China’s top leaders gather for Mao funeral rites
Almost all senior Chinese leaders gathered in Peking to pay last respects to Chairman Mao as state mourning begins. Hua Kuo-feng led mourners bowing before Mao’s bier in the Great Hall of the People. The memorial signals a week of mourning and a looming struggle to fill party and government vacancies.
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Hong Kong
China
Pekzsing
Mao Tsetong
Chinese Communist Party
Anal Ts
Hua Kuo-feng
Shairman
Mao
Chiang Ching
Peking
Party
Ody
Great Hall of the People
Liu Po-cheng
Aro
Choy Enlai
Chu Teh
Chow
Independent classified snippet from Vermont edition
Fragmented OCR shows a classified ad section with price and delivery details. Mentions daily and Sunday delivery and a yearly retail price. No clear individuals, organizations, or events readable due to garbled text.
Optimistic ambassador Ct of U S to Soviet Union ends term
Wal ter J Stovsell Jr departs after two and a half years as ambassador with a temperate view of U S Soviet relations. He cites mutual concern on avoiding nuclear war and limits on strategic arms. Stoessel notes Soviet emphasis on China, trade and technology as factors in seeking a normal relationship, describing it as a long term process. His career spans eight decades in Soviet and East European affairs. Ford nominates him for West Germany post. Ed Roberts, 27, marries Cathy Dugan in Modesto after meeting at San Jose State. Maj Gen Robert K Taylor, WWII atomic bomb commander, dies at 84 in South Laguna. The Soviets are viewed as ideologically hostile and likely to push against U S interests.
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U.S
Soviet Union
Walter J. Stovssel Jr
Sisian
Moscow
Stoessel
China
Wade
Ford
West Germany
Ed Roberts
Brown
State Department of Rehabilitation
Cathy Dugan
Modesto
San Jose State
Typhoon Fran Ravages Kyushu Killing 84 in Japan
Typhoon Fran coated shores near Nagasaki and caused floods and landslides across Kyushu. Authorities report 84 dead, 41 missing, 240,000 homes flooded, 152 bridges destroyed, and 52 vessels sunk or driven out to sea amid five days of heavy rain.
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Japan
Tokyo
Kyushu
Nagasaki
Jahan
Firebombings hit multiple sites in Italy and Rome
Unknown attackers struck late Saturday and early Sunday targeting the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Rome, a Christian Democrat Party office, and a Turin electrical firm. The prior night blasts damaged the Chilean Embassy, the US Information Service, and Varig offices in Rome, as Philippine President Marcos granted clemency to 201 prisoners and commuted 62 sentences.
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Italy
Rwlty Christian Democrat Party
Rome
Turin
United States Information Service
Varig
The
Philippines
Manila
Philippine
Ferdinando Marcos
UAW Chief Pessimistic on Ford Contract Shutdown Threat
UAW President Leon Woodard said he was very pessimistic about reaching a new three year agreement with Port Motor Co by the 11:52 pan EDT Tuesday strike deadline. If no settlement, 176,000 Ford workers in 22 states would be called off, forcing a shutdown of the nation’s second largest automaker.
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Detroi
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodedek
Union
Port Motor Co
UAW
Ford
Klan Leaders Arrested After New Orleans Convention
Two Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leaders and three attendees were arrested near a cross burning in St Bernard Parish outside New Orleans for inciting to riot. Officers booked David E. Duke and Dr. James K. Warner after a shouting clash with law enforcement at midnight Saturday. The report also notes NASA’s Viking 2 Mars lander beginning a soil search for life evidence on the Plain of Utopia with planned digging.
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Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
David E. Duke
James K. Warner
Louisiana Grand Dragon
St. Bernard Parish
Pasadena
Mars
Plain of
Utopia
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Wang Hung-wen
Yeh Chien-ying
Chang Chun-chiao
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East
Central Committee
Ta Kung Pao
Chiang
Limin
Lina
Mao At-ching
Piyone
Longach
Abe Snares
Oaly
Rovert K. Taylor
U.S. Army Air Corps
South
Laguna
United States
Everest
Arlene Blum
Menlo Park
Nepal
Buenos Aires
Rosario
Isabel Peron
Syria
Beirut
Lebanon
KKK
Viking 2
India
Lakewood
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