Soviet arms push in Africa alarms U S officials
U S intelligence says Russia has sent or agreed to send at least 400 million dollars in MIG fighters tanks and other weapons to about ten black African nations in the past two years. Some 1 900 military advisers are stationed across the continent as Moscow seeks influence bases or both. Ominous signs center on Angola and Somalia with weapons shipments and Cuban troops cited.
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Washington
Russia
U.S
Moscow
U.S. Navy
Pentagon
State Department
Somalia
Angola
Henry A. Kissinger
Daniel P. Moynihan
United Nations
Africa
United States
Moynihan
Zaire
Zambia
CIA
Ethiopia
Kenya
Liberia
South Atlantic
Muscatine County lists donors for Nov 4 election
County Board certified results and campaign filings show donors for Muscatine candidates who spent over $100. Major contributors include Mayor-elect Evelyn Schauland, William Angell, and alderman candidates with varied sums. some contributors returned funds, and one chair declined a second term.
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Muscatine City
County Board of Supervisors
Iowa
Muscatine
John E. Rex
Ronald Hansen
City General Fund
Thomas Hanifan
Middle Road
Evelyn Schauland
Mulberry Ave
J. Michael Rehwaldt
Mississippi Dr
George and
Wanda Blackwood
Rt. 3
John and
Joan Axel
Circle Dr
Robert
Julia Roach
Richard
Mary Jo Stanley
3Rd St
Hoffman
Sabbath
Vernon Willis
Ward St
Angell
2Nd Ward
A.M
Buster” Thornton
Monroe St
Thornton
Larry D. Kemp
Clyde Gabriel
Magnolia St
Kemp
Harker Collins
Vista Court
C.M. Stanley
Sunset Dr
James Kent
Parkington Dr
Richard Stanley
W.ard St
Richard Kautz
Clyde Lucas
George Shepley
Colony Dr
John Bready
W. 2Nd St
Art Dahl
Norbert Beckey
Pearlview Court
Glenn and
Carolyn Bloom
Ash St
Larry Smith
Oakland Dr
Gas Blast Kills Four at Niagara Falls Plant
A railroad tank car explosion at Hooker Chemicals in Niagara Falls released chlorine gas over a wide area killing four workers and sickening about 80 people. The fumes reached nearby stores and homes, prompting evacuations and hospitalizations as authorities worked to determine the blast cause and contain the leak.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp
Hooker
Walter E. Fitzgerald
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Clyde J. McBride
Raymond E. Zaso
James D. Colquhoun
Lester Docks
Oscar H. Bell
Niagara County
Melvin Dyster
Voters reject eighth attempt for vocational building bond
Voters in Westmer school district defeated an $80,000 bond for a career vocational building by 28 votes totaling 968 ballots. The district’s previous $190,000 plan failed or passed in earlier votes due to notices and bidding, and the board will pursue new plans with the original funds. Only Keithsburg approved the extra funding.
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Audrey Pople
Joy, Jr
Westmer
Keithsburg
Joy
Eliza
New Boston
Weather outlook cold with near zero Lows and sunny Tuesday
Weather forecast shows very cold tonight with lows around zero to 1 above. Partly sunny and cold Tuesday with highs near 15 to 22. Sunday's high noted, with a 2 degree low Sunday night. Precipitation recorded Sunday totals 49 inches.
U S Turkey edge toward defense pact amid base talks
The United States and Turkey move toward a defense pact to reopen bases closed after Turkey’s Cyprus actions. Turkey seeks immune military aid guarantees and long term finances, while U S negotiators oppose constitutional amendments.
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Ankara
Turkey
United States
U.S
Congress
Children visit Santa at New York department store
Youngsters crowded the department store Saturday as they faced Santa and voiced their Christmas wishes By brand names Evel Knievel stunt cycles and the Six Million Dollar Man were among the toys kids asked for while also hoping for traditional gifts like two front teeth ants and pizza ovens
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New York
Evel Knievel
Means Convicted in 1974 Minnehaha Courthouse Riot
AIM leader Russell Means was found guilty of riot in the 1974 Minnehaha County courthouse clash between police and AIM supporters. He is free on 2000 dollar bond awaiting sentencing December 31. He was acquitted on injury to a public building. News of Brezhnev terminal illness surfaced from Newsweek citing Dobrynin to Kissinger.
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Sioux Falls
Russell Means
Minnehaha County
AIM
Means
Richard Braithwaite
Joan Little Arrested In Bond Appeal Case In Raleigh
21 year old Joan Little who was acquitted last August of murdering Beaufort County jailer Clarence Alligood was arrested Sunday night for failing to post bond in her appeal of a breaking and entering conviction. Lawyers for Little were to appear before the state Supreme Court today to seek reinstatement of bond and her immediate release.
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Raleigh, N.C
Joan Little
Little
Beaufort County
Clarence Alligood
State Supreme Court
British actor Arthur Treacher dies at 81
MANHASSET New York AP Arthur Treacher the British actor who played the quintessential butler on stage screen and TV died Sunday at North Shore University Hospital after several days with a heart ailment He was 81.
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Manhasset
N.Y
Arthur Treacher
Treacher
North Shore University Hospital
Spy Convict Guillaume Convicted in Düsseldorf
Spy convict Guenther Guillaume, once a top aide to former West German chancellor Willy Brandt, was convicted in Düsseldorf West Germany. His exposure as a spy for East Germany prompted Brandt's resignation.
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New York
Guenther Guillaume
Willy Brandt
Dusseldorf
West Germany
Guillaume
East Germany
Brandt
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Edward Chatman
U.S., Turkey
Santa Claus
Cyprus
Thsan Sabri Caglayangil
Suleyman Demire
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Soviet Union
News Y Digest
Aim’s
Newsweek
Anatoly Dobrynin
Henry Kisssinger
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
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