Paroled: Joan Little Released From Raleigh Prison
Joan Little, the Black woman acquitted in the Beaufort County jailer murder trial, was released on parole from Women's Prison in Raleigh. She was offered a job in New York and will serve parole there after her escape and recapture years earlier.
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N.C
Joan Little
Corrections Department
Miss Little
New York
Beaufort County
New York City
North Carolina
Doctors Save Severed Hand Of Teen Musician In Subway Incident
In New York a 17 year old flutist and pianist Renee Katz was pushed onto subway tracks. Doctors at Bellevue Hospital reattached her right hand after a marathon operation begun at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The hand shows blood supply but full use remains undetermined. Police seek the assailant as the victim awaits potential college plans with Tufts and the New England Conservatory. The incident sparked mixed emotions among train riders and witnesses.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Renee Katz
Daniel Baker
Miss Katz
High School of Music and Art
Manhattan
Robert
Tufts University
Medford
Mass
New England Conservatory of Music
Boston
Barreiro
Subway
Oases Found on Mars by UMass Astronomers
Four University of Massachusetts astronomers report evidence of two large Martian oases based on Earth telescope data and water detectors on Viking orbiters. No water found by two U.S. landers. findings presented at Brown University. Nevada voters repeal 2 percent food tax saving an estimated 27 million annually starting July 1. 4 to 1 margin. A Missouri farm family sues railroads and firms for 7.65 million over a derailment and chemical spill. 1,000 evacuated January 10.
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A.I
Mars
University of Massachusetts
Viking
U.S
Planetary Geology
Brown University
Reno, Nev
Nevada
Columbia, Mo
William Kemner
Linda
Frances
Boone County
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Dresser Industries
G.A.T.X. Corp
Monsanto Chemical
Pope decries war during Auschwitz visit in Poland
From a wooden platform at Auschwitz Birkenau Pope John Paul II urged peace and condemned "the destruction of man by man" while recalling Jewish, Romani and Slavic victims. He noted Poland's sufferings and spoke for nations with violated rights, visiting Nowy Targ and Krakow on his homeward leg.
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Robert H. Reid
Associated Press
Krakow
Poland
Pope John Paul II
Auschwitz Death Camps
Auschwitz
Nowy Targ
Birkenau
Sandinista forces claim hold on 25 towns in Nicaragua
AP dispatch from Managua reports Sandinista guerrillas asserting control of 25 towns and villages as their offensive against President Somoza escalates. Curfew, general strike, and street fighting disrupt travel and communications while the National Stadium becomes a reservist induction center.
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Tom Fenton
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Radio Sandino
National Stadium
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Leon
Masaya
Matagalpa
Chichigalpa
Somotillo
Esteli
Chinandega
Ocotal
Education aid to save failing colleges warned by Duke professor
Washington briefs report Duke University professor Robert Behn told Senate committee that pumping money to colleges at risk of financial collapse would rescue schools that fail to offer attractive educational products. He forecasts possible yearly college closures in the early 1980s amid a falling 18 year old population. Separately NSF notes Ohio State researchers have developed a radar technique using signals in two planes to improve rainfall measurements and flood forecasts.
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Associated Press
Congress
Robert Behn
Duke University
Behn
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
Ohio State University
National Science Foundation
Oil relief well drilling may take more than three months
Mexico City AP reports it will take over three months to drill a relief well to stem the Gulf of Mexico blowout at Ixtoco 80 miles northwest of Ciudad del Carmen. About 630,000 gallons of crude daily flood the gulf. 1.26 million gallons have leaked since Sunday, half burning, half recovered by boats.
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Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Mexico
PEMEX
Statoil
Ixtoco
Cidad del Carmen
Campeche Bay
Bokassa decrees fines for arrests of students in cape note
Bokassa I decrees punishment for arresting students with fines or jail, after Amnesty International says 8 to 16 year olds were beaten or killed in overcrowded cells following April 18 protests over school uniform orders. Amnesty cites about 100 children killed.
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Bokassa I
Amnesty International
Bokassa
Human
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Equal Opportunity Law
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