Montreal Birth Records Earliest 1983 Infant
A Montreal hospital reports the first births of 1983. Jocelyne Bouchard’s 6 pound 2 ounce boy arrived at 12:00:01 a.m. EST, one hundredth of a second after midnight, followed by Marlene Joseph's 6 pound 9 ounce son a hundredth of a second later. Nursing staff describe the race for the year’s first baby as a cooperative effort with the mother.
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Montreal
Jocelyne Bouchard
Judy Traynor
St. Mary’s Hospital
Marlene Joseph
Bouchard
Prisoners Use Homemade Rope In 40 Year Ill Escape
Two long-term inmates Randy Welleff and Patrick Cecconi used a rope crafted from torn cotton bedsheets to scale the 33 foot wall at Stateville Prison. At 9 p.m. the institutional count showed two missing. a 64 acre facility housed 2,200 inmates as authorities searched until 12:20 a.m. and found a 40-foot rope at the base. Michael Pane confirmed the missing pair and noted a potential third person may have attempted escape. A power outage hit the administrative area at about 9:20 p.m. but was not confirmed as related.
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Lane
Automatic teller thwarted robbery at bank with faulty ATM
In Los Angeles three would be robbers abducted a 69 year old Encino man then forced him to drive to a Van Nuys bank to use his card. The ATM failed to dispense cash and the victims fled. Police arrested two suspects for kidnapping for robbery after a nearby squad car responded to the radio description. The victim was unharmed.
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Los Angeles
Encino
van Nuys
Ken Norman
Second Cooley heart lung recipient dies in Texas
A 26 year old Texas woman died 48 hours after receiving a heart and lungs in Houston as part of Dr. Denton Cooley's two year test of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporine. She died at 2 36 p m CST of respiratory failure, the fifth transplant patient in the program. The donor was a 32 year old woman killed in a car crash.
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Houston
UPI
Texas
Denton Cooley
Cooley
Hazel Haley
Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Reagan Warns U S of Holiday Drunk Driving Menace
President Reagan urged Americans traveling this New Year weekend to avoid drunken and drug influenced driving. He cited alcohol related crashes numbers and stressed swift penalties deter intoxicated driving. The address noted rising legal drinking ages and jail terms for first offenders. The Palm Springs trip wrapped with a New Year message and a high profile White House attendance at Annenberg party.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Reagan
Presidential Commission On
New Year's Eve Quiet in Miami's Overtown
A peaceful New Year’s Eve in Miami downtown near the Overtown district contrasted with earlier rioting. About 378 police guarded 32 floats and 25 bands along a two mile route as crowds celebrated the Orange Bowl parade under near 80 degree weather. Authorities reported no major violence after rioting earlier in the week, while barricades remained on streets and discussions on easing tensions continued.
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Miami
George Misleh
Biscayne Bay
Bottern Overtown
Overtown
Merlin’s
Howard Gary
World leaders urge united front against economic foes in 1983
New Year messages from Washington to Jakarta urge a united stand against inflation recession and unemployment. Reagan hopes to place every American in a permanent job. Toudeau Kohl Jablonski Gemayel Klibi FitzGerald Chiang Ching kuo and Varied leaders vow resolve to tackle economic and political crises while the Soviet Union pledges to stay in Afghanistan and Pope John Paul II calls for world peace.
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Reagan
Palm Springs
Washington
98Th Congress
Cbs-Tv
Soviet Union
Middle East
Jakarta
CBS News
Pierre Toudeau
Helmut Kohl
Poland
Henryk Jablonski
Amin Gemayel
Tunisia
Arab League
Chedli Klibi
Nicaragua
United States
Ireland
Garret
FitzGerald
CBS
Taiwan
Chiang Ching- Kuo
Peking
Taipei
China
Afghanistan
John Paul II
St. Peter's Basilica
Cuomo sworn in as governor in New York
Cuomo assumes office amid a 579 million deficit projection and a fragile economy. He faces tax and fee hikes or cuts to close the gap while battling over the death penalty policy. Cuomo opposed it as did Carey, amid broad public support for capital punishment. His career included failed runs in 1974 and 1977, with four years as lieutenant governor and prior service as secretary of state.
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Cal
New York
Cuomo
Carey
New York City
J0 Carey
Seta
New Year Celebrations Quiet Amid Flood News
Police report a 5 pm Boston Common parade drew about 15 000 revelers as New Year festivities began. Volunteers in the Mississippi Delta planned flood relief amid 10 000 homeless in Louisiana and Mississippi. Americans watched bowl games on TV while President Reagan rang in 1983 at Walter Annenberg estate in Palm Springs.
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Martin Mulkern
Boston
John Geagan
Mississippi Delta
Louisiana
Mississippi
Reagan
Palm Springs
Calif
Walter Annenburg
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