Space ride dream and other mixed 1977 world briefs
A retired space engineer seeks sponsors for a rocket project aiming to carry paying spectators, promising sub ten thousand dollar per launch costs after initial successes. Also in Las Vegas, Totie Fields named Entertainer of the Year by the American Guild of Variety Artists. Vladimir Horowitz marks a Golden Jubilee concert in New York raising funds for the Philadelphia Orchestra. A tanker collision off Louisiana coast spurs Coast Guard inquiries as two men remain missing. London editor Donald Woods predicts a black South African uprising within three years. Ella Fitzgerald donates to a Belgian orphanage after a gala. Minnesota braces for a major high voltage line project amid farmer protests. Dallas reports on a snowsuit fire at the NFC title game and its survivor.
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Las Vegas
Totie Fields
American Guild of Variety Artists
Miss Fields
Jackie Gleason
Caesars Palace
Cbs-Tv
New York
Vladimir Horowitz
Horowitz
Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Ormandy
London
Donald Woods
South Africa
Woods
East London Daily Dispatch
Moscow
Peking
Hitler
Abc-Tv
San Antonio girl jailed nine years for Israeli case
Terry Fleener of San Antonio Texas was sentenced to five years in prison for conveying information to Arab guerrilla groups in Israel. Her attorney Felicia Langer plans an appeal, expecting possible deportation and release. Fleener confessed at a one day trial. other charges were dropped.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Terry Fleener
San Antonio
Texas
Miss Fleener
Ramla
Langer
Mary Boettcher
Enon
Ohio
Catherine Edwards
Lebanon
Fleener
American University
Beirut
Kuwait Airlines
Kuwait
Probe Opens Into Park Bribery Case in Seoul Meeting
Justice Department lawyers confer with Park’s American attorney and Korean officials ahead of Park’s first questioning on bribery allegations linked to paying U.S. congressmen. Civiletti and Handley plan to sign a U.S Korea agreement and a testimony immunity understanding.
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Seoul
South Korea
Justice Department
Tongsun Park
Park
U.S
Benjamin R. Civiletti
William Handley
Paul R. Michael
FBI
Civiletti
Lee Chong-Won
United States
Washington
Handley
Congressional
Leon Jaworski
House
Bruce Caputo
Rn.y
Barbs on I Spy players and ghostly role models
The excerpt jokes about children who play I Spy growing into intelligence operatives. It contrasts terms like role model with ghosts and notes aging changes from age twenty to forty, where being second or ignored becomes the norm.
Mondale Starts Western Swing With Albuquerque Stop
Vice President Walter Mondale began a seven state swing through the west with a stop in Albuquerque. He was to land at Kirtland AFB at 6 p.m. and depart for Ogden Utah at 1 10 p.m. Tuesday. Mondale would dine with Gov. Apodaca at the Albuquerque Inn and meet Native leaders at the Convention Center before touring Sandia Labs and meeting Hispanic businessmen.
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Albuquerque
Walter Mondale
United States
Kirtland Air Force Base
Ogden
Utah
Albuquerque Inn
Jerry Apodaca
Convention Center
Mondale
Sandia Laboratories
City Hall
Begin defends Sinai settlements amid Sinai talks
Begin told right wing supporters in Tel Aviv that Israelis build settlements and will not burn them, while Egypt demands removal and warns of changing Sinai borders. The cabinet rejected new Sinai towns but expanded existing settlements and the Jewish Agency said four new outposts were begun. Egypt vows total withdrawal and dismantling of settlements as Cairo and Jerusalem prepare for joint talks.
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Associated Press
Menahem Begin
Sinai Peninsula
Egypt
Begin
Tel Avid
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Sinai
Jewish Agency
Sadat
Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel
Cairo
Jerusalem
Hosni Mubarak
Middle East
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Carter
Cbs-Tv
Dallas businessmen oppose three martini lunch tax cut
Dallas area businessmen criticize President Carter's proposal to end the tax deduction for long business lunches. Critics warn of unemployment in restaurants and hotels and broader economic impact while executives dine at clubs. Industry figures say such deductions support business dining and convention attendance.
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Dallas
Carter
Afl-Cio
Gene Greeland
Gerard Harvey
Washington Based
National Club Association
Jack Andrus
Dallas Chamber of Commerce Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Evel Knievel
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Stolt Viking
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Belgium
Ella Fitzgerald
Miss Fitzgerald
Lowry
Minn
Minnesota
James Crawford
Crawford
Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission
Daniel Yoder
Texas Stadium
Parkland Hospital
Felicia Langer
Intelligence
Spook
New Mexico
Kirtland Base
Norman Blomgren
Preston Trail Golf Club
Ross Snyder
Southland Life Insurance Co
Mediterranean Sea
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UN Forces
SRAT
Red Sea
Woolan Heights
West Bank
Dead Sea
Jordan
Gulf of Aqaba
SAUD
Arabia
Syria
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