Drought from U S spreads into Mexico and Canada air strike ends
In Mexico drought harms Sonora and Sinaloa reducing water and crops as dams run at one sixth. In Ottawa the House orders striking air traffic controllers back to work with emergency legislation passed and sent to the Senate. Normal service to resume later today.
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Mexico
United States
Sonora
Sinaloa
Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Commons
Senate
House
Fischer and Korchnoi May Battle For $3 Million Match
A Dutch paper cites Viktor Korchnoi saying Wilfried Hilgert will pay Bobby Fischer $3 million for a world championship match, possibly next February. Korchnoi plans a September trip to America to finalize details after contact with Fischer.
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New York
Bobby Fischer
Victor Korchnoi
Fischer
Korchnoi
West Germany
Wilfried Hilgert
America
Vikki Carr Admitted For Voice Rest In Texas
Singer Vikki Carr, 36, was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Houston for bruised vocal cords. A spokesman said she postponed a Denver show until October to rest her voice and doctors advised missing one game to save the season. In Amarillo, jurors were being drawn for the capital murder trial of Fort Worth businessman T Cullen Davis, with only one jury box seat vacant.
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Vikki Carr
Methodist Hospital
Miss Carr
Denver
Amarillo
Tex
Fort Worth
T. Cullen Davis
Trull Accuses Estes Backer in Kidnapping Bid
Promoter Don Trull barricaded in Pyron Investments office in Tyler demanding 10 000 dollars a Cadillac and a 775 000 promissory note from Billy D. Pyron. A hostage, Bill May, was released after four hours. Trull and his fiancé Glynell Logan and her children were charged with aggravated kidnapping. Estes, paroled from a 15 year fraud sentence, is under parole terms banning promotional activities. investigators widen probes into Estes business dealings.
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Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Don Trull
Pyron Investments
Tyler
Billy D. Pyron
Trull
Smith County
Justice of the
Edna Hicks
Bill May
Glynell C. Logan
Mark Logan
Julie Anna Logan
West Texas
Abilene
Pyron
Tyler Asst
Willie Hardy
Hardy
Logan
Mississippi
West Texas Oil Company
Astate District Court
Texas Attorney General's Office
Baylor University
Composite sketch released in Son of Sam manhunt
New York AP report says police issued a refined composite sketch based on witnesses to the July 31 attack. The flyer describes a white male 25 to 32, 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 9, 165 to 175 pounds, athletic build, dark wavy hair, high cheekbones and a sensuous mouth.
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Sam
John Keenan
Keenan
William F. McCormack
New York City
Charter Arms
Stacy Moskowitz
Brooklyn
Robert Violante
Violante
Stacy
Tommy Z
Panama Canal Treaty Near Signing After 13 Years Of Talks
Panama City AP reports after 13 years of bargaining the United States and Panama are ready to initial the basic principles of a treaty to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama by 2000. Negotiators ended an all night session and say an accord in principle is close. Major issues include transfer of canal zone property and a U S aid package.
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Panama
United States
Panama Canal
U.S
Sol Linowitz
Linowitz
Ellsworth Bunker
Canal Zone
Canal
Mystery creature attacks in Oklahoma Eleventh hour fear grows
Adair County officials investigate a reported nine foot tall hairy figure with glowing red eyes that allegedly attacked 15 year old Brian Jones and left claw marks. Goats killed and claves missing in eastern Oklahoma near the Arkansas line are being linked to the case as civil defense coordinates with Sasquatch investigators. The attack happened Friday night after a friend spotted red eyes at a kitchen window.
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Stilwell
Okla
Adair County
Gary Fain
Oklahoma
Arkansas Line
Fain
Brian Jones
Jones
White House sits on eighteen acres along Pennsylvania Ave
The White House occupies 18 acres on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, forming the executive complex at the heart of the capital.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
White House
National Archivist
James B. Rhoads
Executive Office
National Archives
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington ,DC
Barred judge sets hearing for Friday in Hughes will case
Las Vegas AP Judge Keith Hayes who is barred from the Clark County District Court trial on the Howard Hughes Mormon Will has set a Friday hearing to decide next steps in the 15 month old case. The disqualification by visiting Judge William Forman means Monday’s trial is postponed and Freese argues bias. The Mormon Will date March 19 1968 requests one fourth to the Hughes Medical Institute and one sixteenth to Melvin Dummar with other distributions to universities and charities. The Houston probate court will conduct three trials to determine Hughes residence and which wills qualify, with heirs to be decided.
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Keith Hayes
Clark County District Court
Howard Hughes
William Forman
Washoe County
Forman
Clark County
Los Angeles
Paul Freese
Hughes
Hayes
Freese
Salt Lake City
Hughes Medical Institute
Miami
Utah
Governors say farmers going broke
A Midwestern Governors Conference approved a statement accusing the Carter administration of agricultural inaction driving many American farmers toward bankruptcy. The text also calls for reduced meat imports to help domestic producers reach production costs and urges federal support for water pollution abatement funds. The group opposes merging the National Guard with federal reserve military forces, warning of confusion and loss of readiness.
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Okla
National Guard
Federal Reserve
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