Violin Return Ends Quest for $60,000 Prize
Violinist Benjamin Picone retrieved his 1781 Guadagnini violin stolen from his car on Oct 3 after a Cobb County man who bought the instrument followed a reader tip. The buyer and his wife refused the reward, saying they only wanted the $200 they paid for it. Picone planned to fund his four children’s education and had insured the instrument for half its value.
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Atlanta
Benjamin Picone
Picone
Phone
Cobb County
Italy
Revolt ends in Portugal as loyal forces crush hardline rebels
In Lisbon a pro Communist revolt collapsed as units loyal to President Francisco da Costa Gomes routed rebel troops and established barricades around the city. A leftist military policeman was killed in Lisbon and two Communist trade unionists were shot in Oporto. Remaining rebels included paratroopers and airmen who had seized Montijo air base across the Tagus.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Oporto
Montijo
Tagus
Charleston carriage owners refuse diapered horses edict
In Charleston, Daniel E. Hydrick and other carriage operators refuse to place diapers on horses as city ordinance requires. Hydrick warns of jail for him and his horses, while others say the rule would humiliate them and hurt trade. He cites rivalry with Chamber of Commerce lady guides as a motive.
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Charleston
Daniel E. Hydrick
Hydrick
Tarry Wagner
Joseph McGee
Joseph Young
Hudvick
Chamber of Commerce
Lady Guide
McGee and Young
Lady Four Guides
Snow Plagues Texas Plains and Midwest. Fatalities Reported
Storms blanketed Texas Great Plains and into Illinois and Indiana before Thanksgiving. At least 18 people were killed on icy, snow packed roads across Kansas Missouri and Nebraska with up to 10 inches of snow in parts. Texas fatality cited in an icy crash. Valentine Nebraska recorded 19 below zero. Schools closed across Kansas and Missouri as heavy snow hit Kansas City area. Grace Episcopal church fire in Topeka caused $3 million in damage after roof collapse. Road restrictions on Kansas Turnpike imposed due to snow and ice.
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Great Plains
Ilinois
Tndiana
Kansas
Missouri
Missinei
Valentine
Neb
Kansas City
St. Louis
About & Am
Topeka
Kap
Lowes
Grace Episcopal Church
Kansas Highway Patrol
Kansas Turnpike
Moscow Buries City Under Heavy Snowstorm
Moscow awoke to its heaviest snow in years as a storm blanketed the city with eight to eleven inches of snow overnight. Highways and streets were largely shrouded, with transit slowed and schools possibly affected as residents braced for continued wintry conditions.
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Moscow
U S considers reopening King assassination probe
Attorney General Edward V. Levi asked top Justice Department officials to review the FBI investigation into Martin Luther King Jr. s death and advise whether the case should be reopened. The review follows testimony about an FBI campaign against King during J Edgar Hoover s tenure. Pottinger and Thornburgh lead the civil rights and criminal divisions respectively.
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Washington
Atty
Edward V. Levi
Justice Department
FBI
Martin Luther King
Department
Levi
Senate Intelligence Committee
J. Edgar Hoover
King
J. Stanley Pottinger
Richard L. Thornburgh
Pottinger
Civil Rights Division
Ex Trooper Kills Oregon Police Chief in Salem Case
Former state trooper Robert Wampler, 59, Beaver Creek, indicted for murder in the shooting of Oregon State Police Superintendent Holly Holcomb in Salem. He underwent psychiatric exams after defense requests to gauge understanding of the charge and ability to assist in his defense. Judge Val Sloper postponed plea until December 1980 results. Wampler is jailed without bail. He was dismissed from the force 18 years ago amid a trial board finding. Wampler had challenged the dismissal in court and later ran for governor in 1902.
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Salem
Ore
Sormer
Oregon
Holly Holcomb
Robert Wampler
Beaver Creek
Marion County
Wampler
Val Sloper
Holcomb
Milwaukie
Comac Usberemlogay
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82Nd Airborne Division
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