Pearl River Rising Threatens Columbia Mississippi Flood
The Pearl River swelled toward a 29 foot crest at Columbia Mississippi as civil defense workers deploy 200000 sandbags. East Texas towns face flooding near Houston while Minnesota and North Dakota farmland and the Red River Valley remain flooded. The storm system disrupts Oklahoma and Alabama, with officials cautioning the flood could be historic and lasting days.
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Cliff Finch
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Dale Danks
Weather Service
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Danks
Texas
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Civil Defense Department
Harris County Flood Control District
Dick Hawkins
West Fargo
Sheyenne
Park River
Grafton
N.D
Grand Forks
N.C
East Grand Forks
Minn
LeFlore
Tombigbee
Demopolis
W.J. Wells
The
Red Cross
National Guard
Five Jews Freed by Brezhnev Amid Trade Terms Push
Soviet dissidents report President Brezhnev pardoned five Jews tied to a 1970 hijacking to appease the United States in a bid for better trade terms. The freed include Wolf Zalmanson and four others from Riga who received exit visas and were near completing ten year sentences.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
United States
Wolf Zalmanson
Riga
Soviet Union
Leningrad
Sweden
Kiev
Yelena Bonner Sakharov
Andrei D. Sakharov
Kremlin
Zalmanson
Associated Press
Boris Penson
Anatoly Altman
Leib Khnokh
Brezhnev
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Sergeant Lewis Riley Promoted Then Plans to Quit
The article reports Sergeant Lewis Riley being promoted to deputy yesterday and his intention to resign. Sheriff Mauck denies political motivation behind the move. The piece notes complaints about pay and advancement among secretaries, who see their roles as more administrative than clerical.
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Lewis Riley
Riley
Mauck
Star
Rhodesia Ends Black Elections Amid Turbulent Vote
Voters cast 57.1 percent of 2.8 million as 72 blacks prepare to dominate the 100-seat Parliament in Rhodesia's first black majority election. Cross-border raids into Mozambique occur as observers from Freedom House call the vote significant for black rule.
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Rhodesia
Mozambique
Robert Mugabe
Botswana
Angola
Zambia
Joshua Nkomo
Mugabe
Patriotic Front
Freedom House
Carter
Smith
Britain
U.N
Right Wing Christian Militias Lift Blockade at U N Lebanon Site
Beirut Lebanon AP reports breakaway Phalangist forces lifted a blockade on U N I F Lebanon headquarters in Naqoura for two hours to allow relief supplies. Haddad’s attack had disabled helicopters and wounded Irish soldiers and Dutch officers after shelling the U N compound.
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Lebanon
U.N
Maj
Saad Haddad
Jerusalem
Haddad
Israel
Syria
Mediterranean
Naqoura
Virginia Supreme Court Reverses Gibb in Cord Bar Case
The Virginia Supreme Court reversed Judge Duncan C. Gibb’s ruling denying Bonnie Cord a certificate of moral fitness for the bar exam. The decision says Gibb relied on an out of wedlock living arrangement not rationally connected to Cord’s fitness to practice law. Cord, a Georgetown Law Center graduate, lives with Jeffrey Blue in Linden Warren County and may marry him.
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Virginia
Ms. Cord
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, D.C
Gibb
U.S. Supreme Court
Cord
Virginia Supreme Court
Blue
Warren County
Linden
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