Heaviest Lebanese civil war battle surrounds refugee camps
In Beirut fierce clashes raged around two major refugee camps in southeastern Beirut with 25,000 Palestinians and 3,000 Lebanese Moslems. Artil lery fire and bombardment surged, with thousands displaced as air traffic at Beirut airport shut down amid a widening conflict.
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Cyprus
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Safar
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Ballbeck
Wafa
Damascus
Tal Zaatar
Jisr el-Basha
Israel
Ford gains as Brown quits campaign in bid for renomination
President Ford crosses the 1,000 delegate mark by winning 17 of 18 Minnesota at large delegates. California Governor Edmund Brown Jr states he would back Carter if Carter clinches the nomination, while Ford leads AP tally with 1,001 delegates and Carter at 1,518. 143 delegates remain to be chosen.
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Ford
Minnesota
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Carter
Brown
St. Paul
Ronald Reagan
Independent Republican Party
Reagan
NBC
Johnny Mercer Dies at 66 in Bel Air Home
Los Angeles AP reports lyricist Johnny Mercer dies at 66 at his Bel Air residence. Mercer shaped decades of jazz and blues lyrics, wrote acclaimed songs including Laura That Old Black Magic Jeepers Creepers Moon River, and earned four Oscars.
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Los Angeles
Johnny Mercer
Mercer
Laura
Cincinnati Police Chief and Lt Convicted of Perjury
Cincinnati AP reported Chief Carl Goodin and Lt. Richard Beyer were found guilty of perjury and tampering with evidence after a seven hour jury deliberation in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. Officer James Simon was acquitted. Sentencing set for July 6.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Goodin
Beyer
Simon
Elicopter
Mixed-up baker kills 5 in Cebu City bake shop
A baker in Cebu City killed five people and wounded seven before leaping into a large mixer that crushed him. The Evening Post cited Jose Tajardo as the attacker with two knives and a fatal plunge into the mixer. Cebu City lies about 300 miles south of Manila.
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Philippines
Cebu City
Evening Post
Lhe
Jose ‘Ajardo
Here
Viet adoptions spur court fights over custody
A Michigan couple won temporary custody of five year old Duong Quoc Tuan, renamed Matthew David, but a later custody ruling returned him to his Vietnamese mother Duong Bich Van. The case followed two separate petitions from different Vietnamese mothers seeking custody of their children adopted by U.S. families.
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Pontiac
Oakland County
Richard D. Kuhn
Duong Quoc Tuan
Duong Bich van
Miss van
Green Bay
Wis
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Barbara Pederson
Royal Oak
Mick
Matthew David
Pedersons
Babylon
Saigon
Vietnam
United States
James L. Elsman Jr
Kuhn
Port Olen Elsman
Virginia judge OKs Vietnamese adoption by Kohlers
Judge Leslie L. Mason Jr. ruled the Vietnamese adoption of two boys by Army Captain and spouse Kohlers was legal. The case involved Mrs. Nguyen Thi Phuc who had placed her sons with the captain in Vietnam due to poverty and safety concerns. The court found the Vietnamese adoption valid and the children legally adopted.
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Virginia
Leslie L. Mason Jr
Nottoway County
Bobby
Sammy
Kohlers
Phue
Dallas
United States
Phuc
Weekend Rain Chance With Warm Sunday Near 90
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 65. Sunday expects increasing clouds and a 30 percent rain chance as the high nears 90. Tonight’s rain probability is 10 percent. Extended outlook shows showers possible through Wednesday.
Ohio couple’s dream vacation ends in northern Arizona tragedy
Monroe J. Turner and his wife Charlotte of Medina Ohio were killed in northern Arizona after a hitchhiker forced them to kneel and shot them. The suspect David Drew Stewart 35 was found dead after a high speed chase near Roanoke Virginia.
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Medina
Texas
California
Turner
David Drew Stewart
Richards
Stewart
Roanoke
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