Iran holds 62 U S embassy staff amid release talks
Reports said Iran planned to free all held in Tehran’s U S embassy except white Americans while militants denied any release. Foreign Minister Bani Sadr cited freeing women and blacks, but militants rejected such statements and demanded adherence to their terms. The United States pressed to secure immunity and release of captives as the U N Security Council debated action.
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Associated Press
U.S
Tehran
Iran
CBS
Randy Daniels
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Tehran Radio
United States
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
State Department
Bani Sadr
Radio Tehran
U.N. Security Council
Carter
Security Council
Hodding Carter
Cyrus R. Vance
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Donald F. McHenry
Shah
Mexico
New York
Revolutionary Council
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Saudi Arabia
Saud al Faisal
Arab League
Tunis
Iraq
Libya
Treasury
Washington
OPEC
Beirut
Gulf States
Zimbabwe Rhodesia talks near interim government deal
After ten weeks of negotiations the Zimbabwe Rhodesia conference is expected to announce an interim government with a British governor to supervise elections. Guerrilla leaders drop direct say demands amid a cease-fire still to be negotiated. meeting to involve Muzorewa and leaders Nkomo and Mugabe.
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Maureen Johnson
Associated Press
London
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
Patriotic Front
Abel Muzorewa
Lord Carrington
Front
Carrington
Muzorewa
Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
Margaret Thatcher
Kenneth Kaunda
Thatcher
Commonwealth
Kaunda
Britain
Bacteria in Taco Filling Sickens Hugo Students and Staff
Oklahoma health officials say ground beef and bean taco filling caused vomiting cramps and diarrhea among nearly 300 Hugo school people with over 5.5 million staphylococci per gram, far above illness levels. Epidemiologist Mark Roberts described severe symptoms and dehydration in many victims.
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Oklahoma City
Hugo
Mark Roberts
Harold Malone
State Health Department
Oil disaster after Bosporus collision sinks hopes for crew
A Romanian oil tanker and a Greek coaster collided at the Bosporus, causing explosions and a large oil spill. One crewmember died, 50 Romanians missing, and about 28.4 million gallons of crude oil entered the Marmara Sea. Evria crew unharmed. tanker towed for investigation.
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Ismail Kovaci
Fiels
Istanbul
Turkey
Bosporus
Independenta
Evria
Romania
Orhan Erbug
Marmara Sea
Topkapi
St. Sophia
Bosporus Strait
Black Sea
Marmara
Istanbul Navigation and Oceanography Department
Mt Sinai Returned to Egypt Ahead of Sadat Anniversary
Israel completed a phased withdrawal by transferring Mount Sinai and surrounding 600 square miles back to Egyptian control. A brief ceremony at an Israeli airfield lowered the Israeli flag and raised the Egyptian flag in the presence of Israeli and Egyptian officers, Bedouins, and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Damianos.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Mount Sinai
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Desert Mountain
Desert
St Catherine's
Cairo
Jerusalem
Israel Army Radio
Damianos
Menachem Begin
Sadat
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Philadelphia Zoo
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LaSala
China
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