Britain severs ties with Uganda in historic move
Britain cuts diplomatic relations with President Amin's Uganda in a rare break within the Commonwealth. Foreign Secretary Crosland announced the step in Parliament, citing deteriorating ties since 1972 including the expulsion of Asians and the Embley hostages incident. Dora Bloch's disappearance remains unresolved.
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Britain
Idi Amim
Uganda
British Commonwealth
Anthony Crosland
House of Commons
Albania
Amin
Controllers Urged to Start Slowdown Across Nation
PATCO urged air traffic controllers to work by the rules delaying airline traffic nationwide to protest a Civil Service Commission pay reclassification study that could downgrade some positions. Delta noted takeoff delays in Atlanta Chicago and West Coast as a result.
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Washington
U.S. Civil Service Commission
PATCO
John Leyden
Delta Airlines
Atlanta
Chicago
West Coast
House bill extends safety rules to all miners
Washington vote 300 to 86 to apply coal era safety standards to 262000 non coal miners. The bill requires periodic inspections for underground and surface mines and closing mines posing imminent danger with penalties for violations. It covers about 16500 mines, many sand and gravel or hard rock operations.
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Washington
House OKs Sunshine bill to open federal meetings
The House approved a Sunshine bill by 390 to 5 to force federal agencies to hold meetings in public and avoid private communications aimed at influencing decisions. A conference with the Senate will finalize the measure, which would cover about 50 boards including the SEC and FCC. Closed meetings would be allowed only for specified defense, foreign policy, privacy, and sensitive information.
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Senate
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Federal Communications Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Power Commission
Ford picks Army chief Bernard Rogers
President Ford nominated Gen Bernard Rogers to be Army chief of staff. Rogers, a former Rhodes Scholar and head of the Army Forces Command at Ft McPherson Ga, will succeed Gen Frederick Weyand who retires Oct 1.
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Ford
Army
Frederick Weyand
West Point Corps of Cadets
Oxford
Rogers
Vietnam
West Point
Congress
Forces Command
Ft. McPherson
Kansas
Weyand
U.S
Army Forces Command
Senate
Millionth visitor in Bicentennial year greeted by Ford
Norman Wilson, an air craft design engineer from Kenmore New York, became the millionth visitor to the White House in the Bicentennial year. With his wife Sara Nel his daughter and four grandchildren, President Ford invited them inside after joking about the heat on the South Lawn and offering the air conditioned Oval Office.
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Norman Wilson
Kenmore
N.Y
Ford
White House
Wilson
Sara Nel
Oval Office
House Stirs Over Washington Rank Promotion
A House drive seeks posthumous promotion of George Washington to general of the armies effective July 4 1978. Rep Mario Biaggi leads as the subcommittee backs the bill, while the Army raises concerns about broad rank reevaluations despite praising Washington as the nation’s outstanding military figure.
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George Washington
U.S
House Armed Services
Mario Biaggi
D-N.v
Washington
Biaggi
Army
Asst. Army
Clayton Gompf
John Pershing
Ulysses Grant
William Sherman
Philip Sheridan
Jhnight Eisenhower
George Marshall
Henry Arnold
Omar Bradley
Douglas MacArthur
Funeral for Daniel Gearhart in Kensington Maryland
Daniel Gearhart was buried Wednesday in a cemetery near his family home in Kensington Maryland eight days after he and three British mercenaries died before an Angolan firing squad. At Holy Redeemer Church his widow sat beside the flag-draped coffin as the Catholic Mass for the Dead was held, with a homily urging faith and peace. Gearhart, a captured mercenary, had gone to Angola to fight on the losing side of a civil war earlier this year.
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U.S. Military Academy
Bradley
Military Institution
West Point
Eisenhower
Daniel Gearhart
Kensington
Holy Redeemer Church
Gearhart
Leo Coady
Angola
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