Rhodesia Election Second Day Turnout Seen High
Officials predicted another large turnout on day two of Rhodesia’s first Parliament with a black majority. On day one more than 568 000 of 2.8 million black voters and 100 000 whites cast ballots as violence remained limited. Regional turnout surpassed the national average with Mukumbura near the Mozambique border approaching 50 percent.
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Judy Yablonky
Associated Press
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Robert Mugabe
Mozambique
Mukumbura
Tobacco Farm
Centenary
Bob Schonken
Mugabe
Joshua Nkomo
Interview recalls Silkwood as honest and cooperative
Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigator Gerald Phillip testified about Karen Silkwood in 1974 noting she was cooperative intelligent and open during interviews about plutonium contamination She said she was concerned about her health and did not hide information The witness discussed pressuring Kerr McGee to pay for medical testing and affirmed Silkwood could have smuggled plutonium in her samples
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Karen Silkwood
Gerald Phillip
Glen Ellyn
Ill
Miss Silkwood
Kerr-McGee Corp
Los Alamos
N.M
AEC
Phillip
Kerr-McGee
Silkwood
Gerry Spence
Phillips
New execution date set for John Evans
John Louis Evans III, condemned for the January 1977 slaying of Mobile pawn shop owner Edward Nassar, has a new execution date of April 27. The Alabama Supreme Court ordered the date after Evans agreed to help appeal the constitutionality of the state death penalty statute, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court but not tested in federal courts.
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Montgomery
Ala
John Louis Evans III
State Supreme Court
Evans
Edward Nassar
Charles Graddick
U.S. Supreme Court
William Rehnquist
Rehnquist
Betty Evans Dickson
Beaumont
Texas
Alabama
Alabama Supreme Court
Mandel racketeering conviction to be reheard by full 4th Circuit
The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider the Mandel racketeering and mail fraud case. The government sought a rehearing after a three-judge panel overturned Mandel and five co-defendants. A June hearing will be before seven judges in Richmond, following Mandel’s 1977 Baltimore conviction and a prior mistrial.
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Richmond, Va
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Maryland
Marvin Mandel
Appeals Court
Mandel
Baltimore
New U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Selected Amid Resignation
Sources say a new ambassador to Nicaragua has been chosen to replace Maurice Solaun who resigns for personal reasons. State Department officials say the retirement is unrelated to current tensions. announcement of the successor is expected soon.
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Washington
U.S
Nicaragua
Maurice Solaun
State Department
Solaun
Pearl River floods force new evacuations from Jackson area
Mississippi storms push Pearl River over banks prompting new evacuations downstream from Jackson while authorities warn some areas may not dry for a week or more. At least five flood deaths are reported in Mississippi, with 17,000 homeless in the metro area and thousands evacuated in Alabama.
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Ron Harrist
Associated Press
Jackson, Miss
Pearl River
Jackson
Alabama
Buddy Stuckey
Civil Defense
South Mississippi
Marion County
Stuckey
Mississippi
Georgetown
Beal Allbritton
420
National Weather Service
Bill Simpson
Cliff Finch
Carter
Warren Rhoades
Selma
Demopolis
Tombigbee
Illinois
Grafton
Kampsville
Calhoun County
Firing squads execute seven more shah's men in Tehran
Ayatollah Khomeini's firing squads killed seven shah's men in Tehran for Sept. 8 anti-shah killings. A southeastern Kerman man also shot for an anti-shah riot. Islamic court gave 11 others prison terms. total executions reach 143. Ayatollah Taleghani urged restraint and warned against losing freedom.
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Thomas Kent
Associated Press
Tehran
Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Radio
Kerman
Islamic Revolutionary Court
Khomeini
Revolutionary Committees
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mahmoud Taleghani
Taleghani
God
Cooling Plan Aims to Drop TMI Reactor Temp Further
Harold Denton says technicians hope to reduce cooling water temperature at the Three Mile Island reactor by another 10 degrees, after earlier plans to lower 10 degrees per hour from about 280 to 230 degrees. He warns the preferred plan is slower than expected. Radioactive iodine releases halted. waste disposal moved to Washington state. Metropolitan Edison may face bankruptcy without state approval of a $49 million rate increase.
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Paul Carpenter
Associated Press
Harrisburg, Pa
Three Mile Island
Harold Denton
Nuclear Regulator Commission
Denton
Washington
Washington State
South Carolina
Metropolitan Edison Co
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Miss
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Tacoma. Wash
Orville
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Tacoma
Jack LeBeau
Tacoma Post Office Philatelic
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Cleveland
Jack Schulman
Dennis J. Kucinich
Kucinich
Cleveland (Ap
John White Jr
Jerome Watkins
White
Cuyahoga County
Dwight Tillman
Bryan Bowder
Wichita Falls
Shah
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