Begin defeats five no confidence motions in Knesset
Prime Minister Menachem Begin wins his first winter session test by a 12 vote margin, 59 to 47, rejecting five no confidence motions. The package combined concerns over the economy and West Bank settlements, with Dayan voting with the government after resigning as foreign minister. The scene follows Elon Moreh court ruling and settlement tensions as Avraham Sharon tours the site.
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Arthur Max
Associated Press
Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
Knesset
Israel
Labor Party
Begin
West Bank
Ezer Weizman
Egypt
Likud
National Religious Party
The
Democratic Movement
Agudat Israel
Moshe Dayan
Shimon Peres
Labor Alignment
Peres
Dayan
Supreme Court
Avraham
Sharon
Scarred Vietnam POW builds life after release
IRVING Texas veteran Newingham endured four years in Viet Cong camps boiled down to 78 pounds and brutal beatings. He credits hate pride and resolve for survival, returned after being presumed dead, rebuilt his life as a store manager and father while opposing refugees’ jobs and remaining anti Communist.
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Irving
Texas
Newingham
Paris
Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S
Long Thanh
Army
Philippines
AMA Ad Restrictions Lifted by FTC Rule Change
The Federal Trade Commission ruled the American Medical Association illegally restrained competition by restricting physician advertising and patient solicitation. The FTC ordered cessation of those restrictions while allowing the AMA to publish reasonable ethical advertising guidelines. The decision preserves some self regulation and may prompt appeals.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
AMA
FTC
David Clanton
Ernest G. Barnes
Barnes
Association
Newton Minow
Shah of Iran undergoes tests at New York Hospital
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, protected by private security, is at New York Hospital for further tests amid ongoing reports of long term cancer treatment. A hospital official would not disclose test results. A State Department source cited a blocked bile duct and cancer, without specifying the cancer type.
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New York
Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
New York Hospital
State Department
New York Daily News Today
Shah
CBS
Empress Farah
New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center
Beekman Place
Ayatollah
Ruhollah
Mexico
New York-Cornell
Memorial Sloan-Ketting Cancer Center
U.S
Soviet underground nuke blast reported near Caspian Sea
Hagfors Observatory said a 2 a.m. EDT underground explosion north of the Caspian registered 6.4 on the Richter scale. Three earlier 5.0 6.2 6.5 events this year noted. unclear if military tests.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Soviet Union
Caspian Sea
Hagfors Observatory
Nils Olov Bergkvist
Semipalatinsk
Kazakhstan
Novaya Zemlya
Barents Sea
Moslem rebels claim killing of 120 troops
Moslem rebels said they killed 120 government troops in two Afghanistan clashes, 60 in Waz village and 60 near Kabul, with no independent confirmation. The claim was issued from Peshawar and details remain unclear amid wider Afghan conflict.
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Islamabad
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Islamic Front of
Waz
Kabul
Peshawar
Grain dealer to plead guilty in federal court
Former Iowa Park grain dealer Robert Johnson will plead guilty in Wichita Falls Texas on two counts of interstate transportation of stolen grain. A plea bargain will allow dismissal of 11 other counts. Johnson, 43, was arrested after disappearances and missing about 400000 bushels of wheat from Johnson owned elevators. His brother H C Johnson was previously jailed and paroled. Johnson faces up to 10 years and 10000 dollars per count.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Iowa Park
Robert Johnson
Gene Douglass
Johnson
U.S
Eldon C. Mahon
Asst
R.H. Wallace
Idaho
Gulf of Mexico
H.C. Johnson
Wallace
Mahon
Senators propose truck convoys to feed starving Cambodians
Three U S senators James Sasser John Danforth and Max Baucus flew to Phnom Penh with two State Department officers to push a plan delivering 1000 tons daily by truck convoys from Thailand for six months. The effort aligns with Red Cross and U N children fund relief efforts amid ongoing Khmer Rouge resistance and a shift in Cambodian politics.
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Seth Mydans
Associated Press
Bangkok
Thailand
U.S
Phnom Penh
James Sasser
D-Tenn
John Danforth
R-Mo
Max Baucus
D-Mont
State Department
Cambodia
International Red Cross
U.N. Children’s Fund
United States
Southeast Asia
Red Cross
Washington
Carter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Vietnam
Nguyen Co Thach
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Heng Samrin
World Vision International
Singapore
Stanley Mooneyham
World Vision
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Hyderabad
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Jakarta
Indonesia
East Java
Times
London
Times of London
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Louis Heren
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