Massacre victims buried in Bessbrook Ireland funeral procession
In Bessbrook Northern Ireland nine mill workers killed in an IRA ambush were buried in a rain soaked churchyard. Thousands carried coffins from two Protestant churches on a hill, as Roman Catholic Robert Hughes accompanied the Protestant mourners. The area in South Armagh had seen sectarian violence in the new year.
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Bessbrook
Northern Ireland
South
Armagh
Robert Hughes
IRA
Lebanese war heats up with 100 dead clashes
Be irut saw intensified fighting as army clashed with Palestinian guerrilla units near a Christian blockaded refugee camp. The civil conflict between Christians and Sfaslems escalated with heavy casualties and kidnappings. Residents fled as house-to-house battles spread through capital areas. The turmoil prompted talk of partitions and regional intervention by Syria and potential Israeli retaliation.
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Beirut
Sfaslems
Thars- International Jay
Lebanon
Syria
Israel
Mili
Catholic Pallottines Under Fire Over Donations
The Pallottine Fathers face criticism as the Baltimore Sun reports they discard letters asking for Masses without at least a 10 dollar donation. Letters promising prayers are opened, with donations sorted into 1 5 10 20 or other amounts. The order allegedly raised 8 to 15 million in 1974 but sent under 500 thousand overseas.
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Baltinore
Pallottine Fathers
Baltimore Sun
Girls riot over equality at Heaton Comprehensive School
In Newcastle upon Tyne three hundred schoolgirls aged 13 to 16 rioted after their headteacher warned to discipline unruly girls as boys. Police intervened as classes were boycotted, windows smashed, and brawls with senior students followed amid new sex discrimination laws.
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Newcastle Upon Tyne
England
Heaton Comprehensive School
Harry Askew
Italy Sees Mass Strikes Over Civil Service Wages
A million workers staged walkouts across Italy on Thursday demanding new civil service contracts as Aldo Moro's government faced a crisis. Labor leaders warned unemployment data may understate jobless figures, with 700,000 officially listed and industry estimates higher. About 200,000 civil servants led the strike, with broader participation across sectors for 10 to 24 minutes of protest.
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Rome
Aly
Iimes
Christian Democratic
Aldo Moro
Governent
Madrid Subway Strike Sparks Massive Work Stoppage
Thousands of workers in Spain stayed away from jobs as Madrid subway staff protested again. A demand to stop work and a plan to add a third line aim to ease urban traffic and prevent more crashes in the capital.
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Madrid
Spain
VY Sprites
Justice Department to release Agnew papers today
Baltimore report says the Justice Department expects to comply with a federal court order to hand over the first batch of secret papers in the 1973 Spiro Agnew investigation. Judge June Green ordered disclosure after law students sued for all confidential materials under FOIA.
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Justice Department
Spiro Agnew
Department
U.S. District Court
June Green
U.S
Maryland
George Washington University Law
Freedom of Information Art
Pittsburgh teachers strike deepens as contempt ruling looms
In Pittsburgh a judge cited striking teachers for contempt and threatened heavy fines after they failed to return to work. The 62,000 pupils were told to report Monday.union president Albert Fondy pledged a work stoppage until a new contract is negotiated and said the 4,400 member Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers would appeal. Similar strikes continued in Sauk Centre and Faribault Minnesota and Madison Wisconsin. In Boston 62 black students at South Boston High School were suspended after refusing to enter the racially tense building, citing demands for equal access and fewer restrictions.
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Albert Fondy
Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
Sauk Centre
Faribault
Minn
Madison
Wis
Boston
South Boston
John Jants
Coordinating Council
FBI arrests most wanted campus bomb suspect in Wisconsin case
FBI agents arrested David Sylvan Fife, a onetime FBI most-wanted suspect since 1970, in San Rafael on an informant tip. He faces charges tied to the August 24, 1970 bombing at the University of Wisconsin Madison Mathematics Research Center that killed Robert Fassnacht and injured others. Bail set at 1 million.
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David Sylvan Fife
University of Wisconsin
FBI
Thursay
Fine
San Rafael
Karleton Armstrong
Dwight Alan Armstrong
Leon Frederick Burt
San Francisco
Wisconsin
U.S
Richard Goldsmith
U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center
Madison, Wis
Robert Fassnacht
Fong Hiram Fong Plans Retirement News Conference
Fong Hiram Fong, the first Asian American to serve in Congress, plans to retire. Family members say he will confirm the long rumored decision at a news conference in Honolulu on Tuesday, with state Sen. Wadsworth Yee, his nephew, noting the 68 year old former senator was elected in 1959 after Hawaii achieved statehood and re elected in 1974 and 1976.
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Nixon
Julie
David Eisenhower
China
San Clemente Villa
San Clemente Inn
Hiram Fong
Congress
Fong
Hona- Wu
Wadsworth Yee
Senate
Hawaii
Ryan O Neal Arrested On Marijuana Charge
Actor Ryan O Neal, 34, of Beverly Glen, was arrested at his home on a marijuana possession investigation. Officers obtained a search warrant and found five ounces of cannabis. He is out on 5500 bail and to be arraigned January 14. His press agent was also arrested on cocaine possession charges and released on bond.
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Ryan O'Neal
Barry ‘Aydon
O'Neal
Beverly Glen
William Mathieson
Mathieson
Beverly Hills
Leo Freund
Ryan
California
Stephen Jaffe
Nancy Kissinger Hospitalized With Stomach Ulcer
Nancy Kissinger, wife of the secretary of state, was hospitalized Thursday for a stomach ulcer. She has a history of ulcers and had a prior episode in 1974 soon after her marriage. She appeared in good health after attending a State Department dinner Wednesday night.
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Nancy Nancy Kissinger
Mrs. Kissinger
State Department
Oklahoma student found in car near Tulsa dies after reprieve
Linda Clark, a 21 year old Oklahoma State University student, was found unconscious in a locked car east of Tulsa by an off duty officer. Medical examiner pronounced her dead after 4 policemen found her in distress earlier. Doctors predicted she would live Thursday.
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Oldahama State University
Tulsa
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
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