Prison escapees seek asylum to help overthrow Marcos
Eugenio Lopez Jr. and Sergio Osmena III, escapees from a Manila prison camp, applied for political asylum in the United States and were granted temporary freedom pending a decision. They denied plotting to kill Marcos and said they will publicly oppose the regime while in the U.S. and join the Movement for a Free Philippines.
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Manila Chronicle
Sergio Osmena III
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Serge
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Osmena
Steve Psinakis
Ancient feud erupts at UCLA professor’s home
UCLA Turkish history professor Stanford J. Shaw and his family slept as a crude bomb blasted their doorstep in Los Angeles. No injuries were reported. A caller later claimed Armenian nationalist responsibility linking to a string of Middle East killings.
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UPI
UCLA
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Paris
Ismail Erez
France
Austria
Vienna
Shaw
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Lockheed strike predicted by union says October 10 deadline
More than 28 000 Lockheed aerospace workers at Georgia and California plants face a possible strike Monday if no new contract agreement is reached. Union official Rick Celebron urged continued bargaining at the Miramar Hotel as the Oct 10 expiry nears.
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UPI
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Georgia
California
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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
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Palmdale
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Li’l Abner creator Capp to end strip next month
UPI reports cartoonist Al Capp retires ending Li’l Abner after a run beginning in 1934. Daily papers will publish the final strip on November 5 with Sunday editions on November 13, ending a bold satirical era in Dogpatch.
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UPI
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Dogpatch
U.S.A
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Li'l Abner
Couple leaps to death from Golden Gate Bridge identified
Marin County coroner deputies identified the two as 28 year old Bayani Lingat Mariano and 23 year old Elizabeth M. Cocsin of San Francisco. A note in Mariano’s van hinted at a personal crisis as witness Guy Anderson described the couple kissing and leaping hand in hand. The deaths mark the bridge’s 612th and 613th such incidents in 40 years.
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UPI
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Marin County
Bayani Lingat Mariano
Elizabeth M. Cocsin
Mariano
Bayani
Guy Anderson
Somali insurgents close on Harar in Ethiopia
Somali insurgents appear to seal a lethal ring around Harar, a key Ethiopian defense anchor 250 miles from Addis Ababa. Its fall would leave Dire Dawa as the last Ethiopian holdout in the Ogaden region, signaling a major advance in three months of fighting.
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Kenya
UPI
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Dire Dawa
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Mogadishu
Western Somali Liberation Front
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Marda
Festival named for saint births a new jazz experiment in SF
Modest crowds witnessed the first annual St Francis Jazz Festival in San Francisco honoring Francis of Assisi. Proceeds funded church and community charities and scholarships, with Dizzy Gillespie, Ken ny Rankin, and Hubert Laws among luminaries at Grace Cathedral.
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UPI
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Hubert Laws
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Nob Hill
James A. Pike
Icebergs Explored as Potential Fresh Water Source
Experts at the First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization in Ames Iowa discuss iceberg towing to irrigate arid regions. They warn that technical and economic feasibility remains unproven and caution against premature optimism.
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Iowa
UPI
Antarctica
Wilford Weeks
Weeks
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Henri Bader
U.S. Army Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory
Bader
Iowa State University
Ford to cut prices on Pinto Mustang II and Mercury Bobcat
Ford Motor Co lowers sticker prices on 1978 Pinto Mustang II and Mercury Bobcat by up to 9.1 percent to boost sales against Japanese imports. Reductions reach up to $323 with options like power brakes tinted glass and rear window defrosters moved to standard. Biggest cuts apply in eight western states excluding California.
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UPI
Ford Motor Co
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Ford
Ben Bidwell
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