No Letup In Fighting as Beirut Toll Reaches 120 Dead
Beirut battles intensify with 120 killed and 486 wounded since Tuesday. Evacuation advisories from Kuwait and Bahrain contrast with no formal U.S. plan. Guerrillas and militiamen blast through central districts as banks close and streets remain under fire. Syrian FM Khaddam arrives to push for peace while residents stay indoors.
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Lebanon
Kuwait
Bahrain
U.S
Palestine
Middle East
Abdel Halim Khaddam
India tightens emergency rule under new ordinance
New Delhi reports Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cementing emergency powers with police authority to arrest without immediate grounds. The ordinance requires local arrests to be reviewed within 15 days and reconfirmed every four months, tightening a crackdown amid protests and opposition.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Ford signs unemployment bill amid a busy week ahead
President Ford signs a bill extending unemployment benefits from 52 to 65 weeks, with 250,000 workers facing loss without the extension. The package adds 39 weeks for workers not covered by state unemployment, mainly local government employers, farmworkers, and domestics.
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White House
Daniel P. Moynihan
U.S
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West Wing
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University of Cincinnati
Cleveland
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Baltimore
Francis Scott Key
Fords
Camp David
Suharto
Indonesia
Winchester Landmark Leased as Adult Home
Winchester's George Washington Hotel has been leased to Cameron Piccadilly Corp of Roanoke to operate as a home for adults. The license from the State Welfare Dept is pending, with inspection and code updates planned. The hotel will transition floor by floor as rooms rent, and residents will pay their own rent under the state definition of a home for adults.
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Fran Coombs
Winchester
George Washington
State Dept. of Welfare
Thomas G. Scully
George Washington Hotel Corp
Scully
Cameron Piccadilly Corp
Roanoke
William J. Lemon
Virginia
North Carolina
Shawnee Springs
Jane Valentine
State Welfare Dept. Division of Licensing
State Board of Welfare
James C. Shipley
Alexandria
Newton D. Baker Veterans’ Center
Martinsburg
W.va
FBI hunts for 16 on Pine Ridge after agency killings
FBI spokesman says no positive IDs for 16 suspects in the Pine Ridge shooting deaths of agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler as more than 150 agents scour the hills. One suspect was arrested, others pursued. a body linked to the case was found, while residents sign petitions demanding FBI departure.
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FBI
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Thomas Coll
Ronald Williams
Jack Coler
Williams
Coler
Lapwai
Coeur d'Iene
Idaho
Coll
Stuntz
Oglala Sioux
Oglala
Bureau
Energy Researchers Report to Congress on Future Power Mix
ERDA told Congress solar may have major potential in the 21st century but the U.S. will import oil until at least 1995. The report urges diversified energy priorities from near term to long term, emphasizes conservation, and envisions a path from coal and oil to solar, fusion, and inexhaustible sources.
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Washington
Congress
Energy Research and Development Administration
Robert C. Seamans Jr
ERDA
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