Mediators board train in Netherlands hijack crisis
South Moluccan elders entered a hijacked four car train near Assen to mediate, seeking release of about 60 hostages at two sites in northern Holland. Dr Hassan Tan and Mrs Josina Soumakil, mediators chosen by the terrorists, discussed negotiation format amid tension over a prolonged standoff.
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Assen
Netherlands
Holland
Josina Soumakil
Hassan Tan
Here
Toos Faber
Justice Ministry
Tan
Bavensmilde
Indonesia
Letters pour in on Dorgan will for Negro race trust
Des Moines attorney William Wimner reports more than 3000 letters responding to Joseph Dorgan’s 350000 estate gift to the people of the Negro race. Applicants include convicts, church leaders, students, and widows seeking money from the nearly 30000 annual interest, with varied requests and motives across states.
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Des Moines
Joseph Dorgan
Cumming
William Wimner
Wimer
Los Angeles
Early planting may help Towa corn escape summer heat
Secretary Robert Lounsberry cites an unusually early spring that could allow Towa corn to tassel and pollinate before extreme July and August heat. He warns rain is needed to sustain moisture as subsoil remains dry, and harvest size remains unpredictable. The Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes warm, wet weather and a May hotter than 1934.
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Des Moines
Towa
Robert Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
John Markham
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Four accidents in Oelwein injure one person
Oelwein police logged four traffic crashes Friday between 3:30 and 8 p.m. One injury sent Rebecca Wessendorf, 21, to Mercy Hospital after being pinned in her 1972 Buick. Kenneth Bennett, 57, faced DUI-related charges. Damages ranged from 25 to 900 dollars across five motorists, with no other serious injuries.
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Oelwein
Des Moines
Mercy Hospital
Rebecca Wessendorf
Third Ave
First St
Kenneth Bennett
Westendorf
Bennett
Wilder Museum reveals a past rich in craft and dolls
In Strawberry Point the Wilder Memorial Museum on West Mission Street offers daily 10 am to 5 pm visits through Labor Day. The brick building houses turn of the century rooms, antique farm tools, clocks, spinning wheels, and more than 500 dolls. The 1968 Wilder estate gift funded its creation and it commemorates local history with a bicentennial plow monument on town grounds.
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Anne Surom
Strawberry Point
Wilder Memorial Museum
West Mission Street
New Guinea
Blanche Baldridge
Gladys Kenneally
National Doll Association
United States
Canada
Towa
Marcey Alderson
Mary Gill Wilder
Florence Roe Wiggins
Mission Street
Ola Mission Road
Dubuque
Ft. Atkinson
Loca Chapter
The
DAR
Iowa
Prairie State
Atty Gen Says Council Missteps in Open Meetings Case
DES MOINES AP Attorney General Richard Turner criticizes the Iowa Executive Council for voting to hire attorneys for two state agencies accused of violating the open meetings law. He argues criminal charges against commissions imply individual accountability and should not be offset by defense funding. The agencies involved are the Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department and the Iowa State University Athletic Council.
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DES Moines
Richard Turner
Iowa Executive Council
Hkre
Turner
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Iowa State University Athletic Council
Rexburg Recovers A Year After Teton Dam Flood
Rexburg honors volunteers who helped flood victims dig out after the June 5 1976 Teton Dam break. Utah and Idaho workers, arriving by bus, brought aid as 80 billion gallons of water inundated the Snake River Valley and much of the area.
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Rexburg
Idaho
Teton
Utah
Snake River Valley
Carter backs Senate price control powers for energy secretary
President Carter has reversed his stance on granting price setting powers to the energy secretary. The Senate, by Friday action, approved giving those powers to a commission while retaining presidential veto rights. The House measure would deny the president that veto power.
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Washington
Carter
Senate
House
Brezhnev draft could bend Soviet powers to hew to Brezhnev
In Moscow, Western observers say a new Soviet draft constitution shaped by Leonid Brezhnev would allow him to consolidate power by becoming president as well as prime leader. Podgorny, dropped from the Politburo on May 24, is expected to be stripped of the presidency as Brezhnev, at 70, led the drafting committee.
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Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Communist Party
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Brezhnev
Joseph Stalin
First Lady Rosalynn Carter Tours Peru Countryside Inn Visit
Rosalynn Carter travels in Peru to rest at a luxury rural inn and tour an agricultural research complex during a 13 day Latin American mission. She met for nearly three hours with President Francisco Morales Bermudez, who seized power in a bloodless coup 21 months earlier.
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Lima
Peru
Rosalynn Carter
Francisco Morales Bermudez
Faulty cord blamed for Beverly Hills Supper Club deaths
An Atlanta based private team concluded a short circuit in a decorative water fountain pump power cord started the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate Kentucky. The blaze burned for about an hour before discovery, killing at least 161 people.
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Atlanta
Beverly Hills
Kentucky
Southgate
Ohio River
Cincinnnati
Associated Press
Walter Bailey
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