Carter rethinks plans to resume military draft
Defense Secretary Harold Brown told the Senate panel that restoring the draft is not needed now but updating the Selective Service and possibly reactivating registration for 18 year olds could occur later. He differed from the Joint Chiefs who urged quick registration for emergencies, as Carter weighs options amid a volatile political climate.
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Defense
Harold Brown
Senate Armed Services Committee
David Jones
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Clifford Alexander
Brown
Joint Chiefs
Dent Carter
Congress
Carter
Communists drop support of Italian premier
The Communist Party withdraws its crucial parliamentary backing from Premier Giulio Andreotti. The move signals an imminent resignation and a political crisis as the governing coalition faces three options: new elections, cabinet posts for Communists, or a government reshuffle with non political experts.
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Rome
UPI
Communist Party
Giulio Andreotti
Italy
Andreotti
Christian Democrats
Washington
all-Christian Democratic
Afghan jets destroy Nouristan village amid rebel crackdown
Pakistani Jung Rawalpindi reports Afghani jets bombed hundreds of houses in Nouristan and reduced a village to rubble. Leaflets urged residents to aid the army against rebels and warned the Islamic Brotherhood Organization to not oppose Tarakai's reforms.
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Islamabad
Pakistan
API
Afghanistan
Jung Rawalpindi
Nouristan
Islamic Brotherhood Organization
Noor Mohamad Tarakai
Snowplow Driver Killed Passenger After 18‑Hour Shift
Thomas Blair a 44 year old Cedar Lake Indiana operator of a snow plow driven a grader on the South Side and Dan Ryan Expressway rammed at least 34 cars after an 18 hour shift. He drank whiskey during waits and killed a passenger while injuring four others. Blair is held on 75000 bond.
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Chicago
UPI
Thomas Blair
Cedar Lake
Ind
Fran Norek
Cook County
Blair
Norek
Eraser Mate Ink Demonstrated By Paper Mate Labs
Bob Davidson of Paper Mate R and D Labs in Boston demonstrates a new Eraser Mate ink unveiled Wednesday. The ink is one million times thicker than water and as eraseable as No 2 pencil lead, with a new pen featuring the ink to be available April 1.
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Bob Davidson
Paper Mate Research and Development Labs
Boston
Mass
Suit over hospital plan moves forward in Westlake
A $43 million project will renovate St John Hospital in Cleveland and relocate 100 beds from Bay View Hospital and St John to a new Westlake Campus. Elyria Memorial and Lorain Community Hospitals agreed to the dismissal, joining Lakewood in seeking an AG and DOJ review of Lakewood litigation.
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St. John Hospital
Cleveland
Bay View Hospital
Westlake
Elyria Memorial and
Lorain Community Hospitals
Lakewood
Health Campus
Ohio
William Brown
U. S. Department of Justice
Gunman Holds Up Osaka Bank Seizing Dozens of Hostages
A masked bank robber in Osaka blasted in with a shotgun demanding 250000 dollars and took as many as 40 hostages. Eight hours into the siege police reported four dead, two of them officers, as negotiators tried to end the crisis.
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Tokyo
Osaka
New ozone standards seen as minor local impact
Ohio EPA and Cleveland officials say the new federal ozone standard will barely affect Lorain and Cuyahoga counties. Three monitoring stations show only 10 of 120 high days last June to September, with industrial areas near Cleveland meeting the standard. Improvement attributed to emission reductions at U.S. Steel Lorain and Avon Lake plant. state standards stricter than federal.
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U.S. Epa
Lorain
Cuyahoga
George Craig
Bureau of Technical Services
Cleveland Division of
Air Pollution Control
Cuyahoga Counties
Cleveland Division
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Dayton
Toledo
Cincinnati
Craig
Elyria
Ohio
George
U.S. Steel
Chi
Avon Lake
John Paul II Energizes Dominican Visit In Santo Domingo
Pope John Paul II greeted a cheering crowd of up to 400000 in Santo Domingo after arriving for a one day visit. He praised a more just humane world and knelt to kiss Dominican soil before departing for Mexico City.
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Mexico
John Paul
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Mexico City
Puebla
Latin American Bishops Conference
Las Americas
Cleveland to sue CEI over attachments
Cleveland seeks to block CEI from attaching at least five city properties tied to a urban renewal plan to recover 2.5 million from the Municipal Light Plant. Judge McMonagle ruled liens on city properties cannot be enforced. The city plans to exempt more sales as it faces disputed debts and possible service cuts. Also, Sherwood Weissman, indicted over a disruption at a Kucinich news conference, will be arraigned next week.
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CEI
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas
James J. McMonagle
McMonagle
June Wiener
Carol Rother
Municipal Light
Speci
Ment
Jack Schulman
Schulman
Cleveland
Sherwood
Bob” Weissman
Dennis ‘Kucinich
Israelis capture Arab guerrillas after West Bank raid
Israeli forces sealed Abu Dis and arrested eight suspects linked to 10 bombings in Jerusalem since May. They seized 66 pounds of explosives, including 28 bricks and detonators, and found maps for further attacks. Suspects admitted Al Fatah ties. one was especially dangerous. The operation followed a 27 hour search that revealed a fatal June blast at Mahane Yehuda market that killed two and wounded 47.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
West Bank
Abu Dis
Jerusalem
al Fatah
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Jericho
Gethsemane
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer
Mahane Yehuda Market
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