Conservatives fall as Clark government loses no confidence vote
Ottawa AP report notes Prime Minister Joe Clark's seven month old Conservative government defeated in a parliamentary no confidence vote amid pressure over gasoline tax hikes and fiscal policy. Clark faces collapse of his minority administration as opposition parties unite against the budget stance.
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Rickmansworth
England
Margaret Thatcher
House of Commons
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Commons
Richard Page
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Clark
Ed Schreyer
Liberals
New Democrats
Trudeau
Canada
Liberal House
Allan MacEachen
Dozens of Chinese Migrants Die Lifting Across Mirs Bay
In Hong Kong police report 24 bodies found along Mirs Bay shores likely from Guangdong attempts to cross by rafts or small boats. Up to 80,381 illegal entrants sent home this year, a sharp rise amid tougher border controls and harsher Chinese penalties.
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Mirs Bay
China
Guangdong
Thatcher
Americans send tens of thousands of Christmas cards to Iran hostages
The Postal Service reports a sharp rise in mail to Iran as Americans send about 70 thousand pieces to Iran from New York and 25 thousand from Chicago. Most mail targets the U S Embassy in Tehran where 50 hostages are held. About 10 thousand letters arrived at the embassy on Thursday, far above normal.
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U.S
Iran
Postal Service
Lou Eberhardt
John F. Kennedy
New York
Eberhardt
O'Hare
Chicago
Tehran
P.O
Massachusetts Ave
Washington, D.C
Ambassadors to Visit U S Hostages in Tehran Christmas Cards Allowed
Western ambassadors from a dozen nations were expected to visit the 50 U S hostages in Tehran within a day or two following Khomeini's approval for independent observers. A spokeswoman for the captors said Christmas cards are being given to hostages and noted large mail volumes at U S airports. The hostage crisis, ongoing since November 4, involves demands to return the deposed shah.
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Associated Press
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Iran
U.S
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Chicago
O'Hare
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Khomeini
Australia
Austria
Canada
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Finland
Greece
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Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Nations
U.N
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Kurt Waldheim
Farhang
California State University
Sacramento
William Dorman
Farhan
Ghotbzadeh
Washington
White House
Jody Powell
Powell
United States
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Carter
Shah
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Carter plans rapid Taiwan arms sales after court ruling
The Carter administration aims to resume arms sales to Taiwan early next year after the Supreme Court upheld the policy to terminate the 1954 defense treaty. Officials refused to specify weapon types but said equipment for land, sea, and air forces could be considered while avoiding arms that would upset regional balance. Chinese opposition remains, yet officials expect no major strain on U S China ties.
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George Gedda
Associated Press
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Taiwan
Supreme Court
U.S
China
United States
Texaco accuses rivals of price fixing and market control
Texaco Inc sues J Ray McDermott Halliburton and Brown & Root claiming a 1960 onward scheme to suppress competition and allocate marine construction work in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. The firms did not comment.
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Texaco Inc
Texaco
J. Ray McDermott & Co
New Orleans
Halliburton Co
Dallas
Brown & Root
Houston
Gulf of Mexico
Boy, parents reunited after 18 day separation
An 8 year old Philadelphia boy who hopped a train to New York and claimed to live in Brooklyn was found wandering in Pennsylvania Station by a Harlem Hospital worker at 2 a.m. on November 27. Hospital officials said he had not sustained injuries from the claimed car accident and he is now reunified with his father Joseph Wilson and stepmother Marie Wilson who were contacted by phone.
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Harlem Hospital
Pennsylvania Station
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Albert Jackson
Joseph
Marie Wilson
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