Park to testify in U S courts under South Korea deal
House ethics chair Rep John Flynt and special counsel Leon Jaworski denounce the Park agreement as a facade while pledging to subpoena Park to testify in U S courts and before Congress. The deal bars further indictments unless new evidence emerges and immunizes Park from U S prosecution if truthful.
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Washington
House
Tongsun Park
Capitol Hill
Congress
John J. Flynt
D-Ga
House Ethics Committee
Park
Flynt
Leon Jaworski
South Korea
Department of Justice
Jaworski
U.S
Benjamin R. Civiletti
Korea
Congressional Committee
Georgetown Club
Justice Department
House Committee
Richard T. Hanna
D-Calif
Washington-area
Hancho C. Kim
Hanna
Kim
Seoul
United States
Virus outbreak hits four states
The CDC reports winter influenza like illness outbreaks in Wisconsin New Jersey Pennsylvania and Tennessee with multiple county spread. H1N1 appears in the Soviet Union and Hong Kong while a familiar H3N2 strain drives current U S outbreaks and school absence rises in New York area and Michigan. In Brighton Colorado a nursing home sees 50 of 125 residents ill and five deaths.
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Atlanta
National Center For Disease Control
CDC
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
United States
Soviet Union
Hong Kong
Texas
Brighton
Colo
Grain inspectors warned as grain elevator blasts rise
US official Leland Bartett warned inspectors will be pulled off export elevators when hazards justify drastic action. Three explosions in 10 days killed at least 55, including 18 at Farmers Export Co. in Galveston Texas. Correspondence shows animosity toward FGIS from Farmers Export officials. Bartett confirmed grain dust caused the blasts.
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Washington
Federal Grain Inspection Service
Leland Bartett
Bartett
Farmers Export Co
Galveston
Tex
Westwego
Tupelo
Miss
U.S. Department of Agriculture
David R. Galliart
Inspection Service
Congress
The
Kansas City
D. Bichler
LE. Malone
Bichler
Mine Talks Break Off in 1978 Coal Strike
Thousands of United Mine Workers head into 1978 amid a 26 day nationwide strike. Negotiations halted as coal operators walked out and officials said talks were in bad shape. About 100 UMW miners were arrested at a non union mine near Norton Virginia while picketing, then released pending hearings.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Ken
UMW
Norton
Californians Complete 2000 Mile Pacific Water Ski Crossing
Three Californians led by Tom Calamia reach Waikiki Beach after 18 days at sea aboard a single jet ski with a forewing stabilizer. Dave Calderon Tracy Shelley and a fishing crew of nine completed a grueling, test voyage to evaluate the stabilizer for possible military and Kawasaki use.
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Honolulu
San Diego
Waikiki Beach
Pacific Ocean
Tom Calamia
Calamia
Dave Calderon
Kawasaki
Tracy Shelley
Pacific
Basques Win Long Battle for Home Rule
Basques in northern Spain gain home rule after a 10 hour cabinet meeting led by Premier Adolfo Suarez. The move ends decades of repression since Franco’s regime. ETA remains active underground. Restoration of home rule is provisional pending a new Spanish constitution.
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Madrid
Spain
Adolfo Suarez
Francisco Franco
ETA
Basque Land and Liberty
End of New York Automat Era Marks City Dining Change
New Yorkers bid farewell to Horn & Hardart automat across from Grand Central as lease ends. The East 42nd Street location opened in 1955 and drew 5 million annual customers at its peak, while the remaining Third Avenue and 42nd Street automat becomes the last in the city.
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New York
Grand Central Station
Horn & Hardart
Times Square
Frank Godard
East 42Nd Street
Empire State Building
Joe Horn
Frank Har
Dart
Philadelphia
Third Avenue
42Nd Street
Grand Central
Park Newspapers Buys Norwich Evening Sun
Park Newspapers Inc has acquired the Norwich Evening Sun a small central New York daily along with the Norwich Shopper weekly The purchase increases Roy H Park who leads Park Newspapers to ownership of 24 newspapers including weekly and daily titles in the chain.
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Ithaca
Norwich Evening Sun
New York
Park Newspapers Inc
Norwich Shopper
Roy H. Park
Park Newspapers
Weather forecast and records for the Northeast and beyond
Snow covers much of the Northeast and Midwest with rain in the Southeast. Forecast calls for increasing clouds tonight with possible snow, then snow tomorrow. Chance of snow 30 percent tonight and 80 percent tomorrow. Sunset today 4 39 p m Sunrise tomorrow 7 36 a m. High yesterday 36 low 28. Record highs and lows noted for the date with several historical figures. Snowfall to date 51 4 inches.
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Midwest
Great Lakes
Rockies
AP Laserphoto
Anchorag
Houston
Omaha
Atlanta
Kansas City
Phoenix
Boston
Las Vegas
Pittsburgh
Portland
Chisago
Los Angeles
Denver
Memphi
St. Loui
Des MD
Miami
Seattle
Detroit
New Orleans
Tampa
Honolus
New York
Washington
Carey names Court of Claims judges and appellate clerks
Gov. Hugh Carey seals last acts of 1977 by nominating two Court of Claims judges and 17 state Supreme Court justices to the appellate division. Harold Koreman of Albany and Frank E. Rossetti Jr. of Manhattan appointed to the Court of Claims with pay about 48 996. In the Fourth Department Carey redesignates Richard Cardamone Reid Moule and Richard Simons to appellate division of the New York Supreme Court.
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Albany
UPS
Hugh Carey
Court of Claims
State Supreme Court
Harold Koreman
Frank E. Rossetti Jr
Manhattan
Department of State Supreme Court
Carey
Richard Cardamone
New Hartford
Reid Moule
Buffalo
Supreme Court
Richard Simons
Rome
New York delays aerosol label rules to July 1978
Albany issued that chlorofluorocarbon sprays will not require special labels until July 1 1978 delaying from January 1 1978. Environmental Commissioner Peter Berle said the shift aligns state rules with federal Consumer Products Safety Commission actions through February 20 1978 and allows stock clearance until July 1.
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Albany
New York State
Peter
Berle
Environmental Conservation
New York
Federal
Consumer Products Safety Commission
Federal Food and Drug Administration
South African editor Donald Woods seeks asylum in Lesotho
Donald Woods, banned South African newspaper editor and outspoken anti apartheid figure, fled in disguise to Maseru Lesotho where he was granted political asylum. British acting High Commissioner Jim Moffatt confirmed Woods traveled about 200 miles from East London and plans to reach Britain.
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Maseru
Lesotho
Donald Woods
Jim Moffatt
Woods
London
Britain
Moffatt
Soviet Kiev flattop ships into Atlantic amid U S trackers search
Washington reports the Soviet carrier Kiev on a first extended voyage since Barents Sea deployment. Pentagon officials say the 38,000 ton ship with Yak-36 jets and helicopters may head to the Mediterranean or remain in the Atlantic southwest of Ireland.
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Washington
UPI
Kiev
North Atlantic
Pentagon
Ireland
Barents Sea
Carter
Middle East
Mediterranean Sea
Atlantic
Albany Lottery Offers $100 Payoff Tied to Super Bowl Result
The state lottery will award a $100 payoff based on the final score of the January 15 Super Bowl. Lottery Director John Quinn said weekly tickets for the January 13 drawing that match the four digit number in the bonus column with the game score will win the prize.
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Albany
John Quinn
Lottey
Notable 1960s-70s headlines touch on Wallace divorce and Pistols tour
Cornelia Wallace leaves Montgomery hospital after treatment for mental and physical exhaustion while divorce suits proceed. The State Department allows the Sex Pistols two week US tour despite earlier visa refusals. DC names Burrell Jefferson, first Black police chief, replacing Maurice Cullinane. Milton Shapp features poetry in Philadelphia subway ads. FBI Director Kelley plans to move to Hilton Head home after leaving DC post. Judy Carne pleads innocent to drug charges and forged prescription in Ohio case.
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State Department
United States
U.S
London
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
Sea Pines
Hilton Head Island
D.C
Washington
Kelley
Carter
Judy Carne
Miss Carne
Cincinnati
Harrison
Ohio
Winter storm spreads eastward threatening New Year travel
A western snowstorm moving from Washington and Wyoming into Colorado and the Dakotas raises travel hazards for New Year’s Eve. Snow blankets Montana and Wyoming with blizzard conditions in parts. 4 to 7 inches expected in Utah’s Wasatch Range. wind gusts reach 44 mph in Salt Lake City as temperatures plunge. Snow also disrupts travel from Tennessee to Virginia and Kentucky, with chains required on U.S. 441 through the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Washington
Wyoming
Colorado
Dakotas
Mississippi
Montana
Continental Divide
Nevada
Idaho
South Dakota
Utah
Watsatch Mountain
Salt Lake City
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Crossville
Tenn
North Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Kentucky
Knoxville Transit Co
U.S. 441
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Strike violence erupts at Oakland Press in Pontiac
A pressmen editor and maintenance strike at the Oakland Press in Pontiac sparked violence on the picket line. Three people were injured and four arrested as a fight broke out outside the Detroit area plant. Non union workers and strikers clashed amid ongoing publication.
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Pontiac, Mich
LIPI
Oakland Press
Detroit
Tax Notice and Public Hearings for Geddes and Camillus
Receiver Helen Osterhout issues tax collection guidance for Geddes 1978 taxes with deadlines and fees. Also notices a public hearing by Camillus Zoning Appeals on January 4 1978 for Limeledge Recreation Club Inc special use permit on eighteen acres.
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Geddes
Helen L. Osterhout
Onondaga
New York
1000 Woods Road
Solvat
Helens
Osterhout
Geddes House
Elbridge
Camillus
Rochester-Syracuse
Paul Weise
Thompson Road
Syracuse
Richard J. Riccelly Frank
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Robert Dole
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R-Nev
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Torrijos
UPI Telephoto
Hutrias
Mavile Commerce
South Africa
Cornelia Wallace
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Montgomery Hospital
John P. Kohn
Washington, D.C
Burrell M. Jefferson
District of Columbia
Maurice J. Cullinane
Walter Washington
Cullinane
Jefferson
Earl
Milton Shapp
Shapp
Market Street
Frankford
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Snow
United Press International
Bureau OF Census
Freee Neeres Ianenareaaas
Peingpal
Sophia Chanfara
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