Heath resigns as Thatcher edges out Heath in ballot
London reports Edward Heath resigns as Conservative leader after a first ballot upset by Margaret Thatcher who won 130 votes to 119 for Heath and 16 for Hugh Fraser. Thatcher, 49, vows to press on as leadership rules call for a second ballot next Tuesday and possibly a third.
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UPL
Edward Heath
Conservative
Britain
Heath
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher
William Whitelaw
Whitelaw
Northern Ireland
Conservative Party
Hugh Fraser
Fraser
Labor
Harold Wilson
House OF Commons
Farmers warn of price collapse threatening grain production
Worried farmers urged the Senate Agriculture Committee that the 1975 grain harvest could trigger a sharp price drop without higher minimum price guarantees. NFC officials urged swift target-price hikes to shield growers from falls this fall and to back Stop shortages with a strategic reserve plan.
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UPI
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
National Farmers Organization
National Car Growers Association
Cam Group
Charles Frazier
NFC
Frazier
Corn Growers
Midcontinent Farmers ‘Association
MFA
J. C. Carpenter
Soviet and Egyptian arms deal edges ahead in Middle East
Cairo sources report Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko met President Sadat to discuss new arms for Egypt while gaps remain over Kissinger talks and the Geneva conference. Sadat warned the next three months would be decisive as Brezhnev visits and Moscow aid expands. Arafat receives promised military aid, a Damascus meeting noted. A bus bombing in Jerusalem caused no casualties.
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Egypt
Middle East
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Andrei A. Gromyko
Sadat
Ann Y A Brezhnev
Gromyko
Syria
Nile Barrage
Eco Badal
Iraq
Raeategia
Geneva
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
United Nations
Kurt Waldheim
Brussels
U.N
Waldheim
Beirut
al Liwa
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Damascus
Moscow
Guerrillas clash with Ethiopian troops in Asmara city
Eritrean insurgents from the Eritrean Liberation Front and the Popular Liberation Front fought Ethiopian government troops in Asmara as a major American and French airlift evacuated hundreds of foreign nationals. The fighting extended toward Keren with air and artillery fire, while the Addis Ababa government tightened control.
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API
Asmara
Rey Ae Morii
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Ethiopia
Keren
Eritrean Liberation Front
Popular Liberation Front
Epitaph Paper in Tombstone Ends Publication
Tucson reports the Tombstone Epitaph will cease publishing due to inflation, with final edition on February 28. Harald Love, former owner, sold to University of Arizona journalism department which will print a no ad student produced history paper using UA facilities. The Epitaph, founded by John P. Clum in 1880, has a 4000-copy circulation, mostly outside Tombstone.
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Ariz
UPI
Harald
Love
Detroit
University of Arizona Journalism Department
Epitaph
Tombstone Epitaph Journal
George Ridge
Tombstone
Ridge Sai
John P. Clum
Arizona Territory
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