Indonesian pilgrims die in Sri Lanka airliner crash
Nearly 200 Indonesian pilgrims returning from Mecca were killed when a chartered Icelandic jet crashed near Colombo airport during a severe thunderstorm. More than 60 survived as authorities investigated flight data and the wreckage, with the Garuda charter carrying about 70,000 worshippers this year.
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Manik DE Silva
Associated Press
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Mecca
Surabaya
East Java
Icelandic Airlines
India
Air Force
Ngumbo Hospital
Garuda Indonesian Airlines
Saudi Arabia
Medina
Islam
Inflation hits 35 percent as costs outpace incomes in Israel
Israeli government and statistics bureau report a 5.7 percent price rise last month, pushing annual inflation to 35 percent through ten months. A tax survey shows the average family needs 506 dollars monthly to buy food and pay bills but earns 370 dollars. A warning of rising living costs accompanies reports from Jerusalem, with other briefs on Poland, Sri Lanka, and Australia.
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Jerusalem
Statistics Bureau
Carter awaits Egyptian reply on peace proposal
President Carter awaits a formal Egyptian reply to a U S compromise aimed at clearing a major hurdle in the Israel peace process. Egyptian Vice President Mubarak carries Sadat’s view while Sadat warns of a serious crisis and hints at a possible suspension. Israel delays ruling on the proposal pending Egypt’s presentation to Carter.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
Israel
Anwar Sadat
White House
Hosni Mubarak
Sadat
U.S
Egypt
West Bank
Jordan River
Gaza
Mubarak
Cairo
Samuel Lewis
Menachem Begin
Begin
Log from Enola Gay co-pilot sells for record 85000
Sotheby’s sold Capt. Robert Lewis’s Enola Gay log for 85000, the highest price for an American autographed document. Forbes Magazine bought it. Lewis noted the ink ran low and many notes were in darkness.
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New York
Robert Lewis
Hiroshima
Auctis
Ers
Sotheby-Parke-Bernet
Forbes Magazine
Lewis
Texans recommend Bentsen picks 10 for federal judgeships
Senator Lloyd Bentsen unveiled ten Texans for lifetime federal judgeships after screening more than 200 candidates. The slate includes Gabrielle K. McDonald, a Houston lawyer and mother of two, and Barefoot Sanders, a longtime Texas legislator and former White House counsel. Other nominees span the Southern and Northern Districts with attorneys from McAllen, Fort Worth, Longview, and San Antonio, all cleared by the State Bar of Texas committees.
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Miller Bonner
Associated Press
Washington
U.S. Senate
Lloyd Bentsen
Carter
Senate
Bentsen
Congress
Texas Democrat
Dallas Times Herald
Merit Commission
Texas
U.S
J.A
Tony’’ Canales
Houston
Gabrielle K. McDonald
James Deanda
McAllen
White House
Lyndon Johnson
John Tower
Mary Lou Robinson
7Th Court of Criminal Appeals
Amarillo
David O. Belew Jr
Fort Worth
Committee On Federal Judiciary of the State Bar of Texas
FBI
McDonald
Belew
University of Texas Law School
University of Texas
DeAnda
Butler
San Antonio
Memorial service for Margaret Mead set at Columbia University
New York AP report notes anthropologist Margaret Mead died after a yearlong pancreatic cancer battle at 76. A memorial service is planned Friday at Columbia University with a private funeral in Buckingham, Pennsylvania. Her staff, a walking stick she began using in 1960 after an ankle injury, stood near her hospital bed as a quiet symbol of her life of inquiry.
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New York
Margaret Mead
Rhoda Metraux
Columbia University
Buckingham
Miss Mead
American Museum of Natural History
New York Hospital
Madeline Lee
Metraux
Dr. Metraux
White House
Carter
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