Deadly surge in Northern Ireland violence raises toll
Emergency talks convened in Belfast as weekend bloodshed lifts overall deaths to 1515 since 1969. Nine killed and 56 wounded in ambushes and bombings, including four police and five civilians, amid IRA warnings of a long hot summer.
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Northern Ireland
UPI
Irish Republican Army
Britain
Merlyn Rees
Eral Kenneth Newman
Belcoo
IRA
El Salvador official held for gun running plot
Undercover agents arrested Col. Manuel Alfonso Rodríguez and five associates in Mount Kisco New York on conspiracy charges in a plot to buy 10,000 submachine guns for El Salvador then sell them to an underworld buyer. A seventh suspect was sought as U.S. Attorney Robert Fiske outlined a plan to launder funds through a $2.8 million deal with subsequent larger sales of up to 30 million. The defendants include Miguel Celis Raymond Geraldo Frank Alvarez and others, with bail set at 3 million dollars for Rodríguez.
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UPI
el Salvador
Manuel Alfonso Rodriguez
Rodriguez
U.S
Robert B. Fiske, Jr
Joseph F. Kelley
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Mount Kisco
N.Y
Robert Michaelson
Plainview
Irwin Tobacman
Kelley
Fiske
Miguel D. Celis
San Salvador
Cuba's Angola losses reported by London paper
The Sunday Telegraph cites Cuban deserters claiming 1,500 Cuban troops died in clashes in Angola and that bodies are stored in a refrigerator ship before shipment home from Pointe Noire. It notes about 14,000 Cuban soldiers were sent there late last year and mentions desertions amid attacks by remaining Western-backed factions.
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London
API
Cuba
Angola
The
Sunday Telegraph
Pointe Noire
Congo- Brazzaville
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Popular Movement
Protests rise after West Bank killings spark clashes
In Nablus and Ramallah West Bank Arabs protest after Israeli troops kill two youths in separate clashes. A 18 year old Lena Hassan Nabulsi was killed in Nablus, and a 20 year old unnamed demonstrator shot near Kalandia. West Bank towns shut down in mourning as the military imposes curfews amid investigations.
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Nablus
Jordan
UPI
Ramallah
West Bank of Jordan
Lena Hassan Nabulsi
Old Casbah
Kalandia
West Bank
Middle East
Miss Nabulsi
Bassem Shakira
Kurt Waldheim
U.N
Mordechai Gur
Suleiman Nabulsi
Casbah
Two day ceasefire ends in Lebanon violence erupts
In Beirut a two day ceasefire collapsed into heavy shelling by Muslim and Christian gunmen. More than 100 people killed and 270 injured as rockets and mortars struck homes shops and a hospital. Edouard Saab among the dead. civilians shelter in basements as hospitals fill and theaters are hit.
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Lebanon
Beirut
UPI
Edouard Saab
L'Orient-Le Jour
Middle East
Ain Rummaneh
Radioactivity said high in Hartford accident
The Hartford Courant reported that radioactive wastes from a Middletown truck crash could deliver a potentially fatal dose. Northeast spokesman George Fox rejected the figures as false, noting the waste is distributed with shielding in the cask rather than a point source.
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Hartford
Middletown
The
Courant
Los Alamos Handbook of
Northeast
Fox
Bennington Banner Classified Rates and Contact Info
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sunday and legal holidays at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont. It is a recipient of United Press International and the New York Times Service. Classifieds line lists 15 cents per copy and four dollars forty cents per month for home delivery. Subscriptions by mail within Vermont or 50 mile radius cover 3 months for nine dollars. Advertising contacts include Matthews Shannon Cullen Inc for national ads.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
Ford Denies Knowledge of Desegregation Brief
Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke quoted President Ford as saying he had no knowledge of the Justice Department weighing a Supreme Court brief against Boston’s desegregation plan. Attorney General Levi planned a decision early in the week with a Wednesday filing deadline, while critics urged against any reversal of the Boston busing orders.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts
Edward W. Brooke
Ford
U.S. Justice Department
Brooke
R-Mass
Edward Levi
Supreme Court
Boston Globe
Boston Herald American
Today
Levi
Justice Department
J. Stanley Pottinger
Transportation
William T. Coleman
W. Arthur Garrity Jr
Large Russian quake ranked as devastating
A major earthquake in Soviet Central Asia measured 8 to 9 on the Soviet scale, described as destructive to devastating. Tass reported widespread damage and relief efforts, with limited casualty details. The epicenter near Bokhara and Tashkent area, previously hit by a 1966 quake, prompted cautious official briefings amid scarce data.
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UPI
Italy
Tass
London
Bokhara
Afghanistan
Tashkent
National Earthquake Information Service
Golden
Colo
Uzbek
Soviet Union
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