U S giants race to crack China market
Pan American World Airways plans direct San Francisco to Peking flights starting Jan 1 if approved. Boeing signs to sell three long range 747SP jets with options on two more. Coca Cola gains exclusive rights to sell Coke in China with cans bearing a Chinese inscription.
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Coca-Cola
China
U.S
Pan American World Airways
Peking
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Pan Am
New York
San Francisco
Civil Aeronautics Board
Seattle
Atlanta
Carter
Two steel haulers shot in Shenango
Two Shenango Township steel haulers were shot at 12 09 a m while preparing to depart. Harold W Natvig 29 of 2717 Amherst Ave and Robert McAnellan of 2201 Old Butler Rd were hit but not seriously injured Natvig needed surgery to remove buckshot from his upper lip McAnellan sustained a hand wound and a tractor trailer owned by Harold Forkey Sr was struck. The incident fits a broader steel strike conflict with Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers and Teamsters amid court hearings on contempt and impact on shipments totaling hundreds of thousands of tons.
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Shenango Township
Harold W. Natvig
Amherst Ave
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Natvig
Robert McAnellan
Old Butler Road
McAnellan
Forkey
Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers
FASH
Teamsters
Pittsburgh
U.S. District Court
Robert G. Bathe
U.S. Steel
Coke wins China soft drink war by Coca-Cola in Peking
Coca-Cola announces planned sales in China as President Carter recognizes Beijing. The cola clash spans the globe from Pepsi claims in Russia to regional dominance in Israel and the Arab world, with earlier Khrushchev era notes and a Pepsi lawyer's Russia visit shaping the saga.
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China
Richard H. Growald
New York
UPI
Coca-Cola
Pepsi-Cola
Pepsi
Carter
Peking
Far East
Red World
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Europe
Kremlin
Steppes
Soviets
Richard M. Nixon
Coke
State Department
Middle East
Israel
Arab World
Coca Cola becomes cultural badge across conflicts and ages
A US reporter recalls Coca Cola signs as symbols of conquest in the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, with a Pepsi counter sign beneath revealing the backstory. The piece traces Coke’s political battles from postwar France to modern power dynamics and muses on future rivals like Pepsi and others.
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U.S
Golan Heights
France
Communist Party
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Jacques Duclos
French
Taiwan
Dr. Pepper
RC Cola
Seven-Up
Slay suspect ordered to face grand jury
Anthony Hood, 35, of 10 Sankey Street, was ordered held for grand jury action after a hearing before District Justice Howard B. Hanna. He faces criminal homicide, aggravated murder and aggravated assault in the Nov. 28 fatal shooting of Angela Hawk, 23, of 1102 Griffith Street, Youngstown. Hawk died from a gunshot wound at South Side Hospital on November 30. Hood was recommitted to the county jail after testimony indicated he admitted a shoot out with Hawk.
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Anthony Hood
Howard B. Hanna
Hood
Sankey St
Angela Hawk
Griffith St
Youngstown
Miss Hawk
South Side Hospital
Brady Street Bridge hailed as waste by Auditor General
Pennsylvania Auditor General Al Benedict blasted the Brady Street Bridge project as a monument to wasted tax dollars after finding the plan cost taxpayers about 1.2 million more than expected. He faulted PennDOT for delays, contractor choices, improper testing payments, unbuilt ramps, and unqualified inspectors on the Monongahela River span linking Oakland and the South Side.
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al Benedict
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Monongahela River
Oakland
Penndot
Local news digest highlights and weather snapshot from Dec 20 1978
The page lists obituaries for Thelma Cohen Weil Mabel Palmer Davis Alma Parrish Ingram Joseph Mielke Mary Elizabeth Armstrong Harry Rusterholtz Amy Mascio and others with ages and hometowns. It also notes Western Pennsylvania weather brief showers windy warmer to colder with 90 percent tonight 40 percent Thursday and temperatures in the upper 20s to 30s. Weather statistics for Dec 18 19 show highs around 30 and lows near 17 with no precipitation.
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Thelma Cohen Weil
Pittsburgh
Mabel I. Palmer Davis
W. North St
Alma Parrish Ingram
Washington St
Joseph A. Mielke
Edinburg RD
Mary Elizabeth Armstrong
Delaware
Ohio
Harry Lee Rusterholtz
Shadyside
Amy Mascio (Mash
Fullerton
Calif
Pennsylvania
Shenango River
Moraine State Park
Men bound over on arson and burglary charges
Daniel Daugherty aged 22 of Summit Street and Robert Yakubik 26 of Sankey Street were ordered bound over to the grand jury on arson burglary conspiracy and receiving stolen goods after a fire at a South Side lumber firm last month The move raises the number of adults likely to face arson trial in New Castle to three since July 1977 The district justice also saw two other men released from arson charges in exchange for their testimony against Daugherty
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South Side
New Castle
Howard B. Hanna
Daniel Daugherty
Summit St
Robert Yakubik
Sankey St
Hanna
Robert Barletta
Daugherty
Holiday travel crunch officially starts today
The Christmas travel crunch begins as traffic and air travel surge. Eastern Airlines warns a real crash starts today with heavy jams at airports and bus stations, while airlines report record bookings and extra flights. Some travelers may spend Christmas in the Caribbean as British West Indies Airlines notes fully booked flights and additional ones added.
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United Press International
Gil Perlroth
New York
Eastern Airlines
Caribbean
British West India Airlines
City firemen sign a three year wage pact
Firefighters and the city administrator accept arbitrator Charles Mullen's award giving an $850 wage increase in 1979, a 5 to 8 percent raise in 1980 and 1981, a 42 hour work week in 1981, and $200 more for insurance. The pact includes bumping rights and turn sharing, with vacation scheduling disputed. An arbitration hearing is set for January 4.
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Charles Mullen
Ronald Rich
International Association of Firefighters
Carl Stoltenberg
Rich
Parks and Recreation
Retired miner becomes Pennsylvania lottery winner
Ernest Peter Peterman, 68, a Nanty Glo resident and former coal miner recovering from a mild stroke, was named Pennsylvania's 37th lottery millionaire at a Capitol rotunda drawing. Son Ronald stood in as his father attended from home, while Olive Peterman recalled their frugal life and long lottery habit despite past hardship.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Ernest Peterman
Nanty Glo
Pennsylvania
Peterman
Ronald
Capitol
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