Supreme Court scrutiny over wiretaps could erase 600 convictions
The court may overturn numerous federal cases against drug dealers gamblers and racketeers due to improper authorization of wiretaps. Mitchell admitted his assistant approved taps without proper AG authorization. Justices warn about government invasions of privacy and unchecked executive discretion.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Atty
John Mitchell
Oval Office
Nixon
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Aiken School community gratitude for aid after fire
The Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy at Saint Angela Academy thank the city’s Christian community for timely help after a destructive fire. Administrators and pastors offered time and space, enabling the school to finish the term at First Baptist Sunday School building and celebrate their 67th graduation.
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Aiken
First Baptist
Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy
Saint Angela Academy
Aiken Triple Crown thanks Aiken Standard staff
Grover A Smithwick and David W Hayes express gratitude on behalf of the 1974 Triple Crown Committee and the Aiken Chamber of Commerce for the Standard's role in annual events. The letter notes ongoing support has grown the event and praises local institutions and citizens.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
Grover A. Smithwick
David W. Hayes
Bunker Ties Suez Panam Canal Policy To U S History
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker traversed Panama and Suez over Christmas as the key link in parallel processes that could open the Suez Canal and close the Panama Canal. The piece critiques Buy Friendship aid, Kissinger rhetoric, and a shift of canal management from the United States to Panama while defending congressional control and warning against ceding U S ownership.
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Holmes Alexander
Ellsworth Bunker
Panama
Suez
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Bunker
U.S
Soviet Russia
Kremlin
Europe
Nixon
Egypt
Republic of Panama
United States
Franklin Roosevelt
British Commonwealth
Mid-East Waterway
Canal Zone
Kissinger
Panama City
Dr. Kissinger
Pigs Blame in SLA Gunfight Sparks Debate
ACLU official Ramona Ripston condemns police actions as excessive after the Los Angeles SLA shootout. Patty Hearst's ex fiancée Steve Weed questions police conduct while LA mayor Tom Bradley praises the police. New claims include SLA weaponry and a helicopter downing amid fierce firefight.
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Steve Weed
Patty Hearst
Dick Cavett
Weed
L. A
Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
ACLU
Ripston
Fresh Start for Chicago Inmates PACE Program Cuts Recidivism
In Cook County Jail the PACE program offers education and job training replacing time behind bars with reading, math, high school courses, and trades. Since 1967, 15 000 inmates yearly pass through, with only 22 percent returning to jail over six years. Director Winston Moore praises the program for building confidence and future work, supported by volunteers and funds.
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Chicago
Cook County
PACE
John Erwin
Oscar Getz
Pace Institute
Winston Moore
Forgiveness and Healing After Marital Infidelity
A reader asks how to handle a longtime infidelity with a child involved. The adviser urges forgiveness over punishment, notes shock and ongoing hurt, and argues that true forgiveness enables healing and a renewed, compatible marriage if the husband shows genuine repentance.
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L.D
Newly Elected Red Cross Directors Named for Aiken Chapter
Aiken Red Cross announces new board members for one year terms through May 1955 including Robert Swingle Julian Salley and Mrs John Posey along with continuing officers Mrs Harold Wright Oscar Howington and others. Two year and three year terms are also filled with lists of new directors and incumbents.
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Aiken
American Red Cross
Robert Swingle
Julian Salley
John Posey
Newbold Legendre
Arthur Tackman
Harold Wright
Oscar Howington
John L. Hixon
J. H. Suhrer
Theo Heos
R.H. Wilds
Walter Plunkett, Jr
Albert M. George
Nathan Persky
Morgan Mitchell
Fred Pitts
William Slaton
George Weitzel
Strom Thurmond
B. C. Wall
Austin Roberts
Surplus of simple answers and a tough golf tale
A voter taunts a candidate about St Peter and being in his district. Art Hendley recalls a golfer who threw a ball away, only to have it bounce back after hitting a tree. The piece notes Hal Boyle's death and his Sunshine writing style. In western Georgia a jury finds the death by own action was a case of temporary insanity. Worry is a fear born from an overactive mind and underactive body.
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Art Hendley
Devereux Milburn
Hal Boyle
Associated Press
Rufus
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Sol Lindenbaum
Christian Community Thanked
Hopelands Gardens
Kevin R. Landry
Library of Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Panamian Republic
James Lucier
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Strategic Review
Mid-East
State Department
Johnson
Congress
Senate
Scoop Jackson
House Judiciary Committee
John D. Lofton JR
Symbionese Liberation Army
Ramona Ripston
Southern California
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Newsweek
Stephanie Reed
Clarence Kelly
KNXT
S.L.A
Paul Harvey
Billy Graham
Yesteryear
Dorothy Macdowell
William Burriss, Jr
Chauncey Heady
Stephen de Simone
Edward Symes, Jr
John L. Sullivan
W. C.H. Ryan
William Nightingale, Jr
Wilmot Averill
Chester Cromwell
Thomas Laughlin
W. Overbeck
David L. Hake
Citizen Smith
Sam
By Rufus W. Gosnell
St. Peter
Georgia
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