Coast Guard seizes Soviet trawler Taras Shevchenko at Boston Harbor
The United States Coast Guard towed the 275-foot Taras Shevchenko into Boston after finding river herring in its hold. Crew of 93 faces potential criminal charges while a Soviet refrigerator ship Antanas Snechkus may also be seized. Civil penalties possible and further legal actions await harbor inspection of cargo and documents.
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Boston
UPI
U.S. Coast Guard
Taras Sheremenko
Coast Guard
Gerry Studds
D-Mass
Studds
New Bedford
Antanas Snechkus
Cmdr
William Norris
Allan B. Smith
Decisive
Taras Shevchencko
Smith
Reliance
Nantucket Island
Moscow
Taras Shevchenko
Carter
Chenko
National Marine Fisheries Services
U.S. Attorney’s
Peres Clears First Hurdle In Labor Nomination
Defense Minister Shimon Peres won the Labor nomination amid Mapam's decision to stay in the coalition 196 to 115 after a day of talks. Mapam opposed his hawkish stance but backed remaining in the government as Rabin resigned over a scandal and Barak sought a resignation solution.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Shimon Peres
Labor Party
Mapam
Labor
Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
Middle East
Rabin
Washington, D.C
Aharon Barak
United States
Carter
Three CHS Seniors Win Doane College Scholarships
Three Columbus High School seniors are Doane College scholarship recipients. Robert Goos earned a $3,000 four year President's Scholarship. Gregory Carr won a $2,800 four year Butler and United Church of Christ Scholarship. Margaret Douglass received a Special Ability scholarship in music and art.
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Columbus High School
Doane College
Crete
Robert B. Goos
Roger Goos
Gregory Carr
Max Carr
Butler
United Church of Christ
Margaret Douglass
James Douglass Sr
Doane
Goos
Columbus High
Robert
Carr
CHS
Greg
Douglass
Gestrine Named Osceola Postmaster Effective April 9
Karen E Gestrine, career postal employee since January 1966 and acting officer in charge since May 1976, is appointed postmaster of Osceola. The announcement cites merit selection under the Postal Reorganization Act and notes Osceola's inclusion in the Norfolk Sectional Center led by Jerome F Wieser.
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Karen E. Gestrine
Oscelon
Charley Dickey
Omaha
U.S. Postal Service
Osceola Post Office
Lowell D. Hanson
Osceola
Norfolk Sectional Center
Jerome F. Wieser
French Planes Airlift Moroccan Arms to Zaire Amid Communist Protest
French planes land in Lubumbashi to move Moroccan military equipment to support Mobutu Sese Seko against rebels backed by Moscow. French Communist leaders call the move unconstitutional and dangerous and demand a National Assembly debate. Angola Cuba and the Soviet Union deny involvement while China pledges aid to Zaire.
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Ly United Press International
Zaire
Valery Giscard D’estaing
Lubumbashi
Elisabethville
Shaba
Angola
Mobutu Sese Seko
Moscow
Giscard D’estaing
Communist Party
AZAP
Cuba
Soviet Union
Mobutu
China
Kinshasa
Kolwezi
Robert Ballanger
Communist
National Assembly
Valery Giscard d
Katanga
Elysee Palace
France
Brussels
Anti- Mobutu Movement For Action For the Resurrection of
Congo
Morocco
Egypt
Free World
Giscard
Rhodesian leader warns of protracted war over Rhodesia
Rhodesian nationalist head Robert Mugabe, after meeting British Foreign Secretary David Owen in Dar es Salaam, said peace is impossible without a long, bloody war. He urged London to restart talks with his Patriotic Front excluding Ian Smith, calling Geneva dead. Owen began a seven day southern Africa tour aiming for majority rule by ballots, including all parties in negotiations.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
UPI
Robert Mugabe
David Owen
Mugabe
Owen
Britain
Rhodesia
London
The
Patriotic Front
Smith
Carters join in eggroll at White House Easter event
President Carter and family mingle with thousands on the White House south lawn for Easter egg roll crowds estimated at 8,700 two hours after gates opened. Rosalynn Carter Amy and Jason participate with Lillian Carter watching from a balcony. Jason waves as he rolls an egg.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
White House South Lawn
Amy
Lillian
Rosalynn
Jason
Calhoun
Nebraska Panhandle Showers Spread Across State
A stationary frontal system brought showers to the Nebraska Panhandle and is expected to cover the state by tonight. A low pressure system in southern Colorado, strong southerly winds, and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico raise chances of isolated severe thunderstorms in extreme southwest Nebraska and adjacent areas. Fire danger is rated very high to locally extremely dangerous in central and eastern Nebraska this afternoon.
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United Press International
Nebraska Panhandle
Colorado
Gulf of Mexico
National Weather Service
Nebraska
Kansas
Weather Service
McGovern says Fidel won’t renew anti-hijacking pact
Sen. George McGovern says Fidel Castro will not renew the 1962 anti-hijacking pact as long as the U S embargo remains in place. He met Castro in Havana and notes a Cuban basketball team will visit the United States in November with State Department blessings.
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Washington
UPI
George McGovern
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
South
Congress
Carter
McGovern
Castro
Raul
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Dallas
U.S
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Karen Gestrine
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Postal Service
Columbus
Carters
Valdosta
Bill Gregory
Fidel
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