Strikers hold mines in Poland defy martial law
Reports from Poland say 3,000 miners refuse to quit a prolonged strike in two Silesian mines. Priests and soldiers were sent to negotiate while four reconfirmed Solidarity members were re-arrested for disobeying martial law. Lech Walesa reportedly hunger strikes amid government controls and travel curbs eased for Christmas Mass.
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Associated Press
Poland
Solidarity
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Warsaw Radio
Solidarity Union
Lech Walesa
Warsaw
Bonn
London
Silesian
Federal judge rules ERA deadline invalid and rescissions valid
A federal judge ruled Congress lacked authority to extend the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment and affirmed that five states effectively rescinded their earlier ratifications. The decision, by U.S. District Judge Marion Callister, followed suits from Idaho, Arizona, and Washington lawmakers.
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Boise, Idaho
Congress
U.S
Marion Callister
Idaho
Arizona
Washington
Callister
Tennessee
Kentucky
South Dakota
Nebraska
European powers weigh response to Poland crackdown
A U S team studies building allied backing for sanctions on the Soviet Union over Poland’s martial law. France backs human rights concerns, West Germany hesitates, and the EC expresses unease. Europe leans toward peace and arms control, wary of destabilizing loans, but unlikely to oppose internal Polish suppression openly.
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United States
Poland
France
Francois Mitterand
West Germany
Helmut Schmidt
Europe
NATO
Afghanistan
Dozier kidnapping hoax linked to Red Brigades tensions
Italian police say a warned discovery of US Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier’s body was likely a hoax by the Red Brigades to heighten anxiety over his disappearance. An anonymous ANSA call in Beirut warned Dozier’s body would be found in an Italian village Tuesday night. Weather notes: cold, cloudy conditions across Texas with highs generally in the 30s to 60s and chances of rain or snow in the mountains.
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Dozier
NATO
Verona
Judith
Rome
U.S
James L. Dozier
Red Brigades
Beirut
ANSA
Odessa- Midland
Midland Regional
Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
Rio Grandee
South
North Texas
South Texas
West A
Odessa American publication and mailing details
An old Odessa American masthead snippet notes the paper’s open masthead text and postal address, listing 722 East Fourth Street Odessa Texas 79708 and references weekly publication timing, delivery schedule, and open post office box details typical of a newspaper notice from the era.
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Fourth Street
Odessa
Texas
Galloway faces murder and kidnapping cases in Odessa
Galloway, held in Ector County Jail, faces a murder charge tied to Carmen Croan’s killing and a separate kidnapping case. A psychiatric report found him paranoid schizophrenic and potentially dangerous, but DA Holmes cautioned the finding may not be final and a competency hearing is expected.
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Galloway
Goodman
Ector County
Mike Holmes
Holmes
Bobo
Clovis
N.M
Lucille Galloway
Man with Long History of Mental Health Care
The subject's records trace treatment back to at least 1958 after his father's death. A high school graduate with a mother in Clovis New Mexico, he drifted through jobs, attended college briefly, and claimed to have acted in California. He has been married once, divorced, and told interviewers of mutual infidelity. Officials note treatment in seven institutions across Dallas Denver Big Spring Illinois Galveston and New Mexico, with recent work at Forensic Hospital in Las Vegas New Mexico. In July 1980 he was described as manic depressive and diagnosed with schizophrenia by multiple doctors including Dr. Melvin Goodman.
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N.M
North Texas State College
Denton
Galloway
Dallas
Denver
Big Spring
Illinois
Galveston
New Mexico
Forensic Hospital
Las Vegas
Melvin Goodman
Odessa
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