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WASHINGTON, May 2 The Hunt brothers are setting up a partnership between themselves and an oil company owned in trust for members of the Hunt family to pay off an estimated $750 million in debts incurred in silver trading, Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt told two Congressional panels today.

WASHINGTON, May 2 Administration officials said today that Edmund S. Muskie was planning to begin his career as Secretary of State by flying to Europe in 11 days to meet with allied foreign ministers and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union.

LONDON, May 2 The third day of the Iranian Embassy siege passed without major incident today as British officials expressed hopes that they might be gaining a psychological upper hand that would eventually lead to the safe release of about 20 hostages.

WACO, Tex. When Ronald Reagan said that America ought to be respected for its might rather than loved for its goodness, James S. Woods just had to issue a political statement of his own. So he threw back his head until the brim of his ten-gallon hat was nudging him between the shoulder blades and said, loudly: "Yeeeaaahhh!"

CALHOUN, Ga., May 1 He sat behind his half-moon desk, focused a cold stare from his expansive cabin office's windows to a small lake bordered by tall pines and pink azaleas, and asserted that he was "not bitter" about his three-year battle with the Federal Government, just "changed."

HAVANA, May 2--Cubans armed with chains, pipes, sticks and clubs today attacked hundreds of people who were waiting for information about possible emigration to the United States outside the...

JERUSALEM, May 2 Palestinian terrorists using hand grenades and automatic rifles attacked a group of Jewish settlers tonight as they walked through the narrow streets of Hebron, an occupied Arab city on the West Bank, after Sabbath prayers.

KINSHASA, Zaire, May 2 Pope John Paul II came here from Rome today, stepped from an Alitalia Airlines jet into a blistering afternoon and a deafening ovation, and began his tour of Africa in this potentially rich, frequently ravaged country.

The long-awaited recession has apparently arrived and many economists are now saying that the downturn in the nation's economic activity will be deeper and longer than previously forecast.

WASHINGTON, May 2 The unemployment rate jumped to its highest level in nearly three years in April as hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers were laid off because of declining economic activity.

SAN SALVADOR, May 2 (UPI) El Salvador's military-civilian junta today crushed a rightist military coup led by former President Carlos Humberto Romero and two former aides, according to Napoleon Durate, a member of the junta.

LIMA, Peru The streets of the once-elegant center of this capital city are jammed with peddlers, pushcarts and food stalls offering homemade artifacts, plastic goods, antiques, dogs, ...