Spotlight on World News Pulls From A P Dispatch
A dispatch from London reports Faha Mihyi 22 accused of murdering an Israeli El Al flight attendant threatens more raids while in custody. Other items note Lagos resettlement for a new capital near Abuja, three steelworkers killed in Gateshead, Turin citizen Josie Woolom Jones touching the Shroud for hope, right wing group arrests in West Germany, MacArthur memorial dedication in Norfolk, Howard Hughes film sales in Hollywood, jailer censorship rulings in Buffalo, Alaska oil easing U.S. dollar drain, and Proxmire pressing votes on Navy payments to shipbuilders.
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London
Jerusalem
Faha Mihyi
el al
Brian Cantram
Mihyi
Palestine
Irit Gidron
Turin
Italy
Josie Woolom Jones
Gloucester
England
Vatican
Commandos advance as Managua braces for rebel attack
Nicaraguan commandos backed by tank like vehicles and gunships pressed an assault on Leon while rebels held in two other northern cities. Managua prepared for a possible attack timed to Nicaragua’s independence day as Sandinistas occupied Loon, the nation’s second largest city with about 100,000 residents.
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Tom Fenton
Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Leon
Loon
Anastasio Somoza
Esteli
Chinandega
Masaya
Penas Blancas
Diriamba
Jinotepe
Rivas
Somoza
National Guard
Red Cross
Connecticut teachers strike sentence hits Bridgeport jail
Striking teachers in Bridgeport, Dayton, and San Francisco face jail terms for defying back to work orders as talks collapse. In Bridgeport 13 union officials and many teachers have been jailed after failed negotiations, with 22,500 students out of class. Dayton leaders are eyed for contempt over picketing in a 37,000 pupil district while Bay Area teachers continue walking out despite a court injunction.
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Associated Press
Dayton
Ohio
San Francisco
Bridgeport
Conn
National Guard
Thomas Flynn
Superior Court
James Henebry
Dayton Board of Education
Dayton Education Association
Ohio City
San Mateo County
William Lanam
American Federation of Teachers
Jefferson Union
Daly City
Rhodesia PM brands Nkomo a monster after airliner downing
Prime Minister Ian Smith called Joshua Nkomo a monster for the deaths of 48 people after a civilian airliner was shot down near the Zambian border. He announced a crackdown on foreign guerrilla outfits, ordering arrests of about 300 Nkomo supporters, and ruled out further contact with the Patriotic Front leaders.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Joshua Nkomo
Smith
Nkomo
Nokomo
Zambia
Robert Mugabe
Mozambique
The
Patriotic Front
Camp David talks stretch with no end in sight
The Camp David summit likely will last over the weekend according to Israel's Foreign Ministry. Italian Foreign Minister Forlani postponed his visit as Moshe Dayan stays in the United States. Yediot Aharonot says the U S and Israel agreed to divide West Bank management among Jordan, Israel, and local Palestinians with Israel maintaining military presence.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Camp David
Foreign Ministry
Arnaldo Forlani
Moshe Dayan
United States
Yediot Aharanot
West Bank of the Jordan River
Jordan
Yediot
U.S. Congress
West Bank
Former Kissinger aide on Angola intervention attempt
Nathaniel Davis, a former Kissinger aide and assistant secretary of state for African affairs, says Kissinger and Ford believed covert CIA action in Angola would fail, viewing the Soviet challenge as decisive. Davis resigned when his advice was ignored and remains a State Department adviser at the Naval War College.
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Washington
Henry Kissinger
Gerald Ford
Angola
Kissinger
Nathaniel Davis
Quarterly Journal ‘Foreign Affairs
Ford
United States
Soviet Union
Davis
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
Naval War College
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Nigeria
Abuja
Here
Day Roll Steel Works
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Bernard Rogers
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Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur Square
Lowell Thomas
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Marine Corps
Korea
Japan
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Australia
Hollywood
Howard Hughes
Jane Russell
John Wayne
Genghis Khan
Buffalo
N.Y
U.S
John T. Curtin
Curtin
Alaska
America
General Accounting Office
Panama Canal
Gulf of Mexico
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate
Navy
Electric Boat Division
General Dynamics Corp
Litton Industries
House
Proxmire
Emmet Andrews
American Postal Workers Union
Emmet
Connecticut
Cleveland
Harry A. Hanna
Brands Guerrilla
Scores
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
S. Oak
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