U.S. says Zaire idle on release of kidnapped students
U S officials say Mobutu government in Zaire is doing nothing substantive to free three Americans and one Dutch girl held by guerrillas since May 19. Diplomats fault Tanzania for quick denial of ransom demands while hostages face a 60 day deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DARES
Anti- Mobutu Popular Revolutionary Party
Lake Tanganyika
Tanzania
State Department
Carrie Jane Hunter
Atherton
Calif
Kenneth Stephen Smith
Garden Grove
Emilie van Zinnick Bergmann
Netherlands
U.S
Beverly Garter
Jan van den Berg
Daily News
Uhuru
Nyerere
Tanganyika African National Union
K ‘News
Cleveland leads in high blood lead levels among big cities
Barbara Kohuth of the Cleveland health department says about 19 percent of 22,000 children tested since November have elevated blood lead levels on initial testing. More than 600 children are undergoing treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Barbara J. Kohuth
City Health de
Partment
Texas melon boycott sparks protests in Hidalgo County
United Farm Workers supporters began a third day of demonstrations in Hidalgo as they urged a melon field boycott by Mexican laborers. Police blocked cantaloupe trucks at the El Texano ranch while a judge issued a restraining order barring further protests.
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Hidalgo
Tex
United Farm Workers Union
Texas
UFW
International Bridge
Mexico
el Texano Ranch
Maggus Smith
Edinburg
Rio Grande Valley
Tony Orendain
LEW
Cesar Chavez
Melon Field
C.L. Miller Jr
Miller
Ford Grants 80 Clemency Pardons or Service
President Ford accepted clemency board recommendations to grant 80 pardons or conditional clemency to draft evaders and deserters. The White House did not specify how many were outright pardons versus public service waivers. In the first group 20 received outright pardons and the rest faced up to one year of public service.
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Washington
Ford
Fcci
White House
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New Philadelphia
Betty Heyser
Philadelphia
Zaire
Lake
Barbara Smuts
Ann Arbor
Mich
Julius Nyerere
Union Sanitary
Dillman’s Open
Central Avenue
Dillman
Central Ave
U.S.D.A
OUR
Feira Seanes
DER
Rrimans
Crisco
Dillman’s Pantant
Bf Seca
Lenina
Turkey
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