Mead Dies at 77. Anthropologist Shaped Adolescence Study
Dr. Margaret Mead, renowned anthropologist, died at New York Hospital aged 77 after entering Oct. 2 for cancer treatment. Her work, including Coming of Age in Samoa published at 26, framed adolescent development and sexual maturity for a broad public. American Airlines planning to move headquarters and 1,000 jobs from New York to Dallas. SLICK Okla Santa delivers 1.5 tons of shelving to Neil Grooms Country Store amid delivery ban. Frank Sawyer dressed as Santa helped load shelves to aid local youths.
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New York
Margaret Mead
New York Hospital
Miss Mead
Samona
American Airlines
New York City
Dallas
City Hall
American
Dallas-Fort Worth
Slick
Okla
Santa Claus
Neil Grooms
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Oklahoma
Frank Sawyer
Tulsa
Sawyer
Big Brothers oppose judge order for former officer
Philadelphia authorities clash after Judge Latrone requires Marcus Giardino a guilty involuntary manslaughter offender to join Big Brothers as part of his five year probation. Big Brothers president says Giardino would not be acceptable and the group was not consulted. The judge defends the plan while noting no prior criminal record and plans to reassign if refused.
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Philadelphia
Big Brothers
Robert Latrone
Marcus Giardino
Giardino
Samuel Hirshland
Philadelphia Big Brothers Association
Latrone
Michael Carpenter
Carpenter
Televison
James Walker
Belgium sets December 17 election and federal restructure plan
Belgium's Parliament approves December 17 elections and outlines constitutional changes to create a federal system with three semi autonomous regions to ease Flemish and Walloon disputes. A caretaker government will draft amendments to end centralized rule.
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Brussels
Belgium
Increase predicted in troop drug deaths in Europe
U S military command expects more drug related deaths among troops in Europe this year. Heidelberg spokesman Rex Gribble cites 25 deaths of 185000 GIs in Germany by mid year, versus 26 soldiers and five dependents for all of 1977. He notes an increase is likely amid rising heroin trafficking from Pakistan Iran and Afghanistan through Berlin and West Germany.
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Robert H. Reid
Associated Press
Bonn
West Germany
U.S
Europe
Rex Gribble
U.S. Army
Heidelberg
Germany
Gribble
Southeast Asia
Pakistan
Iran
Afghanistan
Berlin
Army
Glenn English
D-Okla
Stuttgart
Mannheim
Charles Kraak
Israelis weigh U S proposal to end deadlock on Palestinian issue
Israel cabinet debates a U S plan to hold elections in the West Bank and Gaza by December 1979 as a path to autonomous Palestinian administration. Prime Minister Begin and Dayan oppose timetables. Weizman leans toward the idea. Egypt seeks linkage to a broader peace treaty with unresolved oilfield issues in Sinai.
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Larry Thorson
Associated Press
Jerusalem
U.S
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Maariv
Menachem Begin
Moshe Dayan
Israel
Camp David
Ezer Weizman
Egypt
Gaza
Washington
Dayan
Sinai
Yitzhak Modai
Dollar Gains Across Europe As Gold Prices Fall
The dollar strengthened against all major European currencies and gold declined sharply. Morning rates show gains in Swiss francs, West German marks, French francs, Italian lire, and Dutch guilders, with the dollar closing at 190.05 yen in Tokyo and London’s pound at 1.9682 dollars. Gold fixed at $207 per Troy ounce, down from $210.25.
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London
Zurich
Frankfurt
Paris
Milan
Amsterdam
Tokyo
Snow falls spread across the United States report
The Associated Press notes rain or snow widespread from the southwestern U S to the Ohio Valley. Thundershowers hit New Mexico Texas and the southern Mississippi Valley while scattered rain extended to New Jersey. A band of freezing rain affected eastern New Mexico and parts of Oklahoma Kansas. Flash flood watches issued for northeastern Texas and Arkansas. Snow whitened high mountains in New Mexico Colorado Wyoming and dusted portions of Kansas and the Lake Superior area.
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Associated Press
United States
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
New Mexico
Texas
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Colorado
Wyoming
Lake Superior
Carter seeks 2.2 billion defense supplement for missiles and subs
The Carter Administration sends a 2.2 billion supplemental defense bill to Congress proposing full scale development of a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, funding for an additional nuclear powered attack submarine and at least one Spruance class destroyer. The package also includes about 500 million for strategic weapons and 190 million for the mobile missile program, plus other conventional arms to bolster Western Europe.
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Washington
Carter Administration
Congress
Pascagoula
Miss
John Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
U.S
Europe
Pentagon
Defense
Harold Brown
95Th Congress
Carter
Brown
Spruance
White House
Armed hijacker killed by Soviets
Moscow AP reports a Soviet airliner hijack attempt ended with the bandit killed by Civil Aviation Ministry guards. No passengers were harmed. The incident follows a prior regional hijack and cites May 26 1977 Latvia to Stockholm case and subsequent returns.
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Moscow
Tass
E.M. Makhayev
Krasnodar-Baku
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Krasnodar
Baku
Baltic Republics
Stockholm
Vasily Sosnovsky
Sweden
Helsinki
Soviet Union
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