USSR offers barter oil deal with India for 5.5 million tons
The Soviet Union formally proposes to ship India 5.5 million tons of crude oil over four years in exchange for Indian exports. India would receive one million tons in 1977 and 1.5 million tons in each of the next three years. India imports about 14 million tons annually at high cost, with oil price increases since 1973 straining the trade balance.
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Ussr
India
New Delhi
Soviet Union
Hurricane's son born at Barnett Memorial Hospital Center
Mae Thelma Carter wife of Rubin Hurricane Carter gave birth Monday to a son at Barnett Memorial Hospital Center in Paterson New Jersey. The child weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces and both mother and baby were reported in excellent condition. Carter who was convicted with John Artis of murder a second time on December 21 sought bail until after the birth but was denied and remains in Passaic County jail awaiting sentencing January 26.
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Barnett Memorial Hospital Center
Paterson
N.J
Thelma Carter
Rubin
Hurricane) Carter
John Artis
Carter
Passaic County
New Year celebrations vary from concerts to cruises
Americans plan diverse New Year’s celebrations from high priced club events in Miami and Washington to a $2 door charge in Sausalito. Concorde trips cost up to $3,235 and a Cherryville muskets salute marks the ending Bicentennial year as Carter outlines unity and progress.
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Associated Press
Carol
Norman
Miami
Liza
Sammy
Carry Channing
Norman Mailer
Liza Minnelli
Sammy Davis Jr
Sausalito
Calif
Atlantic
Paris
Washington
Cherryville
N.C
Jimmy Carter
National Safety Council
Connecticut
Winsted
Ex Nazi served Israel firm linked to government
An ex Nazi, Wolfgang Wick, chaired Periclass, an Israeli government controlled chemical company, after investing in Israel and visiting frequently. Parliament debated his appointment and questioned why he was not dismissed despite Nazi party membership and documents found. Wick resigned last July after his past was revealed five months earlier.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Wolfgang Wick
Periclass
Wick
Commerce and Industry
Haim Bar-Lev
Shmuel Tamir
Tamir
Hillel Seidel
Independent
Liberal Party
Seidel
Mordecai Makleff
Peri Class
Makloff
Ill immigrant in war crimes case denied access to files
Hartford based Lithuanian immigrant Bronius Kaminskas, 74, faces Nazi war crimes charges. His lawyer says government documents needed for his defense are denied as Kaminskas is ill and hospitalised. Kaminskas allegedly aided mass slayings in 1941 Lithuania. he has a Jan 25 deportation hearing.
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Bronius Kaminskas
Hartford
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Lithuania
Raymond R. Norko
Kaminskas
Federal Freedom of Information Agency
Washington
Norko
St. Francis Hospital
Vermont farmer carves fame with chainsaw sculptures
Armand Gauthier in Hartford Vermont uses a chainsaw to sculpt cows and other figures over the past year. His 65 cows have grown used to the saw as he creates name recognition as a sculptor in the rural community.
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Hartford, Vt
Vermont
Armand Gauthier
Parolee kills wife and himself after 40 hour standoff
Lafayette Pruitt 35 held wife Molly at gunpoint in Willowbrook apartment for nearly 40 hours as sheriff negotiators waited outside. He died from self inflicted shots after deputies fired tear gas and rushed the room. Pruitt, paroled December 17, had a prior hostage case involving his wife and four children.
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Los Angeles
Lafayette Pruitt
Molly
Willowbrook
Pruitt
Fred
San Luis Obispo
Poland asks mail probe over damaged US letters
Warsaw post director Eugeniusz Baran told Trybuna Ludu that much U.S. mail arrives damaged. A bag of 2000 letters from the United States via Frankfurt was found outside the Frankfurt post office. Most letters were opened and contents mixed. damaged mail, mostly from Chicago, will be returned to the United States as evidence.
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Warsaw
Poland
United States
Trybuna Ludu
Frankfurt
West Germany
Warsaw Post
Eugeniusz Baran
Chicago
California Supreme Court orders equalized school funding by 1980
The California Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that the current property tax based system for financing public education violates equal protection rights. It mandates replacement by 1980 with a plan ensuring equal opportunities for 4.5 million pupils, sparking debate among officials in Beverly Hills and the state.
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San Francisco
California
State Supreme Court
US Supreme Court
New Jersey Supreme Court
Sid Wolinsky
Beverly Hills
Kenneth Peters
Wilson Riles
Balloon crash kills two and injures one near Houston
A hot air balloon collided with a power line in western Harris County killing 70 year old Houston lawyer Percy Selden and his daughter Marjorie Selden Sparks. Surviving daughter in law Susan Selden, 30, was severely burned and in serious but stable condition. Witnesses say Marjorie Sparks was at the controls and the craft took off about a mile from the crash site.
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Percy Selden
Houston
Marjorie Selden Sparks
Austin
Tex
Harris County
Susan Selden
Selden
Poet Dickey wed in Columbia civil ceremony
Poet-novelist James Dickey 53 wed Deborah Dodson 25 former student in a Columbia South Carolina civil ceremony. Dodson is Myrtle Beach native. Dickey’s first wife Maxine died in October.
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James Dickey
Columbia
S.C
Deborah Dodson
Myrtle Beach
Dickey
Maxine
Korean no rice program ends January first
South Korea will discontinue its twice weekly no rice day program on January 1, Agriculture Minister Choi Kak kyoo announced. The policy started in 1959 after rice output lagged, banning rice on Wednesdays and Saturdays and requiring barley mixed with rice on other days.
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South Korea
Choi Kakkyoo
Primitive Polynesian Stone Heads Rise On Front Lawn
A man creates madly grinning figures resembling ancient Polynesian stone heads. About 150 of the figures rest in the snow on his front lawn, drawing attention and curiosity from neighbors.
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