Tight security planned for Carter Brezhnev summit
Vienna police prepare a four day summit with 1 500 public security agents and up to 6 000 uniformed and plain clothes officers guarding the U S and Soviet leaders. Up to 600 officials accompany the presidents as they stay in Vienna hotels and meet at the Hofburg Palace.
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Roland Prinz
Associated Press
Vienna
Australia
Viennese
Jimmy Carter
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Robert Danziger
U.S
Imperial Hotel
Brezhnev
Carter
Amy
Hietzing
Schoenbrunn Palace
Hofburg Palace
Hapsburg Dynasty
Rudolf Kirchschlaeger
Hofburg
Redoutensal
DIE Presse
Kurier
Austria
Seraglio
Vienna State Opera
Sandinistas Tighten Grip in Managua Slums Amid Civili War
In Managua, Sandinista guerrillas hold control of slum districts while government forces shell and fight back from barricades near the Intercontinental Hotel and the infantry academy. Northern cities Matagalpa and Leon see heavy fighting. looting erupts as U S embassy plans more airlifts for Americans fleeing Nicaragua's war.
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Lew Wheaton
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Matagalpa
Leon
Estell
U.S
Intercontinental
Infantry Academy
Nicarao
14 de Septiembre
National Guard
Barrio Centroamerica
Reparto Schick
Persian carpet market prospers for Iranians after revolution
Iran's Persian carpet trade remains lucrative as wealthy Iranians seek safe cash exit via carpets. High prices persist with demand for higher quality pieces, local shopkeepers cite resilience despite closures and emigration, while buyers seek intricate designs and vegetable dyes.
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Thomas Kent
Tehran
Iran
Ferdowsi Street
Ruhollah Khomeini
Imam Ali
Khomeinni
Paris
Khomeini
Pahlavi
Ferdowsi
David Somekh
Shah relaxes as Mexican guards shield exiled Iranian ruler
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi passes time reading and strolling in his villa grounds while a 46 member Mexican security detail guards the exiled monarch. Armed officers survey the roof and perimeter as the shah remains indoors with Empress Farah.
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Cuernavaca
Mexico
Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Farah
Shah
Carter gains ground to keep Zimbabwe Rhodesia sanctions
White House officials say President Carter’s effort to sustain trade sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia is improving with Senate support. A 52-41 vote to kill extending the embargo suggests the administration has a solid base to veto any lift, marking a shift from a 75-19 urge-to-lift tally three weeks earlier.
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Washington
Carter
Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
Senate
White House
Africa
Balloon crash ends Edwardsville expedition to East Coast
A giant hot air balloon attempting distance and endurance records crashed near Fairfield Illinois after a six hour flight from Edwardsville. A 4 foot tear in the 145 foot craft caused the landing. two CBS-TV reporters aboard suffered minor injuries. Pilots included Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 Robert Esch and Lenny Barad.
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Edwardsville, Ill
Edwardsville
Fairfield
Ill
Southern Illinois University
Cbs-Tv
Edgar Mitchell
Palm Beach
Fla
Robert Esch
Lenny Barad
Ladue, Mo
End of Tanzanian Ugandan war cited at $500 million cost
Tanzania reports seven month war to drive Idi Amin cost over 500 million dollars, stated by President Julius Nyerere at a ceremony marking the conflict's end. Other dispatches cover Poland's agriculture crisis, French nuclear crisis communications study, and a Hebron attack plea guilty by Avigdor Eskin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
Idi Amin
Julius Nyerere
Tel Aviv
Israel
Avigdor Eskin
West Bank
Jordan River
Hebron
Eskin
Eliahu Hazeev
Authorities weigh hijacker motives in Miami incident
FBI officials identified the hijacker as Eduardo Guerra Jimenez, a former Cuban air force lieutenant who reportedly commandeered a Delta jet to Cuba. He may be the same pilot who flew a MiG through U.S. defenses a decade earlier, shocking U.S. officials at Homestead Air Force Base near Nixon’s Florida retreat.
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Dan Sewell
Associated Press
MIAMI
Eduardo Guerra Jimenez
United States
Havana
U.S
Homestead Air Force Base
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Florida Straits
Guerra
Fidel Castro
Cuba
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Lee DeLorme
Army
Presenal
Tooele Army Depot
Utah
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Poland
Communist Party
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Party
America
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