Guerrilla Threats Push U S Firms in Argentina
The ERP extortion wave reaches Ford and Otis Elevator as executives face kidnapping risks in Argentina. Ford paid 1 million in charity donations to avert harm, while Otis ordered 35 foreign staff and families to leave after ERP threats.
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Louis Ochitelle
Associated Press
Buenos Aires
Ford Motor Co
Trotskyite People’s Revolutionary Army
ERP
Ford
Latin America
Otis Elevator Co
U.S
Argentina
New York
Otis
Brazil
Amarillo to Welcome Giant IBP Beef Complex
Town Beef Processors plans a $25 million megafacility east of Amarillo on a 432 acre site at the intersection of U S 60 66 and Farm Road 1912. The Southwest Beef Complex will employ about 1500 people with a $15 million payroll and start within four to six weeks, joining IBP’s eight plants across Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and Kansas.
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Town Beef Processors, Inc
Southwest Beef Complex
Paul Engler
Engler
City Hall
J. Fred Haigler
Iowa Beef Packers
Bill Burns
Amarillo
IBP selects Amarillo for new regional plant complex
IBP announces a regional plant complex to be built in Amarillo on Huff Estate land in Pampa with 625000 square feet of floor space and 30 acres for parking. The facility will include slaughtering processing hide house pens and truck maintenance. A 100 person delegation will tour IBP facilities in Dakota City on June 16 with charter flight tickets selling to the first ten applicants at 100 dollars each.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
IBP
Engler
Horace Scott
Huff Estate
Pampa
Jack Seale
Pebble Fuel Crisis Hits San Antonio Workers Hard
The San Antonio energy shortage slashes paychecks for workers like Jesse Cabrerra a seven year veteran at a ready mix plant. He loses about 50 dollars weekly and faces house buying delays as natural gas curtailments ripple through construction firms. Some firms report near empty order books layoffs rise and hours shrink while plants seek outside gas at high prices.
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San Antonio
Tex
Jesse Carbierra
Union
Cabrerra
Associated Press
Cabrerra’s
Bill Bowman
Coastal States Gas Producing Co
Coastal States
San Antonio Portland Cement Co
Memphis Flood Reaches Peak After Heavy Rainfall
Rain dumped 4.31 inches on Memphis by 10 p.m. as city crews, police, and volunteers worked to move stalled cars from flooded streets and protect downtown businesses. Authorities reported widespread flooding on major routes and at multiple stores.
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Memphis
Texas
Lakeview
Storms trigger localized floods across region
Partly cloudy conditions gave way to storms bringing pockets of flooding from Wellington to Quail and near Memphis. Reports note 2.3 inches at Hedley and 1.5 inches in Wellington with washed out pavement on FM 1056. Weather brief mentions 20 percent rain chance today and tonight. temperatures upper 80s to 50s.
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Memphis
U.S. 83
Wellington
Hall County
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Marathon Sky Heist Continues
An Electra airliner hijacked by two pirates landed in Mendoza Argentina after 55 hours in the air tied a record for hijack duration. The flight originated in Lima Peru with 14 of 89 passengers released earlier leaving 14 aboard. The plane had been commandeered on a domestic Colombia route.
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Mendoza
Argentina
Lima
Peru
Andes
Colombia
SAM — Airlines
Bogota
Grain Probe Deepens Involving Kansas City Wheat Market
The Justice Department has taken over a probe into alleged price rigging in the Kansas City grain market during last summer's Russia export sales. The case centers on wheat futures possibly manipulated to qualify for larger subsidies. Investigations by the CEA, GAO, and a Senate subcommittee are ongoing with key findings yet to be released.
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Washington
Justice Department
Kansas City
Russia
Agriculture Department
Commodity Exchange Authority
CEA
Alexander Swantz
Justice
Agriculure Department
Justice For
CHA
Kansas City Board of Trade
Board of Trade
General Accounting Office
Senate
Five Year Monitoring Planned For Returned POWs
The Pentagon health chief, Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, said all 566 returned Vietnam War prisoners will be counseled and watched for five years to prevent postwar violence. He noted earlier wars showed high trauma, crime, and deaths in the first three years after release.
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Washington
Fridey
U.S
Korea
Richard S. Wilbur
Wilbur
Pentagon
Man buys three boats with cash at Florida marina
A 6 ft 6 in, 220 pound man in a bathing suit paid 45000 dollars cash for three speed boats at a Fort Lauderdale marina. He arrived with three bikini clad women in a 1973 Cadillac and paid with forty fourteen hundred dollar bills torn in half, promising the rest tomorrow. The buyer refused to give his name and left with the boats and blank ownership papers.
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FT. Lauderdale
Fla
Spodak
Bimini
Bahamas
Lke
Spokad
Spender
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Neb
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Nebraska
Minnesota
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Emporia
Kan
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Elas
American Bakers Association
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