Mondale and Vorster fail to bridge apartheid policy rift
In Vienna Mondale and South African Prime Minister Vorster conclude two days of talks with no agreement on ending apartheid. Vorster defends black South Africans' rights while Mondale warns continued segregation risks U.S. friction, Soviet influence, and possible further actions.
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Austria
U.S
Walter F. Mondale
John Vorster
South Africa
Mondale
Vorster
Namibia
Rhodesia
United States
South-West Africa
Nixon pledge of aid to North Vietnam deemed nonbinding
Rep. Lester L. Wolff says Nixon’s 5 billion dollar aid promise to North Vietnam is not binding on current policy. President Carter and Nixon agree the pledge is not binding, amid release of a 1973 declassified letter detailing reconstruction aid and other assistance without political conditions.
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North Vietnam
Washington
Richard Nixon
U.S
Lester L. Wolff
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Carter
State Department
Wolff
Congress
Paris
Pham van Dong
United States
SALT talks near breakthrough on arms treaty in Geneva
U S and Soviet negotiators report progress toward SALT II with a compromise outline after a five hour session in Geneva. The plan calls for modest arsenal reductions and a new round of talks, plus limits on the US cruise missile and Soviet Backfire basing. Waldheim warns of deep differences and a lengthy path to replacing SALT I. Vance and Gromyko also reviewed the Middle East amid dim prospects for an Arab Israeli peace conference following Israel's Likud victory.
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Switzerland
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Andrei Gromyko
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Kremlin
Communist Party
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Ford
Brezhnev
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Vance
Gromyko
Middle East
Likud
Israeli conservatives hold slim majority in early returns
Late election returns show Likud led by Menahem Begin with 43 seats and allied religious and right wing groups totaling 19, yielding a 62 seat coalition and a possible 63 after remaining ballots. Labor, once dominant, rejects Begin's calls for unity.
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Likud
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Nuclear fuel truck wreck in England no leakage reported
A truck carrying a 15 ton uranium hexafluoride container overturned near Winchester injuring five, with no spill detected. A second incident involved an empty railroad car derailing in Gillingham, Kent, the same vehicle having derailed there previously.
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United States
Winchester
England
Gillingham
Kent County
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Lancashire
Southamption
British Nuclear Fuels
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Britain
British Rail
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