Strikes Hit Trailways UPS Big Four Auto Rubber Workers
Labor unrest shuts Trailways buses in nine southern states and halts UPS service in thirteen Midwest states. Rubber workers strike threatens auto plants while San Francisco city workers and transit sit idle. Talks resume tentatively. San Francisco stalemate looms with June 10 ballot in view.
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United Parcel Service
Midwest
Big Four Tiremakers
San Francisco
Willimantic, Conn
Anheuser Busch Co
Hanford
Washington
National Broadcasting Co
Amalgamated Transit Union
Aut
United Rubber Workers
UAW
Peking explosion gets Yugoslav explanation
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug quoted informed circles in Peking saying two Chinese guards were killed while stopping a possible intruder at the Soviet embassy. The blast last Thursday reportedly killed a third person, suspected to be the troublemaker, as the guards struggled to prevent entry.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
UPI
Peking
Tanjug
Peking University
China
Tien An Men
Chou En-lai
Things get better or worse in varied views from notable figures
A Yale Daily News Magazine survey asks 16 prominent figures if things are improving or declining. Responses range from optimism by Glen Campbell and Henry Miller to skeptical takes by Walter Cronkite and New York Mayor Beame. Diverse views include Frank Sinatra humor and Captain Kangaroo remarks, reflecting a wide spectrum of opinion.
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New Haven, Conn
UPI
Yale University
Yale Daily News
Glen Campbell
Henry Miller
Lawrence Welk
New York
Abraham D. Beame
Walter Cronkite
Boston
Kevin White
Philip Roth
Tom Wolfe
Frank Sinatra
Captain Kangaroo
Gaza bomb kills man in southern Gaza area
A bomb intended for guerrilla attack exploded in a citrus grove south of Gaza, killing an unidentified man who was priming the device. The Gaza Strip has seen relative calm in three months of West Bank unrest, with civic leaders protesting Israeli troop concentrations.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Gaza
Egypt
Gaza Strip
West Bank
Jordan
Middle East
Shimon Peres
West Bank tensions raise guard in Israel and West Bank
Thousands of soldiers and border police patrol key West Bank towns to thwart violence during a planned Arab protest. A clash in Nablus left one Arab youth dead, bringing regional fatalities to five. Curfews disrupt Casbah commerce as Rabin warns elected Arab leaders to steer clear of politics.
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Casbah
West Bank
Bassem Shaka
Ramallah
Shaka
Yitzhak Rabin
Jordan
National
Rabin
Shimon Peres
Bethlehem
Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
War postpones Lebanese election forces new chaos
In Beirut heavy fighting and shelling killed over 200 and wounded 420 as parliament postponed a presidential election. The war, already claiming more than 18,500 lives over a year, spread through Beirut, its suburbs and Mt. Lebanon. U S envoy Dean Brown returned to Beirut amid talks with President Ford and Secretary Kissinger. Leftists backed Raymond Edde in demanding Franjieh's removal and reforms while Syrian troop withdrawal remained a central demand.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Suleiman Franjieh
Mt. Lebanon
U.S
Dean Brown
Ford
Washington
Henry Kissinger
London
Brown
National Bloc
Raymond Edde
Franjieh
Shellfish ban along Massachusetts coast over toxin
Beverly Massachusetts reports a shellfish harvesting ban from the Beverly-Manchester line to the New Hampshire border due to a toxin causing paralytic shellfish poisoning. Beds of softshell clams, mussels, and quahogs are closed. lobsters unaffected. No human illnesses reported.
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Beverly
Mass
Massachusetts
Beverly-Manchester
New Hampshire
State Department of Neering Commission
Lawrence
Gleason
Massachusetts Marine Advisory Commission
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City Board of Supervisors
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Myriam Ovalle
Elias Sarkis
Central Bank
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Damascus
Kamal Jumblatt
Palestine Liberation Army
Purina
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Gloucester
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