Arabs and PLO Draft UN Resolution on Arab-Israeli Dispute
A five member Palestine Committee of moderates and radicals named to draft a Security Council resolution. Egypt Syria and Jordan join Libya and the PLO to influence the debate. The group seeks Palestinian rights beyond refugee wording while split remains over moderates versus hard line to avoid or invite a U.S. veto.
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United Nations, NY
Palestine Committee
Security Council
A. Esmat Abdel Meguid
Egypt
United Nations
Syria
Jordan
Israel
Libya
Palestine Liberation Organization
Council
U.S
Bomb in Belfast arcade kills three and injures eight
A morning bomb at a crowded Belfast shopping arcade killed two women and a man and wounded at least eight others. Rescue teams and fire crews worked through rubble to search for more victims as militants warned of continued violence.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Quito Military Junta Bans Antigovernment Publications
Ecuador's three man junta imposes broad censorship banning any publication attacking the constituted order of honor and dignity of government members. Civic Unity Front leaders from Conservative Socialist and Social Christian parties protested the two year extension of military rule and pressuring for return of power to the people.
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Quito
Ecuador
Civic Unity Front
Christie Leaves Two Unpublished Works After Death
Agatha Christie, who died age 85 at Wallingford, left two unpublished manuscripts, her autobiography, and Miss Marple's Swan Song. The Marple file was written 30 years ago but barred from publication until after her death. Collins declined to state publication timing or confirm the autobiography.
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London
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple
Dame Agatha
Wallingford
Marple
Jane Marple
Hercule Poirot
Poirot
William Collins
Intelligence Staff Cut and Money Unchanged
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says U S intelligence agencies reduced manpower from 142000 in 1969 to about 80000 today while funding remains steady. He notes a 43 percent staff drop with little if any budget reduction. Former CIA Director Richard Helms retains a leading criminal defense attorney amid possible charges linked to a 1971 break‑in.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
U.S
Mansfield
D-Mont
CIA
Congress
Richard M. Helms
Blockade Threats Darken Beirut Civil War Fronts
Palestinian guerrillas and Lebanese leftists threaten to blockade Christian villages in Muslim areas unless Christian blockade of three refugee camps ends. The war toll climbs past 8 000 dead and 25 000 wounded as fighting spreads across Beirut and northern eastern and southern Lebanon. Phalange says food convoys to Tal Zaatar Jisr el Basha and Dbaieh camps stay blocked until camps are disarmed and under Lebanese army control. Tal Zaatar Jisr el Basha host 27 000 Palestinians and lie northeast of Beirut, while Dhaieh houses 5 000 Christian Palestinians and lords the coast road to the Beirut port and to Tripoli.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Phalange Party
Tian
Tal Zaatar
Jisr el-Basha
Dbaieh
Jisr el- Basha
Mt Lebanon
Dhaieh
Tripoli
Private Life of JFK Explored in Aiken Standard Series
Pulitzer winner Fred Sparks presents a three part series starting tomorrow in the Aiken Standard detailing the late President John F Kennedy's private life. The reports are framed as discretionary reading for readers curious about Camelot era.
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John F. Kennedy
Camelot
Aiken Standard
Pulitizer Prize
Kennedy
Fred Sparks
JFK
Night Hunting Prompts Jail Time at Aiken County Court
Two men Jimmy Allen Widener and Wayne B Leaphart pleaded guilty to hunting at night on opening day of Aiken County General Sessions Court. Judge Rodney A. Peeples sentenced four months in jail or a 250 dollar fine, noting forfeiture of all items used in the act. Other defendants faced similar four month terms for second offense DUI and related charges as the court sped proceedings with a group plea session.
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Jeane Hall
Aiken County General Sessions Court
Jimmy Allen Widener
Wayne B Leaphart
Rodney A. Peeples
Peeples
UN Intervention May Be Sought In Angola Deadlock
At Addis Ababa the OAU summit failed to bind the Angolan factions MPLA UNITA and FNLA to peace efforts. Leaders adjourned after deadlock with Moc Mois call for possible United Nations intervention and fears of widened Cold War involvement.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Angola
Moi
Africa
United Nations
OAU
Lopo Do Nascime
Pon Movement
MPLA
Gment
Luanda
Reporls
Jonas Savimbi
The
National Union
UNITA
Holden Roberto
National Front
FNLA
United States
South Africa
Zaire
Zambia
Unita Oau
Uganda
Idi Amin
Dunn Praises HCA Free Enterprise at Aiken Rotary
Former Tennessee governor Winfield Dunn, now with Hospital Corporation of America, spoke at Aiken Rotary about HCA as a “free enterprise” model. He noted hospitals span 17 states and three foreign counties, stressing humanitarian care and the need to protect free enterprise from government overreach.
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Aiken Community Hospital
Aiken
Rotary Club
Ashley J. Little
Sam Nesbit
Tennessee
Winfield Dunn Dunn
Hospital Corporation of America
HCA
Dunn
Tals
Truck Packed With Nuclear Waste Crashes in Kentucky
A semitrailer carrying low grade nuclear waste collided with a highway truck on I 64 near the Boyd Carter County line in Kentucky injuring three men. Authorities later said the material had been removed and would be harmful only if handled. The trailer belonged to McCommack Highway Transportation of Schenectady New York and was bound for Maxey Flats radioactive waste site.
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Louisville
Boyd-Carter County
McCommack Highway Transportation Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Maxey Flats
Kentucky
Rain Tonight Then Clear Tomorrow Forecast
The forecast calls for high in the upper 50s with tonight’s low in the lower 40s. Scattered showers are expected Friday and Saturday, with a fair Thursday in between.
City Adopts Affirmative Action Employment Plan
Aiken City Council unanimously adopts an affirmative action plan to ensure equal employment opportunity across all city personnel processes. City Manager Roland Windham notes the plan builds on prior steps with three to five year goals and ongoing non discrimination in recruitment testing hiring training promotion transfers and benefits. Council also approves a downtown tree planting plan featuring Ginkgo trees funded by school donations and aims for planting by February first.
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Aiken
Roland Windham
Mike Strickland
Windham
Clyburn
John Elliott
City Parks Commission
Laurens Street
Barnwell Plant Hearings Resume In Columbia
Hearings resumed in Columbia on the operating license for Allied General Nuclear Services Barnwell reprocessing plant. The plant, nearly complete, requires Nuclear Regulatory Commission permission to operate after a 18 month delay.
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Columbia
Allied General Nuclear Services
Barnwell
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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