President Calls SALT II Foolish in Senate Clash
Senate debates the SALT II treaty after President Carter vows to campaign for ratification. Critics demand changes with Senator Baker predicting amendments needed while Senator Jackson labels Carter foolish. Senator Kennedy offers tentative support as the two leaders meet in Vienna to sign the accord.
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Donald M. Rothberg
Associated Press
Washington
Soviet Union
Senate
Carter
Congress
Howard H. Baker
Tennessee
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
U.S
Jimmy Carter
Vienna
Imperial Hofburg Palace
Huntington Library to Receive $7 Million Art Bequest
A Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Watteau collection valued around $7 million is donated to the Huntington Library by the late Mildred Browning Green and her husband Judge Lucius Peyton Green. The gift includes the entire Green estate worth about $2 to $2.5 million, funding scholarly research and collection maintenance.
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San Marino
Calif
Rembrandt
van Dyck
Watteau
Huntington Library
Robert Wark
Mildred Browning Green
Lucius Peyton Green
Wark
Green
Oil Spill Shrinks Fishing Area As Gulf slick reaches Veracruz
Oil from a magenan oil well spills into the southern Gulf of Mexico at a rate of about 1.26 million gallons daily. Pemex and Norwegian experts use flotation beams to pump oil into tankers as tides push the slick toward Veracruz, while fishing grounds near Ciudad del Carmen face $100 million in annual shrimp revenue. Premier Lyon estimates flood relief costs in Manitoba at 20 to 30 million dollars amid spring seeding 90 percent complete. In Kalimantan, 13 missing after inter island boat wreck and heavy seas. searchers fail to locate them while survivors cling to wreckage.
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Ciudad del Carmen
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Pemex
Veracruz
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Sterling Lyon
Lyon
Jakarta
Indonesia
Kalimantan
Antara
Malaysia Retreats From Threats Against Vietnamese Boat People
The furor over Malaysia’s treatment of Vietnamese refugees eased after Prime Minister Hussein Onn withdrew deputy Mahathir Mohamad’s threats to tow boat people out to sea and to shoot arrivals. Onn assured the UN that Malaysia will not shoot refugees and will expel them only if no other country accepts them. Home Minister Ghazali Shafie and Mahathir signaled continued actions, prompting international concern and renewed Western aid efforts.
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Hari Maniam
Associated Press
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Hussein Onn
Hussein
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Ghazali Shafie
Mahathir Mohamed
Brezhnev Shows Fatigue at Vienna Carter Summit
A U S official says Brezhnev and aides maintained no change in position at the Vienna talks with Carter. The president appeared tired, dozing at times, yet remained in charge of the Soviet delegation as Chernenko played a minor role. Carter spoke forcefully on regional conflicts, while Gromyko and Ustinov supported Brezhnev's stance.
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Seth Mydans
Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Leonid Brezhnev
Carter
U.S
Brezhnev
Andrei Gromyko
Politburo
Konstantin A. Chernenko
Breznev
Chernenko
Gromyko
Defense
Dmitri F. Ustinov
Chermenko
Rebels seize major towns as Somoza fights for slums
In Nicaragua, Sandinista rebels hold key cities in the northwest while Somoza’s national guard battles to reclaim eastern Managua slums. Leon is reported under rebel control with other towns in Chinandega Esteli and Matagalpa supposedly, as government forces press a counteroffensive and seek to isolate Riva. The United States calls for OAS mediation and a broad based government.
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Lew Wheaton
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
National Guard
Somoza
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Leon
Chinandega
Chichigalpa
Esteli
Matagalpa
Riva
Abc-Tv
Washington
U.S
Organization of American States
State Department
Nbc-Tv
United States
OAS
Julio C. Quintana
Hearing for polygamist LeBaron delayed to August
In Salt Lake City AP says polygamist leader Ervil LeBaron, facing murder and conspiracy charges in the 1977 shooting death of rival Rulon Allred and an alleged attack on his brother Verlan, will have a preliminary hearing August 16 and 17. Public defenders were appointed after his assets were noted as tied up in Mexico.
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Ervil LeBaron
LeBaron
Church of the Lamb of God
Rulon Allred
Verlan LeBaron
5Th Circuit
Floyd Gowans
Mexico
FBI
Laredo
Texas
Utah
F. John Hill
Legal Defender’s Association
Gowans
Association
Fred Metos
Bruce Lubeck
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Harbor Station
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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