Inaugural European Parliament convenes in Strasbourg
The first popularly elected European Parliament meets today in Strasbourg with Simone Weil favored to become president of the 410 member nine nation assembly. Her liberal abortion law stance faces some Catholic opposition but is backed by a wide caucus.
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Marcus Eliason
Associated Press
Stasbourg
France
Simone Weil
Assembly
Weil
Valery Giscard d
European Parliament
European Coal and Steel Community
European Economic Community of Common Market
European Atomic Energy Community
European Communities
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Denmark
Ireland
Court reduces brutal fifty year sentence for marijuana sale
In Clayton Missouri the same judge who ordered Frank Abell to stand trial as an adult ruled his 50 year sentence cruel and unusual. Abell was 16 when charged and had been placed on probation before a 1976 penitentiary sentence for a second drug offense. The ruling prompts resentencing.
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Clayton, Mo
Frank Abell
St. Louis County
Herbert
Abell
Overland
Missouri Penitentiary
Senate votes to shut down reactors without approved evacuations
The Senate backed restricting nuclear plants to those with NRC-approved state evacuation plans, potentially affecting up to 39 of 70 licensed facilities. The push follows the Three Mile Island crisis and includes a moratorium on new construction permits for six months.
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Washington
Senate
Three Mile Island
Gary Hart
D-Coro
Hart
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Congress
Harrisburg
Carter
Kansas City
United States
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Somoza resigns and flees to Florida ending dynasty rule
Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigns early today and departs by private jet to Florida ending 42 years of family rule. Congress appoints Francisco Urcuyo as interim president until a Sandinista provisional junta arrives from Costa Rica. An aide says Somoza left Managua at 4 AM by helicopter to the airport and boarded for Miami area.
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Joe Frazier
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Florida
Congress
Francisco Urcuyo
Urcuyo
Costa Rica
Somoza
Miami
Homestead Air Force Base
U.S. State Department
Air Force
Jinotepe
Carter
State Department
San Jose
Colombia
Venezuela
Bolivia
Ecuador
Peru
Radio St
Pablo Emilio Salazar
Eden Pastora
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Intercontinental Hotel
African chiefs arrive for summit in Liberia
African leaders led by President Anwar Sadat land in Monrovia for the 16th Organization of African Unity summit, presided by Liberia's William R. Tolbert, amid bloc tensions over Libya Algeria and Sadat's peace with Israel.
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Monrovia
Liberia
Anwar Sadat
Organization of African Unity
William R. Tolbert
Libya
Algeria
Sadat
Israel
Middle East
OAU
Ethiopia
Madagascar
Angola
Mozambique
Morocco
Kenya
Senegal
Ivory Coast
Nigeria
Tanzania
Zambia
Patriotic Front
Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
South-West African People’s Organization
Global threats loom as Soviet influence grows in oil regions
Across multiple capitals AP reports Soviet leverage expanding in Africa and the Middle East threatens Western oil lifelines. Navy Admiral Harold E. Shear warns future conflict could unfold without fire as NATO's energy resources face Soviet strategies. In Beirut, Lebanon, Salim el Hoss forms a 12 member cabinet. In Lusaka, Sri Lanka to supply corneal tissue for transplant. In Baghdad, Saddam Hussein replaces Ahmed Hassan al Bakr as president due to ill health and age.
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Gaeta
Italy
NATO
Europe
Soviet Union
Africa
Middle East
Albany
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Adm
Harold E. Shear
Beirut
Lebanon
Salim el Hoss
Hoss
Baghad
Iraq
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Saddam Hussein
Revolutionary Command Council
Bakr
Baath Socialist Party
Hussein
Record grain exports shaping up this year
Washington AP reports government estimates project record wheat and corn exports as world grain reserves fall 18.3 percent by mid-1980. Despite bumper 1979 crops, U.S. reserves drop, boosting international trade by about 10 percent and enlarging grain shipments to Europe, the Soviet Union, and developing regions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Soviet Union
U.S
Department
Outlook Board
Europe
South Korea
Taiwan
Mexico
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