Cuba enlarges Angola troop flight as New Year offensive starts
Cuban combat troops join Marxist forces in Angola as Moscow backed offensive begins. Reports say 7,500 Cuban soldiers arrive via Azores to Luanda, with MIG21s and missiles supplied by the Soviet bloc. Western powers urged action to halt Marxist advance amid oil rich Angola.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Cuba
Angola
John Vorster
Russia
Azores
Teixeira de Sousa
Henrique de Carvalho
Popular Movement
Luanda
Oilrich
Organization of African Unity
Herman wishes a happy new year to all
A UPI photo captures Herman in a festive mood as the new year begins. The caption notes cheerful wishes to everyone in the scene and sets a lighthearted tone for the period.
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Herman
UPI
FPC orders gas rate boost to ease shortage nationwide
The Federal Power Commission ordered an immediate nationwide rise in natural gas prices, with a second increase planned for July, costing consumers about 360 million dollars in 1976. The move, aimed at easing shortages and stabilizing demand, ends geographic rate setting and raises producer ceilings on wells pre 1973 to 23.5 cents per thousand cubic feet, then to 29 cents on July 1. An average residential bill is expected to rise about 5.3 dollars annually, with homeowners paying roughly 2.9 percent more and industrial users about 5.9 percent more after the changes filter through.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Power Commission
FPC
Commission
Cuban exiles recruited to fight in Angola for UNITA
Cuban exiles in the United States are being recruited as mercenaries to fight alongside Angolan rebels against Cuban Communist troops. Jose Antonio Prat and Pedro Martinez say hundreds of applications are processed, with final selections in Angola and travel paid by the recruiters. They frame the contract as ideological, aiming to overthrow Castro in Cuba after Angola.
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Miami
United States
Angola
UNITA
National Union For Total Independence of Angola
Jose Antonio Prat
Prat
Pedro Martinez
Africa
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Scott
Anubis Ltd
Highland
Tex
Rhodesia
Aliyah
Washington
Judge orders joyrider to study lawn repair
In Cincinnati Patrick Woods 18 was sentenced by Judge Maurice Niehaus in Hamilton County Municipal Court to become a landscape artist in early 1976 for damaging 75 lawns by driving over them. If his work fails by February 28 he faces 30 days in jail. Police say $3,000 in lawn damage occurred along four miles.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Patrick Woods
Hamilton County
Maurice Niehaus
Woods
Forest Park
Cloudy Skies for Northern Ohio with Mild Highs
Cloudy conditions expected across northern Ohio with daytime highs around 30 to 35 degrees. Partly cloudy tonight with a mid-20s low, Friday remaining cloudy and near 40. Precipitation probability about 20 percent today and tonight.
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Nothern Ohio
Grand jury indicts 14 in mental patient abuse
Akron Ohio Summit County grand jury indicted 14 people at Hawthornden State Hospital on 12 felonies and 13 misdemeanors after a three month probe started by the Ohio Highway Patrol at the request of Dr Timothy Moritz. Details on identities remain undisclosed as the case proceeds in common pleas and municipal courts.
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Grand Jury
AKRON
Summit County
Ohio
Hawthornden State Hospital
Summit County Common Pleas Court
James Barbuto
Stephan Gabalav
Cuyahoga Falls
Common Pleas Court
Airports tighten security after La Guardia bombing
Air travel leaders at more than two dozen airports consider tougher baggage handling rules and new security steps after the La Guardia blast killed 11. Guards and dogs stepped up at many hubs, lockers were moved behind sterile corridors, and crowds in terminals spurred talks on see through bags and passenger verification, while some experts warned against overreach.
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la Guardia
Associated Press
Ford
Federal Aviation Administration
New York
Albuquerque
N. M
Windsor Locks
Conn
Buffalo
N. Y
Richard Rebadow
Ira A. Lipman
Guardsmark Inc
Tom Wolfe
Nashville Metropoli
Juvenile terrorist gang broken up in Ellensburg
Authorities in Ellensburg say a pistol packing knife wielding gang of 12 to 14 year olds threatened to shoot the Juvenile Court to free a leader. A boy stole a tractor with weapons, the group picketed a courthouse, and two boys and a girl were arrested after plans to attack the courtroom were disclosed.
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Ellensburg
Wash
Pangs
W. R. Cole
Cascadia
Edensburg
Kittitas County
Mamie Eisenhower rushed to Walter Reed for tests
Mamie Eisenhower, widow of Dwight D. Eisenhower, was admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from her Gettysburg retirement home for medical evaluation. A hospital spokesman said she was resting comfortably and awake upon arrival, with Secret Service noting ambulance transport and police escort.
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Washington
Walter Reed
Eisenhower
Augusta
Gettysburg
Allegheny Mountains
Mercenaries hiring women rise in California agency
California recruitment firm El Kamas Enterprises reports nearly half of hired mercenaries are women and excel in intelligence, pilots, and demolitions. Director James A. Scott says recruits operate in South America, Asia, and Africa with contracts from a week to years and pay from 380 to 500 dollars weekly.
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Calif
California
James A. Scott
el Kamas Enterprises
Anaheim
Scott
the Tribune
Women’s Liberation Movement
Sam
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