Vesco family in seclusion amid return speculation
The wife and daughter of fugitive financier Robert Vesco remain hidden in the Bahamas Tuesday fueling talk Vesco plans to return to the Nassau home he left five years ago to dodge prosecution. Jewels worth thousands were stolen from a motel room where Hal Linden of ABCs Barney Miller acted as master of ceremonies for the Junior Miss Pageant in Mobile Alabama Monday night. Milo OShea set to star in Waiting for Godot at the Academy of Music in New York starting May 24. Eldridge Cleaver, once on the FBI Most Wanted list, says his Christian conversion and support for democracy have cost him friends.
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Costa Rica
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Barney Miller
Mobile
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Milo O’shea
Waiting For Godot
Academy of Music
Ere N.Y
Eldridge Cleaver
Black Panther
FBI
UPI
Aurora school strike continues as talks resume
Aurora Board of Education and striking teachers plan renewed negotiations to end a 15 day walkout. Non teaching staff join the picket line including 53 of 73 bus drivers and cafeteria and maintenance workers. The district will stop health and dental insurance for supporters May 9.
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Ohio Association of Public School Employees
Siamese twins die after birth in Youngstown case
Timothy and Christopher Rodriguez, born Feb 17 with a single three chambered heart, died at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh after pneumonia treatment. The conjoined boys weighed 12 pounds 8% ounces and were sent back to Youngstown as experts doubted survival. Their father sought a separating surgeon but none agreed to take the case.
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Tragedy strikes North Royalton family in deadly attack
A security guard shot and killed a woman and seriously wounded three children before setting their home ablaze and killing himself with a .357 revolver. Victims include David Abruzzino 31 and Kathy Kunath. children Christy 4 Liberty 18 months were hospitalized. the scene unfolded around 8:30 p.m. as firefighters arrived.
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UPI
David Abruzzino
Kathy Kunath
Lettuce Prices Fall After Shortage Sparks Uptick
Lettuce prices eased after a California crop shortfall and heavy rains raised costs to 1.49 a head in Buffalo. A UPI survey found demand weakening and Florida and Arizona harvests increasing supply, pushing averages to about 75 cents or less. Experts forecast further declines in coming days.
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Buffalo
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UPI
Florida
Arizona
Arl Christierson
Salinas
Calif
Edward S. Waters
Buffalo Produce Exchange
Waters
Kucinich aides vow to defeat recall petition totals
Aides to Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich refuse to accept the certified 34,217 valid signatures on recall petitions. They claim the recall group submitted 18,000 valid signatures and plan to challenge 16,000 more. City records show 3,335 signatures short of triggering a recall election.
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Cleveland
UPI
Dennis Kucinich
Bob Weissman
Kucinich
Congress shifts tack on energy bill compromise COET alive urged by Senate chair
Congressional energy negotiators strain for votes on a five-part package. House Speaker O'Neill considers separating energy taxes from the main bill to win support. Debates over gas pricing rules continue with Waggonner Wilson Eckhardt at White House, while COET remains under discussion with Senator Long signaling it alive.
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White House
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Charles Wilson
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Dtexas
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Wilson
Eckhardt
Coet
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Long
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Senate Finance Committee
Big Mac allergy traced to gum tragacanth
A 35 year old woman suffered a life threatening angioedema after eating a Big Mac. Doctors at McGill and McGill Teaching Hospital found she is allergic to gum tragacanth used as a binding agent in some foods.
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UPI
McGill University
Montreal
McDonalds
New England Journal of Medicine
McGill
Rain Delays Plow Up to 1978 Crop Plantings
The USDA weekly crop weather report shows sustained rain cut planting progress for major crops in the nation. Only about 25 percent of corn planted by last Sunday versus 59 percent last year and 43 percent average. cotton 39 percent, soybeans lagging, grain sorghum 26 percent, spring wheat 31 percent. Soil moisture remains adequate to surplus in most areas.
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UPI
Agriculture Department
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