Oil price hikes threaten global grain prospects
Oil price increases from OPEC have sharp effects on developing nations agriculture raising costs for fertilizer and fuels. The World Bank warns of rising absolute poverty by 2000 as costs squeeze farmers in India Pakistan Africa and other nations. Higher shipping and fertilizer prices compound food security risks while FAO cautions of a shrinking grain harvest if production does not rebound.
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Seth S. King
New York Times
Washington
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
World Bank
OPEC
Asia
India
Pakistan
Africa
United States
Gulf Coast
Japan
Egypt
Bangladesh
Philippines
Korea
Brookings Institution
Fred Sanderson
U.S
Ghana
Niger
Sri Lanka
Zambia
Congress
United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
McDonald's trims prices to aid inflation in early rollout
McDonald's moves to cut prices on hamburgers and cheeseburgers by five cents in at least a quarter of its restaurants, claiming the cuts target items favored by young families. Sears also trimmed prices recently after a Carter appeal. Castro Valley protest clashes occurred as Ku Klux Klan members met. Ozark Air Lines reaches a tentative agreement averting a strike, with 1,800 agents involved after a 19 hour bargaining session.
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McDonald’s
Doug Timberlake
Carter
Sears Roebuck & Co
Bob Shoup
Castro Valley
Calif
Jerry Jassee
Grover City
Committee Against Racism
Lewis Moore
California
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland
Ozark Air Lines
Church bus overturns injuring campers near Carthage
A church bus carrying 47 members of Nashville's West End Church of Christ overturned on Interstate near Carthage Tennessee after hitting a tie railing. Police said 38 were injured, three seriously, as the vehicle toppled while en route to a camping event on Saturday.
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Nashville
West End Church of Christ
Indian leader Charan Singh resigns after brief term
Indian Prime Minister Charan Singh hands in the resignation of his 24 day minority cabinet and asks President Sanjiva Reddy to dissolve Parliament and call mid term elections. Jagjivan Ram seeks to succeed him as Singh’s government ends.
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New Delhi
India
Charan Singh
Sanjiva Reddy
Singh
Jagjivan Ram
Indira Gandhi
Reddy
Ram
Gandhi
Congress Party
Indira Congress
Teen heroin ring in Detroit linked to Young Boys Inc
Detroit police say a teen age heroin ring nicknamed Young Boys Inc earned more money than their parents. About 85 people were arrested after a month long crackdown on west side operations with a fleet of vehicles and salaries of 250 dollars weekly plus commissions. Two ringleaders, Raymond Peoples 23 and Mark Marshall 26, were identified. Police seized thousands of dollars and hundreds of heroin packets stamped with the group name. Juvenile members earned 250 per week and a commission, with a street network delivering drugs to private homes used as distribution points.
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Detroit
Young Boys Inc
Herbert Simmons
Raymond Peoples
Mark Marshall
Simmons
West Side
Gerald Hale
Heiress's death under investigation in Los Angeles
Wrigley gum heiress Carlisle Higholt 40 was found dead in her Rolling Hills home. Autopsy delayed due to coroner staff shortage as investigators weigh suicide versus homicide. officials say no suspect or breaks in the case yet.
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Los Angeles
Wrigley
Carlisle Higholt
Mike Santander
Wrigley Gum Empire
The
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Carl Rieger
Chrysanthemum Festival Opens in Bristol Sept 21
The annual Chrysanthemum Festival in Bristol, Connecticut runs September 21 through October 7. More than 80,000 specimens of the hardy perennial will be displayed, ranging from delicate minis to giant pom-poms.
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Bristol
Bus crash near I 40 east of Nashville injures campers
A bus carrying campers was traveling toward Nashville on Interstate 40 near Smith County about 45 miles east of Nashville. The group had spent a week at Fall Creek Falls State Park and was en route to continue their outing when the incident occurred.
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Interstate 40
Nashville
Smith County
Fall Creek Falls State Park
Experimental car to save lives and cut fuel use
Washington AP reports a Calspan Buffalo car with air cushions and knee restraints protecting occupants in an 80 mph head on crash could save about 15,000 lives annually. It delivers 28.2 mpg and could save 2.6 million barrels of oil if all U.S. cars reached this fuel economy.
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Washington
Joan Claybrook
Transportation Department
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Calspan
Buffalo
N.Y
U.S
Rape victim slain before testimony in Jackson County
Katherine Jo Allen, 21, an art student who was to testify next week in a rape case, was abducted from her mid town apartment by a masked gunman and shot three times. Her body was found in a vacant lot on Sunday as a six man detective squad investigates. Her mother Reba Byrd said she had received threats warning her against testifying.
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Peoples
Marshall
Wayne County
Thomas McGuire
Katherine Jo Allen
al Lomas
Miss Allen
Jackson County Circuit Court
Reba Byrd
Molotov cocktail kills baby boy in Phoenix home
A 20 month old boy named Julian Jackson died from burns after a Molotov cocktail thrown through a window hit the living room floor and set him ablaze. Investigators said a beer bottle filled with flammable liquid and a wick caused the fire around 3 am Friday. The mother Susan 18 grandmother Eleanor Black and owner Yolanda Gaffney 31 were in another room when the device exploded. Police say arson investigators have limited leads as the murder probe begins.
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Dennis Keith
Keith
Susan
Eleanor Black
Yolanda Gaffney
Cosmonauts Endure Record Space Voyage Returns
Moscow reports two cosmonauts Valery Ryumin and Vladimir Lyakhov are healthy after a 175 day 36 minute spaceflight aboard Salyut 6. They landed 210 miles southeast of Baikonur celebrating a new endurance record and describe readjustment to gravity.
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Earth
Valery Ryumin
Vladimir Lyakhov
Baikonur
Central Asia
Salyut 6
Mars
Tass
Lyakhov
Air Force
Space
Ryumin
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