Whites Targeted as Zaire Rebels Rampage in Kolwezi
Survivors recount a brutal rampage by rebels during the Kolwezi siege, with at least 170 whites killed and many missing. About 1,700 of 2,500 Westerners and Americans were evacuated by morning as French and Belgian paratroopers pressed operations in Shaba Province.
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Brussels
Belgium
Zaire
Europe
Shaba
Olivier Stirn
France
Paris
Kolwezi
Stirn
Dupont
Gecamines Company
Gecamines
Claude Mercury
Sotiris Casar
Rome
Berkowitz Disrupts Sentencing in Brooklyn Court
David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, was dragged from a Brooklyn courtroom as he screamed obscenities and disrupted sentencing for six murders. A judge postponed the penalty until June 12 and ordered another psychiatric evaluation amid a chaotic scene.
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New York
David Berkowitz
Sam
Brooklyn
Berkowitz
Stacy
Stacy Moscowitz
Robert Violante
Moscowitz
Ottawa Indian ties deepen as graduate joins OU program
Scott Wheeler and other Ottawa Indians pursue OU links through a four year old program. Scott, 23, earned a business administration degree and will join Southwestern Bell in Wichita. Audrey, his future-OU graduate wife, is set to become the second Ottawa graduate from OU next spring.
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Terry Mathias
Scott
Don
Audrey
Quapaw
Okla
Ottawa
James Alley
Huffman
Texas
Jonnie Alrey
Sonya Todd
Fort Belvoir
Lewis Barlow
Northeast Oklahoma State
Miami
Southwestern Bell
Wichita
Barbara Richards
College Without
Emory McKenzie
Vermillion Opposes ERA Extension Plan In Letter
In a letter to U S Sen Birch Bayh Vermillion said efforts to extend the ERA ratification deadline waste taxpayers time and delay the issue. Vermillion a Republican state senator from Independence voiced strong opposition to the federal push for a longer review period. He argued the protracted process serves no fiscal or constitutional purpose.
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Pera
Kan
Kansas
U.S
Birch Bayh
Dind
John Vermillion
Bayh
U.S. Senate
Congress
Vermillion
German Americans urged to push textbooks on Nazi era in schools
Theodore Wattenberg led about 20 German leaders urging local boards to adopt unbiased Nazi history material amid renewed Holocaust interest and anti German prejudice. Holocaust survivors push for ADL lesson series. Skokie march delays fuel the campaign and tension.
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Chicago
German-American National Congress
Theodore Wattenberg
Wattenberg
Anti- Defamation League of B’nai B'rith
Skokie
Nazi Germany
Senate filibuster on labor law drags into week
Senators resume a lengthy filibuster on proposed labor law revisions that may stretch for weeks while House members plan a vote on a tax proposal President Carter dislikes. Energy plan talks push for a House Senate conference on natural gas deregulation as Memorial Day recess approaches. Opponents began their filibuster Tuesday. Byrd will keep debates going until early June. The House to vote on Hungary MFN status as attention shifts to a $37.9 billion weapons bill including a $2.1 billion nuclear aircraft carrier Carter opposes.
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House
Carter
House-Senate
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Carter Administration
Organized Labor
Hungary
Congress
Poland
Yugoslavia
United States
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Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Leo Tindemans
Kelwezi
Page
Oklahoma
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Haskell
District Court
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Jess McCloud
Ohyx
Plaintiffs
C.H. Strehlow
Court House
Highland Heights
Prestige Developers, Inc
Rex Bowling
H. Michael Nichols
W. 25Th
St. Lawrence
Tpeartian
Agate {Inc
Lodge
R.A.M
Roger Bush
H.P. Kenneth F
Liegerot
Sec'y
Ottawa Lodge No
A.F
A.M
Herbert F. Guyett
Clarence &, Rea, Secty
Billy Scribner Family
Alcoholics Anonymous
West 2Nd
Sriscoe’s Pharmacy
Eldon Brockus
East Wilson
417 East
North
Malin
Prairie Hills
Ottawa University
Contact University Business Office
W.S
Ottawa Country Club
Lee
South Main
18Th
Herald
North Main
Nick Scott
Berlin Industries
Oak Haven Nursing Center
Richmond
General Services
John Fritts
Taylor
Singer
Dundee
Taylor Construction
Ralph Taylor
Kenneth Dodds
IACK
Jack Rutter
Bennie Stinson
Jim Bass
Albright’s
George Jaworski
Dan Arnold
North King
Wade Mace
RRA Ark Rak
Midwest Exteriors Corp
Re. Ae Public Auctions
SEWIN
Aera
Wade
Cail Budge
Ace
Claude Myers Auction Service
Centropolis
Red
N. Sycamore
Lester Leach
W. E. Scott
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Village Inn Cafe
Rantoul, Kaw
Bud Edwards
Printy and Sonsen
Thor
Jack Nelson
Pomons
Overbrook
W. E
Red) Perkins
Pomona
Ford Tractor
Harve Criqui
Pomona High School
Cecil Beatty Auction Service
Franklin Co
AK. Watts
Keith-Alan
Tom Bach
GOGD
Compton’s Antiques
Gibbons Salvage
OK Furniture
S. Main
American Walnut CO
Alco Store
Budge’s
Ace Hardware
Williamson and Company
North Poplar
America
Quin Furniture
Used Furniture Mart
Rigid Form Inc
Budge’s Hardware
17 South
Johnson Motors
Bob Luce
Ottawa Marine
River On Cedar
Kenmore
Crites
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Zabbage
Ward ‘Underwood
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David Bradley
Butler-Hawes
Florist
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Ottawa Herald
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Union Casualty Company
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