Grounding of DC-10s Halts Flights Amid Turmoil
The DC-10 fleet is grounded for at least a week as engineers probe a possible engine mounting design defect after a Chicago crash. The FAA emergency suspension blocks foreign DC-10s from U.S. airspace and postpones domestic departures, disrupting travelers and airport operations nationwide.
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Howard Benedict
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Federal Aviation Administration
Chicago
FAA
Bond
May wholesale prices rise 0.4 percent as beef leads drop
Wholesale prices edged up 0.4 percent in May the smallest rise in nine months with a 7 percent drop in beef at wholesale. Food prices fell 1.3 percent while other consumer goods rose 1 percent. Gasoline and fuel oil drove overall inflation while the Labor Department notes a slowing economy.
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Eileen Alt Powell
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Labor Department
John Early
Early
Pecos Man Wounded In Predawn Shooting Under Investigation
Reeves County Sheriff's Department probes a predawn shooting that wounded Juan Chavez 25 of 216 West Fourth Pecos. Chavez was taken to Reeves County Hospital and later to Odessa Medical Center Hospital with a single chest wound, no exit wound, motive undetermined. Police say the shooting occurred near The Place and Chavez drove to the scene before EMS arrived.
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Pecos
Reeves County Sheriff's Department
Juan Chavez
Fourth
Reeves County Hospital
RCH
Odessa Medical Center Hospital
Chavez
West Fourth
Farm Bureau Eyes Libya Oil Deal For Wheat and Machinery
Allan Grant of the American Farm Bureau Federation seeks a unique barter with Libya to obtain high quality crude oil in exchange for wheat corn and farm equipment. State Department officials note few objections amid broader trade concerns. The plan precedes Carter administration moves on oil profits taxes and energy policy.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Washington
Libya
Allan Grant
American Farm Bureau Federation
State Department
Muammar Khadafy
Israel
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
House
Ways and Means
Carter
U.S
George H. Lawrence
The
American Gas Association
FBI probes threatening letter to San Antonio prosecutor
FBI officials investigate a letter mailed to District Attorney Bill White that threatened White and two federal prosecutors and claimed credit for the assassination of U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. The unsigned note, postmarked in San Antonio, mentions White, U.S. Attorney Jamie Boyd and AUSA James Kerr and ties to the Wood case. The letter is part of ongoing Wood related inquiries.
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San Antonio
FBI
Bill White
White
U.S
John H. Wood Jr
Charles Conaway
Jamie Boyd
James Kerr
Conaway
Wood
John
Kerr
Manuel Marquez
Three hundred trucks block Indiana roads
Independent truckers in several states staged protests over rising fuel costs, blocking a mile long section of the Indiana Toll Road with 300 trucks four abreast near Burns Harbor. Trucks also blocked pumps at western and midwestern stops, with a Denver area blockade on I-70 raising fears of a nationwide shutdown.
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Associated Press
Indiana
West
Midwest
Interstate 70
Denver
Colorado Association of Independent Truckers
Joe Cran
Scott Truck Line
Commerce City
Colo
Dan Hiexenbaugh
Burns Harbor
Lake Michigan
Bethlehem Steel Corp
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