CB Safety Network Urged in Nationwide Highway Help
Washington AP The federal government urges CB radio operators to form a national network of highway safety broadcasters. Sponsored by the Transportation Department NHTSA the program aims to help crash victims receive prompt emergency care by guiding callers to medical help and noting “smokies” for drivers in need.
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Washington
The
Transportation Department
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Bank Claims Boom Is Ahead
Basel based Bank for International Settlements warned in its annual report that a new boom may be near for industrialized nations. It cautioned that major economic problems remain and firm government measures are needed to keep the expansion from getting out of control. The BIS said Western recovery is now well advanced.
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Basel
Switzerland
Bank For International Settlements
Center For Cooperation Among
Western Central Banks
Syrian forces break cease-fire with southern Lebanon raid
Syrian forces sweep into southern Lebanon and shell Sidon and Moslem hill towns as leftist leaders claim Beirut is subjected to air sea and land famine siege. Kamal Jumblatt accuses Syria of blocking food ships to Sidon Tyre and Tripoli while Beirut faces shortages despite some produce arriving from southern farms.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Sidon
Kamal Jumblatt
Tyre
Tripoli
FBI says it contacted journalist before she testified
The FBI acknowledges two contacts with Jacque Srouji, a Nashville journalist, shortly before she testified to a House subcommittee on nuclear security. A Justice Department inquiry reportedly reviews whether the bureau sought to influence her by exploiting personal pride. The agency notes these contacts in a letter to the subcommittee chair.
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Washington
FBI
Jacque Srouji
Nashville
House
Jus
Tice Department
Bureau
JFK Was Religious, Mother Says
Rose Kennedy writes that John F. Kennedy was a religious man who attended church regularly and valued daily prayer. She refutes a Times column that claimed Kennedy did not believe in his Catholic faith during his campaign.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Rose Kennedy
Kennedy
James Reston
New York Times
Jimmy Carter
Uruguay to reopen Parliament after coup era
Acting President Alberto Demicheli says he will reopen Parliament for the first time since 1973. He drafts a two house legislature with a lower chamber of labor and business leaders, elected from Colorado and Blanco parties and unions. Demicheli, 80, was vice president before Bordaberry ousted.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Alberto Demicheli
Demicheli
Colorado
Blanco
Juan M. Bordaberry
Bordaberry
Court Won't Review Boston Desegregation Bus Plan
The Supreme Court refused to review the scope of the court ordered busing in Boston public schools. The ruling preserves Judge Garrity's desegregation plan transporting 21 000 pupils across the district. Boston Mayor Kevin White and others appealed from the Circuit Court decision upholding Garrity's order.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Boston
U.S
W. Arthur Garrity Jr
Kevin H. White
Boston School Committee
Boston Home and School Association
High Court
U.S. Circuit Court
Garrity
Gladden Daughter Heads to Finland as Rotary Exchange Student
Angela Gladden of Aiken, a Bonham Academy rising senior and Rotary exchange student, will depart at month end for Finland to live in a small town about 80 miles from the Baltic, while another exchange student from Germany or England will stay with the Gladdens. Local post office reports all boxes rented with no space for new boxes, rents due and some boxes expected to free up soon.
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Angela Gladden
Herbert J. Gladden Jr
Aiken
Finland
Angela
Bonham Academy
Rotary Club
Baltic Sea
Germany
England
Gladdens
Turnipseed Appears Winner In District 8 Senate Race
Democratic bid for District 8 ends with Tom Turnipseed leading after a weekend recount. Official counts pending Bamberg figures. Turnipseed shows an estimated 158 vote margin. In Aiken he leads 3 535 to 2 810 while Lexington shifts against him.
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Lin Smithwick
Senate
Tom Turnipseed
Turnipseed
F.W. Caughman
Bamberg
Columbia
Sen
A.J. Dooley
Caughman
Aiken County
Lexington
Edgefield
Barnwell
No Participants Identified in Capitol Sex Allegations
Colleen Gardner, 28, claims staffers faced homosexual tasks with lawmakers and says she can provide tape recordings to federal investigators about Rep. John Young. She refuses to name other involved congressmen or staff. Other Democrats named include Sen. Mike Gravel and Rep. Wayne Hays, who deny crimes. Elizabeth Ray offers diaries and a lie detector test regarding Hays.
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Washington (Ap
Colleen Gardner
Capitol
Gardner
Associated Press
John Young
D-Tex
Young
Sen
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Rep
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Kenneth J. Gray
Illinois
Elizabeth Ray
Hays
PSA Ordinance Hearing on PSA Board of Commissioners Agenda
The Aiken County Board of Commissioners will hold a 7 p.m. meeting in Room 107 at USC Aiken to vote on the second reading of a PSA ordinance making the Public Service Authority a formal county agency. The session will define PSA duties and limits with new business on funding for state highway C and county road paving priorities.
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Aiken County Public Service Authority
PSA
Aiken County Board of Commissioners
Sevenman Board
Usc-A
Cleve Edmunds
Aiken
North Augusta
Weather Becomes Unpredictable With Scattered Showers Expected
Forecasters warn of uncertain weather as showers and thundershowers can appear at any time. Thundershowers are forecast for Friday with possible rain earlier. Hot and hazy conditions to continue through Wednesday, with highs in the 90s and nights in the 60s.
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Boy Scouts
Area Peach Crop To Be Plentiful In Aiken County
Peaches in Aiken County are expected to be more plentiful than statewide estimates. Monetta growers Jerrold Watson and Mrs. W M DuBose report larger crops with ripening speeding up due to recent heavy rains. Jim Evans notes rapid ripening and disease challenges complicating harvest and processing.
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Aiken County
Jerrold Watson
Monetta
W.M. DuBose
Jim Evans
Belvedere slayings killers still imprisoned after 1971 case
Five years after the Belvedere murders in Aiken County seven men were convicted and remain serving life terms for the slayings of two men and two women at the Dixie Dragons motorcycle club headquarters near Belvedere. The victims were bound and stabbed in a brutal early morning attack.
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Belvedere
Jesus Saves
Aiken County
Dixie Dragons
S.C E. 33
U.S. Highway 25
Belvere
Thomas Bolin
William Martin Wolfe
Virginia
Connie Young
Faye Cato
Aiken
Diary material and arrest linked to sex scandal developments
Miss Ray guards diaries in a safe deposit box to be opened with FBI presence this week, detailing 1975 and 1976 when she was Hays mistress. Rep. Allan Howe was arrested in Salt Lake City for propositioning two policewomen posing as prostitutes, denied wrongdoing, and released on bond. Tapes from Mrs. Gardner discuss coercion and coercive acts amid the sex scandal.
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Miss Ray
FBI
Hays
Washington
England
Allan T Howe
Utah
Salt Lake City
Howe
Arlington
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Allan T. Howe
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