Rhodesia delays power transfer to April amid bickering and raids
A bi racial Rhodesian transition government postponed the black majority power handover from December 31 to April 20 citing incomplete constitutional work. Guerrilla attacks from Mozambique and Zambia rise as casualties mount. Prime Minister Ian Smith and leaders acknowledge delays while Muzorewa accepts the new date.
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Marureen Johnson
Associated Press
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Mozambique
Zambia
Executive Council
Ndabaningi Sithole
Ian Smith
Abel Muzorewa
Jeremiah Chirau
Robert Mugabe
Joshua Nkomo
Smith
United States
Britain
Mugabe
Nkomo
Muzorewa
Indian leader to begin work in prison release program
Russell Means, linked to the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover, begins a prison work release job aiding Indian constituents of Sen. James Abourezk in Sioux Falls. He will earn 3.54 dollars an hour for eight hours, with wages sent to prison officials amid political controversy.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Russell Means
James Abourezk
Wounded Knee
South Dakota State Penitentiary
Means
Abourezk
Southeast states lead cocaine and marijuana seizures
Federal statistics show 57.4 percent of cocaine and 86.9 percent of marijuana seized in fiscal 1978 occurred in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Authorities confiscated 814 pounds of cocaine and over 4 million pounds of marijuana in those areas.
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Miami
U.S
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Robert Battard
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Autopsies on missing couple confirm Judges identified
The Colorado missing couple case advances as autopsies in Albuquerque confirm James and Jeanette Judge. Three Arizona gang members face murder and kidnapping charges in the disappearance, tied to a 1980s interstate crime spree and a fatal roadblock incident near Casa Grande.
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Albuquerque
James
Jeanette
Texas
Colorado
Paul Condon
Arizona
Eugene Farrish
12Th Judicial
Monte Vista
del Norte
Colo
Randy Greenawalt
Raymond Tison
Tison
Rick
Farrish
Yuma
Ariz
Greenawalt
Gary Tison
Casa Grande
Arizona State Prison
Donald
Amarillo
James Judge, Jr
Jeanette Margene Judge
Nations offer to resettle Vietnam refugees aboard Hai Hong
In Geneva the United States joined France and Canada to offer resettlement for about 2,500 Vietnamese refugees stranded on the Hai Hong freighter off Malaysia. Malaysia considers a firm commitment from resettling nations before allowing the ship to ashore, while Canada and France outline varying prioritizes for evacuees with ties to those countries.
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Geneva
Switzerland
United States
France
Canada
Vietnam
U.N. High Commissioner For
Philippe Labreveuex
Kuala Lumpur
Washington
Malaysia
Hong Kong
U.N. Refugee Agency
Paris
Olivier Stirn
Quebec
Peace talks inching ahead with Egypt link to Palestinian autonomy
In Washington six weeks into Mideast negotiations, Egypt proposes tying a future peace treaty to Palestinian autonomy talks. President Carter receives steps from Hosni Mubarak aimed at moving toward autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza after the treaty. Israeli defense minister Ezer Weizman says talks will continue and not stop, planning a return with Moshe Dayan early next week.
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Washington
Mideast
Israel
Egypt
Carter
Hosni Mubarak
West Bank
Jordan River
Gaza Strip
Ezer Weizman
Weizman
Cyrus R. Vance
Moshe Dayan
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