Legislature Takes 100 Measures On First Day
In Columbia South Carolina the 103rd General Assembly opened with over 100 measures filed on the first day Tuesday all sent to committees. The Senate honored departing President Lt Gov Brantley Harvey and re elected officers while the House concluded its reorganizational work.
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South Carolina
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Senate
Brantley Harvey
House
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L. Marion Gressette
Calhoun
Harvey
Nancy Stevenson
Grossette
Edwards
Budget and Control Board
Man kills himself in Hobart protest over Moscow Olympics
Josef Douda, 55, a Czechoslovak refugee living in Hobart Tasmania, shot himself with a .22 rifle in a supermarket area to protest Moscow hosting the 1980 Games. A note reading Boycott the Olympic games in Moscow was placed under his car windshield as police described the scene before shoppers.
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Melbourne
Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
Moscow
Josef Douda
Douda
Czechoslovakia
Annual Hunt Gets Annual Criticism
Cleveland Amory urged a Canada tourist boycott to end seal hunting after he said 12 million letters would be sent by the Fund for Animals. Newfoundland minister Brian Peckford countered that the annual hunt is an economic necessity in northeastern Newfoundland.
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Cleveland Amory
Canada
Fund For Animals
Brian Peckford
Mines and Energy
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Shah Transfers Royal Assets to Pahlavi Foundation
Iran's radio reports say the Shah shifted the royal family's vast Iranian holdings to the Pahlavi Foundation but gave no date to transfer control from the Shah to a government agency. The foundation also reportedly owns overseas assets valued near a billion dollars, including a 36 story Fifth Avenue office building.
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Iran
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Pahlavi
New York
Fifth Avenue
Vietnamese Forces Press Siem Reap Near Angkor Temples
Western sources report Vietnamese infantry backed by tanks and howitzers pressing toward Siem Reap, 260 miles from the border and 90 miles from Thailand, as Angkor's ancient monuments lie nearby. The town had just opened to foreign tourists ten days earlier.
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Thailand
Siem Reap
Angkor
Americans Leave Iran Drop to 12,000 Amid Crisis
State Department spokesman Hodding Carter cites revised figures showing about 30,000 Americans left Iran in two months, averaging 500 per day, with 12,000 remaining. Embassy effort sought more reliable data after Iran’s political crisis. Earlier estimates put 24,000 in the country.
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Iran
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Carter aims for new people to people link with Taiwan
Washington officials say Taipei concession clears major hurdle for a non government to government future. Officials anticipate a corporate entity replacing the U S embassy on Taiwan and a bill to Congress this month.
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Taipei
Carter
Taiwan
U.s.-Taiwan
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