Mozambique on war footing against Rhodesia border attack
Mozambique President Samora Machel announced the border closure with Rhodesia and a full war footing in response to attacks near the border. He pledged the Mozambique Liberation Army would defeat the aggressor, ordered air raid shelters, and placed agriculture and industry on a wartime footing while promising full UN sanctions enforcement. Russian advisers reportedly arrived in the region.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
UPI
Mozambique
Samora Machel
Machel
Mozambique Liberation Army
$350000 to probe Schorr leaks at House ethics panel
Rep. John Flynt requests 350000 for a 15 to 40 member staff expected to spend up to 10 months investigating the disclosure and publication of the House Select Committee on Intelligence report that appeared in the Village Voice. The probe focuses on who leaked the secret document to CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr.
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Washington
UPI
Talks in N Ireland end hopes for coalition government
In Belfast, UPI reports protests and sectarian tensions deepen as talks to draft a Northern Ireland constitution fail to yield a Protestant Catholic coalition. Secretary Merlyn Rees says direct rule from London will likely continue. Violence this year reaches 74 dead, 1,465 since August 1969.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
London
Merlyn Rees
United Ulster Unionist Coalition
Social Democratic and Labor Party
Rees
William Craig
Clapham
Pentagon asks DOJ to probe Lockheed over payoffs
The Pentagon has asked the Justice Department to investigate claims that Lockheed Aircraft Corp paid cash to U S Air Force officers for overseas contracts. The probe follows earlier testimony and reports on bribes tied to international sales and government officials.
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William Crook
Translinear Inc
Texas
Tortuga
Arizona Republic Daily Newspaper
Ernest F. Hauser
Lockheed
Pentagon
Europe
Latin America
Japan
Jail blast kills four in Point Pleasant West Virginia
A distraught husband detonated a suitcase dynamite in a jail cell, killing himself his wife Mason County Sheriff Elvin Wedge deputy Kenneth Love and injuring eleven others. Sisk and Harriet were in the cell with the wife accused of murdering their baby daughter.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
UPI
Mason County
Elvin ‘Pete’ Wedge
Kenneth Dale Love
Bruce Sisk
Harriet
Ohio River
West Virginia
Gallipolis
Ohio
Charleston
Sisk
House panel kills tough gun control bill
The House Judiciary Committee voted 17 to 16 to send the bill back to its crime subcommittee after fierce lobbying by the National Rifle Association. The measure would have banned new handguns and imposed stricter dealer licensing, with a later mandatory sentence for firearm use in felonies and penalties for illicit trafficking.
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Washington
UPI
House Judiciary Committee
Don Edwards
Dcalif
Thomas Railsback
R-Il
National Rifle Association
John Seiberling
Ohio
City Debates Handgun Purchase Limits and Waiting Period
City council weighs a measure limiting any one individual to a single handgun purchase per month and imposing a 21 day waiting period for handgun buyers. The proposal sparks debate over public safety and gun rights among residents and officials.
Family found buried in pine stand near Columbia
Five bodies, a woman and four children, were found smoldering in a shallow grave in reseeded pine trees near Columbia. Autopsies to confirm identities and cause of death followed discovery by a forest ranger who battled a brush fire. Authorities described possible beating and homicide.
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Columbia
N.C
UPI
State Medical Examiners Office
Chapel Hill
Rufus L. Edmiston
Edmiston
State Bureau of Investigation
Bailey seeks hearing on admissibility of SLA evidence
Defense attorney F Lee Bailey asks U S District Judge Oliver Carter for a special hearing on evidence seized at the Symbionese Liberation Army hideout in San Francisco. The judge considered the material, including a Tania interview and weapons, for Miss Hearst's trial, following a state court ruling that FBI evidence lacked a warrant.
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San Francisco
UPI
F. Lee Bailey
Patricia Hearst
Bailey
U.S. District Court
Oliver J. Carter
Symbionese Liberation Army
Tania
Carter
SLA
William
Emily Harris
Los Angeles
FBI
Harris
Leonard Weinglass
Miss Hearst
James L. Browning Jr
Marysville
Calif
Pokery
Sigurd Berzins
Hibernia Bank
Berzins
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Maputo
Angola
African National Council
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Pafuri
South Africa
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Lourenco Marque
Foreign Ministry
Customs and Commerce
N. Ireland
Hauser
Senate
Subcommittee On Multinational Corporations
Subcommittee
West Germany
Crook
Congressional Joint Economic
U.S
Cated
Ian Smith
Smith
Joshua Nkomo
Nkomo
Nancy Ling Perry
Patricia Soltysik
America
Vermont
Bennington
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
del Monte
del Monte Pears
Chuck Roast
River Valley
Raspberries
Seneca
U.S. No
Maine
Soi
School Street
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