Gleason Undergoes Triple Bypass Heart Surgery in Chicago
Entertainer Jackie Gleason, 62, underwent a six hour open heart operation described as a triple bypass. Surgeons stripped a vein from his leg to bypass narrowed heart vessels. The procedure began 7 30 a m and ended about 1 30 p m. Gleason, in Chicago for Sly Fox, was said to be doing fine and had requested secrecy until after the operation.
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Chicago
Jackie Gleason
Gleason
Michael Reese Hospital
Rita Goldman
Sly Fox
Goldman
New York City
Ralph Kramden
Art Carney
Audrey Meadows
Famine in Ethiopia Strikes Wallo Province Hard
Up to a million people in Wallo Province face a second famine in five years as drought and war widen hunger. State radio says residents eat fungus-tainted grain and suffer gangrene amid food airlift by the government, while rebels accuse attacks on health centers and schools. The 2.5 million resident province lies north of Addis Ababa.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Ethiopia
Wallo
Addis Ababa
Ethiopian Democratic Union
Radio
Soviet missile ban proposal slows SALT talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko proposed banning all new intercontinental missiles through 1985 in talks with President Carter and Secretary of State Vance. The plan was rejected by U S negotiators, who warned it would block the MX missile and jeopardize Senate approval of a final accord. Officials said the issue has become the main obstacle, with possible summer talks hinging on summit prospects.
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New York Times
Washington
Moscow
Andrei A. Gromyko
Carter
Cyrus R. Vance
White House
New York
Soviet Union
Senate
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Gromyko
Brezhnev
Public backs federal handgun registration in new survey
A Center for the Study and Prevention of Handgun Violence poll released on Kennedy’s assassination anniversary shows broad support for federal handgun registration including among gun owners. The nationwide survey of 1,500 adults conducted by Cambridge Reports Inc. indicates strong demand for licensing and registration of both new and existing handguns and approval of gun control measures.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Center For the Study and Prevention
Milton S. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Cambridge Reports Inc
Pat Caddell
Carter
Gallup
Louis Harris
Man shot near Anna left in stable condition
Union County Sheriff's Office investigated a Saturday shooting in rural Anna that left one man in stable condition at Memorial Hospital Carbondale. Victim not named pending kin notification. shooter details and motive undisclosed. In a separate case, a Michigan fugitive escaped police at a Berryville residence area while officers searched nearby Jonesboro. no description provided and not linked to the shooting.
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Union County Sheriff's Office
Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Anna
Kentucky
Michigan
Berryville
Jonesboro
Union County Sheriff’s
Fire damages Sparta restaurant injuring two firefighters
The Geranium Room in Sparta suffered extensive interior damage from a fire that began on the first floor and spread via a dumbwaiter to the second floor. Two firemen were treated for injuries from broken glass and later released. The owner couple Tom and Mrs. Cox were linked to the scene as the fire started around 4:30 a.m. and was controlled by 9:45 a.m. The Randolph Service Station escaped damage in the same building on South St. Louis Street. No damage estimate was provided.
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Sparta
Burnell Menke
Menke
Tom Cox
Cox
Randolph
18Yearold rescuer saves two classmates from submerged car
Sean Herron 18 plunged into Cedar Lake to rescue two passengers after a car sped off a steep incline. He saved Calvin Clark and Eddie Mann, both 17, while the driver Sherman Allen reached shore. A fourth passenger Owen Ivy drowned. a canoeist helped search as Civil Defense divers recovered the body. Herron had no formal lifeguard training and only minor injuries.
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Southern
Owen Ivy
Carbondale
Herron
Ivy
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Carbondale Community High School
Larry Hill
Carbondale Police Department
Acci
Clark
Mann
Scott Bevis
Lake Shore
Robert Bunion
Runion
Carbondale Memorial Hospital
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