Military unions banned in U S armed forces directive
Defense Secretary Harold Brown formalizes a no strike policy for about 2.1 million active personnel. The directive bars coercive picketing and base negotiations while allowing off duty civilian union participation. it targets organizations seeking collective bargaining with the military. It preserves the long standing prohibition on base level bargaining and covers military reserves in uniform during service.
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Washington
Harold Brown
U.S
Pentagon
Sotu Lees
Mem
American Federation of Government Employees
Afi-Cio
Carter
Font
Congress
Fentagon
U S Presses Rights Praise Against Reds At Assembly
The United States voiced strong disapproval of human rights abuses in Communist states at a Belgrade three nation conference on European security and human rights. Ambassador Goldberg catalogued violations of the Helsinki accords while avoiding named countries.
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Dennis Redmont
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Europe
U.S
Arthur I. Goldberg
Goldberg
Yuri Vorontsov
National rights coalition urged to expand civil rights legacy
Bayard Rustin urged forming a National Conference for Human Rights at a New York meeting of 200 leaders from politics religion unions and civil rights groups. He said Americans could play a key role in a global democratic movement rooted in the 1960s civil rights conscience. Austin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, outlined global human rights concerns for the proposed coalition.
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New York
Bayard Rustin
Rustin
Austin
Washington
National Conference For Human Rights
Carter to have final word on new missile
Defense Secretary Harold Brown will decide in coming months whether to back full scale MX missile development. Spokesman Thomas Ross says Brown tentatively approved a major step but final approval awaits a late fiscal 1979 budget review, with a November or December decision expected. The MX would be a mobile ICBM aimed at complicating a surprise strike by the Soviet forces.
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Washington
Defense
Harold Brown
Atlanta
Atlantic Ocean
Georgia
Gulf of Mexico
United States
U.S. Navy
William Read
Gulf
Thomas Ross
Brown
Ross
Pentagon
Soviet Union
Puerto Rican Gunman Freed After Commutation
Andres Figueroa Cordero, a Puerto Rican nationalist imprisoned for an armed attack on Congress, was released after a presidential commutation. Dying of cancer, he arrived in Chicago for an overnight stay before continuing to San Juan and praised the freedom as a victory for Puerto Rico and oppressed peoples.
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Andres Figueroa Cordero
Congress
United States
San Juan
Cordero
Puerto Rico
North America
Springfield
Carter
Nelson W. Canals
Antulio Varrilla
Canals
Canary
P.J. Ciccone
Federal
House of Representatives
Cordero Freed After Cancer Ruling Spurs Release
Puerto Rican nationalist Cordero, aging and frail, was freed three hours after a presidential order reduced his 25 year term for the 1954 Congress attack. He arrived at Chicago O'Hare and spoke briefly through an interpreter while supporters gathered.
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Springfield
Chicago
O'Hare International
PDT
White House
Carter
Cordero
Airlines
Steet
Kissinger sued by kin of American executed in Chile
The widow Joyce Horman and her parents Edmund and Elizabeth Horman filed a $4.5 million civil suit in U.S. District Court against Henry Kissinger and 10 others, alleging involvement or acquiescence in the 1973 Chile coup and the execution of Charles Horman. The suit names Nathaniel Davis and Frederick D. Vardy among the defendants, cites alleged U.S. government awareness and nonaction, and seeks damages for Horman’s death with specific claims of wiretapping and dossiers. The widow seeks $2.5 million while each parent seeks $500,000.
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Chile
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S. District Court
Joyce Horman
Charles Horman
Edmund
Elizabeth Horman
Kissinger
Nathaniel Davis
U.S. Ambassader
Switzerland
Frederick D. Vardy
Senate
Richard Nixon
Horman
Herman
United States
Harvard
Charles Harman
Charles Horna
Hermans
Allende
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