IRA hunger striker Frank Stagg's body sparks clashes in Ireland
Police using a helicopter removed the coffin from Shannon Airport amid shouting IRA supporters. Despite a large guard, family members and Sinn Fein pressed in, sparking fistfights as authorities planned to transfer the body to Bridie Stagg and a Hollymount burial, with court action threatened by the IRA to recover the body.
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Hollymount
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Kissinger Pushes Brazil Role and Slams Cuba Angola Intervention
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger urged Brazil to take a larger voice in world affairs during talks with President Ernesto Geisel at the presidential palace. He criticized Cuba's military intervention in Angola and planned to discuss the matter with Geisel and Brazil's top officials.
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UPI
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Ernesto Geisel
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Geisel
Antonio Azevedo da Silveira
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Angola
Tion
Golberg Do Couto E Silva
National Intelligence Service
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Peru
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Chloroform linked to cancer in animal studies
The National Cancer Institute reports high dose chloroform caused liver cancer in 96 percent of mice and 57 percent at low doses, with some rats developing kidney cancer. Officials caution this does not prove human cancer risk but suggests potential danger from high exposure. FDA panel had found no cancer link and deemed chloroform ineffective for cold symptoms.
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Subsidies For Presidential Campaigns Threatened By FEC Deadline
The Federal Election Commission faces a March 1 deadline to certify campaign matching funds after a Supreme Court ruling found the 1974 law defective. The six member body approved $92,175 in subsidies to five Democrats, with $2.3 million already submitted for potential payment, and may hold a Sunday meeting if needed to certify further funds. Congress is debating fixes as the commission weighs its ongoing responsibilities.
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UPI
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Democratic National Committee
Vernon Thomson
Thomson
Women Police Wives Ride Question Draws Chief’s Caution
Concord New Hampshire police chief David Walchak says he has no major objections to wives and girlfriends riding with officers in cruisers but safety is the only concern. The Concord Police Benevolent Association asked for the rides to acquaint them with the job, Walchak will poll officers before deciding.
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N.H
UPI
David Walchak
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Concord Police Benevolent Association
Tobacco state senators fight Cigarette health tax
Senators from tobacco growing states challenge a proposed four year 9.3 billion cigarette health tax aimed at funding cancer and lung disease research. Nobel laureate Renato Dulbecco condemned government inaction on smoking while urging safer tobacco production.
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UPI
Renato Dulbecco
Senate
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
Gary Hart
Colorado
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Wendell Ford
Walter Huddleston
Labor
Public Welfare
Ford
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Kennedy
Hearst takes Fifth twenty one times in trial updates
Patricia Hearst refused to answer questions about the missing year of her underground life, invoking the Fifth Amendment 21 times. Prosecutors weigh charges in connection with an April 1975 Carmichael bank robbery while defense cites potential self incrimination and ongoing cross examination in U.S. District Court.
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UPI
Patricia Hearst
F. Lee Bailey
Miss Hearst
Carmichael
Calif
U.S. District Court
Oliver J. Carter
Browning
SLA
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