World Spotlight Roundup From Around The Globe
A multi location dispatch reports eleven more journalists in Pakistan jailed for violating a ban on public demonstrations with some flogging. Indonesia aims for food self sufficiency. Turkey notes a Soviet submarine crossing into the Mediterranean. Portugal endures a heat wave as Expresso jokes about an IMF loan. U S veterans and labor policy debates surface in Washington. health and wage policy discussions ripple through federal agencies and Congress. West Africa reports rising Lassa fever outbreaks and CDC cautions on spread via travel.
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Islamabad
Pakistan
Lahore
Nusawaat
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Bhutto
Jets to Mideast President predicting Senate approval of sale
Washington AP Carter predicts Senate backing for 4.8 billion sale of advanced U S warplanes to Israel Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He lobbied senators from Camp David and urged bipartisan support as debate concluded and a late vote loomed. Byrd also forecast victory for the sales.
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Jets
Mideast
Senate
Washington
Carter
U.S
Israel
Camp David
White House
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Khalid
Death of Australia's long serving prime minister Sir Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Australia’s longest serving prime minister, died at his Melbourne home aged 83. A conservative leader who shaped postwar Australia from 1949 to 1966, he also led the wartime coalition from 1939 to 1941 and earned the nickname Australian Churchill. He was known for loyalty to the Crown, wit, and his disdain for journalists and socialists.
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Sydney
Australia
Robert Gordon Menzies
Melbourne
Robert
Winston Churchill
Menzies
United Nations
Liberal-Country Party
Labor
Cubans in South Yemen Sign of Castro’s Middle East push
President Carter cited Cuban activity in South Yemen as part of Fidel Castro’s widening ambitions beyond Africa. A State Department official estimates 500 to 600 Cubans in South Yemen, serving as civilian advisers or training paramilitaries, among more than 1,000 foreign communists in the Marxist country guarding shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. The Cuban contingent dates to the early 1970s and rose with the Soviet-C Cuban buildup in Ethiopia, while Sen. Jackson calls the move a surrogate for mischief in Africa and now the Middle East.
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Washington
Carter
South Yemen
Fidel Castro
Africa
Middle East
State Department
Marxist
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Gulf of Aden
Ethiopia
Arabian Peninsula
Horn of Africa
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Castro
Former CIA chief Colby says Vietnam war began by mistake
William Colby, ex CIA director, says covert sabotage and the early covert actions led to the Vietnam War. He argues the war should have been fought at village level as a political struggle with Vietnamese forces. He criticizes Kennedy and notes pressure to escalate and a split over secrecy vs public understanding.
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New York
CIA
North Vietnam
U.S
William Colby
Simon & Schuster
Saigon
Colby
Hawaii
Robert MacNamara
North
Vietnam
Debn F Kennedy
Ngo Dinh Diem
Earier
United States
Neo Dinh Nhu Diem
Zaire seeks aid as rebels strike Kolwezi assault
Zaire's army battles rebel invaders in Shaba province as Mobutu appeals for help from the United States and other nations. AZAP reports 4,000 invaders in Kolwezi and Cuban troops linked to the assault, with fighting extending toward Muishatsha and ongoing diplomatic efforts in Brussels and Washington.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
Shaba
Mobutu Sese Seko
United States
AZAP
Katanga
Zambia
Angola
Kolwezi
Muishatsha
Brussels
Impasu
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