U.S. and PLO Reject Mideast Resolution Draft
The United States and the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected a draft UN Security Council resolution on Palestinian rights. The proposal would recognize a Palestinian state and require Israel to withdraw from territories held since 1967 while offering compensation for refugees. both sides found the text unacceptable in its present form.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
United States
Palestine Liberation Organization
Security Council
Benin
Dahomey
Guyana
Panama
Pakistan
Romania
Tanzania
Middle East
Israel
U.S
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
PLO
Drinking and diving mix says doctor at symposium
Dr Peter Bennett of the Undersea Medical Society told a divers symposium in New Orleans that drinking and diving can mix at depths over 500 feet. He argued a stiff drink can blunt High Pressure Nervous Syndrome tremors and nausea, and that alcohol wears off quickly and is readily accepted by divers.
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New Orleans
Peter Bennett
The
Undersea Medical Society
Bennett
MPLA advances threaten Angola capital amid border clash
Soviet backed MPLA forces captured Cela Santa Combo and Amboiva in central Angola and moved toward Huambo after routing FNLA in the north. Cuban reinforcements rush south as both sides prepare for battle at Caninda bridge near Santa Comba. South Africa urges end to armed intervention and seeks a conference solution.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Angola
Nico Diederichs
Cape Town
Cela
Santa Combo
Amboiva
Huambo
Nova Lisboa
National Union
UNITA
National Front
FNLA
Soviet Union
Queve
Caninda
Santa Comba
Birr resigns SCORE presidency. Graham takes interim role
C C Birr of 1120 Forest Drive SE resigns as president of the Service Corps of Retired Executives. Russ Graham is named temporary president and appoints Kenneth P. Quinn as temporary secretary treasurer and Wanda J. Montz as temporary publicity chair. All terms run through March 1976 when elections will be held.
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Birr
Forest Drive
Service Corps of
Russ Graham
Cedar River Tower
Graham
Kenneth P. Quinn
Wanda J. Montz
Cuban Peace Corps grows with 2000 workers abroad
United States officials report more than 2,000 Cubans are helping in about a dozen poor countries across Africa and Asia. They build schools and hospitals and provide technical aid and political advice, largely unseen while Cuba’s military is publicized in Angola. Secretary Kissinger notes the force appears widespread.
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Cuba
U.S
Angola
Guinea
The
Congo
Somalia
Tanzania
Guinea-Bissau
Sierra Leone
Equatorial Guinea
Algeria
South Yemen
Vietnam
Kirkwood Board Approves Benton Hall Drawings
Kirkwood Community College directors unanimously approved design development drawings for Benton Hall, a 29 000 square foot library with 40 000 volumes and future expansion. Construction to begin July 1 with a 1.5 million project funded by the three quarter mill levy. The board also backed a seven quarter legal assistants program pending state approvals and updated a college holidays policy to observe Veterans Day on November 11. Financial actions included approving 67 960 in regular bills and 89 813 in interim bills.
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Benton Hall
Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
Linn Hall
Iowa Hall
Kirkwood
Iowa State Bar Assn
Department of Public Instruction
Foerstner fills Kirkwood Community College board vacancy
Richard Foerstner, 38, of Iowa City, sworn in to Kirkwood Community College board to fill the unexpired term of Rev. Roy Wingate who resigned after moving from his district. Foerstner plans to run in 1977 and represents director district 3.
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Richard Foerstner
Iowa City
Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
Foerstner
Roy Wingate
Amana
Amana Refrigeration
University of Iowa College of Engineering
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Iowa City Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
Robert Potter
Marion
Beame Warns NYC Budget Crisis Deepens
New York Mayor Abraham Beame says the city’s fiscal crisis worsened by 90 million in two months to an 814 million deficit. He calls the crisis the severest in history and warns of new taxes firings and further cuts across education police fire health and sanitation services.
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New York
Abraham Beame
New York City
Board of Estimate
Beame
Baltimore
Six Sudanese Plotters Executed in Cairo
Six men found guilty of leading a coup against Sudanese President Gaafar Numeiry were executed by firing squad early Friday in Cairo, according to the Middle East News Agency quoting the Sudanese Armed Forces Command. The six were ringleaders of 141 on trial for attempting to overthrow the Numeiry government on September 5.
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Cairo
API
Gaafar Numeiry
Middle East
Sudanese Armed Forces Command
Numeiry
Newton Warns Severn Bill Threatens Area Schools
Wayne Newton of Luzerne warned that State Sen. Steve Severn’s bill to let local districts run community career education offices could duplicate Kirkwood Community College programs. He urged the Iowa Council of Area School Boards to oppose it at the Jan. 9 meeting, noting empty classrooms and unemployed teachers.
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Iowa
Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
Wayne Newton
Luzerne
Steve Severn
Marion
Charles S. Mott Foundation
Flint
Mich
Newton
Kirkwood
Iowa Council of Area School Boards
Robert Benton
Soldiers fined for balking in 65 below zero drill
Six soldiers from the 1st Brigade 9th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright Alaska were fined $50 each and returned to duty after balking at a field exercise during temperatures 65 degrees below zero on Dec 6. The Mountain Thrust drill was halted due to the extreme cold.
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Fort Lewis, Wash
1St Brigade
9Th Infantry Division
Fort Wainwright
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