Soviet space mission ends in failed docking with Salyut-6
Across multiple datelines AP reports: Tass says cosmonauts Kovalenok and Ryumin could not link with the Salyut-6 lab after a day in orbit, preparing to return in Soyuz-25. Other items note rising nonfarm food costs to $33 billion, a Dallas transplant death, textbook lobbying spending, a Zale Corp extortion case, Israeli peace sentiment, Dolly Parton favored for entertainer, Nobel prizes to Amnesty and Iris Williams Corrigan, and local Texas notices.
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Moscow
Tass
Vladimir Kovalenok
Valery Ryumin
Earth
China Overhauls Education Amid Ideological Disputes
During a 16 day tour through China leaders push major reforms to education to reduce ideological influence. Peking University will not admit freshmen this fall as new admission standards are drafted aiming to place brightest students in advanced training with ideology no longer central. The university is 3,000 students short of its 10,000 capacity.
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Peking
China
Peking University
Chinese education reforms push past Gang of Four era
Chou Pei-yuan, a physicist and vice chairman of Peking University, describes how the Gang of Four dominated Chinese universities from 1973 to 1976 and were ousted last October. He says examinations attacked as elitist, material production hindered by upheaval, and current efforts aim to speed modernization by broadening access beyond ideological purity.
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Gang of Four
Teng Hsiao-ping
Teng
Chou Pei
Yuan
United States
Peking University
Associated Press
Chou
Mao
Chiang Ching
China
Robin Hood of the Midway supplies kids teddy bears
Johnny Glaze, known locally as the Rob in Hood of the Midway, wins hundreds of teddy bears at fairs each year and donates them to Arkansas Childrens Hospital and the Salvation Army. He spends about 25 carnival trips annually to collect prizes for needy children, saying the joy on a child's face outweighs his costs.
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Lindel Hutson
Associated Press
Sherwood, Ark
Little Rock
Johnny Glaze
Robin Hood
Arkansas Childrens Hospital
Salvation Army
Glaze
Childrens Hospital
Soviet tank divisions poised on Turk border
A tour group reports the Soviet presence on Turkey's eastern flank with eighteen divisions in the Caucasus near the border and three poised for a first wave into the Kars River valley. Turkish 3rd Army defenses claim advantage in rugged passes, while winter weather and U.S. embargo effects on modernization hinder Turkish readiness.
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Michael J. Duffy
Associated Press
Ani
Turkey
Fighteen
Caucasus
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Robert C. Mc
Alister
Arpachai River
Kars
U.S
Cyprus
Grand jury forewoman once translated Nuremberg trials
Ursula Uphold a Madera County grand jury forewoman who as a 15 year old interpreter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials faced immense pressure translating for up to an hour in four languages and enduring hostility from Germans. She emigrated to America in 1948, married a college professor, and settled in central California after her husband joined Fresno State College.
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Nashville
Tenn
Dolly Parton
Grand Ole Opry House
CBS
Miss Parton
Oakhurst
Calif
Ursula Uphold
Madera
Upholds
Uphold
Germany
Nuremberg
Ursula Gilich
Berlin
Allied Intelligence
Ameica
California
Fresno State College
Flu season is here and vaccines are discussed
Louise Cook notes flu season arrival with guidance on symptoms treatment and prevention. Experts recall past outbreaks, expect a mild U S season but avoid firm predictions after the swine flu incident. Vaccines can be 70 to 90 percent effective when matched to the current virus, with annual revaccination advised.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Hong Kong
Maryland
United States
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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Atlanta
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