AWOL Soldier Returns After 28 Years for Love
Berlin report about Robert Petree of Flint Michigan who deserted the U S Army in 1951 to be with a Berlin fiancée. After her death last year he faced age and illness, attempted suicide, and finally sought to surrender, unable to operate a modern pay phone.
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Berlin
UPI
Robert Petree
Petree
Flint
Mich
Army
6Th Infantry
West Berlin
Harry S. Truman
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Tion
House cuts funding for revenue sharing
The House votes to trim revenue sharing funding as part of a broader budget plan. Carter pushes National Energy Plan II amid protests, with debate over nuclear power and energy needs through 2020. A four day shutdown of service stations is proposed to protest profit restrictions, May 17 to 20 if states approve.
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St. Louis
Lundberg
Los Angeles
May
Carter
Congress
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Robert Giaimo
D-Conn
P.S
Giaimo
House Budget Committee
Jack Brooks
Texas
Brooks
Auto accidents top killer of kids aged five to nine
UPI report notes auto accidents are the leading cause of death for five to nine year olds, with 93 percent of young children riding unprotected by restraints. JOAN CLAYBROOK cites near thousand deaths yearly among under fives. She urges community programs to pass on affordable child seats and reduce costs cited by experts.
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Washington
UPI
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Congress
Joan Claybrook
House Commerce
MS. Claybrook
Haddon
Sinatra Calls on Leaders to Reign In Press
Frank Sinatra asks 2000 political and business leaders to rein in the runaway press. He mails a two page letter with a critical pamphlet by Max Kampelman to Carter officials and governors. The article argues the press is a powerful institution with growing influence and few restraints.
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Sinatra
Washington (Ap
Frank Sinatra
Blue Eyes
Lee Solters
Los Angeles
Solters
Carter
Congress
Washington
Max M. Kampelman
Hubert H. Humphrey
Kampelman
Policy Review
The
Heritage Foundation
Discovery may push origin of higher primates earlier
UNC Charlotte anthropologist reports Burma bone fragments suggesting higher primates may have originated 10 million years earlier and farther east than once thought. Fossils, including 40 million year old lower jaws, were found in December 1978 and January 1979, with support from Smithsonian and Leakey foundations. skeptics emphasize need for more evidence such as upper jaws and skull features.
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Charlotte
N.C
UPI
Burma
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
UNCC
Fayum
Egypt
Mandalay Arts and Sciences University
Ciochon
Donald E. Savage
University of California At
Berkeley
Ciochon and Savage
Smithsonian Foreign Currency
Leakey Foundation
Elwyn L. Simons
Duke University Primate Center
Durham
Savage
Simons
Ohio News in Brief Highlights Violent Incidents and Politics
Reports from Washington C H and Cincinnati describe a teenager killed and another wounded after a man followed them from a supermarket. Cincinnati police stage a stress day, demanding safety changes after multiple officer deaths. Columbus previews a state school finance formula amid budget talks and a potential district income tax. Cleveland officials clash over access to a report on city finances and federal warnings on Three Mile Island waste transport. The Ohio House Assassinations Committee hints Hoffa ties to Kennedy’s murder, while the Lottery Commission sets a June hearing on a new zero cent game and Daily Game contract.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Melvin Henze
Henze
Columbus
Ohio Senate
Senate
Cleveland
Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ohio
Three Mile Island
Pennsylvania
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Kenneth M. Clark
NRC
Memorial services for Katherine Haswell publisher dies at 80
Memorial services are set Wednesday for Katherine Haswell 80 publisher of the Daily Sentinel Tribune in Bowling Green who died Monday four days after a stroke. Haswell led the paper since 1963 succeeding her husband Claude M. Haswell and was named outstanding citizen by the local Chamber of Commerce in 1962. She was active with the Wood County Girl Scouts United Way and Red Cross. Survivors include son Thomas M. Haswell and daughter Virginia Prouts and three sisters.
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Bowling Green
UPI
Katherine Haswell
Daily Sentinel Tribune
Haswell
Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce
Wood County
Girl Scouts
United Way of
American Red Cross
Thomas M. Haswell
The
Sentinel Co
Virginia Prouts
Custor
Ohio
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Wisconsin
U.S
William Haddon
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
Institute For Highway Safty
Institute
House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
Ohio News
Washington, C.H
Bret Ferguson
Washington, D.H
Mark Cooper
Washington, D.C
Fayette Memorial Hospital
Cincy
Thomas Ferguson
Ferguson
Donald Lesiak
Lesiak
Carl Stokes
Ralph Perk
Dennis Kucinich
Hoffa
Organized Crime
Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
John Kennedy
Wcmh-Tv
Frank Seltzer
Seltzer
Kennedy
Ohio Lottery Commission
Commission
American Totalisator
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