Fiat-Allis sells $900 million in tractors to the Soviet Union
Fiat-Allis Construction Machinery Co. announced the sale of 300 large crawler tractors and parts to the Soviet Union totaling $90 million. Delivery will begin in April from the Springfield Illinois plant and be completed within the year after seven months of negotiations. The company formed in 1974 as a Fiat Allis joint venture.
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Fiat-Allis Construction Machinery Co
Soviet Union
Moscow
Fiat-Allis
Fiat
Allis- Chalmers Corp
Springfield, Lil
Hamilton County employee charged with federal cocaine plot
Hamilton County data-processing worker James Coppinger, 36, was charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine. Arrested in Chattanooga after an undercover DEA operation tied to a St. Louis city case, he faced magistrate Roger Dickson before transfer to Illinois authorities. County Executive Dalton Roberts called the development shocking.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Hamilton County
Illinois
James Coppinger
U.S
Roger Dickson
Chattanooga
St. Louis
Drug Enforcement Administration
Coppinger
Bob Gill
Dalton Roberts
Roberts
Three Die In Hanover Park Apartment Fire
Three people were killed and 12 injured when a fire destroyed an apartment building in Hanover Park, a Chicago suburb. One body was recovered immediately and two more found later as investigators combed the scene. Nine were treated at Suburban Medical Center, with three admitted in fair condition, while three others were treated for minor injuries at Sherman Hospital in Elgin.
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Hanover Park
Chicago
Robert G. Sauer
Suburban Medical Center
Hoffman Estates
Sherman Hospital
Elgin
Washington resigns state senate seat in Chicago
U.S. Rep. Harold Washington, after resisting resignation over Mayor Jane Byrne's pick for his successor, relinquished the Illinois Senate seat. He had argued Byrne’s choice James C. Taylor would not serve the district well and predicted Taylor would lose the seat in 1983 after being sworn in as a congressman.
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South Side
Senate
Byrne Allies
Taylor
Washington
Jane Byrne
James Taylor
Illinois State Senate
Byrne
Congress
Chicago
Illinois Senate
U.S
Harold Washington
Studs Terkel Named Chicago Press Club Man of the Year
Chicago broadcaster and author Studs Terkel is chosen as Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Press Club. He will receive the award at a Saturday dinner in Chicago. Terkel wrote Working Hard Times and Division Street America and hosts a WFMTFM interview program.
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Studs Terkel
Chicago Press Club
Terkel
Stephanie Fuller
Division Street
America
Wfmtfm
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