Hostage Crisis Seizes Djibouti Schoolchildren Bus Standstill
In Djibouti Afars and Issas Territory, 30 French schoolchildren aged six to twelve and their driver are held hostage aboard a stalled bus under a scorching sun. Four gunmen from the Front for the Liberation of the Somali Coast demand immediate independence. Negotiations are reportedly deadlocked while food and water reach the captives.
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Djibouti
Afars
Issas
France
Jean Froment
Front For the Liberation of
Somali Coast
Prv
Radical
Somalia
Saucy Sothebys Catalogues 1920s Nude Photographs Sale
Sothebys in London plans a February 25 sale cataloguing about 200 saucy pictures from the 1920s under a new nude photography theme. Postwar erotica is described as a new venture by Peter Batkin, though he notes the images are not pornographic by modern standards. The seller remains anonymous.
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London
Sotheby’s
London Fine Arts Auction House
Hrm
Peter Batkin
Sotheby's
Masters drawings in Porto hailed as Renaissance works
In Oporto six dusty drawings may be by Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Veronese and Tiepolo. A Sotheby's expert found the Da Vinci piece promising after photographs were sent to London. The school keeps the suspected Da Vinci safe at a police station as others await expert confirmation.
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Oporto
Portugal
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
W Raphael
Veronese
Tiepolo
Leonardo
Sotheby's
da Vinci
London
Amandio Silva
Fine Arts
Decision on Concorde fate today by U S transport chief
Washington D C Transportation Secretary William Coleman Jr will announce today if the Concorde supersonic passenger plane may be used on scheduled Europe to New York and Washington to Europe flights. Copies of the decision will be sent to Britain and France. The plan would allow Air France and British Airways four daily Europe to New York flights and two daily trans Atlantic hops from Dulles.
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Washington
William Coleman Jr
Europe
T We US
Britain
France
Coleman
Air France
British Airways
New York
John F. Kennedy
Dulles International
House Debates Natural Gas Price Decontrol Bill
Washington House debated a natural gas price decontrol bill with claims of potential consumer costs between 5 and 20 billion dollars this year. A procedural vote split supporters and opponents as deregulation moves forward, Senate action and White House support cited. In Chicago a 71 year old temp housekeeper Denise Watson was charged with murder and arson in a fatal Wincrest Nursing Home fire with 15 deaths. Arson counts and counts of murder in a 47 count indictment. 25 hospitalized. Also Washington lawyers abandon plans to push relaxing legal advertising bans, instead backing limited listings and publications under ABA ethics committee.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Chicago
Denise Watson
Cook County
Wincrest Nursing and
No Side
Miss Watson
American Bar Association
Philadelphia
ABA
Morton named Ford adviser amid campaign funding clash
C. B. Morton sworn in as a 44600 dollar a year counselor to the President and key political staffer. Democrats seek to bill his salary to the Ford campaign while White House lawyers pledge compliance with federal election rules.
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Rogers C. B. Morton
Ford
Morton
Democratic Party
White House
Congress
Ronald Reagan
Federal Election Commission
Commission
Supreme Court
Canada s First Lady defends actions on Latin America tour
Margaret Trudeau, wife of Canada s prime minister, told Ottawa radio she cried after callers criticized her on a one day Latin America tour. She said she overstepped protocol by singing a self composed song for Venezuela s first lady and defied rules to stay human and spontaneous. She also glowed in a Cuba rally teeshirt and proposed an unplanned toast in Mexico City.
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Margaret Trudeau
Canada
Ottawa
Latin America
Deau
Cuba
Mexico City
Mexico
Caracas
Venezuela
Perez
Grant Wood Am golf tour slated for Anamosa June
Sponsors of the Grant Wood Amateur Golf Tour in Anamosa hope the event will draw more visitors to the Grant celebration. Stan Wiederspan of the Cedar Rapids Art Center questions whether Wood ever played golf. Authorities drop murder charge in Ernesto Miranda case. Fernando Zamora Rodriguez, 23, held for homicide investigation before magistrate.
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Grant Wood
Anamosa
Bi Sants
Stan Wiederspan
Cater Rapids Art Center
Miranda
Ernesto Miranda
Fernando Zamora Rodriguez
Horicide
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Zaire
Kinshasa
Angola
South Africa
United States
Roy Innis
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
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Bugola
Mobutu Sese Seko
Sohas Savimbi
National Union For the Total Independence of Angola
UNITA
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Popular Movement
MPLA
Moynihan
Alberta Owens
Virginia Beach
Mary Jackman
Portsmouth
Mrs. Owens
President Ford
Virginia Gay
Mills Godwin
Joy Curreri
Curreri
Independent
Wowine
Kong Beach
Co Res
James Sarl Ray
Éth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Ray
Martin Luther King
James Lesar
Memphis
Lesar
Lesa
King
Percy Foreman
Daniel Moynihan
United Nations
Pat
Ron Nelsen
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
San Francisco
U.N. Post
USS Military Academy
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Susan Kollmeyer
Groton, Conn
Cathryn Lis
Bristol, Gonn
Cynthia Snead
Melbourne
Fla
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Tow Co
Lakewood
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