West Bank settlement ground broken after five week halt
Tractors began clearing Nebi Salah site 16 miles northwest of Jerusalem for a new Jewish settlement housing 40 families after a five week freeze. Maariv reported 25 acres were seized by administrative order, none owned by private Arab landlords. The cabinet reaffirmed support for UN 242 but gave no clear future for the West Bank.
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U.N
Israel
Middle East
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Occupied Territories
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Maariv
Defense
Ezer Weizman
United States
Menachem Begin
Weizman
Karnei Shomron
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Moshe Dayan
Arieh Noor
Washington
Begin
Lost atom device in Himalayas raises alarm no danger
Prime Minister Morarji Desai said a nuclear monitoring device left on Mount Nanda Devi in 1965 by a US India joint mission remains unfound after an avalanche. He assured Parliament there is no health or environmental danger and urged calm despite the ongoing concern.
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India
Morarji Desai
Himalayas
United States
Desai
China
Nanda Devi
Vance and Owen push Rhodesia peace talks in Salisbury
Secretary Cyrus Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Owen arrived in Salisbury as a negotiated settlement looms. Rhodesia's biracial coalition rejects concessions, while Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe press for control, with Western plans for a British commissioner and UN peacekeepers.
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David Owen
Salisbury
U.S
Ian Smith
Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
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Owen
U.N
Nkomo
Mugabe
Tanzania
Pretoria
CIA bugging claim denied by United States
The United States sent a letter to the Korean government denying a report that the CIA bugged President Park Chung-hee’s office in the 1960s. The missive apologized for any inconvenience caused by former Ambassador William Porter and followed Porter’s TV remarks about a listening device in Park’s office after the 1961 coup.
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Park Chung-hee
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U.S
Richard Sneider
Park Tong-jin
William Porter
Porter
Fromm
Park
Korea
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