New Year Celebrations Across America Set for 1980
Mystic Connecticut steps back to 1879 for a festive New Year Eve while Times Square in New York draws 50,000 revelers under police watch. Boston and other cities anticipate fireworks noise as Hawaii residents unleash millions in firecrackers.
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Times Square
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Baltimore
Honolulu
Boston Hospital For Women
Seamen’s Inne
Milford
Hamden
Daniel Kearns
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Bill Lombardo
Guy Lombardo
Royal Canadiens
Woody Allen
Tom Quigley
Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Pasadena
Calif
Music of America
Frank Sinatra
Hawaii
UN Security Council Sets Jan Seven Iran Hostage Sanctions Deadline
The Security Council adopted a U S resolution threatening economic sanctions on Iran if the Tehran hostages are not freed by January 7. The vote was 11 to 0 with four abstentions as Kurt Waldheim prepared to travel to Tehran to press for release of about 43 to 50 hostages.
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U.N. Security Council
U.S
Iran
Tehran
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Bangladesh
Kuwait
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
New York
Kansas City
Richard Berkley
John Germann
International Association of Fire Fighters
Aaron Wilson
Treece
Waldheim
United States
Cyrus R. Vance
Carter
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Soviet Casualties In Coup Reported
A Western diplomatic source in New Delhi says about 250 Soviet troops were killed or wounded in the Moscow backed coup in Afghanistan last Thursday. The same source reports Soviet forces in Afghanistan may number 45,000, moving to bolster government troops against anti Marxist insurgents. Western diplomats in Kabul note reports of Soviet reinforcements to the east and northeast. In London, Warren Christopher met fellow envoys to discuss possible Western opposition moves to the Soviet intervention.
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Associated Press
Afghanistan
New Delhi
India
Kabul
Pakistan
Aghanistan
London
U.S
Warren Christopher
Ottawa City Commission Agendas Annexation Review
The Ottawa commission will study two annexation ordinances at a Wednesday meeting with public hearings already held on two land tracts. One is 80 acres northeast of town and the other is a 200 foot deep strip along Fast 15th Street. No action is required. The session includes a year end ordinance defining city boundaries for tax purposes.
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Cherry
North
Davis
Garfield
Dan
Brent Fogle
Fast 15Th Street
Mulberry Street
Orchard Heights
Robert Mills
Mills
Commission Room
City Hall
Kansas Top News of 1979 Highlights Liquor Law Change
A survey of AP editors names the 1979 Kansas top stories led by the liquor law overhaul ending the liquor pool system. Other major items include the Amtrak derailment at Lawrence, record wheat harvest, a trade delegation to China, a contested death penalty bill, severe winter storms, a Brown v Topeka desegregation case reopening, and political shifts in the Dole campaign.
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Kansas
Associated Press
Robert Stephan
Supreme Court
Amtrak
Lawrence
National Transportation Safety Board
John Carlin
China
Carlin
Goodland
Grant Avery
Peabody Bank
Timothy Newfield
Hob Dole
Dole
Robert
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