Soviets Present New SALT Ideas
Geneva AP reports the Soviet Union offered several ideas for a new SALT II treaty outline during talks with US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. A compromis e formula blending both sides proposals was outlined, including modest arsenal reductions and more talks, plus limits on cruise missiles and Backfire bomber basing.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Soviet Union
United States
Secre
Gromyko
Carter
Kremlin
U.S
Leonid Brezhnev
Mondale and Vorster Fail to Align on South Africa Policy
In Vienna U.S. Vice President Mondale and South African Prime Minister Vorster said they could not agree on U.S. efforts to change apartheid. Mondale noted Vorster agreed to help achieve black rule in Namibia and Rhodesia, but defended South Africa's race policies. He warned the U.S. will not intervene to save Pretoria from its policies.
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Vienna
Austria
U.S
Walter F. Mondale
John Vorster
South Africa
Mondale
Vorster
Namibia
Rhodesia
South Africans
United States
Lindy’s Ride remembered fifty years on
Fifty years after Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight, the legend endures in memory of the Spirit of St Louis voyage from Roosevelt Field to Paris. The piece links the voyage to places and people that fueled aviation’s future and notes a contemporaneous forecast and political commentary on apartheid from Mondale and Vorster.
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Europe
America
Lindbergh
San Diego
Ryan Airlines Co
St. Louis
Roosevelt Field
Long Island
New York City
Raymond Orteig
Coffee Pushes Up Food Prices
Washington AP reports a sharp April rise in consumer prices led by a 1.5 percent jump in food costs and a 13.1 percent surge in ground coffee. The month marked the third large price increase this year with overall inflation seen as a continuing issue for the Carter administration. Excluding food and energy, prices rose six-tenths of 1 percent.
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Washington
Carter
Labor Department
Con
General Hershey Dies in Angola at 83
General Lewis Blaine Hershey, who oversaw the draft of 14.5 million Americans in three wars, died in his Angola home at 83. He was found in bed by his son Col. Gilbert Hershey, and the death is to be reviewed by autopsy at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Funeral services are planned in Bethesda and Arlington.
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Angola
Ind
Lewis Blaine Hershey
Indiana
Hershey
Steuben County
Paul Gordon
Tri-State University
Gordon
Col
Gilbert Hershey
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Washington
Bethesda
Arlington National Cemetery
Selective Service
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Nixon war stance spurs Carter and Ford remarks
President Nixon defends Vietnam policy on Frost program telling how the war might have ended earlier with no home division. Carter denounces the notion a president is above the law. Ford, in town for a fundraiser, says Nixon’s words speak for themselves and does not engage on the pardon.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Nixon
White House
Carter
Rex Granum
Ford
David Frost
Pentagon
Wolf Creek Construction Moves Forward at Grand Canyon Site
Diane Yeamans reports on Wolf Creek Generating Station progress near New Strawn. Crews pour concrete flats over shale, blasting deep sections, and building support facilities for a billion dollar plant. KCPL and Kansas Gas and Electric outline coal plant plans at LaCygne, St. Marys Jeffrey Energy Center, and Jaton.
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Diane Yeamans
New Strawn
Wolf Creek
Grand Canyon
Coffey County
LaCygue
Glen Koester
O Operations
Kansas Gas
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