Queen arrives amid turmoil in Northern Ireland visit
Queen Elizabeth lands in Hillsborough as 21 gun salute greets her amid IRA bombings arson and sniper attacks across the province. Security tightens with 30 000 troops and police enforcing martial law while the Britannia anchors at Bangor and a helicopter transfer is used for her first official function.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Elizabeth
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Britain
Britannia
Bangor
Hillsborough
IRA
Reis
Queen Elizabeth
Hillsborough Castle
Sir David House
United States Near Panama Canal Transfer by 2000
After 13 years of talks the United States and Panama near an initialed agreement to transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama by 2000. Panamanian officials call talks very positive as negotiators seek a final draft treaty replacing the 1903 pact.
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Kerwan Turner
Panama City
Panama
United States
Panama Canal
U.S
Canal Zone
Church Castro hold talks in Cuba at Bay of Pigs visit
Cuban President Fidel Castro plans a Bay of Pigs trip followed by overnight private talks with Sen. Frank Church on U S Cuban relations. Church travels with a party and may press for release of some of the 18 Americans detained in Cuba.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Sen
Frank Church
U.S
Castro
Church
Ernest Hemingway
Cape Town Shack Demolitions Spark Protest by Blacks and Allies
In Cape Town a crowd of hundreds of Black residents protested the razing of thousands of shanties housing about 26 000 people in three squatter camps. Police used tear gas as 100 white sympathizers including a U S consular official's wife joined later. one Black baby was injured. The demolitions began Monday targeting dismal corrugated iron and cardboard homes about 15 miles north of the city.
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Cape Town
South Africa
U.S
Weather alert Rain expected tonight and tomorrow
The weatherman at Hancock Airport says rain may fall at any minute through tonight and into tomorrow. Expect showers and thunderstorms with a low near 65. Tomorrow will be variably cloudy with a 30 percent chance of more showers and a high in the low 80s.
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Hancock Airport
Rainy weather cancels Canandaigua track card
Steady rain over several days cancels today’s program at Canandaigua New York Fin ger Lakes Race Track for the first time in 16 years of summer racing. A track spokesman called the surface a mess and hoped racing would resume Friday. The track is normally dark on Thursdays.
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Canandaigua
Finger Lakes Race Track
4 Track
ABA mulls ad guidelines for lawyers amid debate
The American Bar Association's House of Delegates prepares to vote on proposed ad guidelines for 400,000 lawyers. A more restrictive plan would permit certain ads while banning others, and a broader proposal lacking board support could be introduced if delegates challenge the ruling.
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Richard Carelli
Chicago
American Bar Association
ABA
House of Delegates
Supreme Court
Arizona
Board of Governors
Chinese envoy to visit Utica
Utica Mayor Edward Hanna announced the city will host Konsin C. Shah, ambassador consulate general of the Republic of China, on August 18 and 19 as a guest of the city. The mayor suggested the visit could boost the area's economy and a press conference is set for next Friday to explain the purpose of the trip.
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Utica
Edward Hanna
Republic of China
Hanna
Konsin C. Shah
Training pilots sought for Iranian F14 program
Terence Hunt reports a Grumman subcontractor seeks 20 former U S Navy F14 pilots to train the Iranian air force. General Devices Inc has advertised in San Diego and Norfolk and inquired directly as it recruits pilots, mechanics, and technicians with offers around 25000 dollars yearly plus housing schools and medical care.
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Terence Hunt Washington
Grumman Aircraft Corp
America
Naval Arsenal
Jean
Grumman
Slim Tex Raymond
General Devices Inc
Norristown
Iran
General Devices
Raymond
San Diego
Norfolk
Auto makers lash at Carter gas guzzler tax plan
Major U.S. automakers criticize President Carter’s proposed gas guzzler tax as punitive to families and harmful to the poor and middle class. They tell the Senate Finance Committee the tax would hurt employment and commerce, while arguing current fleet mileage standards are sufficient.
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William E. Clayton Washington
UPI
U.S
Carter
Senate Finance Committee
House
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
S. L. Terry
Terry
Fred Secrest
Canada orders air traffic controllers back to work
Parliament fast tracks emergency back-to-work legislation after a three day strike disrupts air service. The bill imposes a 7.4 percent pay increase, sets fines up to 100 dollars per day, and requires governor general approval before resuming normal flights. CATCA leaders had signaled return if enacted. Air Canada predicted aircraft aloft by noon.
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Ottawa
Canada
Commons
Senate
Canadian Air Traffic Control Association
CATCA
Air Canada
Industr Association
OLeary balks at pipeline plan
Federal Energy Administrator John F. OLeary questioned a proposed California to Texas oil pipeline saying it would move Alaskan oil cheaply but stopped short of endorsing a joint Standard Oil of Ohio and British Petroleum proposal linking Long Beach California to Midland Texas and onward to Gulf Coast refineries.
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John F. O'Leary
Midwest
O'Leary
Standard Oil of
Ohio
British Petroleum
Long Beach
California
Midland
Tex
Gulf Coast
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