El Salvador Education Minister Shot as Siege Declared
President Romero imposed a 30 day state of siege to crush protests after Education Minister Carlos Antonio Herrera Rebollo and his driver were killed by gunfire. The Farabundo Marti Liberation Forces claimed responsibility as raids, curfews, press censorship, and phone tapping were authorized. The attack followed earlier guerrilla activity and a 1977 minister murder. The State Department urged dialogue to halt violence. The Christian Democratic Party rejected a government offer to start national talks.
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Eduardo Vasquez Becker
Associated Press
San Salvador
el Salvador
Carlos Humberto Romero
Defense Ministry
Carlos Antonio Herrera Rebollo
Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces
Mauricio Borgonovo
Washington
State Department
Kenneth Brown
Christian Democratic Party
Gasoline shortages could lift Memorial Day traffic deaths
The National Safety Council projects 500 to 600 highway deaths over the three day Memorial Day weekend amid gasoline trouble. AP notes 528 traffic deaths occurred during the 1978 holiday period and warns shortages could influence 1979 totals.
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Arthur H. Rotstein
Associated Press
Chicago
National Safety Council
Jack Recht
Council
Recht
Panel to review Rock Island back pay dispute averts strike
A three member panel will review a pay dispute for 2,668 Rock Island & Pacific Railroad workers, averting a strike that would have disrupted 13 states of freight and 27,000 Chicago area commuters. Union seeks about $2,000 per worker dating to Jan 1, 1978.
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Washington
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
United Transportation Union
Chicago
Lou Corsi
State ordered to pay family after camp shooting in 1974
A Tompkins County family receives 157000 plus for medical expenses and damages after their daughter Aprile Madigan was shot twice while passing a Mohawk Indian seizure site camp in 1974. The judge cited insufficient safety around the camp. The case stems from earlier shooting at the camp.
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Utica
N.Y
New York State
Tompkins County
Court of Claims
Thomas J. Lowery Jr
Lowery
Aprile Madigan
Roger J. Madigan
Aprile
Vermont
DEA displays seized cocaine haul after two arrests
U S Drug Enforcement Administration regional director George R Halprin holds two packages from a suitcase that contained 26.4 pounds of cocaine with a street value above six million dollars. The cocaine was seized after two men were arrested following a two month investigation and a negotiated delivery led to their capture.
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George R. Halprin
U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminstration
DEA
Iranians Clash Over Revolution Image Abroad
Iranians split over how foreign media portrays their revolution with many defending Islamic justice while others criticize executions and Western bias. Leaders like Ayatollah Khalkhalli defend the tribunals as honest and effective, arguing Western focus misses deeper aims.
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Tiran
Mohammed
Mecca
Thomas Kent
Associated Press
Tenran
Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Ayatollah
Sadeq Khalkhalli
Tehran
Revolutionary Court
Hitler
United States
U.S. Senate
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Florida AG fights to lift Spenkelink execution stay
Florida Attorney General Jim Smith leads a jet age strike force to the U S Supreme Court to lift stays delaying the execution of murderer John A Spenkelink The case echoes Gary Gilmore s 1977 bid The death warrant remains valid until noon Friday and Gov Graham could sign a new warrant while Smith seeks further stays for Spenkelink who awaits the chair near the Q Wing at Florida State Prison
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Rick Spratling
Associated Press
Starke
Fla
Florida
Jim Smith
John A. Spenkelink
U.S. Supreme Court
Spenkelink
Thurgood Marshall
Speakelink
Smith
Bob Graham
New Orleans
U.S
Elbert Tuttle
Atlanta
Washington
Tuttle
Utah
Gary Gilmore
Salt Lake City
Gilmore
Robert Hansen
Denver
Florida State
Graham
Willie Jasper Darden
Tampa
Varden
Nuclear weapons expert warns declassification breach report
A nuclear weapons expert calls the declassification of the H-bomb report a major security breach since World War II. He notes the ease of access to the document and its sensitive design data, as Senate subcommittee hearings probe UCRL 4725 obtained from Los Alamos.
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Washington
United States
Library of Congress
Senate Energy Subcommittee
Dimitri Rotow
Senate
Rotow
Taylor
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Barber Oil Corp
Pittson Co
Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
Blumenthal
Bendix Corp
Ann Arbor
Mich
Bendix
Christian Democrats
Popular Revolutionary Bloc
Bloc
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Providence
R.I
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New York City
Brown
Bowery
New York
Akron, Ohio
David C. Hume
Summit County Common Pleas
Daniel Quillin
Norma Hume
Hume
San Francisco City Hall
City Hall
Dan White
High Court
Marshall
Ramsey Clark
Millard Farmer
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