Balloonists fail Atlantic crossing attempt over Nova Scotia
Dewey Reinhard and Steve Stephenson, both from Colorado Springs, set out from Bar Harbor to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. Bad weather forced a landing in icy Atlantic waters 80 miles off the Nova Scotia coast. they were rescued by the Canadian Coast Guard ship Provo Wallis and pledged to try again next year.
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Dartmouth
N.S
UPI
Colorado
Atlantic
Dewey Reinhard
Steve Stephenson
Colorado Springs
Colo
Bar Harbor
Maine
Eagle
Coast Guard
Provo Wallis
Nova
Scotia Coast
Reinhard
Thomas Hicks
Wallis
Abortion funding dispute looms over HEW budget
Congress stalls on abortion language in a $60 billion Labor HEW bill risking pay for 240000 federal workers and delays in benefits for the poor elderly and unemployed. The House and Senate exchange proposals while seeking a temporary funding fix to keep programs moving through the month.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Appropriations
Congress
Neighbors divided over boy's arrest in schoolgirls murder
In Southgate Maryland neighbors react to the 16-year-old Stuart Kreiner being named suspect in the stabbing deaths of Debbie Hogan 10 Terry Hogan 8 and Ann Brzeszkiewicz near their homes. Kreiner is charged with three counts of first degree murder and arraignment looms as funeral services are held. Police recovered a knife and evidence at the Kreiner home amid a stunned community and mixed feelings about the quiet loner now accused.
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Glen Burnie
UPI
Southgate
Stuart Kreiner
Kreiner
Debbie Hogan
Terry
Ann Brzeszkiewicz
Edward Kreiner
Maryland Classified Employes Association
George Wellham
Washington Post
Wellham
Quebec kidnappers begin reign of violence
Sherbrooke Quebec police report the 67 day kidnapping of credit union official Charles Marion may have sparked a violent campaign starting with a Steinberg’s supermarket bombing. About 15 employees escaped injury as a half stick of dynamite exploded after closing, with minor damage. An anonymous warning had foretold trouble.
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Sherbrooke, Quebec
UPI
Credit Union
Charles Marion
Steinberg’s
Sherbrooke Tribune
Quebec
Russian dissident fears West backsliding on human rights
Moscow based dissident leader Valentin Turchin says friends face hard times as they fear Western human rights scrutiny is weakening. He departs for Vienna then New York to teach at Columbia, after years of dissident activity and recent jailings of allies. He warns Western apathy risks global human rights progress.
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Moscow
UPI
Valentin Turchin
Soviet Union
Turchin
Amnesty International
Vienna
New York
Columbia University
Anatoly Shcharansky
Alexander Ginzburg
Yuri Orlov
Belgrade
United States
Soviet Union ships MiG-21 jets to Laos
Soviet arms resumed Indochina aid with about 10 MiG-21 fighters arriving in Vientiane after conversion at Danang. The jets, flown by Soviet crews, give Laos its first jet aircraft and edge toward parity with Thailand's air defenses. North Vietnamese forces still influence Laos as the region absorbs the first visible weapons shipment since the war ended.
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Washington
UPI
Soviet Union
Laos
Indochina
Vientiane
Mekong River
Thailand
Danang
U.S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
CIA
North Vietnam
Yachtsmen report firing and ramming off Vietnam coast
A 41 foot American yacht Brilling with Cornelia Dellenbaugh, Leland Dickerman, and Charles Athol aboard came under gunfire and was rammed about 44 miles off the southern tip of Vietnam as its radio went dead. The three, former Peace Corps volunteers, were awaiting boarding and are from Philadelphia. State Department said it is seeking information from Vietnam with no Hanoi reply. the vessel had left Pattaya and was en route to Brunei or Singapore.
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Bangkok
Thailand
UPI
Vietnam
U.S
Brilling
Cornelia Anne Dellenbaugh
Philadelphia
Leland Dickerman
Charles Athol
Miss Dellenbaugh
Dickerman
Peace Corps
Washington
State Department
Hanoi
Singapore
Cambodia
Gulf of Thailand
Pattaya
Bill Burbridge
Brunei
Burbridge
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UCR
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Netfie
Bennington Banner
Main St
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Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Landon Associates, Inc
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