International Chicken Flying Meet draws entrants from around world
In Rio Grande Ohio an annual event pits feathered contenders from Boston New York Holland and possibly Bolivia and Australia. Birds launch from mailbox like pads while a training hangar aids practice The current record is 163 ft 2 in set in 1973 by an English game hen Officials note Bolivian entry may fail quarantine and speculate on Soviet involvement in a future super chicken race.
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Rio Grande, Ohio
Ohio
Boston
New York
Holland
Bolivia
Australia
Bob Evans
Evans
Lee Durieux
Ireland
Durieux
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Soviet Union
Young's Africa Speech Draws Hostile Reception In Maputo
U.S. official Andrew Young faced open hostility from African leaders at the U N conference on south-west Africa and Rhodesia. Nigeria’s Leslie Harriman criticized his policy shift, while Mugabe questioned Washington’s changes. Young had sought to link civil rights tactics to argue for reform, but many delegates remained skeptical.
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Raymond Wilkinson
Maputo
Mozambique
UPI
Andrew Young
United States
United Nations
U.N
South-West Africa
Rhodesia
Nigeria
Leslie Harriman
U.N. Committee On
Young
Selma
Harriman
Africa
U.S
Carter
Robert Mugabe
Patriotic Front
Selim Salim
U.N. Committee of 24
Washington
Samora Machel
Mugabe
Southern
Carter unveils stricter arms sales policy to allied nations
President Carter announces a new arms sale policy limiting future conventional transfers to close allies and nations vital to US security. Israel is exempted. sales will focus on treaty allies such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and NATO members. Pending commitments worth about 32 billion dollars will be honored while new sales are reduced.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
U.S
United States
Israel
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
NATO
Americans drink 17 percent less coffee in early 1977
The Agriculture Department reports per capita coffee use fell about 17 percent in the first quarter of 1977 from a year earlier, to about three pounds per person. Prices surged with retail coffee up sharply, signaling further increases as wholesale costs rise.
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Washington
Agriculture Dept
Department
Economic Research Service
Nickel carbonyl link to Legionnaires disease studied
University of Connecticut physician Dr. F William Sunderman’s theory gains support from New York University researchers who report high nickel levels in lung tissue from 11 of the Philadelphia Legionnaires outbreak victims. The July convention illness killed 29 and sickened 180.
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Farmington, Conn
UPI
University of Connecticut
F. William Sunderman
New York
American Legion
Philadelphia
James R. Chen
Roger Francisco
Thomas E. Miller
New York University Physics Dept
Science” Magazine
Reindeer Safety Drive Bans Low Flights by Nordic Air Forces
Finland and Sweden have been ordered to keep distance from air routes to spare pregnant reindeer and wildlife. A Finnish Air Force spokesman cites miscarriages caused by noise and low flight. Finland uses fluorescent antler paint and reflector badges to protect reindeer.
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Helsinki
Finland
UPI
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