Chavez Brown lead 400 workers to expand lettuce strike rally
Cesar Chavez joined by Gov. Edmund Brown Jr in Salinas as thousands march for a broader strike and boycott against California lettuce growers and United Brands. Chavez plans a nationwide push with 400 full-time workers to broaden the boycott to Europe and Asia.
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Gov
Jerry Brown
Salinas
Calif
United Farm Workers
California
United Brands
Edmund G. Brown Jr
UFW
American Labor Movement
Delano
Chavez
Brown
Europe
Japan
Canada
Monterey County
Fire on docked cruise ship ruins Caribbean voyage for 500
Fire swept the engine room of the 450 foot Boheme docked in Miami forcing cancellation of a one week Caribbean cruise for 500 passengers. All evacuees were safe with no injuries. Firefighters battled the blaze as investigators consider electrical causes and oil transfer sparked the fire.
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Miami
Alden Goldfin
Commodore Cruise Lines
G.T. Bilberry
Fire Department
Eddy Cambo
Hialeah
Fla
Vi Walker
Robert Sobel
Dade County
Puerto Plata
Dominican Republic
St. Thomas
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Haiti
Mortar Creek fire grows as crews surge in Idaho
Forest Service officials dispatched 122 fresh crews totaling about 2 440 men into central Idaho to battle the Mortar Creek fire and new blazes in Idaho and Montana. Thirty-five other crews were released from Mortar Creek while relief arrived for Ship Island and a small Idaho Montana line blaze containment reached 95 percent in one day.
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Forest Service
Idaho
Mortar Creek
Montana
Ship Island
FBI hunts killer across four cities after agent slain
FBI and agencies sweep Cleveland Atlanta Chicago and Detroit for Melvin Guyon 19 believed to have killed special agent Johnnie L. Oliver. Riggio says search expanded from door to door to targeted leads with about 150 people involved.
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Cleveland
UPI
FBI
Johnnie L. Oliver
Atlanta
Chicago
Detroit
Anthony T. Riggio
Melvin Ray Guyon
East Side
Guyon
Riggio
Arafat faces critic amid PLO session in Damascus
In Damascus the Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat opened a secret Palestine Central Council session amid expected criticism from radical PLO factions over his outreach to Western leaders and potential talks with the United States. The 55 member body shapes policy for the PLO executive committee.
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Syria
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Central Council
PLO
Council
Arafat
United States
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