Word: dec
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...country. That was even before he wrote a candid and widely reprinted series on human rights in China, or rather the absence thereof. Now Munro has received the ultimate rebuke: Chinese officials have informed the Globe and Mail that "for obvious reasons" Munro's visa, due to expire Dec. 23, will not be renewed, and he will have to leave Peking by that date. Munro becomes, in effect, the first journalist to be expelled from China in more than a decade...
City Councilor David Clem has scheduled a council hearing for Dec. 14 to consider the down-zoning petition submitted last September by an Observatory Hill neighborhood group...
...bucolic dairy town of Waupaca, a slim blonde farm wife named Jennifer Patri, 32, is to go on trial Dec. 6 for the first-degree murder of her hard-drinking husband, Robert. To most neighbors, Mrs. Patri seemed happily active. She taught Lutheran Sunday school, presided over a local P.T.A. and supervised a busy hog farm. The reality of her private life was, however, grim. Her husband, an auto-body repairman she married at 18, continually slapped her around and subjected her to agonizing sexual abuse. Says Mrs. Patri's attorney, Alan Eisenberg: "He apparently dreamed...
...Shamali-had been all but wiped out. The Lebanese government claimed that at least 119 people, most of them women and children, were dead and more than 200 were wounded. The casualty toll was the worst ever in southern Lebanon, exceeding that of a similar Israeli raid on Dec. 2, 1975, in which 100 died and 150 were wounded...
...days of John L. Lewis, when the United Mine Workers called a strike it sometimes seemed that a mighty union was holding the entire nation for ransom. Once again a coal strike looms-but if 165,000 U.M.W. members walk out of the pits on Dec. 7, it will be a sign not of union power but of union weakness. The strike would be the biggest of the year, and would get President Carter's program to increase U.S. coal production (the aim is a 66% hike by 1985) off to a most inauspicious start. But the people hurt...