Roaming global briefs from Sagmakilar to Hirohito tapes
Sagmakilar Prison returned 9000 cigarette packs after boobytrap concerns. A blast in southern Turkey killed a worker, with police suspecting terrorist explosives in tobacco. In Halifax a basking shark caused a water ban, later allowed back in. Queen Juliana and Bernhard visit Tanzania, while Turkey begins four day joint exercises in the Aegean and Mediterranean. China reports aerial sowing yields 3 tons per acre, far above hand methods. Christina Onassis denies Moscow marriage, though rumors persist. Burt Reynolds film faces Polish American group protests in Milwaukee. Emperor Hirohito’s private conversations set for release on LPs. Proxmire praises Miller on TV amid Fed scrutiny. Vance to Geneva for arms talks. some U.S.-Soviet meetings canceled over dissidents.
Soviet Trials of Two Dissidents Amid U S Protests
In Moscow and Kaluga, Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg faced trials despite U S protests. Shcharansky, charged with high treason, and Ginzburg, charged with anti-Soviet agitation, drew international attention as U S officials and dissidents gathered behind security barriers.
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Moscow
United States
Anatoly Shcharansky
Alexander Ginzburg
Kaluga
Shcharansky
U.S
Raymond F. Smith
Smith
State Department
Carter
Skydiving event ends in tragedy and crashes kill several
A weekend skydiving event ended in disaster with multiple fatal plane crashes and 12 injured parachutists. Notable victims include Rod Whittaker of Kingston New York and Dr Rodney Nixon of Port Angeles Washington. Investigations by the FAA are ongoing.
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Westerly
James Galluscio
Rod Whittaker
Kingston
N.Y
F. Warren Nissen
Shokan
Linda Yerry
Ilene Gilman
Kinston
Poughkeepsie
Montana
Port Angeles
Wash
Rodney Thomas H. Nixon
Nixon
David Andre
Port Angles
Los Angeles
New Mexico
Billings
Cody
Wyo
Havre
Mont
Indiana
Roger Dickey
Hartford City
Ind
Blackford
Dickey
Richmond
Rosemary Lobes
Raymond Catlette
Oakland
Calif
Betty Hawkins
Pope Valley
Peter Levy
Sandy
Utah
Federal Aviation Administration
Protest Staged in Houston Park By Mexican American Group
A peaceful protest occurred in front of Houston police headquarters by a Mexican American group led by Henry Sanchez. They opposed arrests of about 20 Mexican Americans from a May 7-8 park riot and deny ties to the Moody Park Three.
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Houston
Henry Sanchez
Moody Park
Travis Morales
Mara Youngdahl
Theman
Robert Hirschi
Mauritania Military Overthrows President Ould Daddah
AFP reports Mauritania, a former French colony, suspended its constitution and dissolved government and parliament after the seizure by the Military Committee of National Redress. Nouakchott confirms the move as the country awaits democratic institutions. President Moktar Ould Daddah led a one party regime since independence in 1960.
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PARIS
Mauritania
Moktar Ould Daddah
Agence France Presse
AFP
Nouakchott
Committee of National Redress
People’s Party of
Time running out on hospital cost control bill
Congressional opponents stall to let the year end without acting on a bill to cap hospital cost increases, a priority for President Carter. The measure would auto die if Congress adjourns in October. Some drafts extend hospital leeway, while others propose 12 percent limits in 1979. Time is on their side, aides say, as amendments bog down the bill.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
House Commerce Committee
House
Ways and Means Subcommittee On
Sadat puts peace plan aside for London talks
In Vienna Sadat says he will mothball the plan if Israel moves toward principles not details during London talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamel and U S envoy Cyrus Vance. Peres' spokesman notes no distance from discussion on declaration of principles. Begin’s cabinet rejects the Egyptian proposal but sends Dayan to London with five aides to push Israel’s plan.
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Vienna
Australia
Anwar Sadat
Israel
London
Sadat
Shimon Peres
Labor Party
Peres
Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
Moshe Dayan
Mohammed Ibraham Kamel
Cyrus Vance
Egypt
Yossi Beilin
Begin
Dayan
Arieh Naor
United States
Ismailia
East Jerusalem
West Bank
Jordan
Gaza Strip
Gaza
Beilin
Palestine Liberation Organiztion
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Tanzania
Julius Nyerere
Aegean
Mediterranean
Tokyo
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Anhwei
Christina Onassis
Aristotle Onassis
Miss Onassis
Nikolai Kapsov
Soviet Freight Organization
Milwauke
Wisconsin
Hirohito
Imperial Household
Sadaharu Oh
Japan
Yae Nozaki
William Proxmire
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Reserve
G. William Miller
Wisconsin Democrat
Miller
Fed
Proxmire
CBS Television
Geneva
Vance
Frank Press
Barbara Blum
Environmental Protection Agency
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
Switzerland
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Cern
Ginzburg
Helsinki
Helsinki Group
Yuri Orlov
CIA
Proletarsky Regional People’s Court
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Pate
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