President Expected To Sign Refugee Aid Bill
President Ford is expected to sign the $405 million refugee aid measure to resettle over 100,000 Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees and to appoint a directing committee. The article notes opposition to a separate strip mining control bill and references past vetoes.
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Washington
Ford
Frank G. Zarb
United States
Appalachia
House
Senate
Congress
California
Arkansas
Florida
Mayaguez Sails for Hong Kong Amid Cargo Dispute
The freighter Mayaguez leaves for Hong Kong with cargo bound for U S forces in Thailand. Owners deny Cambodian claims of plastic bombs and electronic gear. Crew details include 39 aboard and 20 returning to the U S. 107 containers in Singapore reported broken into with about $5,000 missing, and U S forces conducted actions on Koh Tang island with crew members wounded and gas burns reported.
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Singapore
Mayaguez
Hong Kong
U.S
Thailand
Lee Carrol
Sea-Land Company
Sattahip
Carrol
United States
Charles T. Miller
Fountain Valley
Calif
Miller
U S Regrets Use of Thai Bases in Mayaguez Rescue
Thailand accepted a note of regret from the United States over the use of Thai bases to attack Cambodia and recover the Mayaguez, as the Pentagon revised casualties upward to five dead, 16 missing, and 70 to 80 wounded. Captain Miller, speaking in Singapore, claimed seven Marines were dead on arrival aboard the Wilson and noted mislanding of Marines on Koh Tang.
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Thailand
U.S
Cambodia
Mayaguez
Charles T. Miller
Singapore
Wilson
Ford Administration
Hong Kong
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Miller
Rong San Lem
Koh Tang
Pentagon
Laos
Savannakhet
Vientiane
Saigon
Con Son
United States
Washington
Chatichai Choonhavan
Chatichai
James R. Schlesinger
ABC
Oil price peg eyed by major nations energy talks
Tehran reports that the United States France and the European Community with Saudi Arabia and Iran will hold a secret energy conference after Shah Pahlavi's talks. The plan would link crude prices to an index of major commodities. The Shah warned of September price moves by OPEC and cited inflation and dollar weakness. Winchester Kiwanis promote Red Cross Bloodmobile donation at Christ Episcopal Church with a 150 pint goal.
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Tehran
Iran
United States
Rastakhir
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
U.S
France
European Economic Community
Saudi Arabia
Shah
Washington
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Nbc-Tv
Meet the Press
OPEC
Winchester Kiwanis Club
Red Cross
Winchester
Christ Episcopal Church Parish House
Cancer Death Rates Rise While Other Causes Decline
A government report shows death rates from heart disease stroke and accidents fell last year while cancer deaths increased. Collectively these four causes made up about 72 percent of the 1.9 million U S deaths in 1974.
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Washington
United States
Narcotics Stolen From Front Royal Rite Aid
Thieves carved a wall hole between Rite Aid and Bread Store in Front Royal and took amphetamines sleeping pills and stimulants. Entry occurred after 6 p.m. Sunday and was found at 4 a.m. by a bread delivery man. Estimated wholesale value 300 to 400 dollars and street value about 5000 dollars. This is the second Rite Aid drug theft in just over a month.
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Joseph Denny
Front Royal
Denny
Susan Burke
Star
Rite-Aid
Joseph P. Denny
Heim
Bomb Incidents Surge in Israel and Nearby Areas
Sappers defused a bomb in a paint can near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. A border patrol shot and killed an Israeli Arab at the Lebanon border. An Arab man killed by his own grenade near students in northern Israel. A 25-year-old Arab worker found on a roof at Acre agricultural college. In Lebanon, nine Arab children died as mortar shell blast casualties rose to nine.
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Jerusalem
Jaffa
Israel
Acre
Lebanon
Aiteroun
Treasure Box Clothing Consignment Ends May 28
Last day to bring in summer clothing to Treasure Box on consignment. Episcopal Kindergarten plans to reopen September 8 with contact numbers 662 6256 and 662 8824 for details.
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