Corning Cleans Up After Torrential Flooding
Heavy rains caused flooding across Steuben Chemung and Schuyler counties washing away hillsides flooding basements roads and bridges. Four feet of water stalled Corning intersections and Big Flats Schweizer Aircraft Corp planned weeklong shutdown due to water damage with about one million dollars in damages estimated for South Corning area.
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National Weather Service
Hancock Field
Corning
Steuben
Chemung
Schuyler County
Schweizer Aircraft Corp
Smoogen
South Corning
Bailey, Whiskey
St. Mary's Creeks
Bailey Creek
Chemung County
Supreme Court Allows State Aid to Church Colleges
In a 5 to 4 ruling the Supreme Court said states may provide direct grants to church related colleges without breaching church state separation. The Maryland program of 1971 grants funds to private colleges but not to sectarian seminaries, with college presidents to certify non sectarian use and report after a year.
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W. Dale Nelson Washington
Supreme Court
Maryland
Pri
Baltimore
Gram
Leverteen College
Notre Dame
Loyola
Mount Saint Mary's
Emmitsburg
Illinois Supreme Court
United States
Canada
Mastlake
Ohio
Harry A. Blackmun
Warren E. Burger
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Department of Divinity
Rescue ship Spiegel Grove carries refugees toward Athens
The Spiegel Grove with 267 evacuees from Lebanon sails toward Athens after a 25 minute ride from Beirut. Among passengers are 10 Americans and 157 others with two dogs a cat and a parakeet. President Ford ordered the sea evacuation code named Fluid Drive while defense officials monitor progress.
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Richard Blystone
Spiegel Grove
Athens
Mediterranean
Beirut
Lebanon
Ford
Damascus
Syria
National Security Council
White House
Pentagon
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bosun
Glen R. Kennedy
Rhinelander
Wis
Ron Nessen
Massachusetts State Employees Stage Historic Strike
State prison guards welfare workers and other workers walked out over wages in a 50 000 strong statewide strike. Gov Dukakis announced plans for an injunction to end the walkout at key facilities including Boston offices and Concord prison. Federal mediators joined talks at unions request as state personnel mobilized to cover operations.
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Boston
Ilegal
Massachusetts
Michael
Dukakis
Concord
Alliance
Washington
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
James F. Scearce
Dan Hurley
John Sullivan
Italy in voting as ballots counted for a possible Communist gain
Italians finished two days of parliamentary voting and began counting ballots to gauge Communist chances for joining the national government. Partial returns projected CDU strength over the Communists in the Senate, with projections reported on national television amid concerns over the economy and government corruption.
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Rome
Communist Party
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Christian Democrats
Senate
Kissinger Defends Multinationals At OECD Meeting
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger urged open trade and energy ties, defending multinational corporations amid calls for voluntary guidelines. He urged a common Western approach to Soviet Bloc trade and predicted Soviet oil imports could rise by up to 10 million barrels daily by 1985.
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Barry Schweid
PARIS
Henry A. Kissinger
West
Kissinger
24Nation
Courthouse blast injures maintenance man in Lowell
A bomb shattered a Middlesex Superior Court building doorway as maintenance worker John Osmond, 58, unlocked the door. Osmond sustained multiple cuts and was listed in good condition at St. Joseph's Hospital. Police reported no other injuries. The blast occurred at 6 20 a m.
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Lowell
Mass
Middlesex Superior Courthouse
John Osmond
St. Joseph's Hospital
Osmond
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