Mondale visits Mount Vernon to push coal program
Vice President Walter Mondale arrived at Mount Vernon Outland Airport to rally support from local officials and Democrats amid a push for a major expansion of coal research and energy projects. He outlined a federal plan to spend over a billion dollars on coal development, including synthetic fuels and a mobilization force, while meeting with coal leaders, EPA officials, and local party leaders.
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Cathy Saxenmeyer
Southern Illinoisan Air Force
Mount Vernon-Overland
Walter S. Mondale
Illinois
Mondale
Associated Press
Tony Stevens
Southern Illinois
America
Walter Mondale
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon-Outland
Rolland Lewis
Carter Administration
United States
Energy Department
Energy Security Corp
Doug Costle
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
John Deutch
Costle
Union
Bend Lake College
Carter-Mondale
Terry Smith
Darmstat
River King
Freeburg
Mike McCreary
Amax Coal Corp
Amax
Environmental Protection Agency
Assassination of Hojatoleslam Mofateh at Tehran University
Gunmen on motorcycles killed Hojatoleslam Mohammad Mofateh head of Tehran University theology department and two bodyguards just after he arrived at the campus. The attack follows earlier killings of prominent Iranian clerics and amid U S embassy hostage crisis. Tehran Radio later reported both wounded and killed victims died. The event deepens Iran’s crisis with the United States as hostages remain in the Tehran embassy.
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Tehran
Iran
Hojatoleslam Mohammad Mofateh
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Tehran University
Mofateh
Khomeini
Taghi Haj Tarkhani
Ghabad
Morteza Motahari
Revolutionary Council
Ferghan
Morateh
U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
SAVAK
Council
United States
Shah
Theology
University
Taleghani Hospital
Carter
Aytollah
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Cil
Radio
East
Mohammad Gillani
Americans fly colors in unity day show of support
Americans in New York and Columbus raised banners and flags after President Carter urged Unity Day for Iran hostages. A 60 by 90 foot flag flew from the George Washington Bridge arch while city buses wore small flags and motorists lit their headlights as part of a nation wide display. Lions Club volunteers flooded flag poles with ice to raise flags at dawn and spoke of unity, fellowship, and solidarity during the hostage crisis.
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Nedy
Mount Vernon
Mondale
Jimmy Carter
Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Associated Press
New York
George Washington Bridge
Columbus
Ohio
Carter
Iran
Tehran
Connecticut
Central Ohio Transit Authority
Manhattan
New Jersey
Murphysboro Lions Club
Lions’ Club
Lyle Attig
Lions
Attig
Fred Pierson
Karl Condiff
Johnnie Rowden
Ed McGee
Brian Nelson
First Baptist Church
Floyd Hopkins
Panamanian students protest shah arrival in Panama City
Leftist Panamanian students protest Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's planned refuge on Contadora Island. Demonstrators set a government car ablaze near the Foreign Ministry and clashed with anti riot troops as armed officers and protesters faced off downtown. The shah took refuge over the weekend in a local businessman's island home.
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Panama City
Panama
Shah of Iran
Foreign Ministry
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Contadora Island
Pacific
National Institute of Hydraulic Resources
WIC director accused of $1.2 million contract fraud
Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission says Patricia Fitzgerald ignored rules to steer a $1.2 million WIC contract to Research in Human Development Inc. run by Charles C. Lockhart, a former police officer and Fitzgerald close associate.
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Springfield
Illinois
Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission
State Department of Public Health
Patricia Fitzgerald
Supplemental Food Program For Women, Infants and Children
WIC
Research In Human Development Inc
Charles C. Lockhart
Weather outlook: mild, partly cloudy through Saturday
The National Weather Service expects partly cloudy and warmer conditions tonight with a low in the mid 30s. Wednesday will be partly sunny with highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s followed by unseasonably mild weather Thursday through Saturday with highs in the 60s and lows in the upper 30s and 40s. Current conditions available via recorded message at 348-8432.
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National Weather Service
Illinois
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Jefferson County
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24Th Congressional District
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Franklin County
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Washington
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Congress
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