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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1976
Page
2
An Associated Press market basket survey shows overall November grocery prices essentially flat nationwide. Changes varied by city with six up and six down, one city unchanged, and a slight 0.1 percent fall overall.
Thirteen people including nine children died early today in two fires. In Mentor Tennessee a one story cinder block home burned killing seven, including Larry Meridieth his wife Sherry and their children. In Connelly New York a family of four died as flames swept their home.
Four robbers with submachine guns stormed a Brussels union office during payroll time wounding seven and killing a five year old Pascal Demol. Three suspects were later captured as police chased the white Alfa Romeo through the city.
SEW ORLEANS AP A Liberian cargo ship sank off the coast of Mexico and all 25 crewmen abandoned ship were rescued by a second vessel that arrived hours later. The initial report placed the sinking about four a.m. some miles off Tatras Mexico, roughly 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, with the Greek ship Ages Sonic first to reach the scene.
London reports another cod war setback as Britain withdraws 18 trawlers after a six month interim fishing deal lapses at 11:59 p.m. Iceland asserts a 200 mile zone while Britain seeks a 40 mile exclusive limit in talks with the Common Market Norway and Greenland.
Labour government proposes limited home rule for Scotland and Wales drawing broad opposition from nationalists conservatives and Ulsterites. Backbench Labour MPs push for nationwide referendum risking bill collapse as Scottish gains in 1974 threaten Labour holdings in Scotland and Wales.
Baltimore AP reports the Tuesday Maryland Numbers Game daily lottery winner is 237.
In Towner North Dakota the town with only one bank Airs shuts down last Friday leaving residents unable to cash checks as the police chief notes his paycheck is in the bank. The Bank of South Dakota will set up a temporary branch as officials review the bank’s health and no reopening date is announced.
Jose Lopez Portilla is sworn in as president of a strapped Mexico in a ceremony at the National Auditorium attended by Rosalynn Carter Henry Kissinger and leaders from about 101 nations. A wave of bombings and economic strife shadow the inauguration as Echeverria’s legacy of debt inflation and a floated peso fuels instability.
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