War or Peace A global tally of deadly conflicts this year
The Associated Press surveys ongoing gun and bomb deaths across areas from Angola to the Philippines. It notes up to 20,000 fatalities this year, with civilians often among the victims, detailing Angola's three-way civil war, Argentina’s faction fights, Ethiopia's Eritrea struggle, Lebanon's sectarian clashes, Northern Ireland's Ulster conflict, Portugal and Rhodesia pulls, Spain Basque violence, Sudan’s 16 year civil war, and Moro uprisings in the Philippines, among others.
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Africa
Middle East
South America
Asia
Ireland
Argentina
Angola
Portugal
Spain
Lebanon
Ethiopia
Rhodesia
Philippines
Sudan
United Nations
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
National Front For the Liberation of
National Union For the Total Independence of
Peronist Movement
Eritrea
Central
Ment
Addis Ababa
Beirut
Northern Ireland
Ulster
Zimbabwe African National Union
Ndahaningi Sithole
Sustaquio Mendizabal
Madrid
Luis Carrero Blanco
Banker's extortion raid ends with uninjured couple
In Eureka California two masked intruders tied up Bank of Loleta president Herbert Rasmussen and his wife and strapped a supposed bomb to the banker. The pair forced him to empty the vault of a substantial amount of money before fleeing. The bomb was inoperative and no arrests were reported.
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Calif
FBI
San Francisco
Herbert Rasmussen
Bank of Loleta
Fortuna
California
Rasmussen
John Gromala
Gromole
Humboldt Bay
Convicts Escape From Marion Federal Penitentiary
In a dramatic breakout at Marion Federal Penitentiary, four inmates seized a shotgun and a rifle, overpowered an instructor, and used a teacher’s keys plus an improvised electronic device to bypass gates. FBI and local police squads traced them across Illinois, with roadblocks, dogs, planes, and a helicopter in pursuit.
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Dotsons
Marion
Salem
Ziyo Salem
Ilinois
New Hethal Presbyterian Church
Charles Fenton
Marion Federal Penitentiary
Wayne Friend
FBI
Illinois
RJ. Miller
Roche
Chicago
Alcatraz
Free Enterprise System Leaders Told Democracy Fate Is In Jeopardy
In Hot Springs Virginia Moynihan warned business leaders that only about two dozen democracies and free enterprise nations remain, a sharp decline from 25 years ago, urging vigilance as democracies wane. He cited state trading in government run economies and noted the Soviet grain purchases as a disruption to U.S. markets.
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Hot Springs
Daniel P. Moynihan
United Nations
Business Council
Moynihan
Soviet Union
Russia
China
Broadway Musicians End Longest New York Strike
NEW YORK AP Broadway musicians voted 189 to 76 to accept a new contract ending a 25 day strike that darkened a dozen theaters and cost about 3.3 million in ticket sales. Show producers planned separate ratification talks with Local 802 and the League of New York Theaters and Producers though details were not announced.
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New York
Beame
Great White Way
American Federation of Musicians
The
League of New York Theaters and Producers
Energy price talks loom in Congress confrontations
Congress moves amid a House Senate conference on energy price controls for old and new oil and potential gasoline use limits. A tax reform bill fusing this year’s cuts with 1976 relief is in Ways and Means, while Senate discusses defense foreign aid and internal agency appropriations.
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Ways and Means
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