Gilmore Survives Overdose and Heads to Draper
Gary Mark Gilmore survived a Seconal overdose after a Tuesday incident and is being moved under heavy guard from the University of Utah Medical Center to the Draper maximum-security prison. His 20-year-old girlfriend Nicole Barrett remains in a coma in Provo with uncertain brain and organ damage.
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Weshingion
Salt Lake City
Gary Mark Gilmore
University of Utah Medical Center
Draper
Grant Christian
Gilmore
Christian
Nicole Barrett
Utah County
Provo
Richard Kaul
Springville
Kaul
Barrett
Raul
Wesley Weissert
UAW Pushes GM Talks to Avert Midnight Walkout
After narrowly approving a Chrysler contract, the United Auto Workers begin final bargaining at General Motors to prevent a midnight EST walkout by about 390,000 GM hourly workers in 21 states. Union leaders say key issues remain and pace must quicken to mirror Ford-Chrysler patterns.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
General Motors
UAW
Irving Bluestone
Ford Motor Co
Christians claim capture of strategic village near Israeli border
In Beirut Christians announced the capture of Kfar Kia near the Israeli frontier amid nightlong fighting. Leftist forces contended the village held, with claims of Israeli support and artillery help from border positions.
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Said
Beirut
Lebanon
Yasir Arafat
Christian Phalange Party
Kfar
Tel Aviv
Racial Attack Probed At Camp Pendleton
Up to 10 black Marines attacked seven white Marines with screwdrivers in a Camp Pendleton barracks. Four black Marines were taken into custody as a magistrate weighs possible courts martial and detention. three to five more suspects are being sought. Most white victims were injured, three remain hospitalized.
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Camp Pendleton
Calif
Charles Owen
Owen
Vietnam
Base
Marine Corps
EPA backs burial of Kepone rubble in Idaho silo
The EPA told Idaho officials it has no objection to burying 65 tons of Kepone contaminated rubble at an abandoned missile silo near Grand View. The site, 40 miles south of Boise, is chosen for its thick walls and proximity to groundwater, replacing incineration due to heavy metals. Allied Chemical's disposal project partners with Westcon Co. for the burial plan.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Idaho
Grand View
EPA
Jack Blanchard
Allied Chemical
Baltimore
Boise
West- Con Co
Twins Falls
Carter Plans Careful Federal Reorganization Over 2 to 3 Years
President-elect Jimmy Carter outlined a very careful two to three year plan for reorganizing the federal government during a three hour meeting with nine senators and seven House members at Sen. Herman Talmadge's Lovejoy home. He said he would seek bipartisan foreign policy and asked Congress to re-enact the Hoover Reorganization Act to grant executive branch restructuring power subject to veto. Rep. ONeill pledged full cooperation. Sen. Mansfield called the meeting a positive omen for the nation.
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Jimmy Carter
Lovejoy, Ga
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
House
Thomas O'Neill
Mass
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Carter
Lovejoy
Atlanta
Congress
Downtown Post Office To Be Sold In Winchester
The old Downtown Post Office at Braddock and Piccadilly Streets is being appraised for sale by the U S Postal Service with a new facility planned. A finance station will offer basic customer services as a replacement, while a local postmaster notes the building may be larger than needed but easy to heat and equipped with lock boxes. The Berryville Avenue Pleasant Valley Road post office opened last Monday.
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Braddock and
Piccaddilly Sts
U.S. Postal Service
Postal Service
Philadelphia
General Services Administration
J.C. Chamberlin
Winchester
Chamberlin
Berryville Ave
Pleasant Valley Road
Fallout Check Follows China's Nuclear Test
U S officials monitor fallout from China's largest nuclear test in 12 years. EPA ERDA warn favorable weather may keep radiation low but heavy rain could raise levels. The blast yielded four megatons versus September's 200 000 tons. Western sources suggest China may have finished a strategic warhead for missiles.
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Washington
China
U.S
United States
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
ERDA
Japan
Kyodo News Service
Asahi
Peking
East
Pennsylvania
Soviet Union
Family of six left homeless after Frederick County house fire
A blaze in Frederick County yesterday left a family with four children homeless. The story and accompanying photos appear on the Area News page. Police note thieves target CB radios. they describe clever methods used to lift radios from cars and offer prevention tips. Hendrix F. C. Niemann is engaged.
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Kfar Kiar
Arkoub
Lebanon
Israel
Arab League
Frederick County
Area News
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Edmund Muskie
Maine
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Walter Mondale
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Sidon
Augusta
J. R. Rouse
Rouse
Kepone Rubble
Georgia
Thomas P. O'Neill
D-Mass
D-Mont
Hendrix
F. C. Niemann
Clarke Compass
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