Muzorewa Draws Massive Black Rally in Rhodesia
Bishop Abel Muzorewa led the largest black nationalist rally yet in Salisbury drawing estimates of 100,000 to 200,000 supporters. He demanded a quick settlement, rejected a sell-out deal with the white government, and denounced rival Nkomo while negotiations among Patriotic Front leaders in Tanzania claimed progress toward unity of guerrilla forces.
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Rhodesia
Abel Muzorewa
Joshua Nkomo
Nkomo
Nkormo
Robert Mugabe
The
Patriotic Front
Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania
Zambia
Mugabe
Mozambique
Muzorewa
African National Council
Tually
Organization of African Unity
Jan Smith
United Methodist Church
Highfield
Zimbabwe
Smith
Common Cause seeks Flynt removal as ethics chair
Common Cause asks Rep. John Flynt to quit as chairman of the House ethics committee alleging he cannot lead the probe into South Korean influence buying in Congress. Flynt vows to stay, while David Cohen urges removal for credibility. The move follows Philip Lacovara’s resignation amid concerns over investigation pace and a Justice Department ledger tied to South Korean businessman Tongsun Park.
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Washington
Common Cause
John Flynt
D-Ga
House Ethics Committee
Congress
Flynt
Democratic House
David Cohen
Citizen's Lobby
Rep. Flynt
House of Representatives
Justice Department
Food Detectives Work From Tiny FDA Office
In a cramped FDA unit in Rockville two investigators monitor product related illnesses and injuries. Richard Swanson and Dan Brand track botulism cases and other risks with a wall chart, identifying patterns without computers. They helped link a March case in Michigan to jalapeno peppers canned at home and served in a Mexican restaurant in Pontiac, aiding rapid public health action.
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Rockville, Md
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Richard Swanson
Dan Brand
Swanson
Brand
Michigan
Pontiac
Mich
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Rockville
Miss Trinidad Breaks Color Barrier at Miss Universe 1977
Janelle Penny Commissiong of Trinidad and Tobago, the first Black Miss Universe, says the title may start change but won’t alter her life drastically. She discusses race perceptions amid pageant coverage and notes the prize includes $23,000 in cash.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Janelle Penny Commissiong
Miss Commissiong
Trinidad-Tobago
Marx May Leave Hospital This Week
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center says 86 year old Groucho Marx could go home soon after a month in hospital for pneumonitis. A spokesman noted he was up and around and "making eyes at the nurses" as of Sunday.
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Marx
Los Angeles
Groucho Marx
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Grandview
Jamie W. Wallen
John W. Wallen
Truman Medical Center
Monitor to be raised from Atlantic's 220 feet depth off Cape Hatteras
Civil War ironclad Monitor, sunk Dec 31 1862 after its famed March 9 battle with the Merrimack, nears recovery. The 114 year sleep ends as navigational gear and buoys are deployed 16 miles east of Cape Hatteras. A three week expedition aims to surface the ship and build a 3D model, with divers planned to recover a deck plate and a lost camera.
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Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
John Newton
Monitor Research and Recovery Foundation
Beaufort
N.C
Newton
Monitor
Virginia
Merrimack
Hampton Roads
Wisconsin strike ends as mediator’s proposal accepted
The Wisconsin State Employees Union and the state accepted the mediator's package to end the daylong strike by 23 000 workers. The contract includes wage step progression and weekend differentials and now awaits ratification by the union and the Joint Organizational Committee on Employed Relations.
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Madison, Wis
Wisconsin
Robert Howlett
Thomas King
King
Double Win in Tul Race in Vancouver Tub Race
Australian Phil Holt won the 11th Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race and set a second straight record with one hour 33 minutes 16 seconds for the 36 mile course across Georgia Strait. Holt beached at Kitsilano Beach and rang the finishers bell, saying his new tub sat on the water and let the motor go for its life while escort boats struggled to keep up amid a rough start with about 10 of 150 tubs swamping.
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Vancouviin
British Columbia
Phil Holt
Nanaimo
Four Die In Missouri Weekend Motorcycle and Car Crashes
The Associated Press reports nine dead in weekend Missouri crashes including four motorcyclists. Victims include William Mantia 24 and Deborah Spyteck 22 of St. Louis struck by a train in south St Louis County and Douglas Sauer 20 Neal Spellman 19 of Lee's Summit with fatal bike collisions on Jackson County Route AA near Blue Springs. Two St Louis Illinois residents Lee Roy Taylor 58 Ballwin and Barbara Jean Wiser 31 Wood River Ill died in a head on near Ste Genevieve. Gregory Sipes 17 Ava died when his car overturned near Ava. Ronnie Burnham 23 Portageville was run over while lying in a road. James Jenkins 32 Sugar Creek crashed off a road near Stockton. The piece ends with an unrelated ad.
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Associated Press
Missouri
William Mantia
Deborah Spyteck
St. Louis
St. Louis County
Douglas Sauer
Neal Spellman
Lee
Summit
Jackson County
Blue Springs
Ste. Genevieve
Lee Roy Taylor
Ballwin
Barbara Jean Wiser
Wood River
Ill
St. Genevieve County Hospital
Gregory Sipes
Ava
Douglas County
Ronnie Burnham
Portageville
James Jenkins
Sugar Creek
Stockton
1 200 Acre Fire Claims 3 Lives
Three firefighters died as a 1 200 acre blaze in Ashley National Forest Utah raged under shifting winds. Firefighters battled the flames with bulldozers helicopters and bombers while other fires burned thousands of acres in Montana and Wyoming.
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Associated Press
Utah
Ashley National Forest
Montana
Wyoming
Boise
Forest Service
Timber Canyon
Hanna
Horse Ridge
Duchesne
Nephi
Mt. Nebo
Pattee Canyon
Missoula
Bodies of three American crewmen returned from Korea
In Tokyo a U S Air Force C130 carried the coffins of CWO Joseph Miles Sgt Ron Wells and Sgt Robert Haynes from South Korea to Japan following their CH47 Chinook being shot down near the DMZ. The fourth survivor CWO Glenn Schwanke remained hospitalized in Seoul.
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North Korea
Japan
South Korea
Air Force
U.S
Yokota
United States
CWO
Joseph A. Miles
Washington
Glenn M. Schwanke
Spring Green
Wis
Panmunjom
Schwanke
Seoul Military Hospital
Rabbitt Bribery Trial Starts in St Louis
Former Missouri House Speaker Richard J Rabbitt faces a federal trial on charges of bribery and extortion. He allegedly devised a scheme to help a St Louis architectural firm win design contracts and received money raised by automobile dealers lobbying for a 4 bill in 1973 while attempting to extort law business from the Missouri Bus and Truck Association. Rabbitt has denied the charges.
Ali and Bride Mobbed at Northern England Mosque
Muhammed Ali and his wife Veronica were met by nearly 5,000 people as they arrived for a 20 minute marriage blessing at a South Shields mosque run by the Islamic Trust. Imam Taleb Shamed conducted the ceremony amid a three day charity tour to raise funds for local boys clubs. Abdul Muhammad Kaid said the community was proud to have them.
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South Shields
England
Muhammed Ali
Veronica
The
Islamic Trust
Imam Taleb Shamed
Abdul Muhammad Kaid
Muhammad Ali
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