World News Roundup From Africa Europe and Asia
Tanzanian government papers claim Idi Amin personally killed Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum during interrogation after he refused to sign a confession linking him to Milton Obote. In London, David Owen becomes Britain's foreign secretary after the death of Anthony Crosland. El Salvador sees Carlos Humberto Romero claim the presidency amid fraud allegations and street protests as election results await final tally. Seoul announces Hahm Pyong choon resignation as ambassador to the United States amid alleged influence buying by Seoul officials.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
Idi Amin
Janani Luwum
Kampala
Daily News
Amin
Milton Obote
London
David Owen
Britain
Anthony Eden
James Callaghan
Owen
Foreign Office
Anthony Crosland
Crosland
San Salvador
el Salvador
Carlos Humberto Romero
National Election Board
Romero
National Conciliation Party
Seoul
South Korea
United States
Foreign Ministry
Hahm Pyong-choon
Washington
Notable fundraising concert features wide range from Aida to kazoo
Arthur Fiedler leads the Boston Pops at a Waldorf Astoria benefit with music from Aida to kazoo bits by Gene Shalit. Gloria Medlin receives a $60 million erroneous check from Blue Cross Blue Shield, while Bert Gordon teaches a food history course at Mills College. Senator Warnke faces Senate votes on arms control posts. Glomar Explorer eyed for deep ocean energy tests. AFL-CIO chief Meany opposes voluntary wage price notice. Imogene Knoile’s murder noted as Timothy Knode is charged.
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New York
Boston Pops
Arthur Fielder
Boston Symphony
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Aida
NBC
Gene Shalit
Maryville
Tenn
Gloria Medlin
Labor party leader Asher Yadlin jailed on corruption charges
Labor party leader Asher Yadlin, former head of the national health service, was sentenced to 50 years in prison and fined 28,000 for 89,000 in kickbacks and tax evasion. The ruling comes as Labor faces a convention and a leadership struggle between Rabin and Peres amid public suspicions of misuse of funds.
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Marcus Eliason
Associated Press
Tel Aviv
Israel
Labor Party
Asher Yadlin
Yadlin
National
Health Service
Bank of Israel
Hadassah Benito
Yitzhak Rabin
Shimon Peres
Likud
Labor
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Builds to Climax on Fat Tuesday
New Orleans gears up for the year's biggest street party as Rex the King of Carnival leads parades into Fat Tuesday. Krewe and blue collar truck clubs prepare floats and costumes, spending about 2500 dollars each on necklaces and doubloons while revelers fill the French Quarter aiming to party past midnight into Lent.
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New Orleans
America
Rex
Krewes
Orleanians
Crescent
Joe Duzac
Vance Plans June Return for Mid East Peace Effort
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance says he will return to the Middle East in June to pursue a Geneva peace conference after noting sharp differences between Israel and the Arabs. Saudi Arabia told him it will not raise oil prices soon, while pressing Carter to pressure Israel. The move follows Middle East leaders' Washington visits in March and April to meet President Carter.
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Washington
Cyrus KR. Vance
Israel
Middle East
Geneva
Vance
Saudi Arabia
U.S
Carter
Henry A. Kissinger
Fat Tuesday ends in drunkenness and death in Seattle
Seattle's first Fat Tuesday celebration aimed at a Mardi Gras style week devolved into mass drunkenness. A 22 year old man, Craig Millar, died of a brain hemorrhage as the event dispersed. Police faced widespread disorder with assaults and public indecency reported.
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Seattle
New Orleans
Sunshine
Pioneer Square
Howard Johnson
Craig Millar
Millar
Congress Seeks Answers On Soaring Coffee Prices
Two House subcommittees open joint hearings to probe why the average American spends about three times as much for 800 cups of coffee yearly as in 1975. They will hear from consumer groups government agencies producers importers and retailers as they examine market manipulation and possible government actions. Coffee prices rose from 1.23 per pound in 1974 to over 3 and potentially 5, fueling consumer alarm amid overall grocery price trends.
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Washington
Congress
House
U.S
Benjamin S. Rosenthal
D-N.y
Rosenthal
Fred Richmond
Tropics
Blizzard triggers illegal tax use in Buffalo after 1977 storm
Federal and local investigators probe a horror show of theft extortion and illegal use of 25 million dollars in storm aid poured into Buffalo after the January 28 blizzard. Reports include private haulers paying for license to remove snow and a New Jersey contractor bringing eight trucks to meet a claimed city official.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Army Corps of Engineers
Contrac
Tors
Bryan G. Walker
The
Corp
New Jersey
Lunch hour donor gives up platelets
Pat Patterson, a 52 year old MD Anderson employee, has donated platelets 665 times over ten years during lunch hours at the Houston hospital blood bank. He says the process takes about an hour and helps leukemia patients by providing essential platelets.
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Associated Press
Houston
Pat Patterson
Patterson
M.D. Anderson Hospital and
Tumor Institute Blood Bank
M.D. Anderson
Newspaper sales tax draw unfair charge
A.M. Aikin of the Senate Finance Committee urged exempting newspapers from the sales tax saying it is unfair that a Paris News costs 35 cents in vending machines but 36 cents in groceries. The Texas Daily Newspaper Association and sponsors paused action awaiting comptroller figures on past tax payments by newspapers and magazines.
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Austin, Tex
A.M. Aikin
Senate Finance Committee
Aikin
D-Paris
Paris News
Bill Hartman
Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Hartman
Comptroller’s Office
Legislative Budget Board
Walter Lilie
Comptroller
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Oakland
Calif
Bert Gordon
Mills College
Gordon
Warnke
Paul C. Warnke
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S. Arms Control and
Glomar
San Diego
National Science Foundation
Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Elder Statesman
Cry For
Hagerstown
Imogene Knoile
Timothy Wayne Knode
I A
Dallas
Tex
Mid-East
Ricky Allen Wise
Blizzard
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