Mao's eight points add up to good crops
The World Bank notes China’s agricultural gains and its eight points on farming as evidence of strong progress, while acknowledging limits of data and the country’s nonmembership in the bank. A separate health study highlights rural health strides and the barefoot doctor program created after the cultural revolution.
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Washington
UPI
China
World Bank
Montague Yudelman
Bank
Agriculture and Rural Development Department
Yudelman
US S. National Academy of Science
G. F. Sprague
University of Illinois Agronomist
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Sprague
United States
People’s Republic of China
Prc
Ladies of the Klan headlined as women shift roles
In Baton Rouge, Klanswomen move from auxiliary to active roles, boosted by anti feminist attitudes and lobbying that helped defeat Louisiana's Equal Rights Amendment this year. Mary Bacon, a prominent Klanswoman and jockey, publicized her Klan membership at a rally.
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Ku Klux Klan
Louisiana
Chloe
South
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
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Judy Klemesrud
N.Y. Times
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Women’s Liberation Movement
Walker
Miss Bacon
America
Dutch Masters Cigars
Revion
Klan
Gladys
Nashville
Tenn
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Sandra Bergeron
Coor
Dinator
Sharida Hoyt
Cyclops
Janice Schoonmaker
Pine Bush
N.Y
New York State
Senate declines to commute Roberta Shaffer sentence
Massachusetts Senate on a 21-18 vote tabled a nonbinding resolution urging Gov Dukakis to commute the indeterminate sentence of Roberta Shaffer, convicted of manslaughter for shooting her fiancé in a Sharon basement, with her appeal citing safety in home defense. The vote leaves her Friday prison start unchanged amid ongoing debate over self defense and sentencing.
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UPI
Massachusetts Senate
Senate
Michael S. Dukakis
Roberta Shaffer
Shaffer
John Ferraro
Sharon
Salzburg hosts Ford and Sadat amid veteran gathering
UPI reports Salzburg Austria will host President Ford and Egyptian President Sadat along with up to 500000 German Wehrmacht veterans at the Austrian World War II veterans meeting in the city. A parade is planned at Festspielhaus with strict no smoking during the event. The Schloss Klesheim palace near the airport will house Ford during the visit.
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Austria
UPI
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ford
Anwar Sadat
Oesterreichische Kameradschaftsbund
Austrian War Veterans’ Association
Salzburger Nachrichten
Sadat
Heinrich Salfenauer
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Moscow
S Truman
Mozart
Theodore Roosevelt
Francis Joseph I
Vienna
Schloss Klesheim
Adolf Hitler
Elizabeth
Britain
Shah
Iran
Baudouin
Fabiola
Belgium
Nicolae Ceausescu
Romania
Dogs face court in Chicago over loose pets
About 100 dog owners appeared in a crowded Chicago courtroom as Judge Robert E. Cusack warned of fines from 25 to 200 dollars under a new municipal code for dogs running loose and dirtying parks. He offered a 10 dollar quick fine for guilty pleas to speed proceedings, but most pleaded not guilty and sought hearings. many cases were dismissed or penalties suspended to clear the docket.
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Chicago
UPI
Robert E. Cusack
Cusack
Itate
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