Assassination of Park Chung-hee shocks South Korea
South Korea united in warning North Korea after President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by KCIA chief Kim Jaekyu. Choi Kyu-hah acted as president as U S forces moved assets closer, dictatorial rule ends, and leaders pledge defense of democracy. Public mourning and martial law continue.
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Terry A. Anderson
Associated Press
Seoul
South Korea
North Korea
United States
Park Chung-hee
CIA
Kim Young-sam
Park
Kim Dae-jung
People's
North
Choi Kyu-hah
Carter
Defense
Harold Brown
U.S
Korea
John A. Wickham Jr
Brown
Japan
Wickham
Choi
Combined Forces Command
Republic
Blue House
Pusan
Masan
Communist Party
Rodong
Chon
Kim
Cha Chi-chul
Chan
Cha
KCIA
Anti-nuclear protesters try to shut NYSE on market crash anniversary
Dozens of demonstrators from Wall Street Action blocked Wall Street as police moved in to carry protesters away on stretchers. The action aimed to protest investments in nuclear weapons and power and to spotlight financiers. Also tied to national rallies, incidents occurred near Hood Canal with thousands protesting the Trident submarine.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street Action
Wall Street
Sharon Tracy
Stock Exchange
The
Richard Grosso
Manhattan
World Trade Center
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
Rockwell International
Ellsberg
Poulsbo
Hood Canal
Seattle
Trident
Trial of Vietnamese scheduled for today
Seguin Texas AP A panel of 150 prospective jurors must report for the state district court trial of Sau Van Nguyen aged 21 and his brother Chinh 20 on charges tied to the August 3 shooting death of crabber Billy Joe Alpin 35 in Seadrift a feud between native crab fishermen and relocated Vietnamese residents has intensified with arson and a firebombing incidents none of which caused injuries and a murder trial was moved from Calhoun County to Seguin for security concerns both suspects are held on bonds of 100000 and 75000 respectively and defense says they deserve a fair trial while the police chief warns of possible open warfare if a reasonable sentence is not handed down.
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Seguin
Texas
Sau van Nguyen
Chinh
Billy Joe Alpin
Seadrift
Aplin
Clarence Stevenson
Calhoun County
Guadalupe County
Pat Maloney
Lau
Maloney
Bill Lindsey
GOP Fund Raisers Bring Rosalynn Carter and Ronald Reagan to Houston
Rosalynn Carter and Ronald Reagan headlined rival fund raisers in Houston aiming to raise about 100000 each. Carter attended two receptions at a downtown hotel for 100 and 1000 dollar donors, spoke at a Texas Municipal League luncheon, and joined an afternoon reception by the State Democratic Executive Committee. Reagan planned a Wayne Newton show at a Southwest Freeway theater for the Reagan for President Committee, with tickets up to 500, plus an afternoon business reception.
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Houston
Rosalynn Carter
Ronald Reagan
Carter
Texas Municipal League
Democratic Executive Committee
Reagan
Governors urge Carter for 30 doctors for Cambodian refugees
Six American governors touring a refugee camp near the Thai border appealed to President Carter for 30 doctors and nurses to aid the 30,000 Cambodians. They described conditions as appalling, noted daily deaths, and urged renewed humanitarian action including overland food convoys into Cambodia despite Phnom Penh’s objections. The delegation included Govs Milliken, Judge, Ray, Lamm, Snelling, Quie, and their spouses.
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Denis D. Gray
Associated Press
Bangkok
Thailand
Cambodia
Carter
Sa Kaew
Michigan
William Milliken
U.S
Pol Pot
Phnom Penh
Khmer Rouge
Milliken
China
Thomas Judge
Montana
Robert Ray
Iowa
Richard Lamm
Colorado
Richard Snelling
Vermont
Albert Quie
Minnesota
Europeans remember Stock Market crash
Richard Blystone notes Europe felt the bite slowly after Wall Street’s 1929 crash. Front pages ignored it in the Netherlands. Paris and London saw slumps by 1930. Germany delayed impact as Austria, Switzerland, and Sweden faced defaults, unemployment, and a wave of bankruptcies shaping a continent-wide hard era.
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Richard Blystone
Associated Press
London
Europe
Algemeen Handelsblad
Denmark
England
London Stock Exchange
George Bolton
Bank of England
America
Bourse
Paris
Stock Exchange
Australia
Schwartzer Freitag
Germany
Wall Street
U.S
Switzerland
Ivar Kreuger
Skandinaviska Banken
Kreuger
Convict Cowboy Byrd Wins 1979 Texas Prison Rodeo Title
Weldon Byrd, jailed 17 years from Belton, defended his crown as champion rider in the 48th Texas Prison Rodeo series finishing with 350 dollars. The event ended with a record 84,169 paid admissions for the October rodeo. Eddie Holland, life sentence from San Antonio, won 1500 dollars after a tobacco sack of prize money was snagged from a charging bull. Ronald Campbell of Lubbock finished second earning 150 dollars, Poole 135 for third, Binyon 110 for fourth.
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Huntsville
Texas
Weldon Byrd
Byrd
Belton
Eddie Holland
San Antonio
Ronald Campbell
Lubbock
Campbell
Stephen Poole
David Binyon
Trucker Dead, Partner Burned After Rig Leaves Texas Highway
A Lubbock man, Carroll Landon Peters, 25, died after a tractor-trailer ran off Texas Highway 18 near Fort Stockton and burst into flames. Gary Randall Garrett, 25, was hospitalized in serious condition with second and third degree burns. The rig traveled 157 feet before stopping 27 feet from the road, and Peters was trapped in the sleeper compartment.
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Fort Stockton
Department of Public Safety
Peters
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Chung Il-kwon
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Syngman Rhee
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