Mountbatten Killing: Irish Police Hold Two Suspects
Irish police hold two IRA suspects, Thomas McMahon and Francis McGirl, in Dublin on explosives charges linked to the Mountbatten assassination. Mountbatten and three others died when a bomb exploded off the northwest coast, as Britain faces intensified IRA action and Thatcher visits Northern Ireland.
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Dublin
Ireland
Earl Mountbatten
Thomas McMahon
Francis McGirl
Mountbatten
Ponegal On
É& Oboe
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
George Colley
Colley
McMahon
McGirl
London
Sligo
Westminster Abbey
Britain
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
IRA
Thatcher
Belfast
Jack Lynch
Portugal
Senate delegation concludes SALT II talks with Kosygin
After a meeting with Soviet President Kosygin the U S Senate delegation says Moscow will accept four Senate reservations on the SALT II treaty as presented. The delegation reported Kosygin did not react negatively and agreed to include the declarations in the ratification resolution.
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Stephen R. Hurst
Associated Press
Moscow
Alexei Kosygin
U.S
Senate
Kosygin
Carter
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Vienna
Joseph R. Biden Jr
D-Del
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
United States
Brezhnev
Russia
David strengthens battering Caribbean as it nears Puerto Rico
Hurricane David, now with 150 mph winds, ransacks Dominica and Martinique causing heavy property damage with no reported casualties. It tracks west-northwest toward Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic as it strengthens and threatens St. Croix and Ponce with dangerous seas and flooding.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
David
Virgin Islands
Dominica
Martinique
Caribbean
St. Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. National Weather Service
Ponce
Cabo Beata
Domincan Republc
Nincan Republic
Cuba
United States
Weather Service
Mexico
Louis Block
Cleveland
Roseau
Dominca
Block
National Weather Service
U N report on status of women calls for unprecedented change
The United Nations 1979 survey concludes women, over two billion strong, lack equality and opportunity. It pinpoints wage gaps in the United States and broader social, cultural, and economic injustices as reasons for mobilizing a global women’s movement and a new social order.
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William N. Oatis
Associated Press
United Nations
U.N. Center For Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs
Helvi Sipila
U.N. Secretariat
International Labor Office
United States
Seople i
Stalemate in Mexico gas talks cools with no agreement
AP reports deadlock persists after four hour talks in Mexico City between Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda. Sources say both sides cling to positions with little concessions ahead of potential deals on 300 to 500 million cubic feet daily.
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Mexico City
U.S
Warren Christopher
Jorge Castaneda
Jose Lopez Portillo
United States
Pemex
Mexico
Houston council approves 1.1 million CETA project over bid
Houston City Council approves a 1.1 million motivational training program for 200 unemployed residents, awarding the contract to Vital Issues Projects Inc of Erie. A UH professor headed group offered to perform the work for 100,000, with key officials citing risk to CETA funds and timing.
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Houston
Ceta Division
Department of Labor
Jim McCann
CETA
Rea
Johnny Brown
Pennsylvania
Kurdish spokesman denies Iran claim on Mahabad army entry
A Kurdish official repudiates Tehran Radio reports of an agreed entry of Khomeini's forces into Mahabad after Kurdish talks in Tehran. He says no one in Mahabad agrees to army entry and criticizes the Kabul? no. The piece notes a Kurdish delegation's talks, Sabaghian's remarks, and renewed push for self rule after revolts near Saqqez.
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Tehran
Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Mahabad
Tom
Kurdish Democratic Party
Tehran Radio
Khomeini
Saqqez
Hashem Sabaghian
Sabaghian
Kurdistan
Sadeq Khalkhali
Green beret guilty in deaths of family
Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Green Beret, was convicted by a seven man by five woman jury of one first degree murder and two second degree murders in the 1970 deaths of his wife Collette MacDonald and their two daughters at Fort Bragg. He faces three consecutive life sentences.
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Raleigh, N.C
Colett MacDonald
Jeffrey MacDonald
MacDonald
Green Beret
Kimberly
Kristen
Fort Bragg
Albert Kassab
Colette
U.S
Huntington Beach
Calif
Butner
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