Somoza Offers Vote On Resignation Under Conditions
In Managua President Anastasio Somoza says he may ask voters if they want him to quit but will not resign until a separate election names a new president or he leaves the country. An opposition leader calls the offer a joke as talks continue.
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Gordon D. Mott
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
U.S
Internatonal
Mediating Commission
Alfonso Robelo
Carter
Robelo
United States
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
William Bowdler
Ramon Jimenez
Alfredo Obiols
Former supervisor quizzed on shooting in city hall
Dan White, told that George Moscone and Harvey Milk were dead, said he had a hazy recollection of his visit minutes earlier. He admitted he did not intend to kill but believed he had acted as everything added up. Across town thousands attended memorials for Moscone and Milk as the city faced grief and renewed calls for gay rights.
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Tony Ledwell
Associated Press
SAN Francisco (Ap
Dan White
George Moscone
Harvey Milk
Oakland Tribune
George
White
Milk
Moscone
the Tribune
Ilky
Calin Wadonte Ely
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Dianne Feinstein
Mervyn Dymally
Assembly
Leo McCarthy
California
Rose Bird
Harvey
Anne Kronenberg
City Hall
Milton Marks
Robert
Long Island
N.Y
Siblings seek study on fame and family bonds in UC project
Cincinnati researchers Joel Milgram and Helgola Ross call for siblings to participate in a study comparing relationships with parents and perceptions of luck versus ability in relation to fame. They recruit via newspapers and alumni magazines. The report also notes a fatal house fire in Detroit injuring several children and a separate Albuquerque incident where a postman allegedly sprayed Mace on a child.
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Albuquerque, N.M
Jim Taylor
Albuquerque Post Office
Edward Sanchez
Sanchez
Presbyterian Hospital
Ford Calls Kahn Inflation Fighter Like Arsonist
Former President Gerald Ford criticized Alfred Kahn and the Carter administration at the American Concrete Pavement Association event. He blamed fiscal federal policies for economic woes and rejected blaming either labor or management, urging focus on policy instead of scapegoats.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Gerald Ford
Alfred Kahn
American Concrete Pavement Association
Ford
Kahn
Threat targets two lawmakers in Nicaragua letter
Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas and Congressman John Murphy of New York were named in a death threat from Nicaragua. The letter, mailed from Managua and read by Murphy, urges violent action against them in November and calls them enemies of the Sandinistas, with an FBI investigation underway.
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Miller Bonner
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Charles Wilson
D-Texas
John Murphy
D-N.y
Ameran
Murphy
FBI
New York
Wilson
Mexico
Nicaaagua
Anastasio Somoza
Washington
Managua
Nicaragua
Jack Anderson
Anderson
Joseph Spear
Leo Ryan
Ryan
Guyana
Comandante Cuatro
U.S. Congress
Wise men committee meets on Western Sahara dispute
A committee of wise men from Sudan Guinea Nigeria Mali and Tanzania convenes in Khartoum under the OAU to reconcile differences over the Western Sahara dispute among Algeria Morocco and Mauritania dating from the 1976 division between Morocco and Mauritania. UN official cites Burma Bangladesh refugee repatriation at 2000 per three days with 186,000 still in 13 camps. nine months projected to finish.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Guinea
Nigeria
Mali
Tanzania
Spanish
Sahara
Organization of African Unity
Algeria
Morocco
Mauritania
United Nations
U.N
Burma
Bangladesh
Francois Giuliani
Chinese halt to demonstrations sparks leadership crackdown
AP reports in Beijing about 2000 youths dispersing from Tiananmen while posters praise Mao and attack his critics. Teng Hsiao-ping calls for stability, yet posters resist. leadership warns against disclosing domestic problems to foreigners.
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John Roderick
Tokyo
Peking
Mao Tse Tung
Mao
Teng Hsiao Ping
Tien An Men
Teng
Communist Party
China
Hua Kuo Feng
Hua
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Benjamin Fernandez
Los Angeles
Republican National Committee
National Press Club
Mexico City
Detroit
Mark Thomas
Rodney
Lynette
Hits Carter
Texas
The
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