Kennedy calls for aid cut to Nicaragua over rights abuses
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy urges cutting U S aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador for human rights violations and urges sanctions to back democracy. Sen. Patrick Leahy argues Congress should follow national civil rights and employment laws, noting ethics complaints stay with the Senate Ethics Committee. The Carter administration pushes a $500 million plan to expand health care for very poor children.
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Associated Press
U.S
Nicaragua
Eli Salvador
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts Democrat
Congress
Patrick Leahy
Senate
Senate Ethics Committee
Leahy
D-Vt
Gacy Auction Banked for Defense in Serial Murders
John Gacy Jr and his attorneys plan to auction his Oldsmobile a truck and a van to raise funds for his murder defense. Bids reached about 50000 from souvenir hunters, with the car linked to body disposal. Remains of 29 victims found on his property plus four bodies recovered from nearby rivers. The sale date remains undisclosed.
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Chicago
John Gacy Jr
Gacy
Robert Motta
Des Plaines
Illinois
Funeral Procession for 17 Demostrators Marred by Bus Fire Killings
Thousands attend the funeral for 17 anti-government demonstrators as government reports say leftist guerrillas burned six people to death in two buses near Arcateo. The event follows clashes during a march outside San Salvador's cathedral where police shot demonstrators.
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Gordon D. Mott
Associated Press
San Salvador
el Salvador
Rafael Flores Lima
Popular Liberation Forces
Arcateo
Carlos Humberto Romero
Costa Rica
Popular Revolutionary Bloc
Thorpe arrives at Old Bailey in murder trial
Jeremy Thorpe former Liberal Party leader and his wife Marion walk past police and photographers into the Old Bailey for the second day of his trial on charges of incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder. Prosecution says Thorpe and three others conspired to kill male model Norman Scott to hide a homosexual relationship.
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Jeremy Thorpe
Britain
Liberal Party
Marion
London
Old Bailey Court
Thorpe
Norman Scott
Scott
Coast Guard probes rig collapse. eight missing in Gulf
Coast Guard reports eight missing after an offshore rig with 34 aboard collapsed about 12 miles south of Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty six men were flown to John Sealy Hospital for injuries ranging from fair to serious. One man suffered his arm sheared off. Divers assessed the submerged three legged rig at a 45 degree angle as daybreak arrived. Initial counts had 12 missing.
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Michael O’connor
Associated Press
Galveston, Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
Atlantic Pacific Marine Corp
Houston
Mitchell Energy and Development Corp
Bob McKinna
New Orleans
McKinna
Delta Sea Horse
Point Monroe
Paul Fromberg
Imco Service Co. Inc
Fromberg
American serviceman shot killed in Turkey
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a U.S. serviceman in a Istanbul suburb while others were wounded. Thomas Mosley identified by police as the dead man. The attack follows another GI slaying in Izmir on April 11 attributed to a Marxist group. Coast Guard and rescue efforts continued for missing crew after a platform accident.
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Istanbul
Turkey
U.S
Atako
Thomas Mosley
Anatolia
Edward E. Claypool
Aegean
Izmir
Jeffrey P. Vail
Turkish People’s Liberation Front
Sow gives birth to 28 piglets in two litters
Tass reports a Landras sow on a Moldavian swine breeding farm produced 11 piglets in the first litter and 17 in a second eight days later. All piglets are healthy, though some were moved to another sow for feeding.
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Moscow
Tass
Landras
Trade pact talks advance as Kreps, China seal asset settlement
Commerce Secretary Kreps and Chinese Finance Minister Zhang Jingfu sign a claims agreement clearing 80.5 million for U.S. assets seized in 1949 in exchange for 80.5 million from Chinese assets frozen in 1950. Partial payments begin October 1, 1980, as negotiations push toward a broader trade treaty.
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Victoria Graham
Associated Press
Peking
Juanita Kreps
Finance
Zhang Jingfu
Chang Chingfu
Great Hall of the People
Shanghai
Gweilin Kweilin
Canton
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Kreps
China
United States
U.S
Soviet Turkey oil for grain barter contract noted
Washington AP reports the Soviet Union and Turkey signed a contract to exchange 40 000 metric tons of Bezostaya wheat for 50 000 metric tons of Soviet oil. If accurate, Turkey would trade roughly four bushels of wheat per barrel of oil, based on metric and barrel weights.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Turkey
Agriculture Department
Bezostaya
American Petroleum Institute
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Del
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