Iowa Welcomes Vietnamese Boat People In Heartfelt Welcome
A group of 167 Vietnamese refugees arrived in Des Moines after a 24 hour flight from Malaysia. They were welcomed at Camp Dodge with clothing, warm food, and sponsor families as Gov. Ray pledged Iowa can aid 1500 more. Lamoni town sponsors the Quan Cam Hoa family as the four decade milestone of America's Vietnam withdrawal is marked.
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Jule Lutz
Associated Press
Des Moines, Iowa
Southeast Asia
Midwest
Malaysia
Dodge
Iowa
Ray
Lamoni
Quan Cam Hoa
Pat Lesley
Lesley
U.S. Senate Department
United States
Vietnam
Pembina Braces for Record Red River Flood Threat
North Dakota residents feverishly reinforce earthen dikes as Red River and Pembina River floodwater swells. In Pembina, population 850, volunteers dig up lawns for dirt to raise a southern dike, fearing 5 feet of water if a breach occurs. The town sits two miles from Canada with seven miles of permanent levy surrounding it and a three mile dike being raised higher. Water reaches 53.6 feet, about 11.5 feet over flood stage, in what state officials call the Red River’s biggest rampage.
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Rembina
N.D
North Dakota
South Pembina
Ed Jundt
Jundt
Red River Valley
Canada
Red River
Pembina
The
Red
Submarine slides into Thames River
The USS Dallas, a nuclear powered fast attack submarine, slid into the Thames River at Groton Connecticut during ceremonies at the Electric Boat shipyard where Texas Governor Bill Clements urged continued military readiness and a strong three leg strategic triad including missiles bombers and submarines. The flood story and Manitoba evacuation are noted in a separate paragraph as broader disaster context.
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Groton
Conn
Dallas
Thames River
Texas
Bill Clements
Navy
Clements
Electric Boat Shipyard
Iran oil output set at 3.5 to 4 million bpd under new deals
National Iranian Oil Co says daily crude production will average 3.5 to 4 million barrels for the year with 1.05 million barrels daily allocated to Exxon Texaco Gulf Caltex and Shell under nine month contracts with 35 countries. Prices cited are 16.57 dollars for light crude and 16.04 for heavy.
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Thomas Kent
Associated Press
Tehran
Iran
National Iranian Oil Co
Exxon
Texaco
Gulf
Caltex
Shell
Reza Azimi
Azimi
South Africa
Israel
Shah Mohammad Reza Palavi
Hassan Nazih
Oil Services Co
OSCO
Nazih
Dymshus Urges Keepup In Free Soviet Jews Fight
New York dissident Mark Dymshus urged staying on the push to free Soviet Jews at a Dag Hammarskjold Plaza rally near the United Nations. Eduard Kuznetsov also spoke. Sylva Zalmanson, Kuznetsov’s wife, joined them and later flew to Israel with the group from Kennedy Airport.
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New York
United States
Mark Dymshus
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
United Nation
Eduard Kuznetsov
Jacob Javits
Daniel Moynihan
Kuznetsovs
Dymshits
Kennedy Airport
Israel
Refugees recount pirate attack and starvation voyage to Malaysia
About 240 emaciated Vietnamese refugees arrived in Malaysia after a 16 day journey during which Thai pirates attacked their fishing boat. Fifteen women were taken and 40 other refugees died of starvation. They landed near Kuala Terengganu and will be sent to a refugee camp as Malaysia shelters about 59,000 Vietnamese refugees.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Kuala Terengganu
Here
Vietnam
Silkwood trial near end of Kerr-McGee defense case
Kerr-McGee lawyers expected to rest after seven to eight more days of defense testimony in the Silkwood negligence suit seeking 11.5 million dollars. Karen Silkwood, a lab technician at the Crescent plant, contended unsafe conditions and contamination by plutonium.
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Oklahoma City
Kerr-McGee Corp
Karen Silkwood
Miss Silkwood
Kerr-McGee
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Crescent
OCAW
Bill Paul
Silkwood
Waldheim warns Cambodia talks face slow, tough path
U N secretary general Kurt Waldheim said Vietnam and China are deadlocked over Cambodia and border issues. He urged a quick breakthrough and peace in line with the UN charter. In Hanoi and Peking, he warned the conflict could worsen and noted Vietnam's invasion was blamed on Soviet hegemonism.
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Peking
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Cambodia
Vietnam
Pol Pot
United Nations
Huang Hua
Soviet Union
Rhode Island Clerical Wages Fall As National Average Rises
Providence reports Rhode Island clerical workers earn about 150 weekly, the nation's lowest. The U S Labor Department lists 183 as the national average. A Rhode Island Working Women survey of 150 responses notes 7.6 percent cost of living rise last year and 13 percent this quarter with only 5.3 percent wage increases.
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Providence
R.I
Rhode Island
United States
U.S. Labor Department
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California
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Del
Peoples Temple
Jonestown
Guyana
Iowa State
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Carter
Iowa Refugee Service Center
Coleen Shearer
Refugee Service
Nguyen ‘Tu Cuong
Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Minnesota
Manitoba
Sterling Lyon
Karen Delahanty
Bristol
New Britain
Lorraine Delahanty
National Iranian Co
Dachau
West Germany
U.S
International Dachau Committee
Venice
Italy
Chicago
Yale University
Connecticut
Jonathan H. Pincus
Pincus
American Academy of Neurology
New Lisbon
Wis
Amtrak
Seattle
Juneau County
FBI
Atlanta
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
William Noonan
Harold W. Stansfield
Burlington
N.C
Stansfield
Wyche Fowler
D-Ga
Williamsburg
U.S. Supreme Court
Warren Burger
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