Ten Thousand Turn Out in Peking Demonstration
More than 10,000 Chinese demonstrated in Tiananmen Square for democracy and reform as wall posters attacked Mao and Hua Kuo-feng. The central committee meets, with speakers urging unity and party obedience amid calls for greater democracy and continued industrial modernization.
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Tokyo
Peking
Mao Tse Tung
Teng Hsiaoping
Communist Party
Central Committee
Tien An Men Square
Chou Enlai
Kyodo
Hua
Kuofeng
Teng
China
Mao
Peng Teh Huai
Peng
Tien An Men
Tanjug
Robert Novak
Novak
Activists seek access to Vietnam political prisoners
Thirteen civil rights activists led by Dermot Kinlen sent a letter to Hanoi requesting information on political prisoners. The letter estimates 150,000 to 300,000 held since 1975 and asks for a delegation to visit detention camps and prisons. Signers include Sean MacBride, Dom Helder Camara, and Jean Lacouture.
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Dermot Kinlen
Hanoi
Vietnam
Kinlen
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Ireland
Dom Helder Camara
Jean Lacouture
Seven Jonestown survivors return to U S from Guyana
Seven of the 60 Jonestown survivors leave Georgetown after police clearance in the investigation of the death by mass poisoning led by Rev. Jim Jones. The group, including Hyacinth Thrash and Grover Davis, are due at Kennedy Airport at 6 p.m. EST.
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Associated Press
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Jonestown
New York
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Grover Davis
Raymond Godshark
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Marian Campbell
Carol Young
Madeline Brooks
Miss Thrash
Davis
San Francisco
Miguel DePina
U.S
Kennedy
Leo Ryan
California
Government Information Service
Washington
State Department
Dover Air Force Base
Delaware
Department
Arraignment set in San Francisco double murder case
District attorney vows death penalty in the two killings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Dan White, 32, is charged with two counts of first degree murder with special circumstances and using a firearm. White’s lawyer seeks venue change as City Hall lies in state for Moscone and Milk with public viewing.
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Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
SAN Francisco (Ap
San Francisco
Dan White
White
George Moscone
Harvey Milk
Gilbert Eisenberg
Moscone
Milk
California
Robert Alioto
Kite
Board of Supervisors
Joseph Freitas
Hall of Justice
Freitas
Hall of Justice Medical Facility
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City Hall
Thorugh
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Nixon says he won't seek office
Former President Nixon travels to Britain for a speaking tour after declaring on a Paris TV program that he has no plans to run for office again. He praised Kissinger, discussed Camp David, and urged a stronger China while calling Watergate a blunder for which he took responsibility. Meanwhile in California, Moscone and Milk were assassinated, sparking mourning, a death penalty debate, and details of White's arrest and access to City Hall.
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London
Nixon
Britain
Europe
White House
Secret Service
Henry Kissinger
Camp David
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Menachem Begin
Israel
Carter
China
Premature baby named for pilot and nurse after life save
A two pound nine ounce girl named Arlene Frances was born to Patty and Allan Helderman in Duluth after pilot Francis Einarson and an unnamed nurse assisted with mouth to mouth resuscitation as mother, facing leukemia, traveled by plane to Duluth for a safer birth. The infant remains healthy.
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Arlene Frances
Patty
Allan Helderman
International Falls
Helderman
Duluth
Francis Einarson
Duluth Air Base
Carter Proclaims Human Rights Day and Bill of Rights Day
President Carter designates December 10 as Human Rights Day and December 15 as Bill of Rights Day. He will deliver a December 6 White House address to leaders of human rights and civil rights groups, according to presidential press secretary Jody Powell.
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Carter
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