Pindling PLP Wins Bahamas Parliamentary Victory
The Progressive Liberal Party led by Lyndon O. Pindling swept the Bahamas elections, unofficial results from the Bahamas News Bureau show 20 seats for a solid 38 member Parliament. In Mexico, Matehuala reports a massive polio vaccination campaign reducing cases after an outbreak that killed three and sent nine to hospital.
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Miami
Lyndon O. Pindling
Progressive Liberal Party
Official
Bahamas
Pindling
PLP
Matehuala
Mexico
Mexico City
United States
U.S. News in Brief from Bel Air to Pittsburgh
The report covers Lillian Carter visiting Mabel Yewell in a nursing home. Gov. Shapp repaying 299000 dollars to the FEC. Oregon Gov. Straub signing a bill repealing a nine feet bedsheet rule for hotels. NY Gov. Carey hinting about a blackout baby. and the Pennsylvania American Legion convention opening with a memorial for Legionnaires disease deaths and a projected record attendance.
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Carter
India
Lillian
Plains
Mabel Yewell
Shapp
Salem
Ore
Oregon
Bob Straub
Nancie Fadeley
Eugene
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania American Legion
Harte-Hanks reports 1977 quarter earnings rise
Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc. reports earnings per share of 79 cents for the quarter ended June 30, 1977, up 20 percent from 66 cents a year earlier. In Dallas, two people remain hospitalized in serious condition after chlorine gas leaked from a broken pipe at a wastewater plant, with 30 treated at Parkland and Methodist hospitals. A minister announces a bid for lieutenant governor.
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San Antonio
Tex
Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc
Dallas
Parkland
Methodist Hositals
Oak Cliff
Teng’s Comeback Signals Rise to Power in China
TOKYO AP report says signs point to Teng Hsiao-ping’s return as senior vice premier and party vice chairman with new wall posters in Beijing. A larger 40 yard sign appeared the next day, while the earlier ones were removed, suggesting possible preemptive ministry action or delayed official confirmation amid a tense power shift.
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John Roderick
Associated Press
Tokyo
Peking
China
Teng Hsiasoping
Teng
Army General Staff
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations
Canton
Hua Kuofeng
Hua
Chou
Mao
Oil moves again after third Alaska pipeline shutdown
Oil resumed flowing through the 800 mile Alaska pipeline after a third shutdown in 16 days blamed on human error. Crews plugged a vent leak with a wooden wedge following a truck impact, spilling more than 200 barrels of fuel and drawing cleanup efforts near Prudhoe Bay.
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Deadhorse
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Prudhoe Bay
Interior
Interior Department
Alyeska
Edward Patton
Student accuses Israelis of torturing Palestinian youth
Palestinian student Sami Kaddar, 19, says police beat him during a Ramallah protest, claims include insults and forced desecration, while Israeli authorities call the charges lies. The dispute highlights scrutiny of Israel’s handling of alleged abuse in a tense occupation.
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Jerusalem
Sami Hassan Abdul Kaddar
Kaddar
Ramallah
West Bank
Jordan’ River
Allah
Israel
London Sunday Times
Foreign Ministry
Sunday Times
Watergate prosecutor eyed to lead Korean influence probe
House Speaker Thomas P. O Neill asked former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski to head the ethics committee investigation into the Korean influence buying scandal in Congress. Jaworski would fill the vacancy left by Philip A. Lacovara whose resignation prompted the search for a national figure to lead the inquiry.
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
Leon Jaworski
Richard Nixon
White House
Congress
House
Thomas P. O'Neill
Jaworski
House Ethics Committee
O'Neill
Philip A. Lacovara
Watergate
Houston
Jaworski O'Neill
Senate Watergate Committee
John Doar
Nixon
House Ethics Com
Mittee
Lacovara
John J. Flynt
D-Ga
Justice Department
Carter
Phoenix school taps pupil for restroom mural project
Encanto Elementary School in Phoenix hires 14 year old Bennett Conklin to paint a multicolored mural in the boys restroom. He earns 20 dollars for the project while the principal hopes the artwork curbs vandalism. The story also references Watergate era investigations and a push for a special prosecutor in Congress.
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Phoenix
Ari
Encanto
Anna Mare Murphy
Bennett Conklin
Bennett
Lutheran church may split after biennial convention
Dallas AP reports delegates at the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod biennial convention vote to protest fellowship with the American Lutheran Church. The move could lead to a total split, with pulpit exchanges allowed but a panel to revisit fellowship status. Key figures include Herb David of Minneapolis and Arnold Nickelson of the ALC.
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Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
American Lutheran Church Alc
ALC
Herb David
Minneapolis
Missouri Synod
Missouri Synod Lutherans
David
Sam _ Naszger
Arnold Nickelson
LCMS
Nickelson
George Wollenburg
Church Council
Naszger
Denoniration
Actress Freddie Prinze's death ruled accident claim
Maria Pruetzel, mother of Freddie Prinze, says she is certain his death was an accident and not suicide. She plans a book to reveal the true cause while her attorney notes potential loss of Prinze's $500000 life policy if a finding of death by own action stands.
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Los Angeles
Maria Pruetzel
Freddie Prinze
Martin Friedlander
Pruetzel
Prinze
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