Gunboats shell camp after deadly guerrilla raid
Israeli gunboats shelled a Palestinian camp on Lebanon's coast after four Israelis were killed in a guerrilla raid on a resort town near the frontier. An Israeli civilian and an army patrol killed guerrillas. two more were wounded and captured. Palestinian spokesmen claimed a refugee camp was hit. The camp was identified as a Marxist training site near Nahr El-Berd between Tripoli and the Syrian border. An Israeli spokesman denied retaliation for the earlier attack.
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Associated Press
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Israel
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Tripoli
Beirut
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Yosef Burg
Radio Israel
Palestinn
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Lebanon
PLO
Palestine Liberation Front
Daniel Heron
Einat
Yael
Eliahu Shahar
Charlie Shapiro
Heran
Shapira
Einar
Defense
Ezer Weizman
Cairo
Sinai Desert
Egypt
Weekend exodus as Vietnamese troops push Khmer Rouge from Cambodia
Thai officials report nearly 50,000 Cambodians flee across the border into Thailand over the weekend. The exodus includes thousands of Khmer Rouge fighters as Vietnamese and pro Hanoi forces advance in western Cambodia with Soviet and possibly Cuban military advisers aiding the effort.
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Thailand
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Cambodia
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Phuon Penh
Vietnam
Big Rock plant reports no radioactive release after leak
In Charlevoix Michigan state officials said no release occurred at Consumers Power Big Rock nuclear plant after a rivulet of highly radioactive water was found following valve repairs. The plant will enter cold shutdown. duration of outage not estimated. No injuries or worker exposure reported.
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Gulf of Mexico
McMoRan Offshore Exploration Co
Tanzanian drive takes first objective Jinja Uganda
Tanzania and Ugandan exiles captured Jinja and the Owen Falls hydroelectric dam with minimal resistance as Idi Amin's forces fled. Provisional President Lule's troops entered the city, destroying a 106mm gun at the Nile bridge and moving toward Tororo, the Kenyan border, to continue the push.
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Uganda
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Kenya
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Rhodesia counts votes in first black majority election
About 80 election officials began tallying nearly 2 million ballots cast in Rhodesia's historic vote while military leaders warned of intensified guerrilla attacks. First results expected Tuesday with a likely win for Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council amid regional tensions and ongoing bush war.
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John Edlin
Associated Press
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Abel Muzorewa
United African National Council
National Assembly
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
Muzorewa
Zambezi River
Zambia
Joshua Nkomo
Zimbabwe African National Union
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe African People’s Union
Mozambique
Carter
Nkomo
Mugabe
Howard Pollack
Alaska
U.S
Bomb damages Roosevelt monument near Montevideo airport
A bomb planted by ultra-rightists damaged a Roosevelt monument near Carrasco airport in Montevideo. The attackers painted Jew and Freemason with a Star of David on the base, amid a string of recent Jewish and Masonic targets in the city. Also noted: unrest in Chad after an alleged assassination attempt on Emperor Bokassa I.
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Uruguay
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carrasco
Jewish Macabi Sports Association
Masonic Grand Lodge
N’djamena
Chad
Bokassa I
Bokassa
Bangui
Iranian chief of staff assassinated in Tehran garden
Gen. Mohammad Vali Gharani, Iran’s first post revolution chief of staff, was assassinated while walking in his Tehran home garden by a gunman who climbed the wall. A staff member was wounded, accomplices fled, and Gharani died hours later after hospital care. No motive given. Radio Tehran reported shooting in Naghadeh amid regional turmoil.
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Iran
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Pras
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Pars
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Radio
Naghadeh
PEN accuses Soviet authorities of harassing Georgi Vladimov
The Paris based PEN French chapter says Soviet authorities harassed Georgi Vladimov, Amnesty Moscow chapter president, describing his situation as extremely precarious. It cites threatening letters, a cut phone line since March 20, and claims the phone was disconnected for speaking with exiled philosopher Alexandr Zinoviev in Munich.
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Paris
PEN
International Association of Poets
Georgi Vladimov
Amnesty International
Moscow
Saturday
Soviet Union
Vladimov
Alexandr Zinoviev
Munich
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