Zaire breaks ties with Cuba over Shaba invasion aids
Zaire announces severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and recalls its diplomats after a Cuban diplomat was found with documents on Shaba invasion. Gen Djogi cites Cubans and Russians aiding rebels in the Shaba incursion, while Mobutu’s unity rally shows weak public backing.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
UPI
Cuba
Havana
Shaba
Katanga
Angola
Bumba Moasso Djogi
Congolese National Liberation Front
GM workers retire early trend shocks industry
DETROIT UPI General Motors reports rising early retirement among hourly workers. In 1975 twenty nine percent of retirees were under 55, sixty percent were 55 to 64, and eleven percent were 65 to 68. The 30 and out pension plan allows retirement after 30 years.
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Detroit
UPI
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers
Automakers
UAW
Irving Bluestone
Ford
Chrysler
Bluestone
Bus hijacker fires shots and disarms by SWAT at Jacksonville
A gunman on a Greyhound bus hijacked the St. Petersburg to Ottawa route near St. Augustine then Jacksonville. He demanded liquor and to go to Arkansas. After two hours and multiple stops, SWAT team disabled the bus and persuaded him to free 28 hostages. The suspect, Ronnie Nance, 22, faced 38 kidnapping counts.
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Jacksonville
Fla
UPI
Robbie L. Jones
Greyhound
U.S. 1
St. Augustine
St. Petersburg
Ottawa
Canada
Ronnie Thomas Nance
Winter Garden
Mary Moore
Clearwater
Nance
Jones
Arkansas
FBI
Mike Gould
Carrie Washington
Melvin Mauldin
Concord
N.H
Cuba
Curt Luste
Detroit
Helen Snodgrass
Harrisburg
Hidden water may be gas bonanza
Avery Island Louisiana ERDA sponsored test on a geopressure gas zone 12 000 feet deep near McNeese State University investigates if hot pressurized water contains enough methane to surpass known gas reserves. Potential environmental and land subsidence risks are considered alongside possible uses for heat and pressure.
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Avery Island
UPI
South Louisiana
O. Carroll Karkalits
McNeese State University
Lake Charles
Karkalits
The
Energy Research and Development Administration
Keith Westhusing
ERDA
Louisiana
Texas Gulf Coast
William M. Brown
Hudson Institute
Westhusing
Bennie di Bona
Identification begins for 326 crash victims
Medical experts at Dover Air Force Base start the painstaking identifications of 326 victims from the collision of a Pan American and a KLM 747 over the Canary Islands. 85 specialists, led by William Courtney, will match fingerprints dental records and scars as officials study cockpit recorders and control tower tapes.
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Dover, del
UPI
Canary Islands
Dover Air Force Base
FBI
William Courtney
Air Force
Bowling Air Force Base
Washington
California
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Spain
William R. Haley
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
KLM
Pan American
Islanders vote secession tonight
In Chilmark Massachusetts residents of Martha’s Vineyard and nearby islands including Nantucket Cuttyhunk and others vote on secession to protest a redistricting plan that would remove their two state House seats. Local residents say they seek representation and voice in the legislature.
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Chilmark
Mass
UPI
Massachusetts
Martha’s Vineyard
Nantucket Island
Cuttyhunk
House of Representatives
Mildred Fullerton
Cuttyhunk Island
Great and General Court of
Terrence P. McCarthy
Oak Bluffs
King Remembered In Memphis March For Dream Amid Unrest
In Memphis on the ninth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr s assassination a 5000 strong march honors the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his nonviolent dream. The city observes with a prayer service at the Lorraine Motel and the Clayborn Temple start point for the 1968 march. Notables like NAACP director designate Benjamin Hooks and Rep Harold Ford are expected. James Earl Ray, in a 99 year sentence, has discussed conspiracy claims with House Assassinations Committee.
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Clayborn Temple
Lorraine Motel
King
NAACP
Benjamin L. Hooks
Harold Ford
Tennessee
James Earl Ray
House
Ray
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