Temple sought transfer of millions to Soviet consul in Georgetown
Guyanese police officials testified at a coroner inquest into Jonestown deaths that the Peoples Temple attempted to move more than 7 million dollars from Swiss banks in Panama and Venezuela to Feodor Timofeyev the Soviet consul in Georgetown just before the Jonestown crisis. Authorities found about 1.6 million in cash at Jonestown plus substantial sums elsewhere and tied letters to the Soviet embassy in Georgetown.
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Tom Fenton
Associated Press
Matthews Ridge
Guyana
Peoples Temple
Georgetown
Jonestown
Skip Roberts
Panama
Venezuela
Feodor Timofeyev
Roberts
Timofeyev
Union Bank of Venezuela
Jones
Soviet Union
Tim Carter
Carter
U.S
Annie Jane McGowan
Cleveland Mayor Plans Mass Layoffs in City Budget Crisis
Cleveland officials brace for a 35 percent layoff plan affecting police, fire, sanitation, and street crews as unions vow court battles. Banks weighing suits over overdue city notes rotate meetings, while mayor and council clash over tax increases and a threatened default.
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Cleveland
Dennis Kucinich
Kucinich
David Isaacs
Roger Hippsley
Central National Bank
Price hike shocks markets as oil rises 14.5 percent
Government officials say the 14.5 percent crude oil price increase will fuel U.S. inflation and harm oil producing nations. President Carter criticized the move, urging reconsideration, while Alfred Kahn called it serious and injurious to both the United States and oil producers in the long run.
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Mark Potts
New York
United States
Carter
Alfred Kahn
Energy
James Schlesinger
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Schlesinger
OPEC
ABC Television
U.S
Consolidated Edison Company of
New York City
Posters call for reforms in communist system in Beijing
A 48 piece wall poster in Peking urged ideological freedom, free speech, democracy and wide reforms to China’s political and economic system, carried by Asahi Shimbun from a dispatch in Peking. The author identified as an industrial technician.
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Tokyo
Peking
China
Asahi Shimbun
Hopkins researchers seek genetic test for hereditary colon cancer
Johns Hopkins Hospital genetics center researchers aim to identify hereditary colon cancer and design early detection tests. Dr. Edmond Murphy notes a 50 50 inheritance from affected parents, with growths appearing only in adulthood.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Edmond Murphy
Moore Clinic
U.S. to maintain Taiwan pacts amid shift to Beijing
U S officials say a private corporation will preserve most Taiwan agreements including commercial and cultural ties while ending the defense treaty as the United States shifts official relations to the People’s Republic of China. Trade with Taiwan is projected at 7.4 billion this year.
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Martin Crutsinger
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Taiwan
China
State Department
Herbert J. Hansell
Department
Carter Administration
Congress
Asian-American Services Corp
Japan
Carter
Peking
Teng Hsiao Ping
U.S
Hansell
U.s.-Taiwan
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Littleton
Colo
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Federal Aviation Administration
Dave Wells
Delta
Wells
FAA
Sherburne
Vermont
Family Planning Perspectives Magazine
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