Iranian Premier resigns as Khomeini orders government takeover
Mehdi Bazargan resigned amid Ayatollah Khomeini’s anti American campaign. Khomeini accepted the move and directed the Revolutionary Council to seize power. Amid hostage crisis in Tehran, the United States and its allies faced pressure over the embassy captives and the deposed shah.
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Associated Press
Mehdi Bazargan
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Khomeini
Revolutionary Council
Tehran
Bazargan
Hassan Tabatabai
Iran
U.S
Shah
United States
State Department
L. Bruce Laingen
Radio Tehran
Tabriz
Shiraz
Iran-American Society
Isfahan
Pars
Bill Herr
America
Trail
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
New York
Shahpour Bakhtiar
France
Britain
Hodding Carter
Washington
Carter
Pahlavi
Statue of Liberty
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Retired general to oppose SALT II pact in Senate hearing
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Edward Rowney agrees to testify against the Carter administration on SALT II before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has urged major changes to the treaty, while Joint Chiefs of Staff favor SALT IEF with defense funding. The committee weighs a Glenn Backfire reservation and aims for a final vote possibly by Wednesday or November 10.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington
Edward Rowney
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rowney
White House
Lloyd Cutler
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Soviet Union
Joint Chiefs of Staff
John Glenn
D-Ohio
Glenn
Geneva
Switzerland
Leonid Brezhnev
Carter
U.S
United States
Moscow
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Dallas burglary suspect shot fleeing officer in Oak Lawn
Dallas police said patrolman Gregory G. Evans shot the suspect in the upper leg as he tried to run away. The suspect, believed to be unlawfully carrying a weapon, also faced aggravated assault charges. Evans suffered a bitten finger in a scuffle.
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Dallas
Internal Affairs Division
Gregory G. Evans
Evans
Oak Lawn
Lil Abner creator Al Capp dies at 70 in Massachusetts
Al Capp, famed Li'l Abner cartoonist who satirized politics and culture from Dogpatch, died at 70 in Mount Auburn Hospital near Cambridge. Born 1909 in New Haven, he retired in 1977 after 43 years of daily popular strips and a Broadway musical adaptation. He is survived by his wife Catherine, daughter Julie Ann Cairol, son Colin Capp, and eight grandchildren. Private funeral services planned.
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Cambridge
Mass
al Capp
Dogpatch
U.S.A
Capp
Abner
Daisy Mae
Mammy Yokum
Fearless Fosdick
Sadie Hawkins
Mount Auburn
Alvin Hochberg
David Manning White
Virginia Commonwealth University
Smith
Li'l Abner
Alfred Gerald Caplin
New Haven
Conn
Associated Press
New York
Ham Fisher
Joe Palooka
Catherine
Julie Ann Cairol
Colin Cameron Capp
Little Rock
Ark
Riots, arrests reported in India and Belfast killings
AP reports a Muslim Karnataka legislator C M Ibrahim held briefly amid Hindu Muslim riots in Bangalore where one killed and 40 wounded as 300 arrests made. In Belfast gunmen killed a prison officer outside a jail, no claim yet, IRA sister wing suspected. In Greece a strong tremor near Athens caused minor damage with cracks and telecom outages.
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New Delhi
India
C.M. Ibrahim
Karnataka
Bangalore
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Iris Republican Army
Athens
Greece
Athens Seismological Service
Assassination Plot Aimed At South Korea Presidency
Investigators say Kim Jae-kyu, KCIA chief, planned to seize leadership after shooting President Park Chung hee at a KCIA guest house dinner on Oct 26. Gen. Chon Doo-hwan denied external involvement, labeling CIA rumors as communist propaganda.
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Edith M. Lederer
Associated Press
Seoul
South Korea
Park Chunghee
Kim Jae-kyu
Korean Central Intelligence Agency
Park
KCIA
Chon Doo-hwan
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
United States
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