Leesburg Controller Blamed in Near Miss Between Planes
An FAA inquiry panel found Leesburg Virginia area air traffic controller primarily responsible for a near miss of a Delta L 1011 and an Air Florida Boeing 737 near Leesburg on November 1. The report also cites a temporary computer failure and a comms breakdown at the Leesburg center as contributing factors.
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Federal Aviation Administration
Virginia
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Maryland- Pennsylvania
Blue Ridges
Air Florida
Miami
New York
Delta Airlines
Fort Lauderdale
Delta
Jacksonville
FAA
Controllers’ Union
Rhodesia Cease-Fire Talks Hit By Guerrilla Threat
London named a Rhodesia governor and published independence legislation as Patriotic Front guerrillas warned they would not honor the cease-fire. They demanded withdrawal to match camps for guerrilla troops. British officials kept a calm stance as discussions followed.
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London
Patriotic Front
Subscription Rates For Established Routes And Mail Delivery
Subscription rates listed for established routes and mail delivery. Local carrier delivery costs 14.00 for six months and 7.50 for three months, while annual and shorter-term mail and motor delivery rates are 273.00 per year, 15.00 for six months, and three months.
Three American Soldiers Injured in DMZ Blast
An explosion in the DMZ near Panmunjom injured three U.S. soldiers on patrol and left one missing. Two others were evacuated by helicopter to Seoul hospitals. one in serious condition with good prognosis, the other in good condition. The UN command sought North Korean help locating the missing trooper amid fog and unclear blast origin.
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Dmz
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U.N. Command
North Korea
John A. G. Klose
Panmunjom
Two Prisoners Killed in Soledad Prison Riot
In Soledad California two white convicts were killed in a 35 minute melee at the north facility as inmates angry over four months of lockdown fought with handmade knives and guards using birdshot and clubs. About 100 guards helped break up the riot while 17 others were injured.
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Phil Guthrie
Department of Corrections
North
Dan Byrd
Central
South
Guthrie
North Facility
Dailey Succeeds Cooper as Winchester Social Security Rep
Mark Dailey succeeds Bob Cooper as field representative for the Winchester District Office after Cooper’s Aug 31 retirement. Dailey, a Jefferson County resident and Martinsburg claims rep the past three years, will inform the public about Social Security programs and visit county seats across Frederick Warren Clarke Page Shenandoah and surrounding areas. He can be reached via Winchester 667 1511 or Martinsburg 263 6911.
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Robert
Bob) Cooper
Cooper
Winchester
Winchester House
Mark Dailey
Charles Town
W. Va
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Social Security
Martinsburg
Charles Town High School
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Catherine
Jefferson County
Jefferson High School
Shenandoah Junction
Frederick
Warren
Clarke
Page
Shenandoah
Virginia
Social Security Office
Jefferson, Berkeley
Morgan
West Virginia
Reguarly
Philip E. Bettendorf
Bob Cooper
Weather forecast and rainfall summary for the Northern Valley and Virginia
Windy cooler tonight with partly cloudy skies and lows in the 20s to 30s. Virginia turns windy and cold with scattered snow flurries, highs near freezing in the west to the 40s in the east. Extended forecast calls for cold sun Monday and Tuesday with highs in the 40s to 50s and teens to 30s at night. Rainfall data show 1979 year-to-date totals and long term averages, with historic monthly and yearly rainfall figures and moon phases conjecture.
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Virginia
National Weather Service
Taxing Social Security Benefits and Medicare Financing Proposals
The Advisory Council on Social Security proposed taxing half of Social Security retirement benefits and cutting payroll taxes for Social Security. It urged using general revenues for Medicare and reshaping benefit formulas to aid low and high earners, with biannual cost of living adjustments during inflation. It floated earnings sharing for women, potential 65 retirement age, disability program liberalization, and rejected most minor benefit cuts sought by Carter.
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Congress
Advisory Council On Social Security
Carter
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