Carter vows to aid steel industry without quotas
Washington reports President Carter pledges a comprehensive solution to steel industry woes without resorting to import quotas. He notes dumping concerns, cites five Japanese producers suspected of illegal pricing, and seeks fair trade with enforcement of antidumping laws. Industry leaders and union officials welcome a broad plan amid 19,000 layoffs and plant closures.
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U.S. Steel
Edgar Speer
White House
Lloyd McBride
United Steelworkers
McBride
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U.S
International Trade Commission
Barnard performs chimpanzee heart transplant in patient
Cape Town surgeon Christiaan Barnard, famed for the first human heart transplant, reports a 60-year-old patient receiving a chimpanzee heart and doing well after a four hour operation at Groote Schuur Hospital. Barnard says he is very tired but the patient shows good recovery. The report notes increased Soviet Jewish emigration to Vienna. Bonn defense ministry confirms two airmen gave Nazi salutes at a Rheine F-4 Phantom base.
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South Africa
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Christiaan Barnard
Barnard
Groote Schuur
Hospital
London
Bonn
West German
Air Force
Bonn Defense Ministry
Rheine
Muenster
Nobel prize in economics awarded to Ohlin and Meade
The 1977 Nobel prize for economics was shared by Bertil Ohlin of the Stockholm School of Economics and James Meade of Cambridge University. The Royal Academy of Sciences cited their path breaking theories on international trade and capital movements and the impact of policy on open economies.
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Sweden
Britain
Royal Academy of Sciences
Bertil Ohlin
Stockholm School of Economics
James Meade
Cambridge University
England
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Meade
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Academy
Assar Lindbeck
Jackie Onassis resigns from Viking Press over Kennedy novel
Jacqueline Onassis quits Viking Press where she worked as editor for two years over its publication of a novel depicting an imagined assassination plot against her brother-in-law Senator Edward Kennedy. She submitted a resignation letter to publisher Thomas Gainbourg, saying she could no longer separate her roles as an employee and Kennedy relative.
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Jacqueline Onassis
Viking Press
Edward Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Gainzburg
Viking
Nancy Tuckerman
Onassis
Miss Tuckerman
Mrs. Onassis
Bangkok elephants seized in ransom kidnapping caper
Armed bandits abducted an elephant used by Munford Inc of Atlanta to haul rattan in southern Thailand. The animal, bought two months ago for 3000 dollars, is held in the jungle for a 1500 dollar ransom while workers pursue the missing guard and investigate the abduction of the six ton beast.
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Thailand
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Munford Inc
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