Hostage Crisis in Netherlands Maintains Tragedy Tension
About 60 hostages remain in the Bovensmilde school and a nearby train as 11 South Moluccan extremists negotiate with Dutch authorities. They drop a transport demand but still press for 21 imprisoned compatriots and an aircraft to flee. Soldiers and state police surround the sites.
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ASSEN
Netherlands
Dutch Radio
Justice Ministry
Indonesia
Dutch East Indies
A.J. Fonteijn
Bovensmilde
Toos Faber
Bomb blasts kill three at Istanbul airport and Sirkeci station
Bombs exploded at Istanbul's main airport and Sirkeci station injuring 12 and 30 respectively, killing three. Former prime minister Bulent Ecevit escaped unharmed as a device detonated at Izmir airport during his campaign visit. an aide was lightly wounded.
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Istanbul
Reuter
Bulent Ecevit
Izmir Aiport
Turkey
Istabul
Sirkeci
Bosporus
Ecevit
Izmir
Ambassador Kidnapped in Guatemala City by Gunmen
El Salvador's ambassador to Guatemala Col Eduardo Casanova Sandoval was seized Sunday by five gunmen who intercepted his limousine and forced him into another car. Police offered no immediate identification of the assailants. Later reports described bomb explosions at Istanbul airport and a railway station injuring 17 people including Mehmet Isvan, an aide to Istanbul's mayor.
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Guatemala City
Guatemala
el Salvador
Col
Eduardo Casanova Sandoval
Istanbul
Ecevit
Mehmet Isvan
Ahmet Isvan
Paul
Kentucky
Julian Carroll
Carroll
Stine
Walter Bailey
Bailey
Darrell Meader
Red Cross
U.S
Jubilee word banned by printers stalls silver jubilee edition
London Reuters reports printers refuse to print the word jubilee in The Morning Advertiser over an embargo tied to the queen’s 25 year reign celebration. Royal photos blanked and two ads withdrawn as censorship begins before the planned June 7 jubilee supplement.
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London
Reuter
Victuallers Association
Language bill backed by Parti Quebecois at convention
In Montreal, PQ delegates at the sixth general convention endorsed the government language law. They urged adoption without changes and backed French school access for children of all newcomers, including arrivals from other Canadian provinces, and called for laws to be enacted in French only.
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Montreal
Parti Quebecois
Quebec
Canada
Pierre Laporte
Two youths die in two-car crash in Alberta
A 17 year old Allan Kuhn died when his car collided with a second vehicle driven by Ricky Dyck at the Gershaw Drive underpass in Medicine Hat. Dyck and Paul Lapointe were hospitalized with injuries and the second fatality involved a Hutterite farmer near Etzikom after a tractor overturn.
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al Brooks
Medicine Hat
Allan Kuhn
Alberta
Ottawa
Ricky Dyck
Bridge Street
Gershaw Drive
Kuhn
Dyck
Edmonton Journal taunts Soviet Latvia in human rights challenge
The Edmonton Journal challenges the Soviet Latvia paper to reciprocate with articles on human rights. It doubts the USSR will accept, criticizing Soviet attacks on Canada and citing racism, wartime Japanese citizen policy, and unions in Canada.
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Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
Soviet Latvia
Soviet Union
Canada
Latvia
U.S.S.R
Brezhnev Accuses Carter of Stalling Arms Talks
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev told French television that the United States seeks unilateral advantages in arms talks and there has been no serious progress. He urged equal security, warned of growing weapons diversity, and defended Soviet social guarantees while criticizing U.S. policy.
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Paris
Reuter
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S
Carter
United States
Brezhnev
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
Cyrus Vance
Geneva
Kremlin
West-Central Alberta Braces for Minor Floods
Alberta environment spokesman warns of minor floods across west-central regions as steady rain from Friday to Sunday yields 25 to 100 millimetres of precipitation. Snow at higher elevations concentrates in the Swan Hills and Edson areas from Calgary to Peace River.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alberta Environment Department
Calgary
Peace River
Swan Hills
Edson
Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Kills 159 in Kentucky
In Southgate Kentucky 159 died as Beverly Hills Supper Club burned. Rescue workers faced crowds of injured and reports of no functional exit lighting and a lack of sprinklers. Officials urge retroactive safety laws and further debris searches.
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Steven Hurst
Southgate
Beverly Hills
Dick Riesenberg
Jim Lanagan
Tom Rebercomb
Fort Thomas
Fred Stine
Ken Paul
National Guard
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Minos
Lions Park
Sunny
Smith
J and M Yankees
Frank Webber
Faber
Etzikom
Joseph Hofer
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