Rhodesia Is Fighting For Survival As Insurgency Expands
Rhodesia faces a widening insurgency with 270,000 whites and 6.3 million blacks, as government forces fight across vast bush country and warn of potential urban attacks. Officials note rising white mobilization and increasing insurgent casualties, while plans seek a political settlement to avert a broader crisis.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Zambia
Botswana
Mozambique
France
Maputo
Centenary
Bindura
Ian D. Smith
Umtali
Fort Victoria
Bulawayo
Smith
War Council
Vietnam
Defense
Reginald E. Cowper
Britain
Mao Tse-tung
Patriotic Front
Zimbabwe African National Union
Zapus Joshua Nkomo
Zanus Robert Mugabe
United States
Front
Moscow
Bush
U.S
Indochina
Army
Air Force
Thieu
Soviet Union
China
Space shuttle ready by 1980 after piggyback tests
Edwards AFB Calif NASA reports that Enterprise piggyback flights atop a Boeing 747 finished early with all objectives met by the fifth test. Deke Slayton says operational by 1980 possible. sixth flight canceled.
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Edwards Afb
Calif
UPI
Enterprise
NASA
Slayton
Fitzhugh Fulton Jr
Drought Drives Midwest Farmers From Fields To Cities
Years of drought across Illinois Iowa Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin push hundreds of young farmers to abandon farms. Ron Kmieck leaves North Dakota for Chicago afterInvesting $15,000 and losing crops etc. Wisconsin Governor Lucey warns potential 1.5 billion in agricultural losses for 1977, with total agribusiness losses up to 3 billion if drought persists.
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Ron Kmieck
North Dakota
Kmieck
Red Hardesty
Fargo, N.D
Midwest
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Fargo
Chicago
Jim Judson
America
Galena
Mississippi River
Patrick J. Lucey
Carter
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N.Y
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Deke Slayton
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United Press International
Judson
Albert Piescowicz
Beloit
FDIC
First Vermont Bank
Main ST
Bennington
Furniture Station
Hitchcock
Rocker
Arlington
Vermont
Evans
Main Street
Bennington, VT
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