Soviet to Buy Large U.S. Grain Shipment in 1975 Deal
The Soviet Union agreed to purchase over 4.5 million metric tons of corn and 1.1 million metric tons of barley from Continental Grain Co totaling more than 600 million dollars. Australia also sold 750,000 tons of wheat to the USSR for about 130 million dollars, with shipments planned between September and May.
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New York
Soviet Union
Continental Grain Co
U.S
Australia
Wheat Board
Jack Cass
Melbourne
Continental Grain
Congress
Earl L. Butz
Grain harvest prospects ease U S Russia tensions
The U S Agriculture Department says expected record U S corn and wheat harvests lessen the risk of rising grain prices from continued U S grain sales to the Soviet Union. Longshoremen in Miami Beach plan a vote on refusing to load last week’s 3.2 million metric tons sold to Russia.
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Butz
U.S
Soviet Union
U.S. Agriculture Department
U.S.D.A
Miami Beach
International Longshoremen's Association
India approves emergency move as opposition walks out
The Indian upper house backed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's emergency, 136 to 33, prompting a walkout by non Communist members. The lower house was to vote next, then it goes to President Ahmed for ratification. Gandhi argued disorder blocked liberties while defending the decree.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Gandhi
Anti Communist mobs clash with Portuguese troops in north
In Lisbon a wave of anti Communist violence erupts as mobs attack party HQs in Acobea and Lourinha while soldiers restore order. The Revolutionary Council reports fighting in Angola and unrest in the Azores as strikes escalate amid government turmoil.
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Lisbon
Portugal
The
Revolutionary Council
Angola
Azores Islands
Mid- Atlantic
Acobea
Communist Party
Lourinha
Vilar Fomoso
Popular Democratic Party
Socialist Party
Popular Democrats
Azores
Terceira
United States
Liberation Front of the
Frost ruins Brazil coffee crop and floods devastate Recife
Brazil faces frost damage to three quarters of its coffee crop with exports halted and prices surging. Experts warn 1976 harvest could drop from 27 million to about 4 million bags while northeastern Pernambuco endures floods, 78 dead and 60,000 homeless in Recife and eight other cities.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Camilo Calazans de Magalhaes
Coffee Institute
United States
London
Financial Times of London
Pernambuco
Anabal Amaral
Recife
Puerto Rican spurns prisoner exchange deal
A Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron refused a U S Cuba prisoner swap that would include only some prisoners. The four charged in the 1954 House shooting are jailed in Alderson West Virginia with terms up to 75 years.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Lolita Lebron
Lebron
Cuba
Lawrence K. Lunt
Lunt
Massachusetts
United States
CIA
House Chamber
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Andres Figueroa
Irving Flores Rodriguez
Justice Department
Alderson
W. Va
U.N. Council Appeals to Sadat on Sinai Force Extension
The Security Council appealed to Anwar Sadat to extend the U.N. Emergency Force in Sinai to keep a peace-minting buffer amid talks on a second withdrawal. Egypt signaled reservations while Israel and Egypt neared a possible interim peace accord.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Security Council
Anwar Sadat
U.N
Sinai
Cairo
Sadat
Egypt
Ismail Fahmy
Israel
A. Esmat Abdel Meguid
Jerusalem
Christina Onassis to Wed Greek Millionaire Andreadis
Christina Onassis plans marriage to Alexander Andreadis in Glyfada near Athens in a small garden chapel. The wedding, set for 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT, will unite two of Greece's richest fortunes with Christina's stepmother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis expected to attend.
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Athens
Greece
Christina Onassis
Alexander Andreadis
Andreadis
Glyfada
Christina
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Onassis
Scorpios Island
Ionian Sea
Aristotle Onassis
Denise Sioris
Washington, D.C
Miss Sioris
U.S. Foreign Service
Alexander
Los Angeles
Joseph Bolker
Peter Goulandris
Athens Hilton
Stratis Andreadis
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