World Spotlight reports Swedish note in El Salvador crisis
A guerrilla group holding a Swedish company executive demanded publication of a communique accusing governments of repression. Swedish Ambassador Arne Hellergd said Kjell Bjork was abducted on Aug 14 by the Armed Forces of National Resistance. The note appeared in two Swedish papers, with potential delays for other countries.
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Arne Hellergd
Telefonica
Ericson
Armed Forces of National Resistance
Kjell Bjork
Somoza Regime Grants Guerrilla Demands in Palace Siege
Nicaragua president Somoza appears to concede most Sandinista demands as hostages are released amid a tentative ceasefire. About 200 captives remain inside the National Palace while talks and a planned prisoner exodus proceed. Archbishop Obando says a solution should come within hours.
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Juan Maltel
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Caracas
Panama City
Comeback for Hickel Leads Alaska Gubernatorial Vote
Walter J. Hickel edged incumbent Gov. Jay Hammond by about 900 votes in the Republican primary as absentee ballots awaited counting. With 8,000 ballots remaining, Hickel led 27,113 to 26,212 with most 403 precincts reporting, Anchorage ballots favoring Hickel by about 10 percent.
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Associated Press
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Front runner in conclave seen in survey says Baggio tops list
Vatican City report based on a working paper by Italy’s ambassador to the Holy See and a Genoa newspaper computer survey places Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio as the leading papal candidate. Bertoli and Pellegrino follow. the study cites Curia favor and Vatican mechanisms as reasons for Italian preference.
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Associated Press
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Rome
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Baggio
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Paul VI
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Turin
Giovanni Pellegrino
Giuseppe Siri
Albini Luciani
Venice
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Sacred College of the Cardinals
Nuclear carrier veto push aims to sustain Carter line
Washington AP Carter seeks to sustain his veto of a 2 billion nuclear powered aircraft carrier bill. Mondale aide Moe leads White House push with ~250 business and group leaders, urging Congress to uphold the veto. Brown and Brzezinski support the veto, warning a nuclear carrier raises costs and offers limited gains.
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Mondale
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National Security
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U.S. Catholic Conference
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Brzezinski
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Death of Kenyatta shrinks Africa’s old guard to six leaders
The passing of Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta leaves only six surviving independence leaders. The list spans Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda and Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, plus Senghor of Senegal, Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast, Sekou Toure of Guinea, and Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroon.
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Serge Schmemann
Associated Press
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So. Africa
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Jomo Kenyatta
Kenyatta
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Britain
Peking
Zaire
Congo
Belgium
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Kenneth Kaunda
Zambia
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Tanzania
France
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Senegal
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Ivory Coast
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Guinea
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Cameroon
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Mauritania
Africa
Kaunda
Rhodesia
Lincoln Memorial and African Leaders Profile
The Lincoln Memorial in West Potomac Park, dedicated May 30, 1922, was designed by Henry Bacon and features a marble hall with a seated Lincoln statue. Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, 56, is praised as the conscience of Africa for shaping a new socialist philosophy and his Arusha declaration of 1967. Sekou Toure of Guinea, 56, has led since 1958 as a long-serving old guard leader shaping West Africa.
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Washington Monument
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Bacon
Cooper
Tanzania
Nyerere
Africa
Sekou Toure
Guinea
Kenya Elects New President Within 50 Days After Kenyatta
Following Jomo Kenyatta's death on Tuesday, Vice President Daniel Arap Moi is to assume the presidency. The Kenyan constitution requires a new president be elected within 50 days.
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Daniel Arap Moi
Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
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