Watertown Bond Crisis Shaped City’s Early History
In 1853 Watertown approved an 80000 bond to aid the Watertown Railroad, part of several railroad bonds that led to fiscal turmoil. Protests, repudiation, and clever resignations left city officials vanished as courts and legislatures debated payment. Today the city of 15000 thrives along the Milwaukee Road with Amtrak service, largely recollecting the episode.
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Wisconsin
Watertown Railroad
Watertown
Supreme Court
Milwaukee Road
Amtrak
Lebanon on brink as civil war flares across Beirut
Anger and shelling surge through Beirut as Christians and Moslems clash in the capital. Mortars, rockets, and machine guns rage in eastern and northern districts, killing 36 and wounding 76 while 150 are reported kidnapped amid the ninth month of fighting and a collapsing cease-fire.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Rashid Karami
Karami
Gamble Traded to Yankees for Pat Dobson
The Cleveland Indians send outfielder Oscar Gamble to the New York Yankees in exchange for pitcher Pat Dobson. Dobson, turning 34 in February, has been a starter since 1970. Details on Page 15. Weather forecast follows with cloudy skies and snow flurries overnight and tomorrow.
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Oscar Gamble
Cleveland Indians
New York Yankees
Pat Dobson
Dobson
Parents in murder case plan Christmas reunion for missing daughter
In San Bernardino eight months after a 1965 murder conviction was set aside for Merla Walpole and Antonio Rivera, the pair faced a new court appearance with charges dismissed. They anticipate a Christmas visit from a San Francisco teenager they believe is their daughter Judy Gasse, who was found as an abandoned girl in 1965.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Thomas M. Haldorsen
Merla Walpole
Antonio Rivera
San Francisco
Rivera
Judy
San Francisco Chronicle
Unnecessary 72-Year-Old Hospital Stay Costs $67,400
Florence Fitzpatrick, 72, remains in Buffalo Meyer Memorial Hospital's neurology unit after a year, with a $67,410 bill. Officials blame a legal mixup over finances and committee reports, preventing her discharge and placement. County and hospital officials call it a flagrant exploitation and a disastrous administrative slip.
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Buffalo. N. Y
Florence Fitzpatrick
Buffalo
Meyer Memorial Hospital
Niagara Falls
PCB chemicals threaten U S fish and waterways says official
Nathaniel P Reed, assistant secretary for fish wildlife and parks, urged a PCB ban at a national conference. He warned rivers and lakes face sick ecosystems and that Great Lakes fishing could vanish within a generation due to widespread contamination. PCBs observed in Hudson and Mississippi River fish and in streams across the nation.
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Chicago
UPI
Fish and Wildlife
Nathaniel P. Reed
Secretary of the Interior For Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Reed
Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes
Hudson River
Merimac
Connecticut
Atlantic
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Midwest
Columbia
Sacramento
Rio Grande
Gulf Coast
Yukon
Alaska
Do You Believe In Lads Lowell Stone Book Preview
A fragmented obituary style piece notes growing national debate on end of life care following the Quinlan case. It mentions Elyria author Lowell Stone and his book exploring belief in life after death, with Avon Lake home invasion notes and a Cub Scout Pack 131 film about the Pilgrim landing previewed in Family Features.
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Karen Ann Quinlan
John Barbour
Associated Press
Lowell Stone
Elyria
Avon Lake
CUB Scout Pack 131
Hollvanod
Stem
Kathleen Misichko
Jeffrey Bishop
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U.S. Supreme Court
John Fuller
Maurice Couve de Murville
Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
Baabda
Juan Carlos
Las Cortes Palace
Madrid
Juan Carlos I
Spain
Sofia
Helger Turkey Farm
Tiverton
R.1
Jughout
Mary Barthel
Nursing Home
Barbara Demeret
Miss Demerest
U.S
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Olahehe
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