Welcome Home Hostages Ignite Citywide Celebrations
A national wave of parades and festivities marks the release of 52 hostages from Iran after 444 days. In New York City Mayor Edward Koch and officials in Dallas, Baldh Springs, and other communities announce planned ticker tape parades, bands, and yellow ribbons. Presidents and governors sanction celebrations as districts prepare, with events in Washington, Little Rock, Bellevue, Oak Creek, Pueblo, and Tallahassee highlighting the homecoming across multiple states.
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Washington
Wisconsin
New York City
Edward Koch
Barry Rosen
Brooklyn
City Hall
Koch
Alexander Haig
Dallas Cowboy
Baldh Springs
Texas
Johnny McKeel Jr
Dallas County
New York
Iran
Reagan
White House
National Airport
Little Rock
Ark
Robert Blucker
Steven Kirtley
Arkansas
Frank White
Olyphant
Michael Metrinko
John Chichilla
Bellevue
Neb
Air Force
Paul Needham
Bellevue-Offutt Air Force Base
Oak Creek
Wis
Donald Hermann
Kevin Hermening
Hermann
Pueblo
Cole
Bani Sadr Targets Iran Clerics Over Hostage Settlement
Beirut AP Iranian President Abolhassan Bani Sadr accuses hard line clerics and Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai of mismanaging the hostage settlement with the United States. He cites a short $3 billion return on $11 billion frozen assets, missed favorable terms, and links the hostage crisis to Iran's current economic and wartime woes. Rajai defends the deal, arguing revolutions endure sanctions and that more favorable terms were not achievable.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
United States
Iran
Bani Sadr
Mohammad Ali Rajai
Rajai
Carter
Tehran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Bani-Sadr
Majlis
Music therapy course limited to women at TWU sparks appeal
Denton Texas reports 20 year old Eric Herman from DeSoto seeks entry to Texas Woman’s University to study music therapy, a program reserved for women by state law. He plans to transfer to Howard Payne University while exploring graduate options at TWU where men may enroll only in graduate or health sciences, ruling out West Texas State Canyon and SMU Dallas for distance and cost.
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Denton, Texas
UPT
Eric Herman
Texas Women’s University
DeSoto
Howard Payne University
Herman
TWU
Graduate
Institute For Health Sciences
Texas
West Texas State
Canyon
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Reagan Monitors Hostages Return With Mixed Emotions
Freed hostages face mental health struggles and anxiety about the future after captivity. President Reagan, told of the group’s troubles, appeared watery eyed. Moorhead Kennedy described a fellow hostage’s suicide attempt and the militants’ extortion, while a national day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed for the 52 Americans and Richard Queen. A ticker tape parade is planned in New York City Friday.
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Reagan
James Brady
ABC News
Moorhead Kennedy
Kennedy
Richard Queen
New York City
Steubenville Workforce Walkout Drags City Into Second Day
Steubenville operates on a skeleton crew as a sick-out by about 350 workers continues into a second day. Non-uniformed staff join police and fire in a wage dispute, with many city employees not returning until a new contract is approved. Mayor Crabbe weighs options including court injunction, emergency hiring, or invoking the Ferguson Act, while a wage tax debate looms.
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Steubenville
Ohio River
William Crabbe
Crabbe
Firefighters consider walkout amid stalled city contracts
Union leaders moved to seek 2 strike authorizations after federal mediation showed limited progress in Elyria city talks. AFSCME IAFF, EPPA and FOP remain in negotiations as money remains the main sticking point with offers seen at 4 percent by the city and higher wage demands from unions. A Feb 6 meeting with a federal mediator is planned.
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Taylor
Afscme
IAFF
Elyria Police
Sangihe liner sinks amid explosion feared 900 dead
Rescuers battled rough seas and heavy rain as the Indonesian liner Tampomas-2 faced a fatal blaze after an explosion. Of 149 rescued from the nearby Sangihe, many were uninjured while others remain missing. Authorities urged ships and air force units to assist, with rescue operations centered from Ujungpandang. The Tampomas-2 carried 1455 passengers and 68 crew, all believed Indonesian.
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Sangihe
Air
Navy
Pelm Company
Jakarta
Radioactive ring linked to cancer and amputation
Beatrice Young of Hamburg New York lost three fingers and part of her hand after a ring bought in 1941 was found radioactive. A Geiger counter confirmed the hazard and the Health Department seized the ring amid reports of related finger cancers across New York.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Beatrice Young
Hamburg
State Health Department
New York
Health Department
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Gallegos
Main Street
Andrew “Hank” Fiorio
Providence
I Fiorio
Tallahassee
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Florida
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Wiesbaden
Germany
David Roeder
Leland James Holland
William Blackhorn Royer Jr
Donald Cooke
Paul Lewis
Donald A. Sharer
Donald R. Hohman
Victor L. Tomseth
Joseph M. Hall
Rodney V. Sickmann
Gary Earl Lee
Jerry J. Miele
Clair C. Barnes
Richard H. Morefield
Michael E. Moeller
Joseph Subic Jr
Jerry Plotkin
Regis Ragan
Michael Howland
Lowell Bruce Laingen
Bruce W. German
Gregory A. Persinger
Alan B. Golacinski
John W. Limbert Jr
John E. Graves
Phillip R. Ward
Bert C. Moore
Charles W. Scott
Robert C. Ode
William F. Keough Jr
William J. Daugherty
Thomas Ahern Jr
John McKeel Jr
Thomas Schaefer
Charles A. Jones Jr
Elizabeth Ann Swift
Kathryn Koob
Paul Needham Jr
Duane Gillette
Robert Englemann
Steven Lauterbach
Frederick Kupke
Iraq
Enghelab Islami
America
Patrolmen's Association
Fraternal Order of Police
EPPA
FOP
Shilling
FDP
Indonesia
Ujungpandang
South Chinetos
Borneo
Ngien Cesar
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