Hua Kuo-feng named China's successor amid Mao turmoil
Reports from Peking say Hua Kuo-feng is appointed to lead the Chinese Communist Party after Mao's death. Mao's widow Chiang Ching and three high ranking officials reportedly arrested for plotting a coup amid intra party rifts. Confirmation awaited as infighting continues and official channels delay full disclosure.
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Tokyo
Hua Kuofeng
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist Party
Japan
Kyodo
Peking
Mao
Hua
Communist Party
Chiang Ching
Hsinhua
Papua New Guinea
Party
Teng Hsiao-ping
Teng
Chou En-lai
China
Chou
Chinese Communist Party Politburo
Syrians Vow Decisive Action After Embassy Attacks
The Syrian government vowed to take decisive punitive action after Palestinian gunmen attacked the Syrian Embassy in Rome injuring a secretary and taking officials hostage. A separate bombing attempt targeted the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, with one attacker killed. A PLO spokesman denied responsibility for either assault.
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Associated Press
Pakistan
Italy
Syria
Rome
Islamabad
Beirut
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Damascus Radio
Mesquakie Indians receive 6.6 million from U.S. settlement
The Mesquakie tribe of Tama Iowa secures 6.6 million from Uncle Sam after a 30 year legal fight over a century old land debt. 80 percent goes to 902 members with the rest in a federal trust. Minor shares paid at age 18. Merchants report surging sales of appliances and vehicles as funds arrive.
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Tama, Iowa
Uncle Sam
Tama
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Kansas
U.S
Dians
Frank Pushetonequa
Ford
Ruth Kasal
Sac and Fox
Mississippi
Dean Watergate Memoir Adds Sex Drama to Familiar Plot
John Deans 415 page memoir Blind Ambition covers Watergate and the Nixon White House cover up with humor and detail. It includes anecdotes about Xaviera Hollander's address book and a cabinet member’s slur against blacks later linked to Earl Butz resignation.
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Washington
John Dean
White House
Simon and Schuster
Watergate
Dean
Ford
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Nixon White House
Xaviera Hollander
New York
Ronald Ziegler
John J. Caulfield
Caulfield
Tony Ulasewicz
Ehrlichman
Jack
John Ehrlichman
Nixon
Ford hosts Eastern European groups at White House meeting
President Ford met with leaders representing Polish Latvian Estonian Lithuanian Czech Slovak Serbian Ukrainian descent as he sought to move past debate remarks. Carter denied love life rumors spread by Ford campaign while Dole Mondale campaigned.
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Dave Riley
Associated Press
White House
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Plains
Ford Campaign
Carter
Europe
Aloysius Mazewski
Polish American Congress
New York
New Jersey
Washington
America
Bob Dole
Dole
Eastern Europe
Walter Mondale
Eau Claire
Wis
President Ford Committee
Anderson
ABC
William Greener
Ford Committee
Swine Flu Clinic And Shot Deaths In City Posts
The Athens City County Health Department received a shipment of bivalent swine flu vaccine and will host a public immunization clinic for ages 3 to 60 in a high risk group. In Pittsburgh, three elderly people died after swine flu shots prompting closure of 13 Allegheny County clinics. Authorities say the vaccine safety is being reviewed.
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Athens City-County
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Weather Outlook Turns Cooler With Mild Rain Chance
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with lows in the mid to upper 40s. Cooler turn Wednesday with highs around 70. Rain probability 10 percent tonight and Wednesday. Details on Page 7.
Trade Office Reopens as Ohio Seeks Japan Investment
An Ohio business delegation led by James Duerk reopened Ohio’s Far Eastern trade office in Tokyo. They urged about 60 Japanese firms to expand trade, targeting exports of soybeans corn and wheat and machine tools to Japan, in exchange for Japanese medical equipment.
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Tokyo
Ohio
Japan
Patricia Nixon Recuperating At San Clemente Home
Mrs Nixon and wife of ex President Richard M Nixon is reported recovering on schedule from a stroke suffered last summer. A spokesman said she recuperates at her San Clemente home and has not returned to Long Beach Memorial Hospital since July 23 after a 15 day stay.
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Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Patricia Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Indian Jetliner Crashes in Bombay Killing 95 aboard
An Indian Caravelle jetliner crashed at Bombay Santa Cruz airport during takeoff to Madras. All 95 aboard died, with the plane initiating a crash-landing after an engine fire. The aircraft carried 89 passengers, mostly Indian, and had replaced a larger Boeing due to preflight engine trouble.
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Bombay
India
Santa Cruz
Madras
Boeing
Following Thread Sews Up Case
Los Angeles deputies traced a single strand of black thread from Alejandrina Hernandez 22 to a house 42 blocks away where a 150 pound industrial sewing machine was found. Three suspects were arrested for investigation of receiving stolen property.
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Los Angeles
Alejandrina Hernandez
Charles Cortez
Lesser-Known Presidential Hopefuls Stacked On Ballots
Among 174 presidential runners readers may not see Whitford Trent Collins and Langhow on many ballots. The Federal Election Commission lists minor candidates like Lar Daly Gus Hall Eugene McCarthy Lester Maddox Tom Anderson and Roger MacBride. MacBride backs abolishing the income tax and government agencies while Daly pushes drug legalization and harsher police action.
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Mer Sen
Eugene McCarthy
Georgia
Lester Maddox
American Independent Party
Tom Anderson
American Party
Roger MacBride
Liberation Party
Campaign noise and oddball candidates in a satire piece
The article lampoons political candidates including Trent who touts loopholes and boasted about using them while promoting male chauvinism and provocative quotes. Eddie Collins cites nudity as ecological, facing legal trouble in DeKalb Illinois for streaking. Paul Langhon is listed with unknown address and affiliation, a pseudonym candidate critiques unity, while Ernest Whitford proposes bran in the diet to end constipation and tensions among elites.
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Collins
Election Commission
Paul Langhon
Ernest Whitford
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Institute of International Relations
Taipei
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Tanjug
Tien An Men Square
Hong Kong
Daily Telegraph of London
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Chang Chunchiao
Wang Hung-wen
Yao Wen-yuan
Pushetonequa
Lawrence Mills
Chicago
Mills
Drea
Dean Watergate
Lab Aere As
Wes
By Michael Putzel
Salvation Army
Henry Petersen
Justice Department
Petersen
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Greener
Athens
Revenue Sharing Fund
Athens City
East River
Throg's Neck
Bronx
Ene
Bere
Louisville
Brown — Williamson Tobacco Corp
Brown & Williamson
Belair
R. J Reynolds Industries, Inc
Salem
Gerald Ford
Paul Trent
Eddie Collins
Paul T. Langhow
Lar Daly
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Hall
Federal Election Commission
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FBI
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