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Duck weather
The Georgia weatherman is predicting fine weather for
ducks. The forecast for today calls for showers and
Bombings
SEATTLE (UPI) — Police say they
expect 1976 to bring more terrorism like
the three bombings that ushered in the
bicentennial year.
“These people (terrorists) have told
us they are going to blow out the
candles on our birthday cake and there
is no reason not to believe them,”
Seattle Police Maj. Frank Moore told
reporters Friday.
He urged private companies to
increase security precautions but
admitted it was nearly impossible to
predict the next target. He also
encouraged citizens to help
investigators by reporting suspicious
activity.
Motorists get a break
CINCINNATI (UPI) - Heavy-footed
motorists get a break this weekend in
Cincinnati.
Police reluctance to issue traffic
tickets to speeders appears likely to
continue through today and Sunday as
part of the Fraternal Order of Police
strategy to try to win a bigger pay raise
from city officials.
The “traffic ticket slowdown” that
began Thursday has been effective,
FOP President Elmer Dunaway
reported Friday.
No meetings to discuss wage
demands in a new contract were
scheduled until next week.
When the old contract between the
city and police expired New Year’s Day
about 300 of the city's 1,150 policemen
decided to quit issuing traffic
summonses to speeders — thus cutting
into city revenues — to try to
strengthen the police bargaining
position.
Although police officials did not
disclose data on traffic tickets,
Soviet bribe
LONDON (UPI) — British Liberal
party leader Jeremy Thorpe says the
Soviet Union has bribed an African
leader with SSO million in gold to sup
port the Soviet-backed Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
Michelangelo’s
FLORENCE, Italy (UPI) — Fifteen
large drawings, almost certainly by
Michelangelo, have been discovered
under a whitewash coating on cellar
walls the artist apparently used as a
giant sketchbook, art experts said
today.
Fishing report
Police expect many more in 1976
Moore said a pipe bomb possibly as
large as six inches in diameter was
used to destroy an electrical substation
in the Laurelhurst District just after
midnight New Year’s Day.
City Light Superintendent Gordon
Vickery estimated damage to the
substation and a nearby van and houses
at 1200,000 to $250,000.
With 600 homes running on low power
diverted from other areas, Vickery
asked residents to use just one
appliance at a time until full power
could be restored within a week to 10
days.
The George Jackson Brigade, a
revolutionary group which claimed
Dunaway said Friday no citations were
issued in at least two of the city’s five
police divisions after the old contract
expired.
He said he did not have complete
reports on the other districts.
About $75,000 usually goes into city
coffers each week from traffic fines.
Dunaway met with City Manager
William Donaldson Friday, but no
progress on a contract was reported
after the session.
Donaldson said there were “still
major differences” between the city
and the FOP bargaining positions.
The base pay for a patrolman is now
$13,674 a year. The FOP wants that
boosted to $15,350, but the city has
offered only to increase salaries to
$H.574.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 55, low
today 44, high yesterday 60, low yester
day 30, high tomorrow in low 40s, low
tonight around 30.
News summary
By United Press International
Americans freed
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Cuba has
released an American family of five
arrested when their yacht mistakenly
entered Cuban waters Tuesday, the
State Department said Friday.
Defends jet
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Re
presentatives of the British and French
governments have denied their new
supersonic Concorde jet would be
significantly more noisy than com
mercial airplanes already in service in
the United States.
possibly thundershowers. Ducks at a pond off Lake Placid
drive took advantage of a break in showers to dry off.
responsibility for the substation
bombing and two others, said in a
communique it supported striking City
Electrical workers. But Charles
Silvemale, business representative for
the union local, denounced the group.
“We are abhorred by this act and
certainly don’t want support from any
group like that,” he said. “We don’t
consider such senseless action as
support.”
Vickery said security would be
increased at the 125 substations in the
city light system but added it would be
“nearly impossible” to guard them
completely.
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“Had he lived today, Ben
Franklin might have said, ‘A
penny borrowed is a penny
spent’.”
No fatalities
in December
Sgt. Hugh Taylor of the Griffin State
Patrol Post announced today that his
post investigated 34 traffic accidents,
made 141 arrests and issued warnings
in Spalding County during December.
Sgt. Taylor said 19 persons were
injured in the 34 accidents. There were
no fatalities.
Estimated property damage
amounted to $33,790.
Doctors’ strike
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - The state
government and physicians resumed
negotiations over malpractice in
surance reform as a doctors strike
began slowly to take hold in the Los
Angeles area.
Involvement
MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet Union
called today for an end to foreign
military involvement in Angola and
said it was assisting guerrilla forces
there only to thwart “aggressive en
croachments from outside.”
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Angola
By ERIK VAN EES
United Press International
Despite a massive arms buildup by
the Soviet-backed forces in Angola, the
civil war in the West African nation
appears to be swinging in favor of pro-
Western forces.
Military sources with the proWestern
army said Friday the recent deaths of
Cuban regulars fighting for the Marxist
forces along with other strategic losses
have demoralized the Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
The sources said 90 Cubans have been
killed and 16 captured since October.
They said at least 1,600 Popular
Movement soldiers were killed and
another 400 taken prisoner in swirling
battles on three fronts.
In one assualt at Quibala, 250 miles
south of the Marxist-held capital of
Luanda, 50 Cubans were killed on Dec.
14, they said.
Captured Cubans described their left
wing allies as cowardly and
Mercenaries
WASHINGTON (UPI) - White
House officials have flatly denied a
report that Americans were being
recruited to fight in the Angolan civil
war, but would not deny recruiting
foreign mercenaries.
White House Press Secretary Ron
Nessen told reporters Friday that “no
agency of the U.S. Government is using
American mercenaries in Angola, nor
is any U.S. Government agency
recruiting, hiring or training American
mercenaries.”
He added “it is no secret the U.S.
Government is giving modest amounts
of money to African nations.” But he
said, “As far as I know no private
company or contractor is hiring
American mercenaries for combat
duty.”
When Nessen was asked specifically
Bigfoot
NEW YORK (UPI) - It sounded like
the script of a late night monster
movie:
“It has a half ape, half human
appearance, but we don’t know what it
is.”
But the dialogue was live at a news
conference in the office of a Manhattan
lawyer.
“I don’t know if he is the real
‘Bigfoot,’” Michael Miller, 34, told
reporters Friday. “His foot is about this
big,” he said, spreading his hands
about a eighteen inches apart.
Miller’s creature caused a stir in
Portland, Ore., Friday when the
Oregon Journal quoted the attorney as
saying he owned a live “Bigfoot,” a
legendary apelike inhabitant of the
western mountains.
Now the creature is “somewhere in
the New York area,” Miller said, and
Carter receives
SIOO,OOO check
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former Gov.
Jimmy Carter is one of 11 presidential
candidates who have received the first
installment of federal matching funds
for their campaigns.
A Carter campaign spokesman
Friday said the former governor had
received a SIOO,OOO check from the U.S.
Treasury. The spokesman predicted
the Carter organization would secure
an additional $550,000 in matching
funds before the end of the month.
The 11 candidates — including
President Ford —qualified for the
federal matching money by raising at
least SIOO,OOO in private donations of
$250 or less, including at least $5,000
from each of 20 states. The matching
funds come from the $1 that each
taxpayer may designate for that
purpose on federal income tax returns.
War swinging in favor of pro-westerns
Officials deny Americans being recruited
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Born year apart
CHAMPAIGN, 111. —Twin sisters but born a year apart are Nicole Jeane (center), born at
11:59 p.m. Dec. 31, and Natalie Ann, born at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1. Twins were born in Burnham
City Hospital to Mrs. Jeanne Ann Cuddy, left, and husband Larry of Rantoul. The Cuddys
have another daughter, who is 5. Mrs. Cuddy knew about two weeks ago that she was going
to have twins. (UPI)
demoralized. The prisoners r e p o r t e
d 1 y told interrogators that Cuban offic
ers had to shoot some deserting
Popular Movement soldiers.
About 500 Russian military advisers
are in Angola, but they stay well clear
of fighting fronts, the captured Cubans
said.
In Moscow, the Soviet Union today
called for an end to foreign military
intervention in Angola.
The Communist party newspaper
Pravda said the Soviet Union was
assisting guerrilla forces there only to
thwart “aggressive encroachments
from outside.”
The tide of war in the former
Portuguese colony appeared to turn
with the capture of the railroad town of
Teixeira de Sousa on New Year’s Eve.
The victory gave the proWestern
National Front for the Liberation of
Angola and the National Union for the
Total Independence of Angola control of
all but a small section of the Benguela
if the United States was hiring,
recruiting, training or fielding foreign
mercenaries, particularly Cuban
nationals living in the United States, he
replied, “I have nothing more to add.”
Earlier the CIA denied a Christian
Science Monitor report that about 300
American ex-servicemen and 15 Viet
namese had been recruited by the CIA
to fight in the Angolan civil war.
A State Department official also said
“as far as I am aware there is no
private recruiting going on in the
United States.”
The Soviet Union has given massive
military aid to a Communist faction in
the Angolan civil war while the United
States has supported two anti-Soviet
groups. On December 19, the U.S.
Senate voted overwhelmingly to halt
further covert military aid.
he will be shown to the public “in a
week to 10 days."
Amid an occasional guffaw, the
attorney passed around three color
snapshots of his 4% foot tall, seven-year
old, bald headed, monkey like male. It
had black fur, pointed ears, pinkish
brown skin, brown eyes, freckles and a
dome shaped head.
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rail link.
The sources also reported the seizure
of large quantities of Soviet weapons,
including rocket batteries, armored
cars, armored personnel carriers,
antitank guns and mortars.
The allied military sources expect the
Atlantic port of Amboim, 250 miles
south of Luanda, and the nearby town of
Gabela to fall to the advancing pro-
Western forces in the next few days.
They said an armored column of anti-
Communist troops was bombarding
forward Cuban defenses around
Quibala, a vital point in the Popular
Movement defense controlling the main
access road to the site of a major hydro
electric station.
The sources estimated the current
fighting strength of the Popular
Movement at some 25,00 men —about
35 per cent of them foreigners,
including 7,500 Cubans. They said the
pro-Western factions have 40,000 troops
in the field.
An administration official who
requested anonymity acknowledged
that some Americans checked on the
delivery of equipment to Angola. But
the official said this in no way
constituted a fighting force or even
advance elements of such a force.
The published report, based on
“contacts with senior mercenary
officers familiar with the situation both
in Angola and the United States” said
the CIA was indirectly recruiting
American ex-servicemen, training
them, and sending them to southern
Africa. It said the CIA also contributed
to their pay, through fluids sent to Zaire
and to the two pro-West factions in the
Angolan civil war, and provided them
with arms.
The Soviet news agency Tass
reported the article but did not mention
the official U.S. denials.
It looked somewhat like a
chimpanzee, but Miller said it wasn’t.
“When you look at him, you can see
the obvious difference in his head which
is dome shaped when a chimpanzee’s
head is flat,” Miller said. “He also
walks on his hind legs and his spine is
shaped like a human’s. When he sits in
a chair, he crosses his legs.”