Fever fuels disco dance comeback in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati, John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever spurred a surge in dance instruction and disco clubs teaching the Hustle. Studios report huge increases in signups and demand, with Arthur Murray franchises expanding training as soundtrack sales soar beyond nine million copies in the U.S. and Canada.
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Travolta
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RSO Records
M.D. Lafferty
Arthur Murray
Bee Gees
Miami
Anderson
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United States
Canada
Edison rate hike approved for 10 area communities
Ohio Edison gains a 5.5 million dollar rate increase from PUCO affecting 53 communities served. The 20 percent rise will hit areas including Sheffield Lake Ver Milion Strongsville Avon Huron Norwalk and wholesale buyers like Oberlin Amherst Grafton and Milan. Officials say the structure could take effect in about six weeks.
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Carter denies ouster plan while defending arms sales
President Carter told a Brasília news conference that no U.S. official argues Israeli Prime Minister Begin should be replaced and dismissed reports of a Begin ouster plot as false. He defended selling warplanes to Saudi Arabia Egypt and Israel as part of U S policy while praising public exposure of human rights issues and pledging to meet dissident cardinals in Rio de Janeiro.
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Brazil
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Menachem Begin
Middle East
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Begin
White House
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Egypt
Israel
Tel Aviv
Congress
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Ernesto Giese
Sap season winds down at Wellington Township maple farm
Sap season winds down as John Brasee collects one of the last buckets destined for maple syrup this spring. The Well ington Township farmer says heavy winter snows and cold weather delayed this year’s syrup-making. Story continues on page D-8 with photo by Chief Photographer John Kenney.
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John Brasee
Wellington
C-T
John Kenney
Recall effort looms as Kucinich fires police chief
In Cleveland AP report, 20th Congressional Caucus initiates recall of Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich after he fired Police Chief Richard D. Hongisto. Affidavit charges misconduct in office over the firing and alleged retaliation against council members. Recall could reach June 6 ballot if 37,000 signatures gathered. Hongisto criticizes Kucinich as opportunist.
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Cleveland
Dennis J. Kucinich
Richard D. Hongisto
20Th Congressional Caucus
Kucinich
Hongisto
Herbert J. McTaggert
McTaggert
Weather and Local News Snapshot
Partly cloudy and mild tonight with lows near 40. Friday will be cloudy and breezy, much warmer, with scattered showers possible and highs from 60 to 65. Hongisto, once a San Francisco liberal figure, praised by Kucinich as top policeman, was dismissed after he failed to substantiate claims of unethical police chief pressures and alleged attempts to undermine the mayor's authority.
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Hongisto
San Francisco
Kucinich
U. S. Readies Elite Strike Force for World Hotspots
President Carter orders a highly mobile special strike force of elite troops for potential intervention in key trouble spots. Planned roles include protecting Persian Gulf oil fields, safeguarding Israel in the Middle East, and deterring Korea after planned troop withdrawals. Pentagon secrecy surrounds the project, with officials offering little detail.
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Middle East
Israel
Korea
U.S
Exorcism death trial opens in West Germany
In ASCHAFFENBURG two Roman Catholic priests Arnold Renz and Ernst Alt and the victim's parents Josef and Anna Michel go on trial for manslaughter over Anneliese Michel's 1976 death from starvation at age 23. Doctors said she was epileptic, but the priests sought exorcism with bishop permission. she weighed 70 pounds when she died at home. A psychiatric expert testified medical help could have saved her.
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Aschaffenburg
West Germany
UPI
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Ernst Alt
Josef
Anna Michel
Josef Stang
Wuerzburg
Alt
Renz
Michel
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Josef Michel
Elmar Bohlaender
Bohlaender
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