Republicans and Carter battle delegate totals in week ahead
As the GOP race tightens with Ford and Reagan amid delegate fights, polls show Ford leading slightly but short of the 1,130 needed. Reagan backs Schweiker as running mate, while Carter campaigns in Georgia and plans New Hampshire and Washington stops. Carter plays softball with Secret Service as strategists map ticket moves and committee meetings.
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Handful of Americans in Vietnam evacuated to Bangkok
About 20 Americans and Vietnamese with American passports remain in Vietnam after 49 Americans and dependents from Saigon arrived in Bangkok. Evacuees report harsh conditions in agricultural areas with disease and lack of care. Several say the Communist government aims to remove hundreds of foreigners, mostly French or those with French citizenship. Names include Frederick Gulden, Richard Hughes, Teresa Ann Reed, John H. Gay, and Tucker Gugelman, with others like Herman A. McDonald and Tu Thi Nhan cited.
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Grand Rapids
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19 Victims Identified In FBI Cointelpro Harassment
The Justice Department says 19 people suffered harm from FBI harassment campaigns in the 1960s and early 1970s. Actions included job loss privacy invasions and false labeling as police. Officials described a four month effort to notify victims and outline Cointelpro tactics and approved acts.
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Pickets Block West Virginia Coal Miners
Pickets blocked miners from returning to work across most of West Virginia as the coal strike persisted. About 2,000 of United Mine Workers District 6’s 16,000 miners remained on strike while a back-to-work movement began in northern West Virginia and Ohio.
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Gladys Knight's Baby Born From Pips Singer
Detroit report says Gladys Knight, lead singer of Gladys Knight and the Pips, delivered a 10 pound baby boy by cesarean. Barry Hankerson, her husband, joked the child is as big as two sacks of sugar. Knight, mother of three from a prior marriage, remains in good condition at a Detroit hospital while working on a film Hankerson produced.
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Illinois Crash Kills Minister and Family in Jefferson City
Three members of the Charles Ross family were killed in a head-on collision near the Mississippi River in Atlas Illinois. The Rev Charles Ross pastor of First United Presbyterian Church of Jefferson City, his wife Arlene, and their 14 year old daughter Rebeccah died. Two other passengers were hospitalized with serious injuries. Mathew Ross 11 was in critical condition and Valerie Ross 12 in fair condition. The crash occurred on U S 54 east of the river when their car was struck by a westbound vehicle attempting to pass a camper.
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Jefferson City
Mississippi River
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Rebeccah
Mathew Ross
St. Louis
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Local 1759 vows to press strike despite judge offer
Local 1759 started the walkout and vowed Sunday to continue the strike even after a federal judge offered to cancel 200000 in fines if they would end the stoppage. Local 1759 president Hayes Holstein warned that if the northern miners return to work, pickets would be sent up and the walkout resumed.
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Evacuation Of Wounded Still Uncertain
Beir ut in Lebanon AP reports the wife of President Franjieh supports Red Cross efforts to evacuate 4000 wounded from Tal Zaatar camp but militiamen in the Christian sector show no sign of cooperation. Fighting increases after a brief lull.
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Red Cross
Tal Zaatar
Suleiman Franjieh
Irisse
International Red Cross
Franjieh
Fransleh
Christian Tigers
Camille Chamoun
Chamoun
Four Missouri Senate hopefuls clash on televised debate
Four leading Missouri Democratic Senate contenders traded charges on a Sunday night program aired from St Louis and broadcast to Kansas City and Columbia. Symington and Litton sparred over campaign spending and income sources while Hearnes denounced deficit spending, Wheeler attacked labor union backing, and the candidates called for a new direction for the party.
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Missouri
U.S. Senate
James Symington
Jerry Litton
Kplr-Ty
Warren E. Hearnes
Kansas City
Charles Wheeler
Symington
Stuart Symington
Senate
St. Louis
Columbia
Litton
Chillicothe
Free Road Maps Dwindle at Service Stations Nationwide
The nation sees fewer free road maps at oil stations as costs rise since the 1970s energy crunch. Rand McNally notes a shift to smaller regional maps and paid or vending options, with some stations passing costs to customers. Total map distribution fell after 1973 but hints of recovery appear in 1976 yet remain below 1972 levels.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
American Petroleum Institute
Conroy V. Erickson
Rand McNally Inc
Skokie, Ill
Erickson
Rand-McNally
United States
Rand McNally
Elizabeth Taylor in Vienna for Musical Film
Elizabeth Taylor arrives in Vienna to star as Desirée in a $7 million film version of A Little Night Music Harold Prince will produce the project. Taylor stays in a suite at the Imperial Hotel, a favorite residence of royalty and heads of state.
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Austria
Elizabeth Taylor
Desiree
Miss Taylor
Imperial Hotel
Harold Prince
Morrows Welcome Daughter at Audrain Medical Center
Mr and Mrs Robert L Morrow of Montgomery City welcomed a daughter born Sunday at 7 09 am at Audrain Medical Center Stick weighing eight pounds nine ounces The Morrows father works for the Permaneer Corporation in Wright City
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Audrain Medical Center
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