Rifle fire hits Soviet Mission to the United Nations
A sniper fired at least two shots into two bedrooms of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York. No injuries were reported, and a 22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight was found nearby. The Jewish Defense League is cited in connection with the attack.
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New York
UPT
United Nations
James Dunne
Ballistics
United Press International
Leonid
Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Congress Split Over Rationing Ford Energy Plan
Zarb and Morton defend and attack parts of Ford's energy package. Congress debates mandatory gas controls versus market measures. Simon forecasts unemployment near 8 percent and inflation around 7 percent by year end while backing the administration.
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Congress
Treasury
William E. Simon
Simon
Capitol Hill
Ford
Arabs Fire On Plane At Orly Airport
Arabs opened fire from the crowded Orly observation deck as an El Al 747 prepared to depart. Gunmen seized hostages in the men’s lavatory after dropping grenades and forced a stairway escape, while police surrounded the rest room and tried to monitor the corridor.
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Mousset
Orly
el al
Celine Eiorza
Tel Aviv
Beirut
Palestine Liberation Organization
Medicare financing revised by 9 to 4 panel vote
The Social Security Advisory Council reversed its stance to favor general fund financing of Medicare hospital benefits over raising payroll taxes for high earners. The plan would free payroll tax revenues to fund rising retirement costs for over 30 million people and delay the final report to Congress.
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Washington
Social Security Advisory Council
Congress
Council
Maoism Without Mao Emerges In China Constitution Shift
China moves to remove Mao from the state constitution while keeping his thought. The central party chairman, likely in Hunan, avoids public shows as references to Mao become historical. Lin Piao’s earlier role is reassessed after his death.
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Central Committee
Communist Party of China
Mao
Communist Party
Lin Piao
Lin
Mao Tsetung
Chang
National People’s Congress
Hunan
Indians refuse compromise at abbey occupation in Wisconsin
A Menominee led group occupying the Alexian Brothers abbey near Gresham Wisconsin rejected an Alexian Brothers offer for converting the site into a medical facility. The band demanded the deed to the property and unconditional amnesty while vowing to resist any settlement.
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Gresham
Wis
Alexian Brothers
Neal Bennett
Alexian
Lawmaker to seek probe of FBI files on congressmen
Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier says he will call current and former FBI officials to testify about personal files kept on members of Congress. He compares the issue to Watergate and cites claims by two former high ranking FBI officials about files on congressmen’s private lives. A joint inquiry is urged as part of broader probes into privacy invasion and domestic spying.
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FBI
Washington
Robert W. Kastenmeier
D-Wis
House
Congress
Kastenmeier
Clarence J. Kelley
L. Patrick Gray III
Washington Post
J. Edgar Hoover
Cartha D. DeLoach
Hoover
Louis B. Nichols
John C. Pastore
D-R.i
Senate Appropriations Committee
Judiciary
Congressional Committee
Central Intelligence Agen
Uniroyal Lays Off 1400 At U S Plants
Uniroyal Tire Co. cut 587 workers at its Detroit plant and similar cuts at four other U S plants to trim tire inventories as new car and truck sales lag. The Detroit layoffs bring total cuts there to nearly 1400 over nine days. Additional blue collar layoffs hit Chicopee Mass Eau Claire Wis Indianapolis and Opelaka Ala while about 1300 Ardmore Okla hourly workers shift to a four day week.
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Detroit
UPI
Uniroyal Tire Co
U.S
Chicopee
Mass
Eau Claire
Wis
Indianapolis
Opelaka
Ala
Ardmore
Okla
Alleged bandit identified in Anaheim pharmacy killing
Police identified the suspected bandit as Steven Anthony Solis, 22, of Anaheim, killed by officers after he used hostages as a shield during an alleged drugstore holdup at Medical Arts Rexall Pharmacy on La Palma Avenue. Officers fired two shots from a 12 gauge shotgun after Solis darted from behind the hostages.
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Anaheim
Steven Anthony Solis
Solis
Medical Arts Rexall
la Palma Ave
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Nbc-Tv
TV Sunday
Frank Zarb
Federal Energy
Secretary of the Treasury
William Simon
Middle East
Medicare
China
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
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Sony Radios
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