Sadat Praises Carter and Begin in Mount Sinai Peace Plea
President Anwar Sadat from Mount Sinai urged world peoples to strive for goodness and an end to bloodshed as he marked the second anniversary of his Jerusalem trip. He praised his two friends, President Carter and Prime Minister Begin, for helping make peace possible between Egypt and Israel.
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Lisette Balouny
Associated Press
Wadi Raha
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Mount Sinai
Jerusalem
Carter
Menachem Begin
Israel
Moses
Sadat
Sinai
Radioactive cargo not dangerous thorium in crash
A Transamerica Airlines cargo plane crashed near Ogden Utah killing all three crew. Initial tests misidentified the material as possibly hazardous tritium but later confirmed the thorium alloy used in a gear box posed no health risk. Firefighters and officials screened over 50 responders with urine tests and Geiger scans.
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Salt Lake City
Air Force
Scott Matheson
Transamerica Airlines
Hill Air Force Base
Ogden
Utah
Harry Gibbons
Hospital cost control plan defeated in House vote
President Carter faced a House defeat as 234 members rejected the standby hospital cost control plan in favor of a voluntary cost oversight bill. The measure, led by Rep. Gephardt, would create a commission to study rising hospital costs while hospitals police their own pricing. Powell framed the loss as a victory for powerful hospital lobbyists and pledged to push Senate passage.
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Janet Stashar
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
House
White House
Jody Powell
Senate
Richard A. Gephardt
D-Mo
Congress
Powell
Thomas P. O’ Neill
D-Mass
O'Neill
Robert H. Michel
Bill
Five Cosa Nostra members start trial in California case
Five Los Angeles mobsters go on trial on racketeering extortion obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges linked to the Bompensiero murder. The government markets star witness Aladena Jimmy Fratianno, a famed mob killer, as key to exposing the Mafia migration to California and porn industry extortion.
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Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Frank Bompensiero
San Diego
Bompensiero
The
Bomp
la Cosa Nostra
California
Joseph Valachi
McClellan Rackets Committee
Aladena James
Jimmy the Weasel
Fratianno
James Henderson
Justice Department
New York
Las Vegas
Cleveland
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Ten more hostages freed by Iranian students report
The Associated Press notes three Americans freed from the Tehran embassy arrived in Copenhagen and were flown to Frankfurt for medical checks. Tehran radio claimed four more women and six men would depart later, while ABC cited doubt about actual release. Khomeini warned of trials unless the shah is delivered.
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Associated Press
U.S
Tehran
Europe
Copenhagen
Frankfurt
West Germany
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iran
Shah
Radio
ABC News
Katherine Gross
Cambridge Springs
William E. Quarles
Washington, D.C
Ladell Maples
Earle, Ark
State Department
Iranian Foreign Ministry
Khomeini
Radio Tehran
New York
ABC
Peter Jennings
Carter
United States
John Hart
NBC
Mike Wallace
CBS
Army recruiters fired in scandal
Washington AP reports the Army’s six month probe found up to 12700 soldiers enlisted via fraud or irregular practices in the past two years. Some 427 recruiters were relieved in the last year. most misconduct was among seasoned recruiters.
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Washington
Army
Congress
Aid
Donald W. Connelly
Connelly
Clifford Alexander
Robert G. Yerks
Senate Armed Services Manpower Subcommittee
Sam Nunn
D-Ga
Nunn
Navy
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China
Hungary
Poland
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