Madrid subway runs as government curbs wildcat strike
Spanish army takes control of Madrid subway to ease a three day wildcat walkout that snarled traffic and tested the regime. Police dispersed protests by workers with tear gas. about 3,000 electric company workers backed the subway workers. No arrests or injuries reported. Premier Arias views the strike as Communist-inspired though no mass draft action occurred.
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Carlos Arias
Italian government resigns as coalition dissolves
Premier Aldo Moro and his minority cabinet quit after the Socialist party withdrew crucial parliamentary support. The crisis unfolds amid a Communist push for influence while Moro's Christian Democrats and the Republican party's month-old cabinet collapses as Italy’s 32nd postwar government to fall.
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Aldo Moro
Socialist Party
Moro
Christian Democrats
Republican Party
SAS to reinforce troops in Northern Ireland
Britain sends its elite SAS to Northern Ireland to back 15,200 troops and pursue guerrillas in south Armagh, amid efforts to end the long sectarian conflict. The move follows Prime Minister Harold Wilson ordering a 60 man emergency force with armored carriers into the area.
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Britain
Special Air Service
SAS
Northern Ireland
South Armagh
Irish Republic
Harold Wilson
Turmoil Spreads Across Northern Portugal In Reforms Clash
In Oporto a Communist cooperative faced sudden incidents and a leftist home was attacked in a neighboring town. Braga reported a machine safety incident. Lisbon's cabinet eyed steep food price rises as the Supreme Revolutionary Council vowed to expel foreign revolutionaries, estimated at about 10,000, amid political meddling.
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Portugal
Braga
Lisbon
Supreme Revolutionary Council
Ecuador cabinet resigns amid capital strike turmoil
Ecuador's military government chief Gen Guillermo Rodriguez Lara saw the cabinet quit in protest as a bus and car drivers strike paralyzed Quito for three days. Nine cabinet members and other military officials requested return to barracks duty amid the crisis. In Beirut, Christians and Muslims shelled eastern suburbs, with 23 killed and 50 wounded as fighting spread to Tripoli and a key cabinet meeting was canceled.
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Ecuador
Guillermo Rodriguez Lara
Bolivar Lopez
Beirut
Tripoli
Rasid Karami
Sixman
Weather Havoc Hits Nation Amid Ice and Snow
Four people died in highway crashes as ice and freezing rain snarled traffic from the upper South to the Northeast. Bitter cold and five inch Chicago snow, widespread school closures, and high winds marked the Midwest while two more deaths occurred in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Dozens injured from slips and accidents across Maryland, Arkansas, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. Federal Energy Administration proposed price rollbacks on domestic crude to comply with the new energy law but likely little relief for gasoline and fuel oil prices.
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FEA
Kissinger vows U.N. fight but avoids veto pledge
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the United States would oppose any U.N. move to alter Middle East peace resolutions but would not promise a veto. He spoke after a three hour meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon during Allon’s Washington visit to coordinate strategy ahead of a U.N. Security Council session.
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Henry Kissinger
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United Nations
Middle East
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Yigal Allon
Allen
U.N
Kidnap Case Involving Phonogram Executive Unfolds
Police found Louis Hazan, 54, chief executive of Phonogram, bound and gagged in a country house cupboard after a Dec 31 kidnapping by six or seven men posing as musicians. Ransom demand of 3.4 million remained unpaid as leaders and accomplices were tracked, with 11 involved in total and arrests made near Versailles. Police traced a suspect’s trouser cuff telephone number to the hideout. In other news, Nazi hunter Linton Wießenthal plans to focus on US suspects next year while Anne Armstrong’s ambassadorship to Britain moves forward, and President Ford’s campaign chief Howard Bob Callaway received praise at Callaway’s campaign headquarters.
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Phonogram
Phillips Group
France
Phonograph
Hazan
Paris
Versailles
Hugo Brunini
Pice
Muskie seeks fourth Senate term in Maine
Senator Edmund Muskie announced in Portland his candidacy for a fourth term citing his role as chair of the Senate Budget Committee. He argued he can contribute more to government than before amid concerns about big government and spending. President Ford’s wagering on the Orange Bowl sparked a wager with Dewey Bartlett Jr. and a returned check on Michigan. Former Kennedy colleague Paul Fay Jr. defended Kennedy’s war record against claims in a new book, stating the portrayal was distorted.
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Portland
Senate Budget Committee
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Dewey Bartlettt
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Oklahoma
Lina Mater
Michigan
Washington
Joh Kennedy
Ate
Kennedy
Paul Fay, Jr
Navy
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Fay
Clay Blair Jr
Joan
Madison Mayor Soglin discloses second Cuban visit
Mayor Paul Soglin of Madison revealed he and his wife Dianne had five days of talks in Cuba with officials on topics from new Cuban elections to foreign policy in the Mideast and Angola. He did not meet Premier Fidel Castro on this trip, unlike the prior summer. He faced council criticism for presenting Castro a key to the city and said he disclosed the destination after obtaining State Department clearance for the Cuban flag.
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Wis
Paul Soglin
Cuba
Soglin
Dianne
Mideast
Angola
Fidel Castro
Common Council
Castro
Former Defense Secretary Schlesinger to head study group
Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, fired by President Fa two months ago, will lead The Washington Study Group on National Policy Alternatives. The Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies and Johns Hopkins SAIS host the project with 12 to 15 scholars to define the key political, economic and military elements of U.S. national strategy for the last quarter of this century.
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James Schlesinger
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Georgetown University Center For Strategic and International Studies
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Schlesinger
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U.S
Escape Shocks Berks County Prison Inmate Melvin Martin
Melvin Martin, awaiting release from Berks County Prison in Reading Pennsylvania, bolted Tuesday night after a three month sentence for criminal conspiracy. He had a job lined up and was set to be released Saturday.
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Berks County
Reading
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