Rights uproar widens over Uganda abuses under Amin
The International Commission of Jurists reports well over 100000 Ugandan victims of torture killings and cannibalism since 1971. Andrew Young advocates a human rights policy as an African summit in Maputo weighs political issues. Critics warn against selectivity in enforcing human rights amid Uganda’s brutal regime.
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International Commission of Jurists
Geneva
Uganda
Idi Amin
Amin
Mozambique
U. S
United Nations
Andrew Young
Maputo
Carter
State Department
Mr. Young
Ulster tensions ease as Ulster Protestants rebuff strike threat
In Ulster, appeals by Irish-American figures and editorials fail to ignite a general Protestant strike. The Protestant majority rejects intimidation and keeps industry, commerce, and public services functioning. Both sides’ rhetoric aims to topple the British backed government, but locals resist further division and violence.
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Northern Ireland
Ulster
Irish Republican Army
Republic of Ireland
Mitterrand guides French left toward Paris alliance
Francois Mitterrand hopes to calm France while building a leftist coalition with the Communists. He argues the Communists want to seize reform leadership but says his Socialists can maintain lead, aiming to keep the government steady and avoid rattling voters ahead of next year’s elections.
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Paris
Francois Mitterrand
Socialist Party
M. Mitterrand
France
Mitterrand
Notre Dame Cathedral
IBM
Raymond Barre
Reform
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Krotch
U.S
Begin's West Bank policy strains Carter as Begin wields clout
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report Begin, hospitalized with a heart ailment, pursues a hard line in Israel by pledging hundreds of West Bank settlements. Carter reacts with anger and a Notre Dame speech warning of disaster, while Senate leaders weigh U.S. Jewish support and possible policy shifts. A Soviet probe echoes the stakes.
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Washington
Menachem Begin
Carter
Israel
Likud
White House
State Department
Europe
Jimmy Wearher
Begin
West Bank
Jordan River
Mideast
Notre Dame
Nablus
ABC
U.S
Hegin
Bob Clark
President Carter
Mr. Carter
Capitol Hill
Sen
Richard Stone
Florida
Senate Foreign Relations
Middle East
Senate
Stone
Jordan
Egypt
Hubert Humphrey
Abraham Ribboff
Jacob K. Javits
Clifford Case
Asrael
Congress
Meracham Begin
Jimmy Carter
Letter writer criticizes Circle M Zoo in Winston-Salem
A May 15, 1977 letter to Mr. S H Mitchell of Circle M Zoo in Stuart denounces conditions at the facility. Alice Ann Blevins, president of the Martinsville Henry County Humane Society, accuses the zoo of exploiting animals for profit and cites prior Humane Society recommendations. A visitor from Roanoke allegedly witnessed cruelty. the writer warns that word will spread.
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Mitchell
Robin Hood Rd
Winston- Salem
N.C
Circle M Zoo
Stuart
Humane Society of the
U.S
Roanoke
Alice Ann Blevins
Martinsville-Henry County
P.C.A
Sympathy To The Editor For Ray Marty Dodd
Dear readers express heartfelt condolences to Ray Marty Dodd as Ms. B. K. Riddle from Danville conveys profound sympathy and support.
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Ray Marty Dodd
B. K. Riddle
Danville
Carl T. Rowan on Welfare Reform and Broken Families
Washington columnist Carl T. Rowan argues the Carter administration seeks cheap welfare reform, but cites rising divorce and single parenthood, mass AFDC recipients, and wide poverty. He warns reform must fund 100 percent AFDC to avoid amplifying social decay and urges clear plans to stabilize families and reduce poverty.
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Washington
Carter
Jimmy Carter
America
White House
Uncle Sam
Brezhnev East German regime and rise of Eurocommunism debate
In a Samuel Buckley style exchange Axel Springer and Bernard Levin clash over freedom in Soviet bloc and East Germany. They contrast Gestapo terror with socialist prisons and warn that tyranny remains whether right or left while Eurocommunism seeks to soften Lenin era controls.
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Bernard Levin
London Times
Axel Springer
United States
East Germany
Belgrade
Marshall Tito
Vienna
John Vorster
South Africa
Levin Egan
Brezhnev
Honecker
Gestapo
Federal Republic
Springer
Hitler
Henry Rissinger
Rhodesia
Levin
Soviet Empire
Republic
Rommelsburg
Hoheneck
Cottbus
Buttow
Belsen
Ravensbruck
Dunchanu
Stalin
Brandenburg
Buchenwald
NATO
Lenin
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Robert Novak
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Carl T. Rowan
HEW
Miener
Tal
William F. Buckley
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