Austria halts transit for Soviet Jewish emigrants
In Vienna the government barred Soviet Jewish emigrants from using Austria as a transit point to Israel provoking criticism at home and abroad. Arab gunmen seized a Moscow Vienna express, released hostages, and fled. Chancellor Kreisky defended the move amid international reaction. Israel recalled its ambassador as tensions rose. Austrian officials cited 66,000 Soviet Jews affected.
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Vienna
UPI
Austria
Israel
Bruno) Kreisky
Kurier
Moscow
Bruno Kreisky
Jerusalem
Golda Meir
Yitzhak Patish
Tel Aviv
Austria Transit Closures Spark Global Reactions Across Leaders
World reaction targets Austria after transit closures to Israel draw praise from Le Monde for relative gains and criticism from US figures. Simon Wiesenthal and American Jewish Committee frame the move as critical but risky to UN refugee principles. Senators Jackson and Humphrey call for human-rights concerns and watchful international impact.
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Austria
Israel
New York
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Documentation Center
Vienna
Kreiskny
Paris
le Monde
Munich
Bangkok
Khartoum
Washingen
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Ellis Island
Sadat calls for U S bias end before Middle East talks
President Sadat signaled willingness to accept U S offers on a settlement if Washington drops pro Israel bias. He framed land liberation as a long term aim, criticized U S Zionist influence, and urged Arab pressure beyond oil to pressure Kissinger for results.
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Cairo
UPI
Anwar Sadat
Middle East
Washington
Israel
Arab Land
Sadat
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United States
America
Akhbar El-Yom
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Ihsan Abdel Kaddous
Bombs Wreck Belfast Areas Amid Renewed Violence
Six bombs exploded in Belfast including three in small cars injuring a civilian and damaging railway lines. A gunman wounded a British soldier in Londonderry, while a car bomb near the SDLP HQ caused property damage and a traffic jam. Isabelle Allende said she believed she was to die during the Chilean coup, detailing her escape and her father’s death.
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Belfast
Londonderry
Helsinki
UPI
Isabelle Allende
Salvador Allende
Chile
Miss Allende
World Peace Council
Negotiations Stalemate Hits East Canada Paper Mills
Eastern Canada’s paper industry remains at a standstill as UPIU strikes against CIP and Macmillan Rothesay mills in Ontario Quebec and New Brunswick halt production of about 4500 tons daily. Prices rise for Softwood kraft pulp to 235 a ton for North America plus 2 more for Japanese buyers. Industry losses exceed 50 million as costs push newsprint prices higher.
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Montreal
UPI
Canada
U.S
Canadian Cellulose Co
Vancouver
Abitibi Pulp and Paper
Ontario
United Paperworkers International Union
UPIU
Canadian International Paper
CIP
Quebec
New Brunswick
Macmillan Rothesay
Saint John
N.B
Curfew Lifted in Iraq Amid Arrest Reports
Iraq's socialist regime ended a 26 hour curfew in Baghdad and lifted a passenger flight ban as reports of mass arrests spread from Beirut. Beiruts press alleged thousands were detained in a crackdown linked to a hatchet murder spree and a failed June coup led by Nazem Kazzar.
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Beirut
UPI
Iraq
Baghdad
al Hayat
Ahmed Hassan al Bakr
Saddam Hussein
Reime
Nazem Kazzar
Kazzar
Accord boosts U S aid as Phnom Penh battles rage
UPI reports United States and Cambodia signing an accord that increases economic aid by 5 million dollars as government troops along Highway 2 near Phnom Penh fight insurgents. About 37 million in economic aid has been given this year with over 90 million projected. military aid reaches about 170 million. Frontline forces report low morale, scarce food, and no reinforcements as rebels threaten the capital.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
United States
Cambodia
Washington
U.S
Congress
Chou Pon
Preak Roteang
Chileans to run copper industry
Chile's new El Teniente managing director Jorge Sibisa Garces says operations will be run by Chileans with foreign technical help only as needed. He notes 316 of 13,700 workers have been fired for Communist or Socialist ties since the coup. Production aims for improvement next year as copper remains Chile's major foreign exchange earner.
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Santiago
UPI
U.S
Chile
Salvador Allende
Jorge Sibisa Garces
el Teniente
Anaconda
Kennecott
Kennecott Company
Big American Copper Company
Allende
Chuquicamata
Adm
Ismael Huerta
Huerta
Sibisa
Auden Dies in Vienna at 66 Heart Attack Ends Poet’s Life
British expatriate Wystan Hugh Auden died in a Vienna hotel room from a heart attack at age 66. A professor, editor and playwright, he spent 33 years in the United States after choosing New York’s East Village over a poet laureateship in England. His Age of Anxiety won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
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Vienna
UPI
W. H. Auden
Auden
England
New York City
East Village
The
United States
Wyston Hugh Auden
Cybis Porcelain Collection to Open at Parkersburg Art Center
The Cybis Porcelain sculpture collection will go on view to the public at the Parkersburg Art Center next Sunday. Cybis of Trenton New Jersey has previously shown the collection by invitation at major museums including Chicago Brooklyn Carnegie Detroit. Cubis porcelains are in museums and private collections worldwide.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
UPI
Cybis
Parkersburg Art Center
Trenton
N.J
Chicago Art Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Carnegie Institute of Art
Detroit Institute of Art
Wilson heads heart group in West Virginia
Dr. Michael F. Wilson of Morgantown was elected president of the West Virginia chapter of the American Heart Association. He succeeds Dr. Harold Selinger of Charleston, with officers including Kenneth Weber and Robert Harris as vice chairs and other posts held by H. T. Bernstein George Khoury John McComas and Peter S. White. Another note identifies Hot Springs National Park as the only federally owned health resort in the United States.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
Michael F. Wilson
Morgantown
West Virginia
American Heart Association
Wilson
West Virginia University Medical Center
Harold Selinger
Kenneth Weber
Robert Harris
Ripley
H. T. Bernstein
Martinsburg
George Khoury
John McComas
Huntington
Peter S. White
United States
Hot Springs National Park, Ark
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