Five Texas Voting Rights Cases Consolidated for Hearing
A three judge panel will hear five voting rights cases including Hereford Independent School District. The order by Chief Judge John R Brown consolidates cases from Trinity Hawkins Midland and Beeville and asks whether the districts meet the Voting Rights Act definition of political subdivision. The panel may issue one ruling or separate decisions and no venue date is provided.
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Texas
Woodward
Hereford
Hereford Independent
U.S. Attorney General
John R. Brown
5Th
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U. S. District
Halbert C
Brown
Texas approves lethal injection for executions
The Texas Senate passed a bill to replace the electric chair with lethal injection effective Sept 1 making Texas the second state to adopt the method Governor Dolph Briscoe signed the measure after support from prison director W J Estelle Jr Briscoe noted the change could provide dignity in death and said procedures would be carried out by designated officials.
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Austin
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Oklahoma
David Boren
Briscoe
W.J. Estelle Jr
Estelle
Texas Department of Corrections
Dallas-Fort Worth
Senate
Police Probe Motive In slaying of polygamist Allred
Police investigate possible religious rivalry and family issues after Dr. Rulon C. Allred, age 71 and leader among polygamists, was gunned down in his Murray office by two young women. Seven bullets found. motive not yet determined. Allred had claimed many wives and children and faced prior legal trouble.
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Salt Lake City
Rulon C. Allred
Allred
Murray
Paul Forbes
Church of Jesus Christt of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Alfred
Associated Press
Forbes
Weather outlook with scattered thunderstorm chance
Partly cloudy through Friday with a 30 percent rain chance tonight. Highs reach the mid 70s today and Friday with a high near 79 on Friday. Tonight’s low in the mid 50s and southerly winds 15 to 20 mph.
Kidnapped El Salvador Official Found Shot
Foreign Minister Mauricio Borgonovo who had been abducted three weeks earlier was found dead with three .22 caliber bullets. A leftist group claimed he was executed in a socialist revolution. At Borgonovo’s funeral Archbishop Romero urged restraint and national leaders vowed action against the kidnapers. More than 5,000 attended the service in San Salvador as the case drew global attention.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Mauricio Borgonovo
Borgonovo
Arturo Armando Molina
Col. Molina
Oscar A. Romero
Molina
Col
Pope Paul VI
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Bob Hope Hosts 50th Oscar Fete In Los Angeles
Los Angeles guests gathered at the Biltmore Hotel Crystal Ballroom for a sentimental luncheon honoring 50 years of Oscar history. Bob Hope emceed and quipped about film progress as Chip Carter read a presidential commendation and Academy president Walter Mirisch outlined a five point vision for the future.
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Los Angeles
Oscar
Bob Hope
Tom Bradley
Chip Carter
Gregory Peck
Chariton Heston
Frank Capra
King Vidor
Crystal Ballroom
Biltmore Hotel
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy
Mary Pickford
Raoul Walsh
Jack L. Warner
Henry King
Europe
J.J. Cohn
George J. Folsey
H.W. Grieve
Mervyn LeRoy
Karl Struss
Victor
Hope
Carter
Georgia
White House
Walter Mirisch
Buddy Rogers
Richard Arlen
Anita Bryant
Linda Darnell
Linda Lovelace
Ford
Billy Carter
Judge Allows Concorde Test Flights to New York
A federal judge ruled New York airports cannot bar the Concorde test flights, granting a 16 month Kennedy test while upholding federal policy. Air France announced June 20 New York service, with Port Authority appeal and possible injunctions by Air France and British Airways.
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Corde Jetliner
Air France
Paris
New York
Milton Pollack
Kennedy Airport
Washington
Pollack
Port Authority of
New Jersey
Kennedy
Port Authority
British Airways
CIA Prying Case Heads Toward Damages Ruling
A federal jury began deliberations in a suit over CIA mail interception of three American citizens from 1953 to 1973. Plaintiffs Norman Birnbaum Mary MacMillen and E Leonard Avery seek 90000 in damages alleging constitutional rights violations. The government acknowledges mail openings but contends no damages and suggests token remedies.
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New York
CIA
Moscow
Norman Birnbaum
E. Leonard Avery
Mary MacMillen
Cambridge
Mass
U.S
Jack B. Weinstein
Soviet Union
Publisher buys Westminster University campus for conference center
John Jenkins, collector and Texas publisher, purchased Westminster University’s 7 acre campus including the administration building and dormitories with plans to convert it into a conference center. Painter Ben Carlton Mead tours the Panhandle researching Casimero Romero, founder of Old Tascosa.
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Texas
John Jenkins
Westminster University
Ben Carlton Mead
Panhandle
Casimero Romero
Old Tascosa
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Dallas
Bob Close
Perryton
Mexico
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