Seko agrees to foreign bank controls
President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to foreign controls on Zaire central bank and finance ministry in exchange for more than $1 billion to bail out Zaire. An IMF official with a foreign staff becomes principal director of the Bank of Zaire while another foreign executive will lead the finance ministry, with Paris, Brussels and other governments' approval needed. Zaire would receive $960 million in investment capital over several years.
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Brussels
Belgium
Mobutu Sese Seko
Zaire
Billio
Mobutu
United States
France
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Canada
Iran
Japan
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Common Market Executive Commission
Bank of Zaire
Zaire Finance Ministry
Belgian Congo
U N peacekeepers take over frontier posts in Lebanon
U N troops assume 14 key positions along the southern Lebanon frontier after Israel withdraws, with Maj Gen Emmanuel Erskine pledging to stop Palestinian incursions. In northern Lebanon Syrian forces guard Ehden and Zagartha as Franjieh family casualties prompt confrontation with Phalangists.
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U.N
Lebanon Belt
Beirut
Lebanon
Israel
Saad Haddad
Emmanuel Erksine
Ghana
Erskine
Haddad
Moebe Dayan
Kurt Waltheim
Tel Aviv-Haifa
Security Council
Franjieh
Phalangist
Ehden
Tony Franjieh
Ehbden
Zagartha
No public celebration planned for royal wedding
King Hussein of Jordan will wed Lisa Halaby in a private ceremony at Zahran palace attended only by close family and friends. The event avoids public celebrations, with a brief Islamic wedding followed by a 12 tier cake and rose syrup, and a made for foreign reporters gathering. The couple plans a possible later honeymoon on the Gulf of Aqaba coast and may travel abroad later. Miss Halaby, Princeton graduate and chief designer for Jordanian airline, will convert to Islam.
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Amman
Jordan
Hussein
Lisa Halaby
Zahran
Halaby
Ammam
Mudar Badran
Nur el Hussein
Gulf of Aqaba
Riviera
United States
Alla
Miss Halaby
Princeton University
Najeeb Halaby
Pan American World Airways
Thirteen Die as Canes Capsize on Ontario Lake Tragedy
Thirteen are dead after a St Johns School wilderness training trip capsized on Lake Timiskaming. Twelve students aged 10 to 15 and a teacher died while 18 survivors were rescued after hours in 42 degree waters. Coroner Leonard Julien said drownings caused the deaths and autopsies showed no exposure deaths. Authorities noted the group did not heed a storm advisory before the four 22 foot cedar canoes were overwhelmed.
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Ontario
Lake Timiskaming
Leonard Julien
Julien
Former poster child earns nursing degree in Chicago
Leilani Wolverton, once Easter Seal poster child in 1957 and paralyzed from the neck down by polio, earned a nursing degree from St. Anne's School of Nursing. Now Mrs. Bob Logan, 27, she plans to work at Lake of the Clouds General Hospital in Missouri, reflecting on a life of perseverance and support from devoted parents and nurses.
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Leilani Wolverton
Richard J. Daley
Leilani
Bob Logan
Chicago
St. Anne’s School of Nursing
Missouri
Lake of the Clarks General Hospital
Dicap
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Patrick Strew
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Charles Lawrence, JR
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