Soviets deny seeking gains in Angola and call for end to foreign intervention
Pravda and Tass defend Soviet Angola policy, denying military or economic motives and urging an end to foreign armed intervention. They frame Moscow as a loyal supporter of the MPLA, aiding Angola to safeguard sovereignty and independence against outside encroachment. The article notes timing of a disclosed military backing only recently revealed.
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Moscow
Angola
Soviet Union
Pravda
Communist Party
Tass
Africa
Popuar Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
South Africa
Arizona motorists test emissions amid pilot program
Frank Iacobelli of the Bureau of Vehicular Emissions says 13,000 drivers in Maricopa and Pima counties used free exhaust tests last month with over 60 percent passing. Testing centers across the two counties aim to cut pollution by about 20 percent, as emissions checks become part of vehicle registration in 1977.
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Arizona
Arizona Department of Health Services
Bureau of Vehicular Emissions
Frank Iacobelli
Maricopa
Pima
Tacobelli
Iacobelli
Suit challenges emission testing in two counties
A Phoenix couple filed a civil suit in Maricopa County Superior Court arguing Arizona's mandatory vehicle emission inspection program unfairly targets only Maricopa and Pima counties. They contend the $5 fee and inspection requirement are discriminatory taxes with no public benefit and seek a ruling that the program is illegal.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Maricopa
Pima
Maricopa County
Warren L. McCarthy
Battersbys
ERDA to push breeder reactor plans in 10 year program
ERDA announces a decade long research plan on liquid metal fast breeder reactors. Administrator Robert C. Seamans Jr. says the agency targets 1986 for a decision on promoting large scale commercial construction of fast breeder nuclear plants.
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Washington
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Robert C. Seamans Jr
Reward Offered For Hoffa Body In New Jersey Dump
Detroit attorney for three men questioned in James R. Hoffa disappearance offers a $10,000 reward for locating his body. An informant says the former Teamsters president buried in Moscato's Jersey City dump after last July's disappearance.
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Detroit
James R. Hoffa
Teamster
New Jersey
Teamsters Union
Moscato
Jersey City
N.J
Moslems Free 100 Prisoners in North Lebanon Raid
Moslem militiamen stormed a government prison 60 miles north of Beirut and freed more than 100 prisoners after a 90 minute battle with guards. A spokesman said the dawn attack followed a mortar and rocket duel between Moslem and Christian villages, threatening the New Year lull in Lebanon's civil war.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Ford lifts $2 oil import fee after energy bill
President Ford proclaimed the removal of the $2 per barrel import fee on crude oil, ending a year-long stalemate with Congress. The fee had been part of a policy to curb foreign imports and conserve gasoline as energy independence goals moved forward.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
McGovern Backs Portugal Economic Aid
Senator George McGovern voiced support for Portugal after a brief stopover en route to Southeast Asia. He praised progress toward a free election next spring and urged continued U S economic aid to Lisbon.
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Lisbon
Portugal
George McGovern
United States
Southeast Asia
Airport security tightened after La Guardia bombing
Security across the nation has been tightened following Monday night’s bombing at La Guardia Airport in New York. Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman Jr. reported to President Ford after a 40 minute White House meeting with Ford reviewing steps to improve security. Eleven people were killed and about 75 injured.
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Washington
la Guardia
New York
Ford
Transportation
William T. Coleman Jr
Coleman
White House
Bank Robberies Rise Sharply As Economy Slows
FBI officials report bank robberies reached record pace nationwide in fiscal 1975, driven by a weak economy and banks as easy targets. Loot averages fell from 1973 to 1974, while overall crime rose 11 percent in early 1975. Bank robberies up 94 percent from 1969 to 1974.
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Benjamin H. Cooke
FBI
Clyde EB. Whitson
Cooke
Whitson
Acting finance chief James A Jenkins to head finance dept
James A Jenkins, 33, named acting head of Scottsdale's finance department starting Monday after Chad Cowley's resignation to join private accounting. Jenkins has led the budget office since 1978 under City Manager Aleshire and previously worked at Lockheed in California. Selection for permanent head expected in February.
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James A. Jenkins
Franklin D. Aleshire
Jenkins
Chad Cowley
Cowley
Scottsdale
Walter C. Nemetz
California State University At
Northridge
Finance Department
Scottsdale Tests Solar Using City Buildings
Scottsdale submits a formal plan to use two city buildings the Scottsdale Center for the Arts and the police/public services building as test structures for a solar heating and cooling demonstration with InterTechnology Corp and ERDA. City officials cite sun rich climate and cooperative leadership as keys while coordinating with Arizona State University experts and a city energy task force to study solar energy as a fossil fuel alternative.
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Scottsdale
Scottsdale Center For the Arts
Public Services
Police Department
InterTechnology Corp
ITC
Warrenton
Federal Energy, Research and of Administration
ERA
John I. Yellett
Byard Wood
Arizona State University
Aleshire
Vince Canzano
International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials
More take to slopes and more are dying
A Forest Service study shows avalanche deaths rise with increasing winter recreation. An average of 12 people die annually, 22 in last winter, with eight in Colorado. Factors include harsher cold, popular slopes, and limited safety controls, while Alps deaths run higher but village-in-path risk differs.
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Fort Collins
Colo
U.S. Forest Service
Colorado
Jusseau
Alaska
Washington
Mt. Rainier National Park
Knox Williams
Forest Service
Williams
United States
Alps
Austria
Zerland
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Kenneth Kunes
Arizona Department of Prenanortation
William Adway
McKellips
Donald Nordal
Nordal
Bob Johnstone
Hoffa
McGovern
Case
Budget Office
City
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Burbank, Calif
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