Venezuelan president calls for OPEC session on debts
President Carlos Perez in his New Year address urged OPEC to meet to discuss his call for debt relief. Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov appealed to Brezhnev for a review of the 1970 hijack trial of 10 Soviets, mostly Jews. Michael DeBakey remains in good condition after smoke inhalation and burns on New Year’s Eve. Lew Wasserman proposes a $100,000 Brandeis University scholarship for middle class children to improve access to college education.
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Carlos Perez
Venezuela
Andrei Sakharov
Leonid Brezhnev
Israel
Michael Debakey
Houston
Texas
Lew Wasserman
Wasserman
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
UPI
Plane crash kills Alliance couple in Virginia
Authorities identified Ernest Murphy and his wife Doris Murphy as victims of a private single engine Cessna crash near Pearisburg Virginia during New Year's weekend. Investigators suspect heavy icing and fog forced the plane down on a mountainside. Doris died at the scene and Ernest died about two hours later.
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UPI
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Pearisburg
Murphy
Canton Teachers Strike Over Pay Increases
More than 800 teachers gathered to reaffirm a strike against the Canton Board of Education amid stalled wage talks. The Canton Professional Educators Association votes to withhold services until fair salary raises are agreed, with non teaching staff from OAPSE joining the action. The board cites lack of funds for raises as the dispute continues.
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Canton
UPI
Canton Board of Education
Alan Rubinstein
Canton Professional Educators Association
Ohio Association of Public School Employes
OAPSE
Warren firemen end walkout as negotiations resume
Fire Fighters Local 204 members, 86 strong, return to work after a New Year’s Eve walkout over overtime pay. Talks restart around 4 p.m. with Mayor Richards threatening volunteers and court action if no deal is reached.
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Warren
Arthur Richards
Ohio tractorcades planned across Lima area
Ohio members of the American Agriculture Movement planned two tractorcades to press for 100 percent parity for farm goods. One route ran from Lima to Kenton in Hardin County and another through the Tiffin area in Seneca County. Organizers declined to predict participation and urged consumer support.
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Ohio
UPI
American Agriculture Movement
Kenton
Tiffin
Seneca County
Robert Risher
Spencerville
Risher
Tank fumes claim three lives at Exxon refinery
In Benicia California an Exxon refinery tank under repair released carbon monoxide trapping workers. Three Exxon employees Gerald Johnson 33 Vacaville William Scott 26 Vallejo and David Soffer 26 Vallejo died at hospital while 11 others hospitalized and nine rescuers observed after inhaling fumes.
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Benicia
Calif
UPI
Exxon
San Francisco
Gerald Johnson
Vacaville
William Scott
Vallejo
David Soffer
Three Arrested in Miami Death Case
Three men were arrested Monday night and charged with first degree robbery and burglary in the New Year’s Eve death of 69 year old Milt Ellis. Ellis, a former Plain Dealer sports editor, was found beaten and strangled in his Miami apartment after missing a dinner engagement.
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Miami
UPI
Milt Ellis
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mike Gonzalez
Thomas Ray Hollings
Chester Williams
Earnest Bradley
Ellis
The
Plain Dealer
David Wolf
Real Congress party heads breakaway faction in India
Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi leads a breakaway Real Congress party elected president at a two day convention. The rival Congress party labels the move unconstitutional and plans an emergency working committee meeting amid looming court battles over the party name. Elections loom in five states next month with both factions likely to field candidates under the Congress banner.
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Congress Party
Gandhi
India
Sanjay
Swihart to be tried before three-judge panel
Michael Swihart of Brunswick will face a three-judge panel in Medina County Common Pleas Court starting Feb. 28 for the October 1977 murders of his parents Donald and Sue Ellen Swihart and brothers Brian and Russell and the arson of their Brunswick home. Swihart pleads innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to multiple murder and arson counts. Judge Neil Whitfield will preside with Judge James Barbuto as second panel member. a third member is to be named. Swihart is held without bond in Medina County Jail.
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Medina
Michael Swihart
Brunswick
Common Pleas Court
James Burke Jr
Dominic Vannucci
Cleveland
Swihart
Donald
Sue Ellen
Brian
Russell
Westchester Dr
Neil Whitfield
James Barbuto
Summit County Common Pleas Court
Medina County
Mobile home explosion kills two in Warren
UPI reports Donald Morris aged 41 and his 5-year-old stepson Christopher Stiles died when Morris’s mobile home exploded and caught fire. Two others were injured. Morris’s 9-year-old stepson Eddie Bridges was in serious condition, and 6-year-old John Stiles was treated and released. Fire officials cited unknown cause.
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Warren
UPI
Donald Morris
Christopher Stiles
Morris
Eddie Bridges
John Stiles
Pryor taken into custody after New Year shooting
Los Angeles police arrested Richard Pryor after an arrest warrant charged him with firing several shots in a New Year’s Day incident at his home involving his wife and two houseguests. Two friends of Pryor’s wife filed the complaint. Witnesses said Pryor fired at the women as they fled the yard and into the street.
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Los Angeles
Richard Pryor
Pryor
Deborah
Bobbitt
Beverly Clayborn
Edna Solomon
State of Washington
Cambodia-Vietnam border war deepens as talks stall
Cambodian radios say negotiations cannot begin while Vietnamese troops remain in Cambodia. Phnom Penh rejects Vietnam’s call to meet, demanding total withdrawal and vows to exterminate the aggressor forces. The exchange marks a renewed open conflict following decades of border clashes.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Cambodia
Vietnam
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Phnom Penh
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