Carter asks longshoremen to abandon grain boycott
President Carter urges the International Longshoremen's Association to end their nine day refusal to load grain for the Soviet Union. He wants 3 million tons moved to ease U S transport backlog and relieve American farmers.
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Carter
Soviet Union
Thomas Gleason
International Longshoremen’s Association
ILA
Thomas Watson
U.S
Moscow
Afghanistan
Anatoly Dobrynin
United States
Europe
Los Angeles Times
White House
Iran
Pakistan
Iran Protests Soviet Troop Presence Near Iranian Border
Iran's Foreign Minister Sadeq Ghotbzadeh said Tehran would strongly protest Soviet troop buildup in Afghan areas near Iran. He accused the United States of blocking U.N. efforts as Iranians demonstrated nationwide against both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Afghanistan
Delhi
India
EFE
Madrid
Jose Luis Vidal
Iran
Vidal
United States
Carter
Soviet Union
Yuri Zhukov
Pravda
Sadeq Ghotbzadeh
Tehran
London
Washington
Ghotbzadeh
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Tehran Radio
U.S
Washington Post
Herat
Bridge disaster in Sweden ends in big nothing after crash
A Norwegian owned freighter struck the Almo bridge in fog near Goteborg flooding the strait below. Six cars and a truck plunged into the water as the midsection collapsed. Frogmen search for survivors while authorities estimate $12 million to rebuild the 1700 foot span.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Jan Rosenberg
Almo Bridge
Tjorn
Goteborg
Alfr. Olsen Line
Coast Guard
Sando
Angermanland
Carter backs all American oil pipeline plan
President Carter approves a $1.23 billion private pipeline from Port Angeles Washington to the upper Midwest with a one year financing window and a possible $574 million Trans Mountain option if needed The project would take about two years to build and could begin moving crude by 1983 subject to financing and approvals
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Carter
Port Angeles
Wash
Upper Middle West
Alaska
California
Plains States
Upper Midwest
Northern Tier Pipeline Co
Clearbrook
Minn
Northern Tier
Financ
Ing
White House
Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Corp
Trans Mountain
Low Point
Edmonton
Alberta
U.S
Tito Rejects Leg Amputation Recommendation
President Josip Broz Tito, 87, has refused doctors' advice to amputate the lower left leg due to a circulation blockage, according to Yugoslav sources. The move comes amid reports on his health and the state of the non-aligned movement he leads.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito
South African Navy Denies Harassment of California
The Navy acknowledged intercepting a U S Navy task force en route to the Arabian Sea but rejected Pentagon claims that two South African patrol boats harassed the cruiser California. A spokesman cited the right to operate near its coast and offered no further details.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Arabian Sea
Pentagon
California
Washington
Bombers are own victims in Northern Ireland and London
Bombs exploded in Northern Ireland and London killing three Irishmen and a young Arab. A Belfast commuter train fire killed two IRA members suspected to be en route to strike Belfast central station. Earlier a blast at the Mount Royal Hotel in London killed a hotel guest and others.
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London
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Central
Mount Royal
Moscow says Nazi siege of Leningrad lifted
On this date in 1943 Moscow announced the 16 month Nazi siege of Leningrad had been lifted, signaling a major turning point in World War II for the Soviet Union and the Allied war effort.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Russia
Bahrain student among victims in London hotel bombing
A 22 year old Arab student from Bahrain and three others were injured when a hotel bomb exploded in London. The BBC cited a caller from Beirut claiming the device targeted Israeli agents. Mohammed Soltani died near the blast, and police unsure if he was assembling the device.
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Persian Gulf
Bahrain
BBC
Beirut
London
Scotland Yard
Mohammed Soltani
Yard
Debate on Simplified Windfall Oil Tax Moves Ahead
Washington reports Senate and House conferees discuss scrapping multi rate windfall taxes for a single or double rate aimed at raising about 227 billion dollars over 11 years. Reps James Jones and Henson Moore push a simpler scheme while Carter administration warns of lost oil incentives.
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Senate
House
Carter
U.S
James Jones
D-Okla
Henson Moore
R-La
Senate House
Moore
Carter Administration
Jones
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