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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1977
Page
2
Pope Paul VI presided at St. John Lateran celebrating Holy Thursday. He washed the feet of 12 young seminarians, moving slowly due to a knee ailment, in a ritual reenactment of the Last Supper. The ceremony drew thousands amid Holy Week observances in Rome.
Washington labor and management negotiators continued bargaining beyond a self-imposed deadline as an eleventh hour contract proposal moved toward guaranteed job and income security. Treasury Secretary Blumenthal announced urban reconstruction banks planned to aid New York and other cities facing financial crises amid a steel industry dispute unresolved by arbitration. In New Orleans, a 77-year-old man, stabbed 50 times, was found semi-nude in his apartment, marking the fifth unsolved killing in the French Quarter since Valentine’s Day.
Rabat reports a Moroccan infantry battalion of 400 men has left for the battle zone to assist Zaire against an Angolan offensive. Sources in Rabat say the first Moroccan contingent could arrive Friday. Zaire’s Katanga region, invaded last month by rebels, remains a focal point amid regional crisis.
Five convicted terrorists including an Egyptian were publicly executed in Benghazi, Libya, after a court found them responsible for burning a church, port sabotage, and damage to a statue of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Muammar Khadafy praised Nasser as a model for Arab unity.
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