Oil spill from Amoco Cadiz spreads to Brittany beaches
Offshore tanker Amoco Cadiz broke apart on a reef off Portsall near Brest. Oil slick reached 40 miles of beaches in northwestern France and advanced toward Brest port area as experts surveyed the wreck from air and divers inspected the hull near Cape Finisterre.
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Brest
France
UPS
Amoco
Cadiz
Pointe St. Mathieu
Brest Roadstead
Portsall
Cape Finisterre
UPI Dispatches From Washington Rome and Columbus
UPI reports personal income rising 0.5 percent in February, double January’s gain. Ohio utility panel denies $7 million non fuel charge amid UMW strike. Rome launches mass manhunt for Moro kidnap suspects. 12 questioned. Sigma Delta Chi condemns Flynt shooting. emphasizes First Amendment rights. UMW strike by 160,000 miners becomes legal again as district court ends Taft Hartley extension.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Commerce Department
Columbus
Ohio
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
United Mine Workers
Larry Flynt
Flynt
Sigma Delta Chi
United Mine Workers Union
U.S
Aubrey Robinson Jr
Stallone divorce suit cites misused funds for vacation
Sasha Stallone, 27, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking divorce from Sylvester Stallone, 31, alleging he used communal funds for a vacation with Joyce Ingalls. She asks a court restraining order to curb future use of community property outside ordinary business. Stallone to appear March 31. Also in brief: Ohio to start $11 million Deer Creek State Park lodge and golf complex June 30 in Pickaway County. President Carter urged Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon and keep UN as possible temporary peacemaker during a Savannah stop.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sylvester Stallone
Joyce Ingalls
Sasha Stallone
Stallone
Saint Simons Island
Carter
Israel
Lebanon
United Nations
North Carolina
Georgia
Savannah
Weather and mild temp forecast with mixed precipitation
Snow and possibly rain with wind tonight cooling to the lower 30s. Sunday morning showers then partly cloudy with highs in the lower 40s. Tonight 50 percent precip, Sunday 30 percent. South winds 15 to 25 mph, gusty tonight. Friday temperatures 35 to 13. Precipitation Friday 0.13 inch. Sunrise 6:35 am, sunset 6:37 pm. Marriage license for Calvin J. Dailey and Mary Meggit. Deaths: Bernard E. Hite 70, Constance Jean Ruffing 19, James Francis Maxfield 72, Roger L. Glover 28.
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Bernard E. Hite
Norwalk
Constance Jean Ruffing
James Francis Maxfield
Roger L. Glover
New London
Dozens injured in I 77 pileups near Canton Ohio
North and southbound I 77 near Canton were closed indefinitely after two chain reactions involving up to 60 vehicles at the 99 mile marker. About 15 people were treated for non life threatening injuries at Aultman and Timken Mercy Hospitals. Ice and snow blanketed the highway as authorities investigated if a vehicle loss of control sparked the crashes.
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Canton
Ohio
Aultman
Timken-Mercy
Stark County
Ohio 800
Fohl Road
Sheriff’s Department
Spring warmth spreads across plains to Rocky Mountain states
The national weather forecast shows milder temperatures across the Plains and West with 60s and 70s in many areas. California enjoys record heat while the Northeast still endures lingering snow and a St Patrick’s Day parade cancellation due to plowable February snows. The National Weather Service expects dry, sunny conditions nationwide with light showers in the Northwest and scattered snow in the Great Lakes region.
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Rocky Mountain
Midwest
Hamilton
Mont
Mercury
National Weather Service
Plains
Nebraska
Mississippi Valley
NWS
St. Patrick's Day
Rockies
Providence
R.I
Boston
Logan International Airport
New York City
St. Patrick’s Day
Washington
Great Lakes
Norwalk Weekend Events Highlight Tonight and Sunday
The film Blood On The Mountain plays at 7 30 tonight at Benedict School during the Norwalk Teens For Christ meeting. St Marys Booster Club hosts a St Patrick s Day dance from 9 to 1 at the Norwalk Armory. Dr Lendon Smith will speak at 7 30 tonight at Norwalk Junior High School, sponsored by the Norwalk Childbirth Education Association. St Paul Pancake Breakfast runs 7 am to 1 pm Sunday at the St Paul cafeteria.
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Norwalk
Ohio miners face hunger as union seeks auto money
UMW locals in New Lexington and Moundsville demand part of a $2 million donation from United Auto Workers. They report families hit by utility shutoffs and threats as they push for funds and contract terms. Dispute over how aid and the new contract should be distributed persists.
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United Mine Workers Union
Ohio
United Auto Workers Union
Larry Harper
UMW
New Lexington
District 6
Washington
Harper
Ed Bell
Martins Ferry
Moundsville
W.va
Bell
Arnold) Miller
Arnold Miller
Electric Company
Water Company
United Mine Workers
GI's Letter Griping About Mail Service 7 Years Late
San Clemente, California, UPI reports a Vietnam era letter from George Mellendorf to President Nixon protesting poor mail service. The letter dated 1971 arrived seven years late, found in Nixon’s California hometown, with an apology form from San Francisco Postmaster L P Lee. The memo notes mail mishaps due to empty pouches and storage, with Mellendorf later traced to Port Huron, Michigan as a 28 year old insurance salesman.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
George Mellendorf
Vietnam
Richard Nixon
Mellendorf
Nixon
San Francisco
L.P. Lee
U.S
Ohio DOT officials die in Knoxville plane crash
A private Cessna 177 Cardinal crashed near Stock Creek, three miles northeast of McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville during a snowstorm, killing Ohio DOT officials John Derringer and Harold Botkin and their spouses Kathleen, Patsy. FAA and NTSB investigators arrived to determine cause as visibility was reported poor and the pilot radioed trouble before the crash. The aircraft was registered to Derringer and the bodies were taken to University Hospital in Knoxville.
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Knoxville, Tenn
John W. Derringer
Ohio Dot
Lima-area
Kathleen
Ada
Harold
Botkin
Ohio
Patsy
St. Mary’s
University Hospital
Knoxville
FAA
Ian Wainwright
Derringer
Stock Creek
Wainwright
Alma
East Tennessee
NTSB
John Drake
Washington
Robert Whittle
Bus Stopped by Hero After Driver Collapse
A 38 year old Hinsdale man, Ken Brunzell, spotted a runaway school bus from Ide Elementary Downers Grove. He parked his pickup, boarded the moving bus through a window, and wrestled the wheel to halt the vehicle after the driver collapsed from a heart attack. The bus struck two mailboxes a parked car a stop sign and a second car before control was regained. The driver Russell Grimelbein, 66, Naperville, died at Hinsdale Hospital.
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Darien
Ill
UPI
Ken Brunzell
Hinsdale
Ide
Downers Grove
Brunzell
Russell W. Grimmelbein
Naperville
Hinsdale Hospital
Know Your Carrier Brian Hamer Puts Money In Bank
Brian Hamer, 10, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Hamer Jr, delivers papers on Corwin Cedar Gray and Madison Streets. A Maplehurst student, he began the Reflector route six months ago to earn extra money and meet people. He saves and handles money through the job and collects campaign buttons and enjoys fishing and wood craft.
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Brian Hamer
Brian
Robert Hamer, Jr
Corwin St
Corwin
Cedar, Gray
Madison Streets
Maplehurst
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PUCO
Rome
Aldo Moro
Red Brigades
Moro
Calvin J. Dailey
Monroeville
Mechanic
Mary Meggit
Castalia
Cashier
Plains States
Wictim
Sonora
Mexico
Pima Community College
Tucson
Ariz
John T.rady
United Press International
Mich
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