Concorde retaliation threat looms over U.S. landing ban
Britain and France warned of retaliatory limits on U.S. suppliers and carriers if Concorde is barred from landing in the United States. Hearings before Transportation Secretary Coleman opened on landing rights for British Airways and Air France, with a ruling due within 30 days.
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Miami
U.S
William T. Coleman
Washington
Britain
France
United States
William Coleman
British Airways
Air France
Coleman
America
United Kingdom
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Paris
Ten Protestants killed by group in Belfast violence
A group named the South Armagh Republican Action Force claimed responsibility for the slaying of 10 Protestant textile workers returning from their shift in Belfast. Security officials described the S A R A F as a flag of convenience for broader militant aims.
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Belfast
South Armagh
Republican Action Force
IRA
Castledawson
Northern Ireland
Mercenary recruitment rumors hover in United States
A decorated Vietnam veteran claims broad mercenary recruitment in the United States for Angola's civil war and says he will fight for the Communist side. He describes being recruited via an Atlanta classifieds ad and states pay of 2800 dollars monthly for fighting with Neto's Soviet backed movement. The report cites other outlets and notes lack of government recruitment confirmation.
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Rome, Ga
The
News-Tribune
Vietnam
United States
Angola
Atlanta
Atlanta Journal and the Constitution
Holden Roberto
Front For the National Liberation of
Don
Santiago
Chile
Christian Science Monitor
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. State Department
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Agostinho Neto
Ford hints Soviets may back off in Angola crisis
President Ford told midwest editors he does not expect the Soviet Union to continue funding or arming Angolan factions. He urged an immediate ceasefire and a government of national unity with Angolans solving the crisis themselves. Ugandan and Liberian leaders echoed calls to withdraw foreign forces. The OAU meets in Addis Ababa to discuss Angola.
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United States
Ford
Soviet Union
Angola
U.S
John Carlson
White House
Carlson
American Farm Bureau Federation
Idi Amin
Organization of African Unity
OAU
William Tolbert
Monrovia
Tolbert
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Kremlin
Washington
Portugal coalition moves on cabinet reshuffle and land reform
The three coalition parties in Portugal reach partial agreement on a government reshuffle with President Costa Gomes and Premier Azevedo. They lift the Socialist veto on a Communist deputy minister of agriculture while the Socialists seek an under-secretary role to police that post. Agriculture remains central as land reform details are endorsed, recalling a summer agrarian reform law and ongoing peasant occupations amid property ruin.
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Lisbon
Reuter
Portugal
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo
Mario Soares
Antonio Lopes Cardoso
Dartmouth detective killer remanded to Halifax jail
Allan Craig MacDonald 22 of Elmsdale is remanded to January 13 at Halifax Correctional Centre on murder charges in Cpl. Eric Spicer’s slaying. A preliminary hearing is set for March 17 with weekly court appearances. another man Keith MacCallum died of gunshot wounds nearby.
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Dartmouth
N.S
Allan Craig MacDonald
Elmsdale
Halifax Correctional Centre
Kenneth Crowell
MacDonald
Cpl
Eric Spicer
Crowell
Spicer
Ody
Keith MacCallum
Bible Hill
MacCallum
Roger Smith
Dartmouth Force
Hellyer enters Tory leadership race in Canada
Former Liberal cabinet minister Paul Hellyer confirms he may have overreached in his Agenda book by calling the Progressive Conservative party two horses moving apart. He eyes the 1970s leadership bid among 16 aspirants and hints he might omit the line if elected.
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Ottawa
Paul Hellyer
Hellyer
The
Liberals
Conservative Party
Preservation bid to save Medalta Potteries from demolition
Medicine Hat seeks provincial Historic Site designation for Medalta Potteries Ltd on Industrial Ave. The plant, founded in 1916 and once a major national supplier, could gain protection and a working ceramics studio on site. Local MLA Jim Horsman and museum curator Jack Barrie praise the plan as beneficial for history and tourism.
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Medicine Hat
Medalta Potteries Ltd
Industrial Ave
Culture Department
Medalla
Vancouver Island
Prince Edward Island
Canada
Lakehead
Medalta
China
CNR
CPR
Alberta
Redcliff
Jim Horsman
Horsman
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat Museum
Jack Barrie
Two men sentenced for murder attempts in BC bank robbery case
Real Cardinal and Leonard Methot were given life terms for attempted murder of five RCMP officers after a bungled Coquitlam bank robbery. They received 20 years for robbery with violence and five years for each weapon charge, to run concurrently. A third man was acquitted, and a fourth faces pending charges.
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New Westminster
B.C
RCMP
Coquitlam
Vancouver
Real Cardinal
Leonard Methot
Montreal
Port Moody
Port Coquitlam
British Columbia Supreme Court
Douglas Andrews
Methot
Cardinal
Mario Proulx
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North Atlantic
U.K
Gerald Kaufman
Department of Industry
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Associated Press
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Reavey Brothers
Whitecross
O'Dowd
Ballydugan
O’dowd
Reavey
St. Louis
Africa
Ernest Hall
the News
Saskatchewan Liquor Control Board
Willow
Saskatchewan
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