Goldwater Invited to Peking for Talks on Taiwan Reunification
Vice Premier Ten HsiaoPeng extended the invitation through Rep. Thomas Ashley to Sen. Barry Goldwater in a two hour meeting. Ashley said he would convey the invitation while noting Goldwater's suit against Carter over the U.S. Taiwan defense treaty. The talks would address peaceful reunification of Taiwan with the mainland amid U.S. and Peking policy shifts and ongoing disputes over recognition and rights.
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John Roderick
Peking
Ten Hsoiao Peng
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Taiwan
Teng
Thomas L. Ashley
Ohio
House Banking Committee
Ashley
Arizona Republican
Washington
Carter
Tengold Ashley
Banking Committee
Goldwater
United States
Chiang Ching Kuo
Taipei
Doug Bernard
D-Ga
Ten
China
Hua Kuofeng
California
Leonard Woodcock
U.S
Bakhtiar designate closes civilian Cabinet pick for Iran
Prime Minister designate Shahpour Bakhtiar has completed his selections for a new civilian Cabinet to replace the military regime amid riots against the shah. Aide says announcement may come Wednesday or Thursday as Iran’s Senate likely backs the plan. The military seized Tehran airport operations, restoring limited service to allow departures, including foreigners. a U.S. Air Force transport evacuated families of American personnel.
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Tehran
Iran
Shahpour Bakhtiiar
Bakhtiar
U.S
Pan American
Lufthansa
Frankfurt
Istanbul
Kenneth Taylor
Monay
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah
Karim Sanjaby
Mashhad
Shahpour Bakhtari
Trucker charged after backing through I 70 weigh station
Tim Andrews of Wichita was charged with destruction of state property after backing his rig through a nonoperational weigh station on I 70. The cinder block building housed equipment worth 250 000 dollars and was leveled. Andrews, a repeat overweight cited driver, awaits arraignment in Lafayette County jail.
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Odessa
Timothy Andrews
Wichita
Kan
Lafayette County
Steve Johnson
Missouri Highway Patrol
Outpost attempts by Gush Emunim on West Bank
Ultra nationalist group Gush Emunim makes a third attempt in 24 hours to establish an outpost on the West Bank. About 50 families squat on a hill near an existing settlement to protest Israel’s settlement freeze and demand new housing. The army dismantled the encampments and roadblock set by the group, as U.S. and Arab officials oppose new settlements.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Gush Emunim
West Bank
Jordan River
Jordan
Jerusalem
Nablus
Ramallah Nablus
Jewish Settlements In the Occupied Territories
U.S
Camp David
DC 8 Jetliner Almost Out of Fuel in Portland Crash
Federal investigators said the United Airlines DC-8 was nearly out of fuel when it crashed in a Portland residential area, with fewer than 10 gallons in the main tank and no fuel detected in the engines. Ten people died, 69 injured aboard the 184 passengers. Three fuel tanks ruptured. indicators showed zero fuel. Pilot McBroom, hospitalized in good condition, is to be questioned later.
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Portland
Ore
United Airlines
Portland International Airport
New York
Albert Malancia
Malburn McBroom
Loveland
Colo
McBroom
Elwood T. Driver
Safety Board
United Air Lines
Oregon
Rhodesia draft constitution keeps white control and name Rhodesia
The 147 page draft constitution for a biracial Rhodesia names the country Zimbabwe Rhodesia and preserves white control of the military, judiciary and civil service for at least five years. The measure faces an 80,000 white voter referendum on January 30 with a first universal suffrage vote by 6.8 million blacks and whites on April 20.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Ian Smith
Abel Muzorewa
Ndabaningi Sithole
Cecil Rhodes
Polish disaster status as snow cripples Europe
In Warsaw and across Poland heavy snowfall strains heating plants and transport 105 American educators stranded for 15 hours without food or water six days of school cancellations and 800 train cancellations to move heating oil and coal.
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Warsaw
Poland
Europe
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Portman and Associates
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