Cease fire halts Israeli Palestinian fire in southern Lebanon
UN peacekeepers report a cease fire in southern Lebanon after four days of heavy fighting. Israel agrees to halt air naval and artillery strikes in exchange for a stop to cross border Palestinian rockets. PLO says it will continue operations inside Israel. Casualties mount with 27 reported dead in four days of fighting. Refugee camps near Tyre Nabatiyeh hit by Israeli attacks as thousands flee north.
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Stephen K. Hindy
Associated Press
Beirut
Lebanon
U.N
Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Tyre
Nabatiyeh
Sidon
Tel Aviv
Free Lebanon
Unpredictable Referendum Looms Over Quebec Sovereignty
Premier Rene Levesque's Parti Quebecois, governing Quebec for 22 years, grows confident it can win a referendum on sovereignty association next fall. The plan would make Quebec an independent nation while keeping free trade with English Canada.
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Montreal
Quebec
Rene Levesque
Parti Quebecois
Sovereignty Association
Canada
Liberal Party
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Trudeau
St. Lawrence
Steinberg
Steinberg’s
Westmount
Paul Unterberg
New York
Joe Clark
Boston Symphony receives first major international grant
The Boston Symphony Orchestra will receive a $125,000 grant from Technics, a Matsushita Electric division, to fund half of a Europe summer tour starting Aug 24. An orchestra spokesman notes Japanese corporate philanthropy is rare in the performing arts.
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Boston
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Technics
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
Europe
Thomas Morris
Bomb damages Paris courthouse no injuries reported
Corsican National Liberation Front bombs the main Paris courthouse near the court clerk offices in the Palace of Justice. Windows and plaster are cracked though no one is hurt. The attack follows a wave of similar bombings tied to Corsican independence efforts.
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Paris
Palace of Justice
National Liberation Front
France
Mediterranean
Seed seizure in Oakland under noxious weed act
A one ton shipment of kikuyu grass seed from the New Hebrides was seized by federal inspectors in Oakland California for being a noxious weed. It marks the first entry denial under the Federal Noxious Weed Act with the Arizona seed company unnamed as the importer. The seed must be exported or destroyed while investigation continues.
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Washington
Oakland
Calif
New Hebrides
Southwest Pacific
Arizona
Agriculture Department
Max Heppner
Department’s
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Black progress limited by racism says former CBC chief
Rep Parren Mitchell told the American Association for Affirmative Action that while gains followed the civil rights era racism persists in U S society urging blacks to improve their standing without changing the majority’s lives significantly.
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Washington
Congressional Black Caucus
Parren Mitchell
American Association For Affirmative Action
Maryland
Tragic hostage case ends in officer shot on Interstate 8
In San Diego a Nigerian exchange student, Newman Augustine Osebor of Lagos, held psychologist Richard E. Townsend hostage after abducting him at gunpoint. Townsend was forced to withdraw funds and drive, while Osebor’s standoff ended with the student shot by police on Interstate 8. Townsend was unharmed. authorities say Townsend had previously housed Osebor. The killings of Townsend’s patient’s wife Candelaria Puentes and their daughter Norma remain under investigation.
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Reynolds R. Rast
Associated Press
SAN Diego
Newman Augustine Osebor
Lagos
Nigeria
Alejo Puentes
Candelaria
Norma
Richard E. Townsend
Osebor
Townsend
Bill Robinson
Suzanne
Robinson
Douglas Haggin
California Highway Patrol
California 163
Idaho presidential primary heats up with unlikely candidates
Idaho’s secretary of state screens an ever-growing list of hopefuls for the 1980 primary led by unusual entrants such as General Magnifico of California and Americas Liberatos of Nebraska. The filing file contains letters and photos as Idaho weighs ballot access and signature thresholds for candidates amid a humorous but serious push to reach the May 1980 election.
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Stephen C. Smith
Associated Press
Boise, Idaho
Idaho
General Magnifico
California
Prophet Elijah
New York
Americas Liberatos
Valentine
Neb
Jimmy Carter
Secretary of State
White House
Elections
Penny Ysursa
Magnifico
Marine Corps
United States
National Statesman Party
John Sprague
Boise
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Anita Bryant
Evel Knievel
Sprague
Nevada
Ira R. Waggoner
Champaign
Ill
Mexico
Pete Cenarrosa
GSA accused of wasting millions on leased Washington space
Rep. Jack Brooks accuses the General Services Administration of failing to protect government rights after a study found tax management errors caused $16.7 million extra spending on downtown Washington, D.C. leased office space.
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Washington
General Services Administration
Jack Brooks
D-Texas
House Government Operations Committee
GSA
Washington, D.C
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