Fort Worth seeks reversal of Love Field expansion ruling
Fort Worth officials filed suit in a state district court asking to overturn a December decision allowing Southwest Airlines to expand service from Dallas Love Field. The Texas Aeronautics Commission granted the authority, and Fort Worth City Atty. J. G. Johndroe Jr. called the commission's authorization prejudicial and the airline's application legally deficient.
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Austin
Tex
Fort Worth
Southwest Airlines
Dallas
Love Field
Texas Aeronautics Commission
G. Johndroe Jr
Commission
Bell takes office as attorney general
Griffin Bell, confirmed by a 75 to 21 Senate vote, becomes the nation’s top legal officer. The Atlanta lawyer and former judge will be sworn in in the Justice Department Great Hall as Carter’s civil rights record is cited as a key factor in the approval.
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John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington
Griffin B. Bell
Bell
Atlanta
Carter
Senate
Justice Department
High-Priced Tomatoes Fall Short After Hard Freeze
In Miami Beach a supermarket displays a sign warning customers that tomatoes are not up to usual standards due to conditions. The note notes the crop was devastated by last week's killer freeze, with 95 to 100 percent destroyed in southern Florida and 35 to 40 percent in central Florida.
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Miami Beach
Florida
Palm Beach
Hardy Taylor
Winn-Dixie
South
Mexico
Taylor
California
U.S. Agriculture
Robert Bergland
Reubin Askew
Askew
U S Plans 23 Year Canal Withdrawal Under Panamanian Talks
Panama seeks full U S withdrawal from the Canal Zone by 2000 under a new treaty. Panamanian Foreign Minister Aqui line Boyd and Secretary Vance set talks next week with a national plebiscite to approve any pact. Carter may name Linowitz as co negotiator with Bunker.
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Panama
U.S
Canal Zone
Aquiline Boyd
Cyrus Vance
Boyd
New York
Omar Torrijos
Vance
Canal
Torrijos
Carter
Sol M. Linowitz
Ellsworth Bunker
Strikers Close Down Madrid Industrial Belt
Thousands of workers across Madrid joined protests against right wing violence causing a shutdown of Madrid's industrial belt and construction sites. Police reinforced the capital to curb potential clashes during the funeral for five slain Communists as Spain endures its worst crisis since Franco's era.
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Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Adolfo Suarez
Middle East
Politi
Tiago Carrillo
Socialist Party
Popular Party
Jose Maria de Areilza
Barcelona
PTA Hearings Focus on Violence in TV Programs
Chicago witnesses including Diane Blackmore and about 50 others pressed for action by the PTA at a 12 hour hearing on TV violence. Officials argued networks have cut gratuitous violence while noting no conclusive cause and effect exists between onscreen violence and real life behavior.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Diane Blackmore
PTA
Blackmore
Henry W. Levinson
Television Information Office
National Association of Broadcasters
California
Herminio Traviesas
NBC
Mondale Visits Berlin Wall During Western Europe Tour
Vice President Walter Mondale toured Berlin visiting the Brandenburg Gate and the wall while reiterating U S support for the city and its residents. He spoke at City Hall recalling Kennedy's 1963 pledge and then continued to Rome for talks with Italian officials and Pope Paul VI.
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Walter F. Mondale
Berlin Wall
Mondale
Brandenburg Gate
Hans-Dietrich Gens
Kennedy
United States
Carter
West Berlin
Rome
Paul VI
U.S
Europe
Japan
Mystery man tied to Hughes will questioned in Nevada hearing
Melvin Dummar testifies in Las Vegas on the Mormon will claim. Judge Keith Hayes warns of lying as Dummar reiterates he found an envelope addressed to David O. McKay and delivered a three page document but denies writing the will. The estate is valued around 2.5 billion dollars and Dummar would receive one sixteenth.
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John M. Willis
Associated Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Melvin Dummar
Howard Hughes
Clark County District Court
Keith Hayes
Dummar
Hughes
Salt Lake City
David O. McKay
Willard
Utah
Los Angeles
Harold Rhoden
Rhoden
Noah Dietrich
Bonnie
Howie
Spencer Kimball
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Houston
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Gaithersburg
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Massachusetts
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Bob Ole
Kansas
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