Senate Approves permanent intelligence oversight panel
The Senate approved a 15 member permanent panel to monitor CIA FBI and other spy agencies by a 72 to 22 vote. The measure would require annual intelligence budget submission and allow limited public disclosure but not a veto. White House concerns cited constitutional limits on declassification.
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Senate
CIA
FBI
Senate Intelligence Committee
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Armed Services Committee
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Oversight Committee
White House
Executive Branch
Len Lowell P. Weicker
D-Conn
Vietnamese refugees sail 800 miles toward freedom
Eleven Vietnamese refugees including a pregnant woman and three children began a perilous 800 mile south China Sea voyage from Brunei sheltered by rice and river water. An assisting vessel gave food and charts as the group hoped to reach France Australia or the United States.
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Bandar Sri Begawan
Brunei
UPI
South China Sea
Chiew Huynh
Muara
Begawan
France
Australia
United States
Confession Admission Argued In Courthouse Trial
Jim Vanderbilt 23 took the stand to describe the night of his arrest and the April 1 1975 kidnap murder of Katina Moyer 16. He testified amid a hearing on the voluntariness of his April 11 1975 confession to Amarillo police. Vanderbilt said officers pressed for talk and he sought a lawyer repeatedly. District Attorney Tom Curtis pressed for a deal to avoid death. The mother of the victim watched from the corridor as Vanderbilt recounted police pressure and promises as Lt Jimmy Davis questioned his religious fate.
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Jim Vanderbilt
Katina Moyer
Vanderbilt
Moyer
Amarillo
Lee Spradlin
Tom Curtis
Curtis
John Broadfoot
Broadfoot
Jimmy Davis
Heaven
Lt. Davis
U.S. Incomes Rise in April to 10.9 Percent Pace
The Commerce Department reports personal income grew at an annual rate of 10.9 percent in April led by higher wages and salaries in distributive industries. April per capita income was 6,271 dollars, with total income 10.5 percent ahead of January–April 1975.
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U.S
Commerce Department
Chicago Cab Drivers Rebel Against Green Uniform Order
Chicago cabbies protest a color rule by City Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne ordering dark green uniforms by June 1. Byrne backs a darker color but allows any dark option. Drivers dismiss the mandate, mocking the official and demanding no uniform at all.
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Chicago
Jane M. Byrne
Jane Byrne
Joe Sacsing
Gene Sible
Mrs. Byrne
al Polk
The
Seafarer's International Union
TAXI
Miranda Rule Void Before Grand Jury
Justice Burger leads a four justice plurality ruling that extending the Miranda warning to grand jury witnesses would be inappropriate. He notes there is no absolute right to silence before a grand jury and that such a warning would be incorrect. The decision concerns use of statements in narcotics case perjury proceedings.
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Washington
Warren Burger
Burger
Charter Panel Splits Over Single Member Districts in Amarillo
Charter Study Committee splits into pro and con subcommittees on single member district voting with two members named to each side. Chair D Barry Stone urges open reports by June 7 while keeping meetings private from the press. Dr. Travis McBride provides a neutral, fact based briefing on city government.
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D. Barry Stone
Amarillo
Stone
Betty
Neal
McBride
Carlos Ramirez
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Mike Mansfield
Soan Pentagon Intelligence Ac
Army
NSA
Terception of International Communications
John Tower
R-Tex
Armed Services Panel
New Oversight Committee
Select Committee
DIA
State Department
Vance
Freedom
Patricia Masterman
Globe-News
Epip Cuens
Cope
Igayostun
George Turner
Eee
Ee Women’s News
Helen Rohloff
Travis McBride
West Texas State University
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