Peace Pact tests gains as Kenyans released in Uganda
Kenya urged the deterrent against Kenyan harassment and killings to stop for a peace accord to succeed. About 99 Kenyans were released by Uganda amid claims of arrests and detentions of businessmen linked to Kenya Britain and West Germany. President Amin criticized Israel and Britain over the Entebbe raid and warned future intervention would draw a tough response.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Uganda
Nation
The
Defense Council
Britain
West Germany
Idi Amin
Israel
Entebbe
Radio Uganda
Munyua Waiyaki
Waiyaki
Amin
Train hits church bus seven killed nine injured at Stratton
A Burlington Northern freight train struck a Church of Christ bus near Stratton Nebraska injuring eight others with nine fatalities reported in the UPI dispatch.
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Stratton, Neb
UPI
Burlington Northern
Church of Christ
CIA campaign funding list includes many former lawmakers
The Playboy report names Gerald Ford and a broad roster of current and former congressmen from both parties tied to CIA campaign financing in 1968. The piece also details a tragic bus train crash near Stratton, Colorado, killing the Nerren family and six Stratton children, with several others injured and treatment limited by scarce medical staff.
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Chicago
UPI
Gerald Ford
Michigan
Playboy Magazine
Robert C. Byrd
Dw.va
Howard W. Cannon
Dev
James C. Eastland
Dmiss
Paul J. Fannin
R-Ariz
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Paul Laxalt
R-Nev
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
John G. Tower
R-Tex
J. Herbert Burke
Rfla
John N. Camp
R-Okla
James M. Collins
W.C. Daniel
D-Va
William H. Harsha
R-Ohio
Abraham Kazen
D-Tex
Robert L. Leggett
Dcalif
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
James H. Quillen
R-Tenn
William J. Randall
D-Mo
Olin E. Teague
Joe D. Waggonner, Jr
D-La
Larry Winn Jr
R-Kan
Stratton
St. Joseph's Hospital
Denver
Thomas B. Nerren
Shirene
Libyan agent factory of bombs injures Cairo officials
In Cairo a Libyan intelligence linked agent exploded two hazardous devices in a 12 story government building on Al Mogamaa square. Emmad Eddin Abdullah wounded himself and 14 others including policemen. He was captured and the Libyan plot deemed an extension of Khadafy saboteur actions. Police sealed the scene and evacuated victims. The incident follows prior Libyan linked bomb scares in Alexandria and Mersa Matrouh amid strained Egypt Libya ties since 1973.
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Cairo
Egypt
UPI
Hassan Abu Basha
al Mogamaa
al Tahrir
Liberation
Arab League
Nile Hilton
Emmad Eddin Abdullah
Abu Basha Said
Abdullah
Abu Basha
Muammar Khadafy
Libya
Anwar Sadat
Col
American McDonald says he signed family away to exit Saigon
Herman McDonald 36 says he signed papers for government officials agreeing his wife and six children did not want to leave Vietnam before he left with 38 Americans on a UN charter flight from Saigon to Bangkok. He recalls a decade in Vietnam and nine months of re education after the 1975 Communist takeover. He later worked as a rice mill coolie in Long Xuyen before shipping 100 pound sacks to Saigon and Hanoi.
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Bangkok
UPI
Herman McDonald
Saigon
McDonald
Vietnam
United Nations
Manila
Mekong Delta
Long Xuyen
Hanoi
Prisoner of longest modern imprisonment seeks nursing home
Johnson Van Dyke Grigsby, 91, has spent 66 years in Indiana State Prison on a life sentence. The Indiana Parole Board will keep him locked in unless a suitable nursing home is found, as he prefers prison life and cannot adjust to outside care.
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Michigan City
Ind
UPI
Johnson van Dyke Grigsby
Indiana State
Indiana Parole Board
Grigsby
Parole Board
Jack Duckworth
Anderson, Ind
Guinness Book of Records
Mystery Illness Death Toll Rises to 27 in Pa
Harrisburg reports 27 deaths linked to the American Legion mystery illness with 152 cases confirmed. Investigators by state and federal labs test samples at CDC Atlanta and in Philadelphia while epidemiologists distribute detailed questionnaires to 931 posts to map exposure and timing. The illness shows a multi day delay and may involve a rare chemical or virus factor, with no clear cause yet identified.
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Harrisburg
UPI
American Legion
Dennis Boyle
Luzerne County
Harold Davis
Philadelphia
Leonard Bachman
Pennsylvania
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Pennsylvania American Legion
Health Department
William E. Parkin
Bachman
Parkin
Richard Cohn
Cohn
Atways
Jay Satz
Earth Department
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Taban
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Kiev
Danae
Scotland
Cannon, Laxalt
Gordon L. Allott
R-Colp
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Norris Cotton
Rn.h
Frank T. Bow
Ohio
Omar Burleson
Dtex
James R. Grover
R-N.y
Craig Hosmer
R-Calif
Dan H. Kuykendall
Vernon W. Thomson
Wis
Paul Carlson
McCook, Neb
State Patrol
M.D. Grant
Carlson
Nerren
Grant
Dundee County Hospital
Benkelman
Hitchcock County Hospital
Thomas
Debra Minary
Cindy
Holly Schoenberger
Jennifer Scarrow
Julianna
Steve
Nerrens
Scarrow
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Mersa Matrouh
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