Hundreds protest Concorde landing at Kennedy Airport
A New York protest disrupted traffic around Kennedy Airport as 200 to 300 cars clogged access roads to oppose the SST service start. Coordinators claimed up to 1350 vehicles from Queens, Brooklyn and Nassau joined a 5 pm to 7:45 pm demonstration organized by the Emergency Coalition to Stop the SST.
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New York
UPI
Kennedy Airport
John Marus
Queens
Brooklyn
Nassau County
Emergency Coalition
Bryan Levinson
Port Authority of
New Jersey
Kennedy
U.S
Milton Pollack
Port Authority
Pollack
Air France
British Airways
Mixed Cuba cruise draws protests and praise in port
Demonstrators led by Juanita Castro picketed the MTS Daphne during boarding for the first U S Cuba cruise in 16 years while passengers expressed curiosity and mixed views about visiting a communist country. FBI and police secured the terminal as the voyage shifted from a Jamaica jazz trip to Cuba.
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New Orleans
UPI
United States
Cuba
Juanita Castro
Fidel Castro
Miss Castro
Carter
MTS
Daphne
Montego Bay
Jamaica
Hutchins dead at 78 professor and center founder dies
Robert M. Hutchins former president and chancellor of the University of Chicago dies at 78 after a lengthy illness in Santa Barbara. He founded the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and remains CEO of the Fund for the Republic. Memorial services planned in Santa Barbara and at the University of Chicago.
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Hutchins
Cottage Hospital
Vesta Sutton Orlick
Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
Fund For the Republic, Inc
Brooklyn
DES lawsuit dismissed by Wayne County judge
A Wayne County Circuit Court judge dismissed a DES cancer lawsuit by 144 women who could not name specific product brands or manufacturers. The plaintiffs alleged a link between their mothers DES exposure and cancer and planned to appeal. Eightteen companies were named but none tied to individual cases.
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Detroit
UPI
Wayne County
Thomas Roumel
HUD chief vows new tools to enforce fair housing
Housing Secretary Patricia Harris says she will use new tools to enforce fair housing laws including a policy to end racial discrimination in home appraisals. A pilot program near Chicago's Marquette Park shows values plunging where blacks move in, prompting changes to appraisal guidelines. Harris also plans lenient FHA credit standards, tighter mortgage scrutiny, eviction moratoriums, and a broad housing plan to curb redlining and aid Sunbelt growth.
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Washington
UPI
Patricia Harris
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Harris
Chicago
Marquette Park
Federal Housing Administration
Carter
Carter to Visit Fresno California for Drought Tour
President Carter plans to land at Fresno Air Terminal around 3 p.m. for a brief visit. He will tour the Reedley area farm to assess drought impact on California agriculture and fly back to Washington with potential company from Governor Brown and lawmakers.
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Fresno
UPI
Carter
Reedley
Washington
San Joaquin Valley
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Los Angeles
Charles Kryder
California
Half-million Basque workers strike protests turn violent Madrid
More than a half million Basque workers walked out in a general strike protesting police brutality. Riot police clashed with demonstrators in Bilbao San Sebastian Pamplona and Victoria as barricades blocked streets and transport. The strike paralyzed the Basque region and spread to Madrid and other cities.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Bilbao
San Sebastian
Pamplona
Vitoria
Cifra
Basque
Israel election campaign ends with nationwide TV debate
Israel capped its campaign for Tuesdays elections with a 40 minute TV debate on peace and the economy. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and opposition leader Menachem Begin restated party stands as polls show no party likely to win a majority and 2.3 million voters prepare to cast ballots.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
United States
Shimon Peres
America
Menachem Begin
Likud
Peres
Labor Alignment
Brown seeks prison location advice from publishers
Gov Edmund Brown asks California newspaper publishers where two new prisons should be built but receives no concrete suggestions. He notes a dilemma between keeping criminals off the streets and not placing a prison in any given city as opposition grows to funding for the Southern California projects.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Brown
California Newspaper Publishers Association
Nevada
British officer executed by IRA in Northern Ireland
The provisional Irish Republican Army says it executed Capt. Robert L Nairac of the Grenadier Guards after abducting him near Fork Hill County Louth. Nairac reportedly admitted being an anti-terrorist undercover agent and his body has not been found. The British army denies he worked for the SAS.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Robert L Nairac
Crack Grenadier Guards Regiment
Three Steps
Fork Hill
County Louth Armagh
Irish Republic
IRA
South Armagh
Provisional Ira
SAS
Special Air Services
Nairac
British
Britain
Army
Alaska lands debate pits conservation against Alaska development
In Atlanta Rep Wyche Fowler and Rep Don Young clashed over a Sieberling bill to place 116 million acres of Alaska wilderness under federal conservation. Fowler backed strong federal control while Young warned of economic harm and loss of mineral reserves. Nathaniel Reed supported the measure, noting historic park protections and warning of land lock claims.
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Atlanta
API
Wyche Fowler
D-Ga
Alaska
Fowler
Don Young
House Interior Committee
John Sieberling
Ohio
House
Sieberling
Young
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Nathaniel P Reed
Hobe Sound
Fla
US Department of Interior
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North Vietnam
China
William O’rear
Dallas
Europe
John Martin
San Jose
Calif
FBI
Harbor
United Auto Workers
UAW
Proxmire
William Proxmire
Wisconsin Democrat
Lompoc
Bruce Janatsch
Lompoc Fire Department
South G Street
John Mulligan
Ken Pollard
Northeast
Midwest
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Reps
B . Sisk
John Krebs
Wildboard
Yigael Yadin
Democratic Movement For Change
Yadin
Begin
Moy 7
Noos A4& W
Coney
West Ocean Ave
American Guarantee Life Ins. Co
H’ Street
BAY L
Hays Lynn
Kathie Lindley
Helen London
American Plan
Lompoc Calif
Newry
Republic of Ireland
Western Frontier
Yosemite and
Yellowstone National Parks
Yellowstone Project
Grant
Reed
Collectors’ Gallery
Picture Framing and Art Gallery
Shields
Lance Coin CO
Burllton
Buckner
Johns Manville
Rainbird
Laval
Cloud Nine
Lasco
Pacific Western Toro
West Main
Santa Maria
Cme
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