Carter pledges 69 million for Cambodian famine crisis
President Carter announces 69 million in U S aid to avert a potential genocide in Cambodia as tens of thousands flee toward Thailand. State Department officials warn of massive starvation possibly affecting millions while calls for a large international airlift of food and medical supplies intensify.
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Theodore M. Hesburgh
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Phnom Penh
Socialist bill would let spouses adopt wife name for all
The Socialist Party in Rome proposed a bill to allow a couple to adopt the wife’s family name for themselves and their children, framing it as a move toward gender equality. Britain faces record once more days lost to strikes with 23.7 million by September and an estimated 26 million by year’s end, per the Department of Employment.
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Italy
London
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America
Afl-Cio
Sweden
Photographer confronts junta foe in church meeting
Bob Gay, staff photographer for the Charleston Daily Mail, opposed the junta by entering a church when Mann demanded to talk with newsmen. AP Laserphoto accompanies the scene.
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Bob Gay
Charleston
El Salvador leftists seize ministries and take hostages
Nearly 1,000 leftists occupied the Labor and Economy ministries in San Salvador and held 130 hostages including Minister and undersecretaries. They demanded wage hikes and price controls while seeking freedom for political prisoners from the junta that toppled President Romero. Police reported no violence.
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Eduardo Vasquez Becker
Associated Press
San Salvador
Labor Ministry
Gabriel Gallegos Valdes
Maria Teresa de Avile
Carlos Humberto Romero
Economy Ministry
Manuel Heints
Oscar Menjivar
Popular Revolutionary Bloc of Peasants
Romero
Grain dealer to be sentenced next month
Robert Johnson, a once high earning grain dealer once valued at 30 million dollars, will be sentenced next month on two counts of interstate transportation of stolen property after pleading guilty in a plea deal. He faced up to 20 years in prison and $20,000 in fines.
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Texas
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Gulf of Mexico
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Oklahoma
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U.S
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Former scoutmaster gets six months for booby trap death
Carmine Falco, former Scoutmaster, received six months in jail and two years probation after pleading no contest to manslaughter in the 14-year-old Richard Brush Jr. death caused by a .22 booby trap he rigged at home. He will serve alternating weeks in jail while awaiting appeal.
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Falco
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Frederick Barad
Barad
Vietnam
Army
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Kerri
Lipton
Joseph Carroll
Dade County
Illness of shah brings reactions amid New York vigil
In New York a mix of prayers and protests surrounded Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as surgeons removed his gallbladder during a six year cancer treatment. His spokesman said recovery was anticipated and the shah would be hospitalized two to three weeks while opponents voiced death wishes.
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Iran
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Robert Armac
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Armao
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Agreement averted city waste strike in Columbus Ohio
A tentative pact ends a week long walkout by 1200 blue collar and office workers. ratification by AFSCME locals pending. Expect curbside garbage pickup to resume in Columbus population around 500000 within days after a three member arbitration panel was proposed to hear grievances.
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Ohio
American Federation of State
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