Guerillas overrun Salvadoran provincial capital and seize troops
Leftist guerrillas overran a Salvadoran provincial capital trapping 800 government troops in the city garrison and battled for two more capitals as the drive to oust the ruling junta continued. Washington said the US would resume 5 million in military aid and aid training for Salvadoran troops. Guatemala sent troops to its border with El Salvador as fighting entered a fifth day with at least 500 deaths.
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el Salvador
Washington
United States
Guatemala
Man leaps to death from Empire State Building
A 33 year old Staten Island man named Coppleman climbed the Empire State Building’s spike fenced area and jumped 86 stories to his death landing on a passing van. It was the 17th observed jumper from the fence installed in 1946 to deter suicides.
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Stuart Doppelman
New York
Empire State Building
Coppleman
Staten Island
Sarai Ribicoff
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
Connecticut
Abraham Ribicoff
Anthony McAdoo
John Shoven
Stanford University
Miss Ribicoff
McAdoo
JPS
Iran Resists Carter Deadline In Hostage Negotiations
Iran's Majlis met for a second time to debate two hostage release bills amid Iran’s pledge not to be rushed before President Carter's January deadline. A spokesman said talks proceed, denying a firm release date, while Algeria hosts staged talks on freezing assets and hostages. Washington and Algiers coordinate with Warren Christopher's team as Tehran delays and cautions persist.
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David Cowell
UPI
Iran
Tehran
Carter
Council of Guardians
Majlis
Algiers
Shah
Algeria
Ronald Reagan
Ahmad Azizi
Hostage Committee
Reagan
Washington
Warren Christopher
Christopher
Inaugural Theme Man and Defectors In News
PEOPLET V's theme man to compose for Ronald Reagan inauguration coverage. DEFECTORS LEONID and Valentina Kozlov signed by Australian Ballet as principal artists for 1981, after asylum in 1979. Windwalker debate and Oscar rules spark discussion with tribal leaders and cast details.
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Bob Israel
Abc-Tv
Ronald Reagan
United States
Israel
Leonid
Valentina Kozlov
Sutherland Valentina Bonid Kozlov
Australian Ballet
New Jersey
London
Festival Ballet
International Ballet of
Caracas
Ullmann visits famine areas to aid UNICEF effort
Actress Liv Ullmann traveled to Ethiopia Somalia and Djibouti as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador to witness hunger and malnutrition. She describes shifting from feminist questions to urgent pleas about food shortages and child malnutrition seen in the camps.
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Jane Farrell
New York
UPI
Liv Ullmann
East Africa
Ethiopia
Somalia
Djibouti
West Side
Unicef
Liv Ultmann
Exiled Ethiopians and Somali drought refugees seek aid
UNICEF notes 52 million Ethiopians suffer severe hunger and shelter shortages amid wars over Ogaden and Eritrea. Over 1 million refugees, 90 percent women and children, flee to Somalia with 700,000 more in country. Djibouti hosts 40,000 refugees as drought affects 130,000 citizens. Aid agencies urge $40 million immediate relief as refugees endure despair and unsafe water.
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Unicef
Ogaden
Eritrea
Somalia
Ethiopia
Djibouti
Djiboutians
Miss Ullmann
The
Catholic Relief Service
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South West Africa
East Block
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Warsaw
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Chicago
United Press International
Azizi
le Monde
Hojatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanian
Windwalker
Motion Picture Academy
Academy
Jerome Bushyhead
Oklahoma
Trevor Howard
Joseph Mankie Wiez
Francis Mankiewicz
Charlotte Laurier
Marie Tito
Joseph Mankiewicz
Jim
Laurence Olivier
Michael Caine
Kathryn Walker
Bette Davis
Donald Sutherland
Humbert Humbert
Edward Albee
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Boston
John McEnroe
Madison Square
Gayfeen
Loddy
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