Rabin Heads to Washington for Sinai Talks Amid Shifting Arab Ties
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin flies to Washington with cabinet backing to seek a renewed interim peace in the Sinai and assurances of continued U S arms deliveries. In Amman, Syria and Jordan pledge stronger military coordination while Egypt’s Fahmi discusses arms deals in London.
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United Press International
Yitzhak Rabin
Washington
Sinai Desert
Rabin
Middle East
Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
Syria
Jordan
Israel
Hafez Assad
Amman
Hussein
Assad
Convicts Seize Hostages at British Columbia Prison
Three life term inmates hold 15 hostages in a cramped New Westminster vault demanding a helicopter, an airplane, and safe exit from Canada. Ottawa cabinet meets in emergency session while police position at the fortress like facility.
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Vancouver
B.C
UPI
Ottawa
Warren Allmand
Canada
Toronto
Pierre Trudeau
British Columbia
New Westminister
Douglas Lucas
Andy Bruce
Clair Daniel Wilson
Vancouver International
Dale Otto Remling
Jackson
Mich
Remling
Lucas
Bruce
Wilson
Brian Williams
Federal Penitentiary
New Westminster
Hill inaction on fund measure may affect 50 million
Congressional inaction on a 15 billion supplemental funding bill threatens benefits for over 50 million Americans. Veterans GI checks, unemployment, Social Security bonuses, food stamps and civil service pay increases could be delayed or halted. House and Senate dispute over rail labor funding delays passage, risking program terminations.
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Hill
Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Agriculture Department
OPEC near accord to raise oil prices over 30 percent
OPEC ministers reported close to an agreement to end price quotes in dollars and use the Special Drawing Rights. They planned an experts commission to set higher prices after the Oct. 1 price freeze while debating the Kissinger compromise on energy talks.
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Libreville
Gabon
UPI
U.S
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
US S
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Valentin Hernandez Acosta
Tayeh Abdul Karim
Karim
Hernandez
SDR
S. Mohammed Yeganeh
Iran
National Bank
OPEC
Kent State shooting civil trial testimony questions crowd size
Cleveland UPI report says William Perkins testified that students were rushing guardsmen moments before the Kent State shootings. He described feeling surrounded as the guards advanced up Blanket Hill and fired into demonstrators. Jurors hear differing accounts from Perkins and wounded student Joseph Lewis amid a $48 million damages suit.
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Cleveland
UPI
William Perkins
North
Canton
Ohio
Ohio National
Perkins
Joseph Lewis
Scappoose
Ore
Lewis
U.S
Donald Young
New York City Moves to Create Municipal Assistance Corp
City Council approves a measure to empower a Municipal Assistance Corp to refinance up to 3 billion of NYC short term debt. The plan, sent to Albany, aims to avert imminent bankruptcy with swift state approval and Gov. Carey backing.
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New York
UPI
New York City
Municipal Assistance Corp
Howard Golden
Albany
Senate
Assembly
Hugh Carey
Donald Smiley
R. H. Macy’s and Co
Carey
Paris Prostitutes Expelled From Churches In Strike Action
Police removed hundreds of prostitutes from churches in Paris and provinces as they sat in strike for improvements. President Giscard d Estaing ordered humane handling and named a cabinet minister to address the issue, while church officials cautioned against hasty action.
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Paris
UPI
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
France
Saint Bernard Chapel
Montparnasse
Marseille
Mediterranean Harbor
Francois Marty
Michel Poniatowski
Conservatives mull standby party for 1976 election
Sen. Jesse Helms chairs a committee weighing a contingency plan to place an independent conservative on the 50 state presidential ballot. If activated the shadow party could aid a Wallace Reagan or other candidate, though Helms says the option may not be needed. Participants include Gov. Meldrim Thomson and reps Bauman Ashbrook Crane Symms Evans.
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Washington
UPI
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Committee On Conservative Alternatives
George Wallace
Alabama
California
Ronald Reagan
Helms
Wallace
Reagan
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
M. Stanton Evans
American Conservative Union
Robert Bauman
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Mission Hills
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E. Ocean Ave
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Columbus
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Giscard
Helms’ Committee
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Philip Crane
Ill
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Idaho
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