Reid faces drive to oust as aides quit in protest
Environmental Commissioner Ogden Reid confronts Gov. Carey amid resignations and reported mismanagement. The dispute centers on PCB cleanup in the Hudson River with GE plants and a slowed enforcement schedule. Reid may be targeted for dismissal as aides warn of a political risk.
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David Shaffer
Albany
Ogden Reid
Hugh Carey
Carey
Reid
New York City
Hudson River Pcbs
Albany Knickerbocker News
Governor
Hudson River
General Electric Co
Department
Commerce
John Dyson
Environmental Planning Lobby
EPL
State
Hudson
Baby selling racket booming
A booming black market for babies risks mafia involvement as brokers charge five to fifty thousand dollars for adoptions and custom-made infants. Law enforcement cites loosely connected networks moving babies across state lines while states loom to use old antislavery statutes and await federal action.
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Holger Jensen
Los Angeles
United States
Richard Moss
Walter Mondale
Charlotte DeArmond
California Children's Home Society
Bomb rocks Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston injuring nineteen
A bomb exploded on the second floor of Boston’s Suffolk County Courthouse after an anonymous caller warned of the blast. At least 19 people were injured as police evacuated over 300 and searched for additional devices. A suspect, described as male, was seen placing a ticking package near an elevator. The blast appeared unrelated to ongoing racial tensions.
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Janet WU
Boston
UPI
Suffolk County
John B. Powers
State Senate
June O’connor
Anthony Jackson
Robert diGrazia
DiGrazia
Princess Anne hospitalized after horse fall
Princess Anne was taken by ambulance to a London hospital for rest and further examination of a hairline vertebra crack after her horse fell and rolled on her. Officials described the injury as very minor and she remained under medical observation overnight.
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Britain
Elizabeth
Waterloo
Windsor Castle
Princess Anne
Duke of Edinburgh
London
Anne
Mark Phillips
Montreal
Phillips
Princess
New York official indicted in judgeships case
A three count indictment charges John A. Whalen a Bronx Democratic leader with concealing and destroying evidence in the probe into alleged sale of judgeships by Patrick J Cunningham. The case marks the first indictment from the Nadjari grand jury probe.
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New York
UPI
Maurice H. Nadjari
Patrick J. Cummingham
John A. Whalen
Bronx
Juror verdict clears Syracuse officer in 1970 shooting case
A civil jury in State Supreme Court found no cause for action against Syracuse policeman Paul Larkin in the 1970 shooting death of 17 year old Jeremiah Mitchell. The four woman two man panel deliberated about seven hours delivering a 5 1 verdict in the wrongful death suit filed by Mitchells mother Bertha Herring.
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Jeremiah Mitchell
Syracuse
Paul Larkin
State Supreme Court
Mitchell
Berthaetta Herring
Larkin
Police Department
Syracuse Police Department
Weekend Shower Outlook From Hancock Airport
National Weather Service observers at Hancock Airport report continuing showers with a 40 percent chance tonight and an overnight low in the upper 40s. Tomorrow's rain chance is 20 percent with highs in the low 60s. The weekend calls for scattered showers and seasonal temperatures from mid 40s to low 70s.
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National Weather Service
Hancock Airport
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