Portugal crisis as military ousts Socialists in coup
In Lisbon the military seized control, placing forces on alert and triggering a constitutional showdown. The Popular Democrats threaten to quit unless democracy is guaranteed, while Socialist leaders denounce the move as intimidation and seek civilian-backed rule.
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Lisbon
Portugal
UPI
Popular Democrats
Revolutionary Council
Republica
Popular Democratic
Toronto girl near Lake Ontario swim record
Angela Kondrak a 15 year old Toronto schoolgirl swam 6 miles from shore in 65 degree water after more than 15 hours, closing on the Toronto shoreline toward becoming the youngest to conquer Lake Ontario. A pace swimmer, her father and coach were aboard as a flotilla followed. She aims for the English Channel next month.
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Toronto
UPI
Lake Ontario
Angela Kondrak
Youngstown
N.Y
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Art Dufresne
Dufresne
Kondrak
English Channel
Uganda cabinet reshuffled to place military in control
Ugandan President Idi Amin on a Saturday reshuffled his cabinet, eight of 13 senior posts going to military officers. Observers say the move concentrates power in close allies, giving the military effective control for the first time since independence in 1962. Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mustafa Adriki becomes defense minister, while retaining his army post.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Uganda
Idi Amin
Amin
Iplomats
Mustafa Adriki
Adriki
Peron faces crisis as strike, inflation rock Argentina
In Buenos Aires Maria Estela Peron fights a general strike and triple digit inflation while reshuffling her cabinet to blunt opposition. Jose Lopez Rega, known as The Sorcerer, resigns amid accusations of power abuse and links to a right wing death squad. The administration, under strain, faces ongoing political violence and economic turmoil as more than 500 people have been killed by extremists.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
UPI
Maria Estela
Isabel) Peron
Jose Lopez Rega
the Sorcerer
Juan D. Peron
Panama
Lopez Rega
Peron
Cambodian officers in U.S. seek return home
Thirty-two former Cambodian Air Force and Navy officers in UPI reports at Ft. Chaffee Arkansas say they miss families and Cambodia and want repatriation. UNHCR representative Arne Torgersen notes no diplomatic channels yet. most Cambodians in relocation centers, about 2,000, have not applied.
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UPI
Arne Torgersen
United Nations High Commission For Refugees
United States
Cambodia
Air Force
Navy
Lackland Afb
Tex
Torgersen
Sim Silena
Silena
Korea raises armed forces alert after border provocation
South Korea places its entire armed forces on emergency alert amid claims of six North Korean navy vessels violating waters near Paengnyongdo Island. The UN Command protested a June 30 attack on a U.S. Army major.
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Seoul
South Korea
UPI
Panmunjom
United Nations Command
North Korea
Defense Minist
Yellow Sea
Paengnyongdo Island
Angola fighting subsiding amid capital surge of gunfire
In Luanda gunfire eased as rival groups the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and the National Front clashed, killing hundreds since Wednesday. Portuguese troops and Angolan soldiers patrolled with orders to shoot armed civilians. Hospitals report hundreds wounded and no official casualty tallies yet.
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Angola
UPI
Black Liberation
Radio
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
National Front
Portugal
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