Kidnaping of Spanish Army General Shocks Madrid
Lt Gen Emilio Villaescusa Quilis, president of the Supreme Court of Military Justice, was seized on his doorstep by armed men and driven away in a car. Motive and captors unclear amid a climate of violence as rightist groups are blamed for related incidents and demonstrations surge across Madrid and Barcelona. Police reported injuries among protesters and no arrests in Barcelona.
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Madrid
Supreme Court of Military Justice
Emilio Villaescusa Quilis
Europa Press
Juan Carlos
Antonio Maria de Oriol
Oriol
Te Court of Military Justice
Arturo Ruiz Garcia
Granada
Cifra
Czews
Barcelona
Combat drills in Alaska amid mock invasion at Ft Fairbanks
In Alaska 14 000 US troops take part in Operation Jack Frost a two week cold weather exercise near Fairbanks. The invaders the 9th Infantry Division from Ft Lewis Washington distribute leaflets urging troops not to die for rich warmongers and to avoid becoming hamburger. The drills simulate war and civilian control under extreme cold weather conditions.
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FT. Greely
Alaska
U.S
Nation of
Mira
Fairbanks
9Th Infantry Division
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Hamburger
NATO in disarray prompts Senate call for NATO overhaul
A Senate Armed Services Committee report says NATO forces are in poor condition and could be unable to withstand a Warsaw Pact attack. It urges a top priority conference of NATO leaders and a overhaul to boost conventional firepower and readiness, with revised war planning assumptions.
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Washington
NATO
Europe
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sam Nunn
D-Ga
Dewey Bartlett
R-Okla
Eur
Armed Services Committee
U.S
James L Hollingsworth
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Woman Beaten and Robbed in Hamilton Home Invasion
An elderly woman, Emma Worley, 76, of 1820 Pleasant Ave in Lindenwald, was assaulted and robbed after two men forced entry at about 10 p.m. They demanded about 200 dollars, then rifled the home and took a gun and pills before Worley was treated at Mercy Hospital for facial injuries.
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Hamilton
Emma Worley
Pleasant Ave
Lindenwald
Mercy Hospital
Standby draft plan proposed to Carter
The Defense Department urges President Carter to create a wartime standby draft system with an annual 20 year olds lottery to determine callup order and rapid mobilization. The plan envisions 66 area offices with 1,700 guards and reserves, review panels, and a peacetime national office to prepare for wartime draft.
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Carter
Washington
Defense Department
Gerald R. Ford
Pentagon
National Guard
Mailboxes Damaged In Madison Township
Three residents reported to Butler County sheriff's deputies that their mailboxes were torn down on Saturday. Stanley Hagaman Mildred Clark and Ruth Brown provided details of the vandalism and its location along Elk Creek and Brown's Run roads.
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Madison Township
Butler County Sheriff's Deputies
Stanley Hagaman
Elk Creek
Mildred Clark
Ruth Brown
Brown's Run
Toots Shor dies at 73 in New York saloons
Bernard Toots Shor, famed New York saloonkeeper to celebrities, dies at 73 after a long illness. He ran two midtown bars, attracted stars like Hemingway and DiMaggio, and was known for self deprecating humor. He leaves a widow and four children.
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NEW York (Ap
Bernard ‘‘Toots
Shor
New York University Medical Center
Manhattan
Ernest Hemingway
Joe DiMaggio
Jack Dempsey
Marian Volk
Husky
West 51St Street
Park Avenue
Grave of famed fox hunter John Peel desecrated
In Caldbeck England opponents of fox hunting desecrated the grave of John Peel, tearing down his headstone and opening the grave. A stuffed fox head and a note blaming Peel for killing many foxes were left at the site. Peel's bones remained undisturbed.
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John Peel
London
Peel
Caldbeck
British Press Association
Colin Reid
England
Lake District
John
John Woodock Graves
Ullswater Foxhounds
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Spanish Workers Party
Quillis
Citizens Band
Dick Cowan
Radio Amateur’s Journal
Middletown Journal
White House
Ford Administration
National Security Council
Middletown
Miami University
Slimnastics
Wks M. & W
Wks. T
Wks.w. Beg
Miansare
Yoga
Wks
E. University
Toots Shor
Paul I
Toots
Philadelphia
Pardner
Germantown
Home Center
Grand Ave
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