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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 03, 1977

Page

7

Amin plans expulsion of Americans as PFLP hijack plan surfaces

Nairobi reports an Amin plan to expel Americans and to use a provided plane for their departure with PFLP hijackers aboard, potentially to Kenya. Western officials dismissed the claim as wild speculation while noting past hijack tactics linked to Uganda.

Nairobi Kenya Idi Amin Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine The Daily Nation Amin Bonn Foreign Ministry Uganda Tanzania Milton Obote PFLP U.S Washington Popular Front Air France Entebbe United States Britain U.S. State Department Israel Radio Uganda

Tuna Protesters Plan To Jam Carter's Show

In San Diego a group called Women Against Tuna Industry Regulations plans to flood President Carter with letters telegrams and petitions during his national phone-in show to urge intervention on tuna fishing rules. The fleet has 26 vessels at port with only 44 percent of normal catch, totaling a $9 million loss in dockside tuna income.

San Diego UPI Carter Desia Ritson Organization of Fishermen’s Wives

Carter welcomes Cleland at veterans affairs ceremony

President Carter embraces Max Cleland after he is sworn in as veterans affairs administrator. Cleland, a Vietnam War veteran, is noted as a triple amputee.

Carter Max Cleland Cleland Veterans Affairs

Democrats Seek Gonzalez' Return

House Democrats pressed to keep Rep. Henry Gonzalez from resigning as chairman of the assassinations committee. Gonzalez sent a resignation letter after dismissing chief counsel Richard Sprague, triggering a closed-door session by the panel’s remaining members and a leadership bid to resolve the dispute.

Washington Christopher Dodd D-Conn John Kennedy Martin Luther King, Jr Congress Sprague

Teamsters Probe Backed by PROD Group

PROD Inc rights a letter to Labor Secretary Ray Marshall asserting none of the trustees of the Teamsters Central States pension fund can be trusted with its 1.4 billion dollar assets. The effort aims to spur a government investigation into alleged misdeeds by fund trustees.

Washington UPI Teamsters Prod, Inc Labor Ray Marshall Teamsters Central States Fund

Brown Questions Soviet Germ Warfare Pact Compliance

Defense Secretary Harold Brown told a House subcommittee that military leaders doubt the usability of biological weapons and questioned whether the Soviet Union is honoring the 1972 bio warfare ban. He cited verification doubts and noted U.S. unilateral disarmament in 1969 amid treaty aims.

Washington UPI Harold Brown Soviet Union Brown House Armed Services United States Defense

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