372 Feared Dead in Indian Mine Rescue Efforts Under Way
In New Delhi AP reported the US is sending high capacity pumps to aid the flooded Chaswala colliery where 372 miners were believed trapped after Saturday’s explosion. Prime Minister Gandhi pledged full rescue efforts as officials warned it would be a miracle if anyone survived.
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New Delhi
India
Chandrajit Yadav
Yadav
United States
Air India
Indira Gandhi
Chaswala
Calcutta
Government Run
Mine Workers’ Union
No. 3
US seeks Angola truce amid mission to Africa
A top U.S. diplomat, William E. Schaufele Jr., travels Africa to win support for a negotiated Angola ceasefire. He will meet leaders in Senegal Gabon Ivory Coast Cameroon and Zaire to urge removal of external forces and back Kissinger's plan.
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Washington
U.S
Africa
Angola
State Department
William E. Schaufele Jr
Department
Schaufele
Henry A. Kissinger
Portugal
Senegal
Gabon
Ivory Coast
Cameroon
Zaire
Kissinger
United States
African Affairs
Organization of African Unity
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Senate
National Front For the Liberation of
National Union For the Total Independence of
Nathaniel Davis
Meeting set today on welfare employee salaries Beltrami County
Beltrami County Welfare Board and AFSCME representative plan a meeting to discuss mandated cost of living raises for welfare employees. The board questions funding limits and potential staff cuts if no remedy is found, with state merit systems warning of possible federal money withholding.
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Dave Bernard
Beltrami County Welfare Board
County Welfare Employes Union
Schmidt
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Afscme
Welfare Board
C. E. Melberg
Barbara Sundquist
Merit System
St. Paul
Welfare
Beltrami County
FAA tests life saving air traffic conflict alert game
In a dark FAA lab in Pomona New Jersey, air traffic controller Fred Ranger tests a computer driven conflict alert system. The 14 000 word program warns when two planes will pass within five miles at similar altitudes and directs pilots to avoid collisions. FAA plans to install the system at 16 centers by next month.
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Pomona
N.J
Fred Ranger
Roger
Ranger
FAA
National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center
America
Atlantic City
Memphis
Denver
Kansas City
Fort Worth
FDA to tighten quality control on drug research data
FDA plans a program of stricter quality control on manufacturer supplied research for new drugs in response to allegations of incorrect testing data. Commissioner Alexander Schmidt cites potential simple and computer errors and possible data falsification, with action for proven fraud. The agency will revise birth control pill labeling for older women and consider limited cyclamate use if studies show no cancer risk. DES fattening hormone past ban may face further action. Weather forecast: clear tonight, increasing clouds, highs mid to upper 30s.
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Washington
The
Food and Drug Administration
Alexander Schmidt
Schmidt
CBS
FDA
Lee township man killed in apparent hunting accident
A 39 year old Grygla man Dwayne Englund was killed in an apparent hunting accident in Lee Township while snowmobiling four miles north of his farm. Dean Wilkens fox hunting mistook Englund for a wolf and fired, injuring Wilkens as his snowmobile overturned. Englund died at the scene. Wilkens hospitalized. Authorities said no charges yet filed as the investigation continues.
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Grygla
Dwayne Englund
Lee Township
Englund
Clayton Omlid
Dean Wilkens
Rt. 4 Grygla
Beltrami County
Tom Tolman
Wilkens
Tolman
Bemidji Hospital
Red Lake Hospital
Nuclear test delayed at Mercury Nevada
The Energy Research and Development Administration announced a 24 hour postponement of today’s underground nuclear test code named Muenster. Spokesman Dave Jackson cited unacceptable wind conditions and rescheduled the weapons test for 7 a.m. Tuesday. The yield is expected between 200 and 1000 kilotons, among the year’s strongest tests.
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Mercury
Nev
Energy Research and Development Administration
Dave Jackson
Soviet helicopter crewmen freed arrive in Moscow
Three Soviet air force crewmen Capt. Alexander Kurbatov Lt. Alexander Uskov and Jr. Lt. Vladimir G Buchelnikov arrived in Moscow after 21 months in China Tass said the condition of the men was not disclosed Yugoslav Tanjug reported they were seen off at Peking airport by Soviet Ambassador V S Tolstikov and staff
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Moscow
China
Tass
Alexander Kurbatov
Alexander Uskov
Vladimir G. Buchelnikov
Tanjug
Peking
V. S. Tolstikov
Tax statements delayed by state valuation delays
County Treasurer Doris Garlock said real estate and personal property tax statements will be late because the state has not yet sent the pipelines and utilities assessed values to the county. The six week auditor delay pushes the tax list to mid February, with 1976 homestead credit requirements clarified for combined filing.
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Doris Garlock
Garlock
Army rejects Wounded Knee massacre label after 1890 battle
The Army released a 23 page report arguing the Wounded Knee deaths near 150 Indians in 1890 were not a massacre. It cites restraint by authorities and says there was no evidence of deliberate shooting. The study questions indemnity bills for descendants and notes excesses by troops were due to inexperience.
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Washington
Wounded Knee
S.D
Senate Judiciary Committee
James G. Abourezk
DS D
Abourezk
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Big Foot
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