Voyager 2 lifts off on multi planet mission to Jupiter and beyond
Cape Canaveral reports Voyager 2 launched atop a Titan Centaur rocket at 10 30 a m en route to Jupiter and Saturn with speed up to 32300 mph. NASA said data is right on the money after a brief delay. The craft carries messages from President Carter and music selections as it aims to televise future planetary images.
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Quake Triggers Sumbawa Landslide Killing 31
A powerful eastern Indian Ocean quake near Indonesia and Australia triggered a landslide on Sumbawa Island. At least 31 people were killed and six or more reported missing in Lunya district as rescue efforts and relief funds began. The epicenter was offshore about 931 miles southeast of Jakarta.
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Psychiatrists Urge Extra Parent Time to Boost Business
A column suggests some psychiatrists advising parents to spend more hours with children may be using the guidance to drum up clients and increase revenue. The piece questions the motive behind the parental guidance and calls for critical scrutiny of such claims.
Port Authority bond sale under scrutiny in Levitt audit
Albany AP Comptroller Arthur Levitt charges the Power Authority may have wasted 21 million by rapid self purchase of bonds. The authority says the program saved customers 100 million by freeing cash to cover 1970 bond issues. Auditors warn of a path that pushed ahead with surpluses, aiding bond sales.
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State Power Authority
New Yorker
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Ex POWs accuse Cubans of torture in Hanoi camp
Ex prisoners of war claim Cuban guards attacked inmates at The Zoo outside Hanoi where they were held by North Vietnam. Col. Leo R. Thorness says Air Force Col. Earl Cobiel was smashed into a catatonic state and died after refusing food. Thorness spoke after Pentagon review of MIAs and POWs.
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Night Sky Clears With Warmer Temperature Dip
Skies turn partly cloudy tonight as temperatures fall to 50 degrees at Hancock Airport. Clouds move into Syracuse tomorrow bringing a 20 percent rain chance and a high in the mid 70s. The extended forecast shows a rain risk through Wednesday.
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Pennsylvania approves 4.1 billion state budget
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a 4.1 billion budget ending seven weeks of wrangling that halted payments to state workers and welfare recipients. About 8,000 state employees protested by calling in sick, while Gov. Shapp signed the bill and the House adjourned until September 26 to resolve funding for universities and state-related institutions.
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Taree
End of an era as Groucho Marx dies at 86
Groucho Marx died of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at 7:25 p.m. PDT at age 86 after a long illness including hip surgery. His companion Erin Fleming and family members were at his side as officials described his final hours and declining condition.
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Groucho Marx
America
Groucho
Ceders-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai
Vance to Press Human Rights in China on Peking Trip
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance departs for Peking for four days via Tokyo to outline U S human rights policy and seek a pathway to fuller ties with China while pledging Taiwan remains part of U S policy. Officials say no breakthrough expected.
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Chou En-lai
Africa
Dames Shen
State Department
Philip C. Habib
Shen
Hodding Carter II
Hua Kuo-feng elected Chinese Communist Party chairman
China announced the 11th national congress chose Hua Kuo-feng as party chairman by secret ballot. In Beijing tens of thousands celebrated in Tien An Men Square, signaling endorsement of Hua as Mao Zedong’s successor and backing his policy emphasis on technology and reforms.
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Watertown double shooting claims two lives
In Watertown a 46 year old woman Frances Curtis shot and killed her former boyfriend James Houghmaster at his home and then died later from self inflicted wounds. Autopsies are scheduled. motive remains unclear. Police noted domestic troubles and prior cohabitation between the pair.
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UPI
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Frances Curtis
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Officials ignored pleas before killing
David Smith a 13 year old at Industry State School complained to two staff members he was being hassled by other youths. He was dead within two days, stabbed and beaten in an outgrowth of his refusal to join a sexual initiation rite. The state task force blamed the school’s operation but found no individual negligence.
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