Sandinista Junta Advances As Somoza Regime Collapses
In Managua the Sandinista junta prepared to enter the city as national guard resistance faded. President Francisco Urcuyo and other remnants of the Somoza regime fled after he resigned Wednesday evening, about 36 hours after the start of the resignation.
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Joe Frazier
Associated Press
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Nicaragua
National Guard
Francisco Urcuyo
Urcuyo
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Mangua
Leon
Junta
Alfonso Robelo
Costa Rica
Miami Beach
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U.S
Lawrence A. Pezzullo
Washington
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Red Cross
Fla
Hearses face gasoline rule as Athens seeks exemption
AP dispatch from Athens reports police stopping funeral cars for driving on the wrong alternating weekends under a fuel conservation rule. Funeral associations seek an exemption, arguing that delaying corpses or relatives is impractical.
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Greece
Athens Association of
Gulf oil slick to be charted over Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast Guard and NOAA experts plan a three day grid mapping from a C130 to chart a massive oil slick drifting in the Gulf of Mexico. They will use aircraft data to forecast movement while continuing current measurements off Tampico and Vera Cruz.
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Corpus Christi
Richard Griggs
Griggs
Gulf
Iztoc I
Brownsville
Coast Guard
Valiant
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Marcos misses Tufts study fund payment for East Asia chair
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos again failed to pay a $500,000 installment toward a $1.5 million Tufts University fund for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Dean Theodore Eliot said only $75,000 yearly interest is being paid while the capital remains unpaid.
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Mass
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Tufts University
Theodore Eliot
Tufts
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Eliot
Marcos
Imelda Romualdez Marcos
Board of Trustees
Texas grain dealer arraigned in Idaho swindle case
Robert M. Johnson, 43, a Texas grain dealer, was arraigned in Pocatello Idaho before Federal Judge Marion Callister. He is accused of swindling Texas and Oklahoma farmers out of more than 400000 bushels of wheat after eluding authorities for two years and being captured in Rexburg Idaho last Saturday.
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Robert M. Johnson
Pocatello
Idaho
FBI
Johnson
Marion Callister
Oklahoma
Rexburg
Soviets Open to Trading Oil for Cash and Equipment
U S and Russian sources tell Fort Worth Star Telegram that the Soviet Union would trade oil for hard currency and equipment, hoping to reduce oil uncertainty in the United States and boost both economies. Officials say Moscow seeks broader Western sales for oil and gas as exploration booms in eastern Russia, with Western demand seen from Europe and Japan.
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Soviet Union
U.S
Star-Telegram
Europe
Western Europe
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Russia
Moscow
Soviet
Japan
Aftermath of Prop 13 sparks California labor unrest
In Los Angeles thousands of public workers have held sickouts and illegal strikes amid stalled pay raises after Prop 13. With inflation high, unions warn tens of thousands more could strike by September unless Gov Brown and the Legislature restore funding and wages. Keith Hearn of the California State Employees Association says massive action is inevitable if funds remain cut.
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Los Angeles
California
William Robertson
Afl-Cio
Los Angeles County Federation
Brown
Keith Hearn
California State Employees Association
Monaco Princess Grace Kelly Vacationing at Ocean City
Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly American actress Grace Kelly, enjoys a short seaside stay at Ocean City New Jersey. She plans to leave Thursday and return to Monaco by month end. She says it is relaxing to visit the seaside house of her childhood summers. Grace Kelly, wife of Prince Ranier III since 1956, was born in Philadelphia. Her brother John Kelly Jr. serves as a Philadelphia councilman.
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N.J
Grace
Monaco
Grace Kelly
New Jersey Shore
Atlantic City
Prince Ranier III
Philadelphia
Germantown
John Kelly Jr
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