Crash Kills 258 On DC-8 Flight From Middle East
A DC-8 charter carrying 258 U.S. servicemen and crew home for Christmas crashed on takeoff at Gander International Airport. All aboard were killed. The plane carried members of the 101st Airborne returning to Fort Campbell Kentucky. No survivors reported by Maj Kenneth Miller Canadian Search and Rescue. Witnesses described a large explosion observed near the airport amid light snow and overcast skies. The Pentagon said there were more than 250 military personnel aboard but no dependents. Investigations by civilian authorities were under way.
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Newfoundland
U.S
Middle East
Gander International Airport
Kenneth Miller
Canadian Search and Rescue
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
101St Airborne
Sinai
Fort Campbell
Pentagon
Miller
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Squeeze could trim Elyria sewer rate hikes
Elyria officials seek thrifty financing to lower forecast rate increases for sewer projects. Auditor Beverly Renner and Deputy Auditor Paul Sweetrich study bond options and credit rating improvements, with Ohio Water Development Authority offering low interest loans. Project costs reach up to 60 million dollars, 18.3 million grant from EPA, and rates may rise to 14 dollars monthly by 1986 and 27 by the early 1990s.
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Elyria
Beverly Renner
Lake Erie
Reagan still fights GOP bid on tax reform setback
Reagan lobbied House Republicans after a 223 to 202 vote refused to consider the Democrats' tax overhaul. Only 14 GOP members supported bringing the measure to the House floor, a setback described by Democrats and the White House as potentially fatal to the tax reform effort.
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Reagan
House
Ways and Means Committee
GOP
White House
Reagan White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Dan Rostenkowski
D-Ill
Thomas O’neill
D-Mass
Winter Storm Watch Ahead With Snow Squalls
Tonight remains cloudy and colder with a slight chance of snow. Low temperatures steady near 25 to 30. Friday expects snow and possible snow squalls with increasing wind as temperatures fall to the upper teens by late afternoon. Details on Page A-3.
United plans Cleveland cutbacks amid Washington hub shift
United Airlines to reduce Cleveland Hopkins flights by about 30 percent next spring as a new Washington hub opens. unions cite a 32 daily outbound schedule in April. Rumors of a full shutdown are denied by United. Furloughs number at least a dozen this December with more expected in March and April.
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United Airlines
Cleveland Hopkins International
United
Hopkins
International
Cathy Williams
Public Informa
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Flight Attendants Association
Airline Pilots Association
Repre
Pacific
Pan American Airlines
U.S
Chicago
Denver
San Francisco
Former Wellington principal awarded $200000
A federal jury awarded Ayers Ratliff 200000 in damages in a suit against the Wellington school board and Superintendent James McGlamery over his 1984 nonrenewal. The board's liability was 100000 in compensatory damages, McGlamery 50000 compensatory and 50000 punitive. Ratliff had alleged due process and free speech violations.
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McCormick Middle School
Ayers Ratliff
Wellington School Board
James McGlamery
U.S
McGlamery
Ratliff
Shirley
Associated Press
Dr. McGlamery
Marion
Lorain County
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