Three Haitians seek asylum after ransom for diplomats release
In Mexico City authorities will review asylum requests from three Haitians who helped free 12 political prisoners and obtain 70 000 dollars. They released U S Ambassador Clinton E Knox and Consul Ward Christensen after kidnapping them in Port au Prince. The group arrived in Mexico City with 10 men and 5 women and were granted temporary political asylum pending background checks.
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U.S
Port au-Prince
Port-au-Prince
Clinton E. Knox
State Department
Ward
Christensen
Knox
Mexico
Reagan Opposes Cal Cradle to Grave Health Plans
The Reagan administration says it will oppose statewide cradle-to-grave health care proposals tied to mandatory payroll deductions in California. Separate pre paid plans by Moretti and Moscone could cost 2 to 7.5 billion dollars, with Geduldig defending fee for service and noting a catastrophic bill may be pursued.
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UPI
Reagan
California
Dwight Geduldig
State Department of Health Care Services
Assembly
Bob Moretti
D-Van Nuys
George Moscone
San Francisco
Moretti
Geduldig
Ronald Reagan
Milk price hike approved for California quarts
California dairy price increase totaling one cent per quart was announced by Agricultural Director C B Christensen to cover rising dairy feed costs. The adjustment follows public hearings and reflects 46 cents more per hundredweight paid to dairymen by milk distributors. In Marin County residents report pine needles syndrome with taste changes from chlorine and thenol in drinking water.
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UPI
California
C.B. Christensen
Christensen
Sausalito
Calif
Marin County
Farnkopf
Mount Tamalpais
Helgafjell Volcano Erupts Blanketing Vestmannaeyjar
Eruption from Helgafjell continues casting glow over Vestmannaeyjar as lava flows destroy eastern outskirts homes. Fifteen craters opened since Tuesday with some 300 yards wide. island’s 5,000 residents evacuated, only about 100 officials remain to guard property.
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UPI
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Edison becomes first Inventors Hall of Fame member
Edison is honored in West Orange with a ceremony in his library. Madeline Edison Sloane recalls her father’s work and life as details of his inventions and laboratory history are noted. National Inventors Day is established by a Nixon resolution.
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Inventors Hall of Fame
Nixon
Madeline Edison Sloane
Llewellyn Park
Pentagon Papers trial details spy operations risk to national security
Brig. Gen. Paul Gorman testified that secret Ellsberg files included CIA operations and strategic planning data which could have helped North Vietnam. He named some agents and said the information remained potentially sensitive through 1969 though papers covered up to 1967. The court recessed for national mourning for President Johnson.
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UPI
Daniel Ellsburg
North Vietnam
Paul Gorman
Central Intelligence Agency
Hanoi
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Ellsberg
Rand Corp
Lyndon B. Johnson
Matt Byrne
David R. Nissen
Teacher strikes disrupt classes in four cities
About 950000 public school students were affected as strikes continued in St. Louis Chicago Philadelphia and Superior Wisconsin. In St Louis the walkout entered its third day with police reporting moblike actions and taunting of teachers while pickets blocked deliveries and punctured tires.
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Clyde C. Miller
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United Auto Workers
Four U.S. service members killed in Indochina war
UPI reports four Americans killed last week in Laos as aviation crashes in Indochina push total U.S. combat deaths to 45,937 since January 1961. The military gives few crash details and notes broad casualties among allies and Viet Cong forces, with extensive totals for wounded and missing.
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Laos
U.S
Vietnam
Diplomatic chat grows over next U.S. ambassador in Moscow
Diplomats in Moscow express morale concerns as no U.S. ambassador is named to replace Jacob Beam who retired after 42 years in the service. They question whether a car dealer or Nixon ally might win the post while Kissinger’s visits keep embassy ties muted.
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Henry A. Kissinger
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