Rabin expected to resign to clear way for spring elections
Israeli newspapers and state radio predict Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will resign soon to pave the way for spring elections after breaking with the National Religious party over its abstention in a no confidence vote. Loss of the party’s 10 seats leaves Rabin short of a majority in the Knesset, shaping a run to elections possibly before May while he seeks to meet President-elect Carter after his inauguration.
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Yitzhak Rabin
Jerusalem
Israel
Rabin
Labor
Carter
National Religious
National Religious Party
Kuegset
Independent Liberal Party
Likud
Minnesota Poll Shows Support for Anderson in Senate Bid
A Minnesota poll of 808 residents finds 12 percent say Wendell Anderson would do an excellent job as U S Senator and 44 percent say he would do a good job. A large 78 percent favor a special election to fill senate vacancies, while 20 percent support governor appointment. Perpich ratings show 4 percent excellent, 40 percent good, 31 percent fair, 3 percent poor, and 22 percent undecided.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wendell Anderson
U.S
Minneapolis Tribune
Anderson
U.S. Senate
Senate
Rudy Perpich
Perpich
Stamp to honor Lindbergh in 1977 issue
MINNEAPOLIS AP Charles Lindbergh the Minnesota boy who rose to worldwide fame will be honored on a U S commemorative stamp in 1977. The May issue marks his solo 1927 Atlantic flight the first in history. Lindbergh from Little Falls was previously honored with an airmail stamp in 1927 that did not picture the aviator due to law. Further details on the stamp will follow from the Postal Service.
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Minneapolis
Charles Lindbergh
Minnesota
U.S
Atlantic
Lindbergh
Little Palla
Postal Service
First woman leads Minneapolis NAACP chapter election
Julia Cherry of Minneapolis was elected president of the Minneapolis NAACP branch, the umbrella group for Minnesota and the Dakotas. The biennial convention occurred this weekend as Cherry becomes the first woman to hold the post. A separate St Paul fire killed elderly couple Sheldon and Agnes Anderson, ages about 65 to 70, with the blaze starting in their home late Saturday evening.
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Minneapolis
Julia Cherry
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
ST. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
Sheldon Anderson
Agnes
Anderson
Arthur E. Emilson
Andersons
Winter wheat 1977 production estimate due this week
Washington AP says the Agriculture Department will release its first estimate of 1977 winter wheat production at 3 pm EST Wednesday December 22. Winter wheat accounts for about three fourths of the U.S. crop and prices have fallen this year amid a record crop of more than 2.1 billion bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Ocean going freighter enters St Lawrence Seaway to winter
The Liberian freighter Attica cleared Detroit Saturday and entered the Seaway at Cape Vincent just after midnight Monday, after a 40 hour delay past the planned close. Damaged by a 13 to 14 foot crack from improper loading, the Attica was to be drydocked in Montreal for repairs while other saltwater ships head for the Atlantic.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
U.S. Coast Guard
Cleveland
Cape Vincent
Port Huron
Mich
Coast Guard
Chicago
Detroit
Attica
Montreal
Altea
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Sault Ste. Marie
Sault
St. Mary's
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Freed Soviet prisoner critiques Helsinki Pact
Vladimir Bukovsky, freed in the Corvalan exchange, says the Helsinki Agreement was a Soviet ploy to weaken Western support for human rights. He describes harsher prison conditions in Vladimir, with reading bans and reduced rations, and calls the exchange a rare recognition of political prisoners.
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Switzerland
Vladimir Bukovsky
Bukovsky
Luis Corvalan
Russia
Vladimir
Moscow
United Nations
Helsinki
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Corvalan
Hukovsky
Brezhnev Celebrates 70th Birthday In Kremlin Ceremony
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev marked his 70th birthday with a Kremlin ceremony attended by leaders from bloc countries. Podgorny awarded Brezhnev the sixth Order of Lenin, a Second Hero of the Soviet Union title and a sword. Messages of congratulations came from Ford Schmidt Leone Gandhi Giscard dEstaing.
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Leonid I. Brezhnev
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Leonid Myich
Mikhail Suslov
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Ford
Helmut Schmidt
Giovanni Leone
Indira Gandhi
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Lenin
Soviet Union
Podgorny
Minnesota to seek ban on radar detector devices
The Minnesota Legislature will be asked to ban small electronic radar detectors such as Furbuster and Super Snoop sold for under 100 dollars. Support comes from the Minnesota Public Safety Department with sponsor Randy Kelly. A patrol official notes detectors alert drivers to speed radar before officers are in range.
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ST. Paul
Hep
Randy Kelly
DFL
Paul
Minnesota Public Safety Department
Kelly
Ciga
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