Thatcher in Washington for three days of talks with Carter
British opposition leader Margaret Thatcher arrived in Washington for three days of discussions with President Carter and senior officials. She will meet Cyrus Vance Harold Brown James Schlesinger Bert Lance and others, aiming to bolster her foreign policy credentials. Thatcher is anti-Communist pro free enterprise and wary of government wealth redistribution programs.
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Afl-Cio
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Britain
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Rhodesia
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Galveston
Texas
Camel Lady completes 621 mile trek across Gibson Desert
Robyn Davidson, a 28 year old Sydney model nicknamed Camel Lady, finished a five month, 621 mile trek across Western Australia’s Gibson Desert with four camels and a dog. She was sighted in Wiluna, her final stop, after briefly vanishing from public view.
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Gibson Desert
Sydney
Wastern
Three injured in Chicago desegregation protest car crash
In Chicago three people were seriously injured when a car carrying blacks drove through a white candlelight rally against school desegregation. District Police Commander William Woods said the driver attempted to disperse the crowd and struck several youths before fleeing.
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Chicago
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Joseph P. Hannon
Joseph M. Cronin
Edward A. Welling Jr
Eli
Saime
Strike isolates island state in Dominica
ROSEAU Dominica The 75000 inhabitants of this Caribbean island state remained in virtual isolation on Sunday the eighth day of a public employee strike that has cut most sea and air links with the outside world. The Civil Service Association defies orders to return to work saying members will not come back until the government pays them 1.7 million dollars in back wages. The airport is closed for all but small private aircraft and no cargo has been discharged at sea ports since the strike began.
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Roseau
Dominica
Caribbean
Civil Service Association
Pilots Strike Halts TAP Flights Across Three Continents
A one day pilots strike in Lisbon virtually shut down Transportes Aereos Portugueses and disrupted travel for about 9,000 passengers on around 60 flights to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The pilots union cited pay and working conditions tied to TAP's expanded summer schedule as the breakdown point in negotiations.
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Europe
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Africa
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TAP
Wife appeals for release trade over kidnapped Schleyer
In Bonn, West Germany, the wife of kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer urged the government to free 11 imprisoned terrorists in exchange for her husband. The Federal Criminal Office pressed for proof he is alive and set conditions for a flight plan with freed prisoners, through Swiss intermediary Denis Payot.
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Federal Criminal Office
Sehleyer
Awyer Denis Payot
Geneva
Switzerland
Payot
Germany
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