Muzorewa becomes Rhodesia's first black prime minister
Salisbury Rhodesia Bishop Abel Muzorewa was elected the first black prime minister as his United African National Council swept 51 of 72 black parliamentary seats. The white minority still holds key power in police, military, judiciary, and civil service for at least five years under the constitution.
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Zimbabwe African National Union
Kayisa Ndiweni
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Ian
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Sithole
Rhodesian Front Party
Washington
Carter
U.S
Richard M. Moose
Donald McHenry
United Nations
Andrew Young
Ian Smith
Patriotic Front
Gacy Faces 33 Counts in New Indictments
Chicago AP reports John W. Gacy Jr. now faces 33 murder counts in Cook County grand jury indictments. Twenty six indictments were returned Monday, bringing total murder counts to 33 for the 37 year old contractor. Nine victims are identified, seventeen remain unidentified.
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Chicago
John W. Gacy Jr
Cook County
Grand Jury
NRC weighs temporary shutdown of eight similar plants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission considers ordering a temporary shutdown of eight plants sharing design features with the Three Mile Island reactor. Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie expects a decision today or tomorrow after talks with industry officials. Only four of the eight are operating, including Rancho Seco in California and three Oconee units in South Carolina. The measure could keep four units already out of service for refueling or safety checks shut, including Three Mile Island Unit 1 in Pennsylvania, Arkansas Unit 1, Davis-Besse in Ohio, and Crystal River in Florida.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Three Mile Island
NRC
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Rancho Seco
California
Oconee
South Carolina
Three Mile Island Unit
Pennsylvania
Arkansas Unit
Arkansas
Davis-Besse
Chavis-Besse
Ohio
Crystal River
Florida
Fallout drift from Nevada tests reaches far borders
Nuclear fallout from Nevada's 600 atmospheric tests was detected off-site 129 times, reaching the Canadian border and the Mississippi River. Dr. Richard Stanley of the EPA testified that wind-borne radioactivity traveled over 1,500 miles from the test site, as Salt Lake City and Las Vegas hearings probed links to cancer deaths in Utah, Nevada and Arizona.
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Canadian
Mississippi River
Richard Stanley
Environmental Protection Agency
Nevada Test Site
Salt Lake City
Utah
Arizona
Pickup Truck Crash Kills Eight Fort Meade Dependents
In Crofton Maryland a pickup crash on a dark rural road killed eight youths who were dependents of Army personnel at Fort Meade. The vehicle carried 12 young people and overturned after colliding with trees. Only the 18 year old driver Alan Cole of Baltimore survived with facial injuries.
Senate rejects 1980 balanced budget plan amid recession fears
Washington AP reports the Senate by 67 to 23 vote rejected Sen. William Proxmire's proposal to balance the federal budget in 1980 by limiting spending to fiscal 1980 revenues. Opponents warned such cuts could trigger a recession as the economy grew only 0.7 percent in the last quarter.
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Senate Today
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William Proxmire
Dwis
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Dale Bumpers
D-Ark
Fire at Roosevelt for Senior Citizens Leaves One Dead
In Washington an apartment blaze in a elderly housing building killed one man and sent four others to hospitals. Flames were confined to an eighth floor unit but smoke displaced all 360 residents from the Roosevelt for Senior Citizens downtown. In San Francisco a judge refused to bar death-penalty opponents from Dan White's jury, ordering jury selection to start.
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Washington
Gary Hawkins
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Dan White
Walter Calcagno
White
George Moscone
Harvey Milk
Assassination attempt on Iranian premier during funeral
Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and Cabinet members escaped an assassination attempt in Tehran as they walked in a general's funeral procession. An air force uniformed man tried to throw a hand grenade, but guards repelled him. A second man was also arrested.
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Tehran
Iran
Mehdi Bazargan
Air Force
Wind and weather snapshot for today and next days
Wind direction and velocity at 10 a.m. SE 10 mph. Sunrise Wednesday 5 11 am sunset 6 58 pm. Year ago today high 48 low 42 precipitation none. Extended forecast shows a chance of showers and thunderstorms Thursday, then partly cloudy and mild Friday and Saturday with highs in the 60s to mid 70s and lows in the 40s to mid-50s.
Windfall tax debate grows in Congress over oil profits
President Carter seeks a windfall profits tax to fund energy programs and aid utilities while decontrol of oil prices begins June 1. He warns opponents may push a plan that could boost oil company profits by 4 to 5 billion, unless profits are plowed into new oil exploration and energy development.
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Congress
Carter
National Academy of Sciences
Births listed from Mercy St. Luke's and Milwaukee clinics
Birth announcements from Mercy and St. Luke's report a daughter and a son respectively on April 23. Also noting a Milwaukee birth to Marlin Kerkman and wife with grandparents named Seabrook and Kerkman. A long list of Cedar Rapids and Marion residents appears, followed by 9:00 am to 8:21 pm city notices and a historical line about Spain declaring war in 1898.
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Wis
Marlin Kerkman
T.F. Seabrook
Russell Drive
Carl Kerkman
Newhall
Supreme Court Shifts On Implicit Miranda Waiver
The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that police may question suspects who do not explicitly waive rights. The decision rejects a rigid rule and allows case by case waiver inference, with dissent from Brennan and others. Willie Thomas Butler's NC case moves back to state courts.
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Supreme Court
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North Carolina Supreme Court
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Stewart
Warren Burger
Byron White
Harry Blackmun
William Rehnquist
William Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
John Paul Stevens
Lewis Powell
Willie Thomas Butler
Wayne County
N.C
State Supreme Court
Egypt condemns Israeli attacks amid Lebanon toll and peace ties
Egypt denounces Israeli strikes near Tyre and Nabatiyeh as harmful to the Egyptian Israeli peace treaty while noting continued efforts for a Middle East settlement. Egyptian officials reported dozens of Lebanese and Palestinian deaths as northern and southern Lebanon endure renewed shelling and border clashes.
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