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Communist party leaders warn the people of Poland Wednesday to prevent unrest from leading the country to ruin.
The U.S. warned the Soviet Union to keep its hands off the troubled nation.
Poland's army and Communist Party leadership issued separate stiff warnings saying that continued labor unrest threatened the nation's defenses and could lead to what one official called economic and moral ruin.
That unrest continues despite independence from government control, recently won by Polish labor unions.
The statements in Warsaw followed an appeal by party boss Stanislaw Kania that called on workers to cooperate in ending Poland's crisis.
He said there were still counter-revolutionary elements in the country.
While there was no suggestion that the Polish army was preparing to end the unrest by force, there was talk among diplomatic circles of a possible invasion by the Soviet Union.
The U.S. from its Democratic president to Republican senators spoke with a single voice in telling the Soviet Union to keep its tanks out of Poland.
In a White House statement, President Carter said Soviet military intervention would have, in his words, the most negative consequences not only for future U.S. ties with Moscow, but for all East-West relations.
No one flatly predicted Russian tanks were about to roll across the Polish border, but all signaled determination that the Soviets should not miscalculate Western reaction.
President-elect Ronald Reagan wants to await until all the nominations are in place before he announces his choices for new administration jobs, but word has leaked out that some have been nailed down.
High-level Republican sources told UPI that former HEW secretary Casper Weinberger will be secretary of defense.
Weinberger is a vice president of Bechtel Corporation and served as Reagan's finance director here in California.
Another is former security as an exchange commission chairman William Casey, picked by Reagan as CIA director.
Casey was Reagan's campaign manager this year.
And there's Pennsylvania Republican Drew Lewis, picked by the president, elect to be transportation secretary.
The sources also say that Reagan's choices for three other cabinet positions are retired General Alexander Haig for secretary of state, New York banker Walter Riston for treasury secretary, and Reagan's personal attorney, William French Smith, for attorney general.
A spokesman for the incoming president says no announcements have been made because of the cumbersome process of FBI security clearances and checks on possible conflicts of interest.
Three hundred members of the Reagan administration transition team were briefed by CIA agents in Washington.
They were warned to be alert to any approaches that may be made toward them by Soviet agents during this transition period.
An official with the team said there have been two such contacts already with aides to the president elect.
The briefing was not open to the press or public.
Members of Canada's parliament say their government should protest the alleged use of diplomatic cover by two Pakistani officials.
The lawmakers say Pakistani atomic officials went to Canada with the stated intention of doing some consulate work.
Instead, they allegedly arranged for shipment through Canada of U.S. materials which can be used to enrich uranium.
The items were seized by police in Montreal.
The House has passed a one point six billion dollar super fund bill to help clean up toxic chemical waste dump sites and spills across the country over the next five years.
The measure was passed earlier by the Senate and will be sent to President Carter who's expected to sign it into law.
It'll cover cleanup costs for sites like New York's Love Canal and then attempt to recover government funds through lawsuits against the parties responsible.
Taxes on the industry would make up about 88 percent of the fund with a balance coming from general revenues.
A federal abscam jury in New York City has convicted representatives John Murphy of New York and Frank Thompson of New Jersey of conspiracy.
The jury found only Thompson guilty of bribery and accepting $50,000 from undercover agents in the FBI's abscam political corruption probe.
The U.S. is now waiting for Iran's reaction to the latest U.S. response to terms for freeing the 52 American hostages.
Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher is headed for home.
He said the negotiations in his words are continuing to move forward but he warned against quick results.
He told reporters the next step for the Algerian delegation is to take the answers or clarifications and to meet with the Iranian group who've been considering the matter.
Only a few hours earlier officials said that Christopher was still weighing the idea of lingering in Algiers so he could be on hand
should Iran decide to reply quickly to its second letter from Washington in less than a month.
His departure apparently meant the Iranian reply was not expected for at least several days.
At Iran's request the message attempts to clarify Washington's original response to the Iranian Parliament's four demands for freeing the hostages who have just completed 396 days of captivity.
Troops from Syria and Jordan massed at their border during the day but there was no indication of a faceoff.
Jordan's King Hussein toured the front for the second time this week and on radio reports he found the troops in good spirits.
Meanwhile the news agency in Kuwait reported that Jordan had turned down Syria's conditions for a troop withdrawal.
Syria says Jordan supports and trains members of a terrorist group opposed to the Damascus regime.
And Syria also asked Jordan to make no effort to speak on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Amman reportedly turned down that condition.
Officials in Jordan say if they comply with the Syrian demands it would mean that their allegations were true.
But according to Jordanian officials Syria's accusations are false.
The Israeli Military Command reports the seaborne Israeli commando struck deep into Lebanon Wednesday striking closer to Beirut than Israeli ground forces have ever hit before.
According to reports a number of Palestinian guerrillas were killed or injured during the raid.
Officials in Italy may impose martial law to counter a wave of looting and mafia racketeering in the region shattered by an earthquake over a week ago.
The headquarters of the military relief operation in Naples announced a slightly revised toll for the quake of about 2,900 dead, 1,500 missing and more than 7,000 injured.
Observatories report aftershocks from the quake are hitting at a rate of over 20 per day and one registered a 3.2 on the Richter scale.
In Washington the Senate approved legislation providing $50 million in emergency and reconstruction aid to victims in southern Italy.
The relief measure was passed 88 to nothing and sent on to the President for his signature.
The House had approved the legislation Monday.
Senator Edward Kennedy who introduced the bill a week ago called the earthquake one of the greatest tragedies to strike Western Europe in modern times.
The US has already spent over $3.5 million helping earthquake victims by shipping tents, food and medicine to Italy.
Another $6.5 million is expected to be spent on immediate relief help.
An informed Western diplomat in New Delhi says high level officials in Kabul are openly talking of an imminent attack on Pakistan
because it allows anti-Soviet Afghan rebels and supplies to cross into Afghanistan.
It is unclear whether the reports circulating in the Afghan capital were based in fact or merely inspired by propaganda.
Sporadic gunfire erupted in San Salvador Wednesday hours after six slain leftist leaders were buried.
The latest shooting in El Salvador's capital left five youths dead, 12 people wounded and some 1,000 workers trapped inside offices by the gunfire.
The deaths brought to 23 the number of people killed in a 24-hour period in the Central American country.
A massive snowstorm already blamed for nine deaths in the Midwest swept across the East with 70 mile an hour winds Wednesday.
The storm spread ice and snow from New England to Maryland, closing schools and leaving thousands of homes without electricity.
In the West, another storm system brought rain and dangerous winds to California and Western Nevada.
French impressionist August Renoir's best-known painting, The Bather, was sold for $1,198,000 at a Sotheby's auction in London.
The painting depicts a young nude woman on the banks of a stream.
Renoir's Gypsy Girl brought a record $1.6 million in New York in October.
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Turning now to news of California and the West, confessed hillside strangler Kenneth Bianchi began his long-awaited testimony in Los Angeles Wednesday
in a closed preliminary hearing for his cousin and alleged accomplice in murder, Angelo Buono.
The 45-year-old Buono is charged with 10 of the 13 hillside strangler murders that occurred in late 1977 and early 1978.
The 29-year-old Bianchi made a deal with prosecutors last year under which he confessed to five killings
and agreed to testify against his cousin in exchange for being spared the death penalty.
The testimony is considered crucial to the state's case against Buono because there's little physical evidence linking him to the crimes.
The hearing is closed to the press and public, and all participants are under a gag order and forbidden to discuss the case.
The prosecution has rested its case in Oakland after a woman sheriff's deputy testified that
Darlin' June Cromer bragged in jail about stalking and killing a five-year-old black child Reginald Williams.
Deputy Dorothy Sabo said that the conversation at the Oakland City Jail took place February 7th,
two days after the youngster was killed.
The deputy said Ms. Cromer related how she searched for two days in vain, offering rides to several youngsters
before spotting the Williams boy playing with a supermarket shopping cart near his Alameda home.
The deputy testified that Cromer also said she choked the boy, but he wouldn't die until she covered his mouth and nose.
Ms. Cromer is charged with kidnapping the youngster and killing him because she hated black people.
If found guilty of first-degree murder with special circumstances and kidnapping qualifies, Ms. Cromer could be given the death penalty.
She's pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
About 1,700 flight attendants employed by the Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines have vowed to go on strike
unless a new contract is reached by 12.01 a.m. Friday.
A last-minute round of negotiations is scheduled for today, but Claudia Lamp of the Union of Flight Attendants says
the outlook for averting a strike is, in her words, grim.
A spokesman for Continental says that if a walkout occurs, the airline plans to continue operating
with supervisory personnel working as attendants.
The company has about 21,000 passengers boarding daily.
Currently, attendants earn from $12,000 to $22,000 a year, including premium pay and overtime,
and the top figure is for persons with 13 years of experience.
California federal savings and loan has raised its home mortgage rate from 15 to 16 percent.
The move is expected to generate similar heights throughout the lending industry.
CalFed is the nation's largest thrift lender with $6.3 billion in assets.
It cites tightening money market conditions and announcing the increase.
CalFed had posted the 15 percent rate November 7.
The increase came as the Commerce Department reported in Washington
that sales of new homes dropped in October for the third straight month.
For the first time in three weeks, negotiations in that stalemated strike by engineers and designers
at Maquide California Company will resume today.
However, a company spokesman insists the walkout has caused no major problems for the company
that manufactures the L-1011 Jumbo jetliner.
Southern California residents, devastated by last week's rampaging fires,
were welcomed at federal assistance centers that opened in San Bernardino and Duarte during the day,
as the largest of the fires was still not officially controlled.
Applications for low-interest loans for fire losses suffered by homeowners and businesses were accepted.
The assistance became available when President Carter declared San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside,
and Los Angeles counties a disaster area last week.
Meanwhile, our northern California residents face a different kind of disaster
as a major winter storm off the central California coast batters them with gale-force winds.
The storm front continues to dump heavy rain in areas already soaked by as much as nine inches of precipitation.
Gerald and Charlene Gallago pleaded innocent in Sacramento Wednesday
to charges they kidnapped and murdered Sacramento College students Craig Miller and Mary Beth Sowers.
Miller and Sowers, students at California State University of Sacramento,
were last seen November 2nd in a parking lot getting into a car that witnesses said was driven by Gallago.
Miller was found dead later that day in El Dorado County.
Sowers' body was found November 22nd in Placer County.
State Senator Alan Robbins of Van Nuys has won a 10-day postponement
of a preliminary hearing on 10 felony sex charges involving minor girls,
and his lawyer says he will seek to move the trial out of Sacramento.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State March Fong Yu certified a recall petition
aimed at removing Democrat Robbins from his Senate seat.
Recall leader Jan Tucker of North Hollywood says he expects to begin circulating petitions this weekend.
He has 160 days to collect the necessary 27,415 signatures
to place the issue before voters in Robbins District.
Robbins is charged with engaging in sexual intercourse, oral sex or attempted sexual intercourse
with two 16-year-old girls and one 17-year-old girl.
State law prohibits sexual intercourse or oral copulation with a person under the age of 18 who is not one's wife.
State Democrats have introduced a bill into the Assembly that would allow the State Democratic Party
to purge candidates whose views it doesn't like.
San Leandro Democrat William Lockyer, who introduced AB 83,
indicated it was prompted by the congressional candidacy this year of San Diego area Ku Klux Klan member Tom Metzger,
who ran as a Democrat.
Also in the halls of the Capitol, killing a pet cat or dog for a meal would become a crime
under a bill introduced by Senator Mars Garcia of Menlo Park.
The measure is aimed at Southeast Asian and other refugees whose cultural practices have caused a furor among their new U.S. neighbors.
Garcia says his measure is intended to, as he put it,
lay out the ground rules and help remove a cultural conflict.
It already is a misdemeanor to kill a dog or cat with the intent of selling or giving away the pelt.
A proposed constitutional amendment introduced into the Senate would give Californians who bought houses after 1975
a substantial tax break, but it would mean property tax increases for people who have owned residential homes or rental property since before 1976.
The measure, by Senator John Homdahl of Castro Valley, would eliminate an inequity of Proposition 13
that allows owners of comparable houses to pay vastly different taxes, depending on when the house was bought.
Police in Dallas are holding a man who claims he has murdered nine women in four states, including California.
The suspect, Carol Cole, was released in October from a Missouri prison where he had served time for mail fraud.
He's jailed on charges in the strangulation of a Dallas woman, but while being questioned about the Texas murder,
Cole told police he had killed eight other women, including his wife Diane in San Diego.
A police spokesman says he's fairly sure that there's something to all nine of the confessions.
All the women in question are dead, although some of the victims' deaths may not have been ruled homicides.
The only names available are that of the two Dallas victims and Diane Cole.
Two balloonists soaring over New Mexico are chilled but on course in their second attempt at a transcontinental flight.
The ground crew for balloonist John Shuecraft and Ron Rips say they plan to climb to about 20,000 feet during the night
to improve radio communications while their craft crosses the Rockies.
The temperature outside the craft is expected to drop to minus 50 degrees.
Patti Davis, actress daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, told broadcast interviewers during the day
that her father's election has boosted her career, but it won't force her to turn down jobs.
Davis, a songwriter who has performed on TV, says she wouldn't, as she put it, do anything exploitive, sexually, or otherwise.
However, Davis, who uses her mother's maiden name as her professional name, added,
I wouldn't shy away from a role I wanted to do that I thought would be good just because my father was president.
A dairy farmer has sued Art Linkletter for $25 million,
claiming the entertainer appears in fraudulent ads for the National Home Life Assurance Company.
64-year-old John Vanderlinden filed the class action suit in Riverside Superior Court.
He charges that Linkletter has, and we're quoting,
no training, education, skill, or knowledge that would qualify him as a director or an advisor in the business of insurance.
Vanderlinden first sued National Home Life in 1978 because it had rejected his claim on the hospitalization of his wife.
The company reportedly paid the claim, although the suit is still pending.
For his part, Linkletter called Vanderlinden a nut.
He said he's fully qualified to endorse the insurance company, said Linkletter.
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If you break the rules, there's always the chance you'll be caught.
Well, the University of New Mexico has learned the price of getting caught.
The Lobo basketball team has been placed on three-year NCAA probation for falsifying the academic transcripts of some players.
The probe led to the uncovering of similar transcript scandals throughout the country.
For those who think three years probation is a high price, consider this.
The NCAA said it softened the blow against New Mexico because of what it called the school's constructive attitude.
Pitcher Don Sutton can say some good things about Houston.
For one thing, according to Sutton, you can wear your jeans without people thinking you're trying to be stylish.
And for another, Houston's the place where Sutton's new team plays.
The 35-year-old free agent has signed a four-year contract with the Astros.
The terms, which brought the longtime Dodger to Houston, were not disclosed.
Sutton joins one of the deepest pitching staffs in baseball.
And the right-hander says he and new teammate Nolan Ryan have a pitch in common.
Says, Sutton, his change-up is the same as my fastball.
Baseball's biggest free agent this year is smugger Dave Winfield, and he apparently is still fighting with the team that's letting him go.
Winfield is angry that the San Diego Padres have discontinued his program to bring disadvantaged kids to the ballpark.
The Padres say Winfield owes the money for the tickets.
But Winfield's agent says the money is not owed because the Padres previously signed an agreement to continue the plan.
The matter may end up in court.
With the winter baseball meetings just a week away, talk of possible trades is in the air.
Some of that talk is in St. Louis, where a newspaper report says the Cardinals might land Cubs ace reliever Bruce Sutter.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch says Sutter may be available for three cards, one of which is outfielder Leon Durham.
The integrity of boxing has been questioned in recent weeks, but former heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali doesn't think that integrity has been damaged by some recent controversial fights.
Ali says his pours showing against Larry Holmes in a WBC title fight won't hurt the sport.
Nor, Ali says, will Roberto Duran's withdrawal from last week's WBC welterweight bout against Sugar Ray Leonard.
Ali says Duran had to be hurting to do what he did, but he adds, Duran will return and be better than ever.
Ali was in Miami for a promotion there.
Sugar Ray Leonard says he doesn't think a rematch with Roberto Duran is in the best interest of boxing.
Leonard took the WBC welterweight crown from Duran last week when the Panamanian gave up because of stomach pains.
Sugar Ray says he wants to fight the winner of a possible bout between WBA champ Tommy Hearns and former WBC champ Wilfred Benitez.
But, adds Leonard, he doesn't expect anything until next fall.
In the Give Him Another Chance department comes this story of player dealings in the NFL.
The injury-plagued New York Giants have signed defensive tackle George Small, who spent some time in the Pittsburgh training camp last year.
That isn't so special, except for the fact that Small has been cut twice this season, both times by the Giants.
Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, plans to marry hee-haw actress Linda Thompson early next year.
31-year-old Jenner was divorced from his first wife earlier this year.
He has two children. It'll be the first marriage for the 30-year-old Miss Thompson, a regular on TV's hee-haw variety show,
which you might see sometimes on our weekend programming.
Let's turn now to the weather picture. The highest temperature reported Wednesday in the U.S., excluding Alaska and Hawaii,
was 83 degrees at Coolidge and Casa Grande in Arizona, and the morning low was 11 degrees below zero at International Falls, Minnesota, and Mason City, Iowa.
Here's the forecast for the Bay Area.
High wind warning. Storm force winds with gusts to 60 miles per hour can be expected during the night.
Also, local heavy rain, possible thundershowers, rain and winds decreasing later on and during the day.
Scattered showers Thursday night and Friday, lows mostly in the 50s, highs in the 50s to low 60s.
Storm warning for southerly winds increasing to 35 to 60 miles per hour during the night.
Chance of rain, 60 percent Thursday, 40 percent Thursday night.
Some temperatures downtown San Francisco, 55 to 58, Oakland, 54 to 59, and Redwood City from 53 up to 58.
For the Sierra Nevada, winter storm warning. Heavy snow with storm force winds gusting to 60 miles per hour can be expected during the night.
Local heavy rain at lower elevations, wind and rain decreasing during the day, locally heavy snow continuing through the day.
Mostly scattered showers Thursday night and Friday, the snow level lowering to 3,000 feet in the north to 6,000 feet in the south by Thursday night.
That's the weather and that's Channel 2 News. I'm Bob Stone.
Savior, like a shepherd lead us, much we need thy tender care.
In thy pleasant pastures feed us, for our use thy folds prepare.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, thou hast bought us thine we are.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, thou hast bought us thine we are.
Early let us seek thy favor, early let us do thy will.
Blessed Lord and only Savior, with thy love our bosoms fill.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, thou hast loved us, love us still.
Thou hast loved us, love us still.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day which read, If you love them, tell them.
And maybe you've seen the bumper sticker which reads, Have you hugged your kids lately?
It was really talking about a basic need which you and I share.
It's that need to be loved. Our life really becomes a pursuit for love.
If we don't find it in the normal avenues of life, we'll look for it in the abnormal.
That's one of the basic reasons for the popularity of the neighborhood bar.
Not everyone who goes in is an alcoholic.
Many of the patrons are looking for someone who will care, someone who will listen to them.
And that need to be loved is universal.
It encompasses everyone of any age, the young as well as the old.
Some time ago in an orphanage a young child whose parents had abandoned her was placed.
Adjustment was very hard and she created problems and was the object of anxiety and the anger of many of the employees.
Difficulties with the youngster increased until it was determined by the counseling staff
that if they encountered another serious problem with a child,
she'd be removed from the orphanage and placed in a juvenile detention center.
One day as the child was being watched closely,
one of the counselors observed as she walked some distance from her orphanage dormitory.
She was then seen moving over to a tree and apparently defacing it.
The counselor reported the child's activities to the staff members.
They began an investigation as to the nature of her destructive act.
They walked as a group to the location where the child was last seen apparently destroying some of the foliage of the tree.
They noticed that tucked underneath some of the bark of the tree was a piece of paper.
They removed the paper and assuming that it would contain some critical discouraging note regarding the counselors and the staff,
to their amazement instead they discovered that the little homeless girl had inserted in the bark of the tree a note which read,
to whoever finds this, I love you.
You and I, regardless of our age, have a basic need to be loved.
And the greatest love story in the whole world can be condensed into just 12 simple words,
perhaps the most important words that can fall upon human ears.
The Bible says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son.
I can't comprehend such love but I can experience it and I have.
And I respond, that thou, O God, shouldst love me in the light of what thou art,
is darkness to my intellect but gladness to my heart.
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O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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