Snowstorm shuts roads and closes schools in upstate area
Blustery cold with snow flurries pursues the Snowbelt as forecasters warn of tonight and tomorrow conditions. Snow totals reach 18 inches in Parish Central Square with highways slick and schools in Altmar Parish Williamson Pulaski closed. Oswego Jefferson counties and Route 81 report heavy snow and slippery streets. Oswego imposes all night parking ban with tow risk and $5 tickets. State police report no serious accidents amid the storm.
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Parish
Altmar-Parish
Williamstown
Pulaski
Oswego
Jefferson Counties
Route 81
Boonville
Old Forge
Greek airliner crashes in Greece killing 50
An Olympic Airways twin engine prop plane crashed in the mountains south of Kozani in northern Greece. All 50 aboard were killed according to airline officials. Police reported 17 bodies recovered as search teams combed wreckage and brush. Villagers said the plane exploded after the crash and flames erupted. It was unclear if any foreigners were aboard.
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Athens
Greece
Olympic Airways
Kozani
Missouri man recovers from first swine flu case since Fort Dix death
Missouri Health Division reports a western Missouri man in his 30s contracted swine flu in mid October without vaccination. He recovered, missed work briefly but was not hospitalized. Officials stress no reason for public alarm as investigation continues. In Los Angeles, a turkey theft at Zachy Farms El Monte stole a 16,000 pound load worth $5,000.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Fort Dix
N.J
Missouri Health Division
H. Denny Donnell
Lafayette County
Donnell
Atlanta
David Sencer
Federal Center For Disease Control
Los Angeles
UPI
Zachy Farms
el Monte
Sheriff's Deputies
Gas price controls may be lifted in new move
Washington AP Ford administration plans to end gasoline price controls before leaving office. Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb said preliminary evidence shows no adverse effect on price or supply and that decontrol would restore competition. An FEA spokesman noted pumps would likely see little change as the market remains competitive.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Federal Energy
Frank G. Zarb
FEA
Carey to appoint special prosecutor in Onondaga case
Gov Hugh L Carey plans to name Peter Andreoli chief of the Fraucis Bureau to lead a Onondaga County focused probe into possible local ties to a kickback scheme that led to indictments against four members of the state attorney general staff. The prosecutor will handle Onondaga matters only and report on involved individuals following Morgenthau’s two year probe.
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Hugh L. Carey
Onondaga County
Peter Andreoli
Fraucis
Office
Manhattan Dist
Robert Morgenthau
Andreoli
Morgenthau
Carey
Manhattan
Grand Jury
Onondaga County Republican Committee
Onondaga
Albany
Syracuse
Bernard Landers
Hittersweet Lane
Fayetteville
Landers
Job Hopkins
Sanders
Lawrence DeLucia
Lefkowitz
Vera Bocco
Stadium committee presses on after defeat at vote
The Municipal Stadium Committee plans to meet to choose a new site for a $15 million stadium after the County Legislature and Town of Van Buren rejected the plan. Funding deadlines loom and experts say time and money are insufficient to prepare environmental and architectural plans. A public hearing on Erie Boulevard East site options was held, but cost concerns favor Archbold Stadium.
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Susan Preston
Municipal Stadium Committee
van Buren
John Searles
Metropolitan Development Association
Searles
City Common Council
Department of Public Works
Erie Boulevard
Archbold Stadium
Syracuse University
Town of van Buren
van Buren and
Peck Roads
John Lawton
J. Richard Pooler
Michael J. Bragman
Carter May Nominate Cabined Members Before Inauguration
President elect Carter suggested informal Cabinet nominations might reach the Senate before January 20. A Midwest farm expert could become secretary of agriculture, with Carter weighing input from Senate chairmen and aiming to speed confirmations. Carter praised Ford for smoothing the transition and offering help.
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Lawrence Knutson
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Senate
Carter
Capitol Hill
Congress
Adlai E., Stevenson III
D-Ill
Stevenson
James Abourezk
S.D
Middle West
El Salvador ex-military chief of staff jailed on gun conspiracy
El Salvador's former military chief of staff Col. Manel Alfonso Rodriguez was sentenced in New York to 10 years in prison for plotting to acquire 10,000 machine guns for fictitious underworld buyers. Judge Kevin T. Duffey suggested Rodriguez be barred from reentering the United States after his term.
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New York
el Salvador
Militay
Col
Manel Alfonso Rodriguez
U.S. District Court
Kevin T. Duffy
Rodriguez
United States
French hero mourned
Andre Malraux died today in a Paris area hospital at 75. France mourns as public buildings fly flags at half staff. President Giscard d Estaing sent condolences to Malrauxs daughter Florence, married to director Alain Resnais. Malraux, a former soldier and resistance hero, served as information minister and later culture minister under de Gaulle.
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Paris
UPI
Andre Malraux
France
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Malraux
Charles de Gaulle
Florence
Alain Resnais
de Gaulle
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