Hands Across the Nation 88 Offer Baby Home
Chicago prospective adopters found for a 10 month old Buffalo girl after Rev. George Clements message aired on four radio stations. The New York Social Services Department lauded his drive to place minority children and noted interest from a white Catholic family though a black home was preferred.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago
Buffalo, N.Y
George Clements
Clements
South Side
Joey
New York
Father Clements
Convict seeks new hearing in Green Haven murder case
Lemuel Smith, a 40 year old Amsterdam man charged with first degree murder in the May 15 death of Green Haven guard Donna Payant, pleads innocent amid claims that grand jury evidence was improperly withheld. Judge Rosenblatt may order resubmission to a grand jury to allow new material.
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Poughkeepsie
Lemuel Smith
Amsterdam
Green Haven
Donna Payant
Dutchess
Albert Rosenblatt
William Kunstler
Kunstler
Dutchess County
Grand Jury
Cleanup fight over idle West Valley nuclear plant
In Buffalo a federal judge weighs a state bid to eject Nuclear Fuel Services from the idle West Valley center to permit cleanup of 600000 gallons of radioactive wastes. NFL disputes the move, citing contract obligations. The project, run by Westinghouse for the government, would cost about $1 billion over 16 years with 90 percent funded by the federal government and 10 percent by New York State.
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Buffalo
West Valley
Cattaragus County
U.S. District Court
John T. Birvin
NFL
NIS
Philip H. Gitlen
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
NFS
Federal
Department of Energy
DOE
Gitlen
Clarence T. Kipp
Kipp
Gillen
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Health officials probe 2 diseases in gay men
New York City health officials investigated two rare diseases affecting gay men, Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia. 60 percent of nationwide cases were in young single men in New York City. Doctors will interview patients for two months to seek common causes, with a subsequent month to compile results.
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New York
New York City
Margaret Grossi
Kaposi
New York Cty
Stephen Friedman
City Health Department
Preventable Disease Bureau
Friedman
Heating aid extension urged by ten governors
Gov William Milliken of Michigan and nine other governors urged Congress to fund 1.8 billion dollars for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program. The request, backed by New York and other cold weather states, aims to aid households unable to pay utility bills.
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Lansing
Mich
William Mibliken
New York
Congress
House
House Appropriations Committee
Abbott Charged with Second Degree Murder in NYC Stabbing
Inmate-author Jack Henry Abbott faces a second degree murder charge in the July 18 stabbing death of Richard Adan, 22, outside a Manhattan restaurant after a dispute over a private restroom. Arraignment is set for tomorrow in State Supreme Court. Abbott, 37, was arrested Sept. 23 in Morgan City, Louisiana, as he disembarked from a ferry.
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New York
Jack Henry Abbott
New York City
Abbott
Richard Adan
Manhattan
State Supreme Court
Adan
Abbot
Morgan City
New York wine promotion program approved
State Agriculture Commissioner J Roger Barber approved a grower funded plan to raise about 175000 yearly from 300 wine grape growers. Growers would contribute 1 percent of grape proceeds to a nine member board for a state wine advertising and research program. Similar programs exist for milk apples and tart cherries.
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Albany
J. Roger Barber
New York State
Barber
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Toronto
Long Island
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Rosenblatt
Smith
Calfornia
DODGE
Yettevile Dodge
North Burdick St. Fayettevil
Fal’s Motors, Inc
State Fair Blvd
Lakeland
Sam Dell
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Genesee St
Syracuse
Hwy
EPA
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