Chilean exiles free UN hostages end 56 hour occupation
Chilean exiles released five hostages unharmed after a 56 hour occupation of a United Nations office in Buenos Aires and prepared to fly to Algeria via Dakar Milan and Rome. UN sources said the five hostages accompanied the refugees for safety as 16 Chileans and one Brazilian boarded Alitalia flight 1583.
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Lebanon toll mounts as cease fire collapses in Beirut clashes
Beirut fights erupt as a third cease fire in a month collapses with rocket and mortar fire. Police report 25 killed and over 50 wounded in citywide violence, part of three weeks of clashes between right wing Christian and left wing Muslim militias, bringing totals to nearly 500 dead and about 1,000 injured.
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Franco names hard line general to lead Civil Guards
General Angel Campano, 60, named commander of Spain's Civil Guards to curb terrorism and unrest. Franco also designated new leaders for four military regions and a liaison to the armed forces. Violence flared at a Civil Guard funeral as right wing soldiers shouted for justice during a cabinet meeting reaffirming resolve to wipe out terrorism.
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Angel Campano
Franco
Spain
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Nazi Germany
Jose Vega Rodriguez
West Germany clears nuclear plant sale to South Africa
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt says Bonn will supply a Koeberg nuclear plant and rejects linking trade to politics. Kraftwerk Union competes for the $687 million contract. decision due in March. Caracas suspends talks with Occidental Petroleum over a $55 million compensation and bribery probe. Perez orders exhaustive inquiry into alleged $3 million bribes to win Lake Maracaibo oil parcels in 1971. Occidental and other firms seek compensation for nationalizations and seizures.
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South Africa
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Air Force Grants Leave to Homosexual Airman Matlovich
Homosexual Staff Sergeant Leonard P Matlovich wins permission for requested leave after prior denial. Matlovich, a 12 year Air Force veteran with three Vietnam tours, contests a board recommendation of discharge for his admitted homosexuality. He plans speaking engagements during the time off.
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Matlovich
Vietnam
London Bus Stop Blast Blamed on Irish Terrorists
Police Commissioner Roy Haberrshon urged Londoners to help identify bombers after a Piccadilly blast killed one and wounded twenty. He warned extremists will keep their campaign going despite civilian casualties.
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Piccadilly
Roy Haberrshon
Ford son says he probably opposes marijuana legalization
Steve Ford, 19, told reporters he has never used marijuana and believes legalization may be good or bad but he currently opposes it. Speaking at an Inglewood news conference, he discussed his brother Jack, Secret Service protection, and his future plans.
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Inglewood
Utah State
Vallee Vallee Day Honors Maine Alumnus Rudy Vallee
Rudy Vallee and his wife Eleanor visited the University of Maine at Orono for the 100th homecoming. Gov. James Longley proclaimed Rudy Vallee Day honoring the singer saxophonist for bringing international recognition to Maine and UMO.
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Orono
Maine
James Longley
University of Maine At Orono
Betty Ford Named Honorary Fellow of National Academy of Design
First Lady Betty Ford accepted the academy's sesquicentennial gold medal in New York in a brief ceremony. She praised the organization as open to women and to women students, noting the significance for gender equality. Life fellowships have gone to only two other presidential wives, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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National Academy of Design
New York
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Samuel X.B. Morse
Calvin Collidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fabian Rock Star Arraigned On Domestic Assault Charge
Fabian Forte a 32 year old singer known as Fabian rose to fame in the 1950s was arraigned in Van Nuys on charges of beating his wife and mother in law He was ordered back to court on October 31 to enter a plea Forte remains free on 500 dollars bail after police arrested him at his Toluca Lake home following doctors examination of his bruised wife actress Kathleen Regan
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Fabian Forte
Toluca Lake
Riverside Hospital
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Mountbatten Recalls Famous Friends In San Francisco Visit
Lord Mountbatten, 75, in a San Francisco hotel suite, lists figures he has known from Winston Churchill to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi. He praises Truman's Potsdam drive, notes Ford’s links, and speaks on modern manners and his disciplined grandchildren.
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San Francisco
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Churchill
Noel Coward
Queen Elizabeth II
Defective pacemaker case yields $12,500 judgment
Mrs. Cora Houser of Montgomery Alabama won a 12,500 verdict from Edwards Laboratories and its parent American Hospital Supply Co. after a pacemaker implanted September 3 1974 failed a month later due to a defective transistor. Doctors replaced the device.
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Montgomery
Ala
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American Hospital Supply Co
Santa Ana
Calif
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