Morning Snow Briefs Traffic, Weather Across State
Morning snow caused light driving problems with three Maryland crashes on U S 15 and busier police activity in Frederick. Expect about an inch of accumulation then clearing with sunny Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day near 50. Nationwide storms bring rain and snow to the West and central Appalachians with two Wisconsin deaths linked to icy conditions.
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Aace
Linton
Srea
Maryland
U.S. 15
Frederick City
U.S. 15 North
Frederick Memorial Hospital
West Seventh Street
Rosemont Avenue
Sam Yu
Storm disrupts North Sea rigs as tug halts drifting Norwegian ship
In a North Sea storm, a tug prevented a drifting Norwegian oil rig with 112 men aboard from colliding with another rig. A British rig with 70 aboard was in imminent danger of breaking loose. PA cited RAF said Transworld 58 lost four of eight seabed anchors. two helicopters were en route to evacuate 4 of 70 onboard. The Phillips SS drifted toward the Tor as the tug secured the situation nearby.
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North Sea
Royal Air Force
Transworld
Press Association
Preas Association
Norwegian Coast Guard
Stavanger
Norway
North Sea Oil Center
Tor
Shuttle ready for return flight to Florida
Edwards AFB California NASA officials aim to fly the Space Shuttle back to Cape Canaveral on a Boeing 747 after a successful service and flight from space. Ground officials praised the crew and cited favorable weather for a noon takeoff.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Columbia
Space
NASA
Cape Canaveral
Jim Harrington
Dryden Space Flight Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
B 52s Fly Non Stop To Drop Bombs In Desert
Six B 52 bombers flew 15,000 miles round trip from Minot AFB North Dakota to the Egyptian desert near Cairo to drop 40 tons of 500 pound bombs. The bombing capped a month long Operation Bright Star joint exercise with 4,000 U.S. troops and 60 paratroopers from the United States and 400 Egyptian soldiers.
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Egypt
United States
Atlantic
Minot Air Force Base
North Dakota
Sudan
Somalia
Oman
U.S
Wear
Former nurse arrested in dozen hospital deaths
A male nurse, 44, Robert R. Dias, was arrested on murder charges for 12 patient deaths at Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris and San Gorgonio Pass Hospital in Banning. Investigators say overdoses of Lidocaine caused the fatalities between March 30 and April 25. Authorities plan to seek the death penalty. arraignment scheduled.
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Riverside
Calif
Robert R. Dias
Riverside County
Thomas Hollenhorst
Diaz
San Bernardino
Dias
Community Hospital of the Valleys
Perris
San Gorgonio Pass Hospital
Banning
Highlights from economic and policy debates in the era
Steven Buckner critiques Reaganomics amid rising consensus of failure while Robert Wagman charts its Michigan toll. Donald Lambro flags Peace Corps issues. Eugene Goll links education to basics movement. Janet Falcon nods to farming conservation Prentices and Prentices. Ken Wisner recalls milk marketing trends.
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Steven Buckner
U.S
Robert Wagman
Michigan
Donald Lambro
Eugene Goll
Janet Falcon
Housing costs flatten out as inflation slows in Oct
Washington reports October CPI rose 0.4 percent the smallest since mid 1980 as housing costs flattened after 15 months of gains. CPI over 10 months runs 9.6 percent annual rate, with economists predicting inflation under 10 percent for 1981, around 9.5 percent, aided by recession dampening demand. Housing’s drag lowers overall price pressures, and a 0.4 percent October rise would imply a 4.4 percent annual pace if continued for a year.
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Washington
Labor Department
Maryland officials push U.S. 15 dualization schedule
Maryland transportation chief told Frederick County officials that completing the U.S. 15 dualization on a rapid timetable remains unlikely. Officials cited rising maintenance costs squeezing the capital program and noted funding would rely on the consolidated plan launching 1984 final segments. Legislation may accelerate the project if gas and truck taxes pass.
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U.S. 15
Frederick County
Department of Transportation
Lowell K. Bridwell
M Slade Cartrider
Calmvtel
Charles H. Smelser
Frederick Carroll
Baltimore
Washington
Smelser
Edward P. Thomas Jr
Frederick Washington
Budget battle on hold as government resumes operations
Washington AP reports the federal government resumes activity after a revised emergency spending measure ends the budget clash. Reagan signs a stopgap bill extending interim authority, halting the showdown with Congress, pausing layoffs and signaling ongoing efforts to curb spending.
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Reagan
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White House
California
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Republican Governors Association
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Larry Speakes
House
Senate
Alan Cranston
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Defense
Research scientist guilty of animal cruelty charges
Dr Edward Taub, a research scientist, was found guilty on six counts of animal cruelty after 17 monkeys were seized from his Silver Spring laboratory last September. Judge Stanley Klavag stayed the fine pending appeal, while Taub's assistant John Kunz was exonerated.
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Gaitherburg
Edward Taub
Silver Spring
Shady Grove
Stanley Klavag
Taub
John Kunz
Institute For Behavioral Research
James Miller
Sixth Judicial Circuit Cort
National Institute of Health
NIH
Pootesville
Klaven
Maryland
Montgomery County
Richard Swain
Poolesville
Thanksgiving closings set in Frederick area
Thanksgiving will close most offices including federal state and county offices. Frederick city offices close Thursday and reopen Monday. The Post Office uses holiday hours with limited delivery. Banks stores and malls close except some eateries. Major grocers closed. Some downtown Frederick stores observe Sunday hours. Some malls reopen Friday to start Christmas shopping and stay open the four Sundays before Christmas.
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Frederick
Weather outlook for Maryland and valleys this week
Western Maryland will see light snow today totaling about an inch with highs in the 30s, then gradually clear and become mostly sunny Wednesday and Thanksgiving with lows in the 20s. Maryland mountains expect several inches of snow today, highs near 32, and partly cloudy skies Wednesday and near 40 Thursday. Yesterday’s highs and lows varied across Frederick Hagerstown Westminster Gaithersburg Leesburg with readings in the low to mid 40s and upper 20s.
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Carroll
Frederick
Howard
Montgomery
Washington
Hagerstown
Westminster
Gaithernburg
Leesburg
David Leaher
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