Arabs predicted to win UN Palestine resolutions vote
Diplomats at the United Nations foresee an overwhelming Arab victory as the General Assembly winds down a 10 day session on Palestine. The body is expected to approve resolutions calling for a Palestinian state and PLO observer status, while noting refugees rights and self determination. The US backs Israel while Waldheim heads to the region to ease tensions amid a Golan Heights standoff.
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United Nations
UPI
General Assembly
Palestine
Middle East
Assembly
Israel
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Algeria
Palestine Liberation Organization
John A. Scali
United States
Kurt Waldheim
Syria
U.N
Golan Heights
Thousands Fast Over Famine Concern Across Nation
Thousands of people joined a day long fast co sponsored by Oxfam America and Project Relief to protest famine abroad. Schools and colleges organized programs urging students to donate the money they would have spent on meals, with funds to be distributed by the two organizations.
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United States
Oxfam America
Project Relief
Gary Goodrich
Nathan Grey
Stonehill College
Easton
Mass
Stonehill
George J. Hagerty
Boston College
Harvard
Wellsley
University of Massachusetts
Asia
Africa
South America
Amherst
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N.H
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Joel Warren
Cominister
The
Christian Association
Pennsylvania
Mondale Ends Presidential Bid in Surprise Withdrawl
UPI reports Walter Mondale withdrew from the 1976 Democratic presidential race, saying he lacked the overwhelming desire to campaign. He cited testing waters and spending about 100000 dollars, leaving Henry Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Morris Udall, and George Wallace as remaining potential nominees.
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UPI
Walter F. Mondale
Democratic Party
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
Lloyd M. Bentsen
Tex
Morris Udall
Ariz
George Wallace
Ala
Udall
Kennedy
Hugh Carey
New York
Birch Bayh
Ind
George S. McGovern
S.D
Edward M. Kennedy
Florida
Reubin Askew
Mondale
Bakery killings arrest heirs arrest in Connecticut case
Ronald Frank Piskorski 25 and Gary Schraeger 31 were charged with six counts of murder in the Oct 19 Donna Lee Bakery killings. Piskorski faced a liquor store robbery charge and was arrested in court by Capt Thomas McDonnell. a public defender criticized the arrests as publicity stunts while a news conference loomed.
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New Britain, Conn
UPI
Ronald Frank Piskorski
Piskorski
Max H. Reicher
Tiny
Hartford
Herbert Carlson Jr
Gary B. Schraeger
New Britain
Schraeger
Abigail
Wise Owl
Reicher
Thomas McDonnell
Connecticut State Police
McDonnell
Piskorki
Donna Lee
Michael Kron
George E. Berescik
Superior Court Bench
Gill
Scientists close in on elusive quark discovery
A 41-physicist team at two California labs collides matter with anti matter at 3.7 billion volts in Stanford to identify the second member of a potential new subatomic family. The effort follows a prior finding of a particle with large mass and long nuclear life, led by theorist Sidney Drell at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
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Stanford
Calif
UPI
California
Sidney Drell
Stanford Linear
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
G. Goldhaber
Psi
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
N.Y
Brookhaven
$2.2 Million Vault Heist Money Recovered in Basement
FBI and Illinois investigators recovered 2.2 million dollars from the Armored Express burglary by tearing up a basement floor in a house owned by the suspect's grandmother. The haul filled five duffel bags and was found under a seven foot hole covered with concrete and chicken wire. Six men have been arrested in the Oct. 20 theft, with about 39 thousand already recovered.
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Chicago
UPI
U.S
James R. Thompson
FBI
Illinois Bureau of Investigation
Dorothy Marrera
Ralph Marrera
Armored Express
Thompson
Connally seeks change of venue for bribery trial
Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally Jr. asks the court to move his bribery perjury case out of town. Pretrial motions before Chief Judge George L. Hart Jr. were set as delays push trial, now not expected before 1975 after a July 29 indictment.
Abitibi Tops Price Buy to Become World Newsprint Leader
Abitibi Paper Co Ltd clinched a multimillion dollar bid for Price Co, gaining over 50 percent of Price and becoming the world’s largest newsprint producer. The $125 million offer beat Consolidated Bathurst in a tense takeover fight that drew heavy trading on Montreal and Toronto exchanges.
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Montreal
UPI
Abitibi Paper Co. Ltd
Price Co
Abitibi
Toronto
Consolidated-Bathurst Ltd
C-B
Balky Congress Defeats Ford on Vetoes and Mass Transit
The House approved an 11.8 billion six year mass transit program by 288 to 109. Ford planned to sign from Japan. The Senate overrode vetoes on an expanded Freedom of Information Act 65 to 27 and a vocational rehabilitation bill 90 to 1. Ford has now vetoed 13 bills with three overridden.
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Washington
Ford
William L. Scott
R-Va
Congress
Canada to Cut Oil Exports to United States
Ottawa sources say Canada will unveil a new energy policy including export cuts to the United States. Energy Minister Donald MacDonald will release a National Energy Board report at 5 p.m. EST, with a plan pegged to Canada’s energy self sufficiency timeline.
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Ottawa
UPI
Canada
United States
Energy Ministry
Donald MacDonald
National Energy Board
MacDonald
House of Commons
NEB
Bennington Postage Fee Noted for Yearly Class
A notice states second class postage paid at Bennington Vermont for a yearly period costing 39 dollars.
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Bennington
Vermont
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