Iranian mob seizes U S embassy in Tehran prisoners held
Scores of armed Iranians stormed the U S Embassy in Tehran taking Ambassador Sullivan and 101 Americans prisoner. Deputy PM Yazdi announced they were under protective custody. One Marine and another American wounded. five Iranians injured. a photographer dead body seen.
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Robert H. Reid
Associated Press
Tehran
Iran
U.S
Wos
William Sullivan
Ibrahim Yazdi
Radio Tehran
Khomeini
Ayatollah
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
France seeks cease fire as Chad fight escalates
France pushes for a cease fire in Chad while Habre forces gain ground in the capital N'Djamena amid heavy fighting. Gen Louis Forrest seeks a truce as residents report divisions and casualties. Paris insists its forces are not involved, calling it an internal matter.
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Paris
Hissene Habre
Africa
Felix Malloum
Chad
Fance
N'Djamena
Louis Forrest
France
Pierre Hunt
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Agence France Presse
Habre
North
Court Hears Priest Theft Charges In Melbourne Diocese Case
A Melbourne priest, Rev. Brian Emmett Wallis of East Melbourne, faced 11 charges of stealing from a church trust fund and was ordered to reappear April 11. He allegedly stole $10,000 on Feb. 24, 1977 and $58,000 in 10 other counts. investigations continue.
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Melbourne
Australia
Brian Emmett Wallis
East Melbourne
Latin American bishops outline 10 year plan to aid poor
Latin America's Roman Catholic bishops ended their Puebla conference with a 10 year program to aid the poor. The document denounces both capitalism and atheistic Marxism as inadequate. It urges action against oppression in the name of national security and calls for renewed pastoral work within liberation theology.
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Puebla
Mexico
Latin America
Liberation
Nevin Hayes
Chicago
John Paul II
Palafexian
Alfonso Lopez Trujillo
Colombia
U S ambassador Adolph Dubs killed in Kabul kidnapping
New Delhi based report says the U S ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs was abducted by men in Kabul and killed after the car search. The attackers demanded release of Shiite mullahs. Tehran embassy attack noted but no proven link. Dubs, 58, long served in Soviet affairs with prior postings in Moscow Liberia Canada and Yugoslavia.
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Associated Press
New Delhi
India
U.S
Afghanistan
Adolph Dubs
Kabul
Arthur Lefkowitz
Dubs
Lefkowitz
Tehran
Iran
Illinois
Mohammed Daoud
Nur Mohammed Taraki
State Department
Moscow
Liberia
Canada
Yugoslavia
Americans Back Hearst Freeing Carter’s Commutation Poll
An AP NBC News poll found 49 percent support President Carter’s decision to commute Patricia Hearst’s jail term for the 1974 Hibernia Bank robbery, with 41 percent opposing and 10 percent unsure. Support varied by region age and gender, highest in the West and among seniors.
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Carter
Patricia Hearst
Associated Press
NBC News
Miss Hearst
Berkeley
Calif
Symbionese Liberation Army
San Francisco
Hibernia Bank
Federal Correctional Institution
Pleasanton
Bernard Shaw
NBC
Tagalog speaking teachers sought in Duval schools
Duval County schools advertise for a Tagalog fluent teacher to join a current instructor serving 12 students in West Jacksonville with another 20 students in a separate school. The move comes as Philippine language needs rise among pupils in the district.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Duval County
Philippines
West Jacksonville
Ernest Velazquez
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