.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Willy Parnham
Parnham
Panther Hollow
Pearl Harbor attack marked 45th anniversary in Hawaii
In Pearl Harbor Hawaii UPI notes the 45th anniversary of the 1941 attack with a keynote by Vice Admiral Huntington Hardisty aboard the Arizona Memorial. The ceremony observed the 7 55 a m moment, featured a missing man flyover, wreaths from all services, and a call to outmaneuver and outthink enemies.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Hawaii Air National Guard
Crack hits Pittsburgh in police raids
Police in Pittsburgh report crack cocaine, a potent form of the drug, is being found in raids on street dealers. Undercover detectives say they are buying crack from dealers, with addiction risk rising as pellets are sold locally. Detective Vic Joseph notes the drug is definitely present.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Vic Joseph
Burned mailbox baffles officials in Butler incident
Butler officials await word from federal postal inspectors in Washington to determine what the burned U S mailbox outside Point Drugstore contained. Fire destroyed the store and mailbox yesterday morning. fire officials have no immediate theories about the blaze.
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Butler
UPI
Washington, D.C
US S
Point
U.S
Correction notice on Willowbrook mining plan review
The Lawrence County Conservation District gave a favorable but advisory review of Willowbrook Mining Co plans to use 12 acres of wetlands for coal stripping and create 47 acres of wetlands nearby. The district forwards comments to the state Department of Environmental Resources, which issues permits or rejects. Obituary corrections issued for Mrs Isabella L Isaac and Rev Louis A LaGrotta. Laurel High boys beat Bishop Boyle 47 to 45. Call Len Kolasinski for corrections.
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Lawrence County Conservation District
Willowbrook Mining Co
State Department of Environmental Resources
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Ellie Bogue
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