Carter loses another round as gas price fight persists
Senate defeated the administration 50 to 44 on keeping price controls on natural gas. Metzenbaum and Abourezk vow to keep stalling for longer while Byrd and Jackson push a House-Senate conference on a compromise. Senate doubts pass rates, Bumpers notes minimal gains from Hart and Sparkman.
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Howard H. Metzenbaum
Ohio
James Abourezk
Jackson
House
Dale Bumpers
D-Ark
Bumpers
Gary Hart
D-Corp
John Sparkman
Dala
American hostage rushed to hospital after JAL hijack
John Gabriel, an American businessman, was rushed to a hospital in Dacca Bangladesh for emergency surgery amid the Japan Airlines hijacking. He was one of 141 hostages held by at least five guerrillas aboard the hijacked jet for three days, targeted for execution unless a $6 million ransom and nine jailed comrades were freed.
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Dacca
Bangladesh
UPI
Red Army
John Gabriel
Japan Air Lines
Gabriel
Lava wall inches toward Kalapana village in Hawaii
A 20-foot high lava wall from Kilauea moved toward the evacuated Kalapana seaside village as two gullies slowed its advance. Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory cited many unpredictable factors and gave no clear timeline for when lava might reach Kala pan a. The lava flowed about 60 feet per hour from a fissure in the Elast Rift Zone, beginning eruption on Sept. 3 after two years of dormancy.
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Hawaiian Village
Kalapana
Hawaii
UPD
Kilauea
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Edison seeks 9 percent hike in home rates in Lorain County
Ohio Edison plans to ask PUCO for a 9 percent average rise for residential and small commercial customers in 146 communities including many in Lorain County, plus a 14.5 percent rise for large commercial and industrial users. Letters of intent were sent to officials, with a filing expected in January and a nine month PUCO review period.
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Edison
Ohio Edison
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
PUCO
Lorain County
Ohio
Elyria
Markle
Federal Power Commission
Amherst
Grafton
Milan
Oberlin
Wellington
Federal Commission
Wilson
Japanese-Americans ask Rhodes for apology over term
The Japanese American Citizens League urged Gov. James A. Rhodes to apologize after he used the term Jap to refer to Japanese businessmen discussing a potential Honda plant in Marysville Ohio. The league’s Washington representative said Jap is a longstanding racial slur and asked for a public retraction.
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Columbus
Horiuchi
America
Rhodes
Ford sued by longtime employee over Russian work camp claim
Victor Herman of Royal Oak Michigan sues Ford Motor Co for 10 million arguing the company shipped him and his father to Russia in 1931 to help build an auto plant and left them to Soviet prison camps while Ford denies he worked for the firm and says only a few employees were sent.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Russia
Victor Herman
Royal Oak
Mich
Sam Herman
Ford
Herman
U.S
United States
Ford sued over alleged 1931 Soviet plant sending
Victor Herman claims Ford Motor Co shipped him and his father to a Soviet auto plant in 1931 and abandoned them. He seeks 10 million dollars, alleging Ford failed to safeguard his rights. Ford officials say few employees went to Russia and all returned in the early 1990s. Herman describes lengthy Siberian imprisonment and later life in Russia.
Burning permit rescinded by officials in North Olmsted
The Columbia Road Baptist Church plans a symbolic destruction of items tied to the occult tomorrow but bonfire permission was revoked after public complaints. A garbage truck will collect the items instead, with a possible small symbolic fire if allowed. Attendance may be limited amid publicity.
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North Olmsted
Columbia Road
John W. Withers
Withers
Wearable instant video link eyed in space research
NASA Lewis Research Center and Canada launch a joint test of tiny two way video devices for wear. The report by Cynthia Roberts previews tomorrow's coverage. Ralph Nader critiques sports fan access and pricing while a Hodgkin’s disease series unfolds in Accent on Living with a seven part home tour sponsored by the YWCA.
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Lewis Research Center
Canada
Cynthia Roberts
Ralph Nader
America
Accent On Living Pages
Lauren Lee
The
YWCA
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