Last Americans evacuated from embattled Asmara
UPI reports the United States is removing the last Americans from Asmara amid intensified Eritrean rebel raids. About two dozen citizens remain, mainly at Kagnew station and the U.S. Consulate, after groups were flown out over the past week. The remnant staff includes a skeleton crew at Kagnew, a vital link to Polaris submarines, as fighting escalates in the capital.
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Rail aid vote authorizes 347 million to save eastern lines
The House approved 347 million dollars to prevent Penn Central and other Eastern railroads from collapsing, with 100 million in grants and 150 million in government guaranteed loans. Senate support expected. Penn Central warns it cannot meet payroll without aid, risking factory shutdowns nationwide.
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UPI
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Senate
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Harley Staggers
Dw.va
Thomas P. O’neill
Massachusetts
Missouri
New England
Erie Lackawanna
Interstate Commerce Commission
U.S. Railway Association
Supreme Court says Washington must honor Colville hunting right agreement
The court ruled 6-3 that the 1891 Colville agreement guarantees Indians may hunt and fish on a million acres forever. Justice Brennan held that any ambiguity favors Indians, so Antoine and his wife were not to be convicted for deer hunting out of season on the ceded land, as state laws cannot abridge these rights.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Washington State
Colville
Brennan
Rabbi refuses to testify in nursing home probe
New York rabbi and nursing home owner Bernard Bergman invoked the 5th Amendment before Sen. Moss's aging committee probe. Bergman faced questions about amassing 24 million dollars in the industry while noting ongoing federal and state investigations.
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UPI
New York
Senate
Frank E. Moss
Utah
Bernard Bergman
Moss
Senate Special Committee On
Bergman
Charles H. Percy
Ill
Percy
Girl who lost leg returns home from Israel
teenager Dejean Replogle, 16, arrived in Jacksonville after an Arab grenade attack in Jerusalem last December left her right leg amputated. She spoke to about 700 well wishers at the airport with her parents and church members, thanking supporters and the mayor for Dejean Replogle day.
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Fla
UPI
Dejean
Jerusalem
E. C. McDaniel
Main Street
Israel
New York
McDaniel
Hans Tanzler
Army pilots spray blackbirds with detergent at Fort Campbell
Army helicopters sprayed an eight acre area with a detergent to wash away oils on millions of disease carrying blackbirds at Fort Campbell Kentucky. Water was used after spraying to remove oils and ice coated trees as thousands fell from trees in subfreezing temperatures. Environmentalists condemned the operation citing ecological disruption and health concerns.
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Asmara
Addis Ababa
Red Sea
Massawa
FT. Campbell, Ky
UPI
Paducah
Kentucky- Tennessee
Senate panel restricts review to 3500 disputed ballots
New Hampshire Rules Committee voted 3500 as the cap for the pending Senate recount of the tight 1968 race between Republican Louis Wyman and Democrat John Durkin. The panel aims to set procedures to review protests, with a meeting scheduled Friday at 10 a.m. EST and a potential start to the recount soon after.
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UPI
Senate Rules Committee
New Hampshire Senate
Senate
Howard W. Cannon
Louis C. Wyman
John A. Durkin
Wyman
Durkin
Ballot Law Commission
Rules Committee
James B. Allen
D-Ala
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission
Commission
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