Bhutto to Free Bengali Leader Mujibur Rahman
Pakistani President Ali Zulfikar Bhutto decided to release Mujibur Rahman unconditionally. Rahman, head of Bengali rebels, had been jailed on treason charges after his March arrest by Yahya Khan and was under house arrest near Islamabad after Yahya abdicated.
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New York
UPI
Ali Zulfikar Bhutto
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
Time Magazine
Mujib’’ Rahman
Pakistan
Mohammad Agha Yahya Khan
Yahya
India
Rahman
Islamabad
Karachi
Bhutto
Awami League
West Pakistan
East Pakistan
Bangladesh
Moslems Raid Christian Village in Cotabato Province
About 300 armed Moslems attacked Ampatuan in Cotabato Province causing one death, three injured and 70 houses burned. A raider was fatally wounded. constabulary fought the attackers and sent reinforcements including two helicopters.
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Manila
UPI
Cotabato
Philippines
Jose Vestal
Ampatuan
Vestal
Philippine Constabulary
National Police
Esperanza
Pope Paul VI visits Boys Town for world day of peace speech
Pope Paul VI toured the Boys Town in Rome on World Day of Peace delivering a speech to about 180 boys. He urged youth to lead in justice and peace while the town’s mayor Fausto Scappini spoke in a council meeting where the Pontiff joked about politics.
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Rome
Italy
UPI
Paul VI
Fausto Scappini
Petaluma Sixth Graders Confuse Tokyo With China
A Tokyo based Asahi report finds Petaluma California sixth graders believe Tokyo is the capital of Communist China and know little of Mao Tse-tung or Taiwan. The study notes Americans generally know little about China despite recent UN entry.
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TOKYO
UPI
Petaluma
Calif
China
Japan
Mao Tse-tung
Taiwan
Formosa
Tatsuo Kondo
Asahi
United States
Dondo
San Francisco
United Nations
Kondo
Liberty School
Peter Auer
Auer
Chinatown
Orient
Asia
Africa
Sonoma County
Akira Irie
University of Chicago
Soviet paper mocks Hope and Onassis in New Year feature
Komosomolskaya Pravda, the Young Communist League paper, calls Bob Hope an aging Pentagon clown and portrays Jacqueline Onassis as unable to cook or clean. The article, by New York correspondent Major Sturua, accuses Hope of touring U.S. bases and making aging jokes while Vietnam War era B52s fly overhead.
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Moscow
UPI
Bob Hope
Pentagon
Jacqueline Onassis
Komosomolskaya Oravda
Young Communist League
New York
Major Sturua
U.S.A
Thailand
Hope
Stura
Vietnam
Gunshots ring in Ulster new year
In Belfast and surrounding areas violence marked the start of the new year with gunfire and clashes as IRA snipers fired on Coalisland police, and security forces returned fire. Six arrests were made amid calls for a firm front against the terrorists and for lasting peace.
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Ulster
Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Britain
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Coalisland
Selby
Brian Faulkner
Reginald Maulding
Maudling
The
Irish Republic
Civil Rights Association
Ulster Loyalist Association
Stormont
Disabled veterans find relief in Guadalajara
In Guadalajara Mexico US veterans with severe injuries live largely outside U.S. hospitals. Charlie Munson 79 year old seeks Sweden before death while others recount Bataan Bastogne Iwo Jima memories. Monthly aid funds cover housing and local Mexican aides who assist veterans in eight wheelchair homes and shared facilities.
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New York Times
Guadalajara
Mexico
Charlie Munson
United States
John J. Pershing
Pancho Villa
Munson
Sweden
Robert Liddle Jr
Harris Gutzen
Bataan
Bastogna
Iwo Jima
Paula Veilleux
Beiruit Station Attack Kills One Guerrilla and Two Policemen
Palestinian guerrillas attacked a Beirut police station Saturday in a rare clash with Lebanese security forces. Two policemen and one guerrilla died, two officers were wounded, and 10 people were arrested. Prime Minister Saeb Salam condemned the assault and vowed strict legal action.
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Beirut
Saeb Salam
Radio Lebanon
al Saiqah
Suleiman Franjieh
Lebanon
Egypt
Libya
Syria
Saturda
Federation of Arab Republics
Mohammed
United States
German lawyer in biggest kidnap ransom case vows innocence
Grim faced Heinz Joachim Ollenburg a 48 year old Duesseldorf lawyer arrived back from Mexico to Germany to face charges in the nations largest kidnap ransom plot. He walked to a waiting police car hid his face from cameras and offered no resistance when taken into custody aboard the Boeing flight.
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Cologne
Germany
UPI
Mexico
Heinz Joachim Ollenburg
Duesseldorf
Lufthansa
Ollenburg
Boeing
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Toronto
Pierre Elliot Trudes
Parlaament Hill
Ottawa
Pope
World News
Crabbe
U.S
Lang Vei
South Vietnam
By Colin Baker
Mukti Bahini Freedome
Bagladesh
Beruit
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