Congressmen Reach Hanoi After Ban Lift Backflip
Nine U S congressmen investigating Indochinese refugee plights fly to Hanoi after Vietnam lifts a ban following a proposed gesture from Secretary of State Vance. Led by Rep. Rosenthal, the group plans talks after visits to refugee camps in Malaysia and elsewhere amid a regional exodus of about 400,000.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
U.S
Southeast Asia
Hanoi
Robert F. Drinan
D-Mass
Bangkok
Drinan
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Vietnam
Congressional Group
Benjamin S. Rosenthal
D-N.y
Hong Kong
Thailand
Indonesia
Bidong Island
Cambodia
Laos
Geneva
Vietnamese refugees blamed for Seadrift killing sparks village tensions
Seadrift Texas under late night curfew after the death of fisherman Billy Joe Aplin following a dispute with Vietnamese crabbers. Police chief Bill Lindsey said a two man force cannot fully protect the refugees, who fear threats and possible retaliation as tensions rise amid displaced customs and jobs from a Maryland company establishing crab processing operations three years ago.
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Seadrift
Texas
South Texas
Bill Lindsey
Billy Joe Aplin
Lindsey
Gulf
Maryland
Aplin
Calhoun County
Rayburn Haynie
Haynie
Joe Hill pardon petition and Barnegat rally tensions
The AFL-CIO and Sinois Labor History Society urge Utah Governor Matheson to pardon labor figure Joe Hill for a 1915 murder conviction. In Barnegat New Jersey police win emergency funds to prepare for a Ku Klux Klan rally amid fears of counter demonstrations.
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Chicago
Joe Hill
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Utah
Hill
Labor Council
Sinois Labor History Society
Scott Matheson
Barnegat
N.J
Thomas
International Committee Against Racism
Progressive Labor Party
Soviet scientist argues for 150 year human life span
Moscow AP reports Dr. Vladimir Negovsky, a leading Soviet expert in reanimatology, says human life could extend to about 150 years as medical techniques push back death. He cites artificial respiration, shocks, hypothermia, and other methods to prolong the so called clinical death period from minutes to potentially hours.
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Moscow
Vladimir Negovsky
Laboratory of Reanimatology
Negovsky
Negevsky
Problems of Philosophy
NTSB hearings probe FAA DC-10 certification lapse
The NTSB continued its hearings into the Chicago DC-10 crash as FAA certification, granted without full internal testing, was questioned. The panel examined pre production tests and design plans as part of its second week of inquiry. The scene shows a DC-10 at the McDonnell Douglas assembly line in Long Beach.
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National Transportation Safety Board
Federation Aviation Administration
McDonnell-Douglas
Long Beach
NTSB
Chicago
Zimbabwe guerrillas set peace conditions for talks
Guerrilla leaders demand dismantling the white controlled Rhodesian army and replacement by liberation forces before negotiating in the Commonwealth peace plan. Mugabe and Muzorewa demand the departure of Smith as a condition, while Kaunda and Nyerere push for attendance at the all party talks. Nyerere predicts a choice by 1981 and Thatcher aims to have a draft constitution within five weeks.
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Associated Press
Lusaka
Zambia
Commonwealth
Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
Robert Mugabe
Patriotic Front
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
Mugabe
Ian Smith
Abel Muzogewa
Joshua Nkomo
Tanzania
Nkomo
Britain
Nyerere
Smith
Muzorewa
Margaret Thatcher
London
United States
Bodies drift from Han River to Panmunjom truce village
An unidentified man drifted down the Han River in North Korean military fatigues and was delivered to a North Korean member of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom. Elsewhere, 72 year old Dollors Lodi died of a heart attack in Ancona after returning from Venezuela. In Bangkok, Vietnam accused China of over 100 border provocations causing losses and alleged US-Chinese collusion to heighten tension.
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Seoul
South Korea
North Korea
Han Tan
Military Armistice Commission
Panmunjom
Ancona
Italy
Dollors Lodi
Venezuela
Mario Montedoro
Lodi
Rome
Pian Pialente
Appennines
Adriatic
Montedoro
Bangkok
Thailand
Vietnam
China
Quan Doi Nhan Dan
United States
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Durango
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