Assad's Backing For Middle East Peace Is Sought
Assad emerges as a key Arab statesman in Mideast peace talks. Carter to meet him in Geneva as Syria under Assad influences Palestinian factions and NATO-aligned powers, shaping a possible settlement. Assad's Lebanon role strengthens Syria's leverage with the PLO and regional stakeholders.
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Assad
Middle East
Damascus
Syria
Carter
Geneva
Hafez Assad
United States
Russia
Mideast
Cyrus Vance
Washington
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
Soviet Union
Lebanon
Yasir Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Carter Summit Ends With Pledge To Fight Inflation
At Downing Street the leaders of seven non communist industrial nations, including President Carter, vow to create jobs and curb inflation while expanding trade. They endorse international control on illegal trade and set a two month preliminary and a year long study on nuclear energy use to prevent weaponization.
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London
Carter
Downing Street
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Japan
Italy
Netherlands
U.S. Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
No. 10
Downing St
Britain
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Derailment of 12 Auto Cars Near Jaeger District
About 12 triple deck rail cars derailed six miles east of Jaeger at 6 45 p m Saturday. Roughly 144 new autos may be involved with no injuries reported and debris cleared by N and W crews the next day.
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Jaeger
C.G. Hogan
Bluefield
Hogan
McDowell County
Virgil Kennedy
Kennedy
FBI Sends Prison Inmate Secret Instructions Manual
Eddie Cox used FOIA to obtain 970 censored pages of an FBI manual. Prison officials at Marion IL opened the six inch bundle and debated release, fearing riot control and bomb threat guidance could aid inmates. The Justice Department weighs Coxs rights against prison security and costs of $97.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI
Margaret Gentry Washington
Eddie David Cox
Bureau
Justice Department
Cox
Federal Penitentiary
Marion
James D. Riggsby
Riggsby
Clarence M. Kelley
Bureau of Prison
Bureau of Prisons
Charles Faulkner
Kansas
Missouri
Warnke Says It Is Not Time To End Plutonium Production
Paul Warnke, head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, says the Carter administration would favor a deal with the Soviet Union to cut off production of plutonium and other fissile materials but that now is not the time for such a move. He notes talks in Geneva and Moscow on SALT and a possible total nuclear test ban and reiterates interest in negotiating a broader stop to fissile material production.
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Arthur L. Gavshon
Washington
Paul C. Warnke
U.S
Carter Administration
Russia
Warnke
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Moscow
Geneva
Vladimir Semyonov
Cyrus R. Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
State Department
United Nations
Carter
Congress
Semyonov
Kremlin
Vance
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Frank P. Jarrell
Daily Telegraph
Melvin Grubb
N&w Railroad
Telegraph
Ette
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