Diamonds allegedly left aboard hijacked JAL flight
Former California Assemblyman Juan Walter J. Karabian claims nearly two million dollars in diamonds were wrapped in unmarked packages and placed above the galley seats during the hijacking of a Japan Air Lines plane. He says hijackers did not notice the diamonds for five days until stewards retrieved them. Japan Air Lines officials denied knowledge of the claim.
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Carole Wells Karabian
Jeff
Tokyo
Center
California
Walter Karabian
Japan Airlines
California Assembly
Juan Walter J. Karabian
Los Angeles International
Karabian
Japan Air Lines
House chiefs delay vote on B1 funds
The House delayed action on an appropriations bill that could restore 1.4 billion for the B1 bomber after Congress cut 14 billion from defense funds and Carter opposed the plane. Speaker ONeill cited time to debate as the reason, not a stance on resurrection.
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Washington
House
Congress
Carter
Thomas P. O'Neill
House Appropriations
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
Mahon
John J. Flynt
D-Ga
Wholesale prices rise led by wood and fuels
The Labor Department reported wholesale prices rose 0.5 percent in September, the largest gain since April. Industrial commodities led the increase with lumber and wood up 0.44 percent, while fuels, power, minerals, and transportation gear also climbed.
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Washington
Labor Department
Jong
Senate panel kills major energy tax. revival plan debated
The Senate Finance Committee voted 13 to 4 to kill the biggest proposed energy saver in Carter's plan by taxing oil and gas users. It then opened discussion on a Russell Long plan that could revive all taxes via a House-Senate conference. Other Carter taxes on gas inefficiency and crude oil were rejected.
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Senate Finance Committee
Carter
Sen
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate House Conference
Senate
House
Long
Congress
United Mine Workers
Energy Committee
Bennett Johnson
Finance Committee
Johnston Saks
Two Youths Ordered to Trial in Slayings of Widows
Readable article notes two youths are bound for trial charged with brutal killings of two elderly Long Beach widows. The report references a mass slayer hunt and mentions related public and political angles including tax rebates and secret cables.
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Long Beach
Astir
Scared of Snakes class canceled again in Walnut Creek
Gary Bogue's Scared of Snakes course at the Alenanter Jison Jr. Museum was canceled as would be participants stayed away. Only a snake named Sweety Pie and Bogue attended the first session, with 40 to 50 calls from would-be signups. Bogue plans a third try to lure snake haters to enroll.
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Walnut Creek
Gary Bogue
Beye
Pou Ugue
Ae Alenanter Ison Jr
Rogue
Sweety Pie
Bogue
State aide fears Sohio growth will hinder California industry
California Secretary for Business and Transportation Richard T. Silberman warned that the Sohio project at the Port of Long Beach could delay major Southern California industrial development. He argued the plan would be forced to offset pollution with limited gains in jobs and urged delaying approval until a Western gas supply line is secured.
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Washington
Long Beach
California
Richard T. Silberman
Business and Transportation
Silberman
Soho
Sohio
Congress
Midland
Tex
Canada
Mexico
California Resources Board
Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre wins Nobel Prize in 1977
The Swedish Academy awards the 79 year old Vicente Aleixandre the Nobel Prize in Literature for a surrealist poetic body that traces man's condition in the cosmos. He once lived in seclusion and fought Franco, remaining a key figure for Spain's postwar poets.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Vicente A Aleixandre
Spain
Aleixandre
Swedish Academy of Letters
Academy
Britain
Doris Lessing
West Germany
Guenther Grass
Lars Gyllensten
Alexandre
Gyllensten
Seville
Madrid
Spanish Academy
Weather Tonight and Friday in Area
Weather forecast describes fair conditions tonight and Friday across the area. Low temperatures vary by location with mountain areas at two and four degrees and coastal regions higher. The forecast indicates fair skies and modest temperature changes.
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