FBI Campaign Aims at Martin Luther King Jr
Senate intelligence committee released evidence of a six year FBI effort to undermine King. The files recount hotel room bugging a blackmail attempt and plans to replace King as national Negro leader. FBI officials were to testify as details of the program unfolded.
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Washington
FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
Senate Intelligence Committee
King
Pope Paul VI
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
J. Edgar Hoover
F. A. O. Schwarz III
Curtis R
Ohio orders probe of mental health facilities for abuse
Gov. Rhodes directs the Highway Patrol to investigate all mental health and mental retardation facilities in Ohio for possible patient abuse. The probe expands current inquiries at Columbus State Institute, Longview State Hospital in Cincinnati, and Hawthornden State Hospital in Northfield.
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Columbus, Ohio
Highway Patrol
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Columbus State Institute
Longview State Hospital
Cincinnati
Hawthornden State Hospital
Northfield
Franco shows marked signs of heart failure
Franco remains under medical care as doctors report worsening heart failure symptoms in the 82 year old generalissimo. Irregular heartbeat activity is described as almost continuous by sources familiar with his condition. In London, police hunt three men and a girl linked to a restaurant bombing using an anarchist device killing two and wounding twenty.
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Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
London
Scotland Yard
Athens Police Contract Talks Break Off Over Bargaining Unit
City of Athens and the Fraternal Order of Police ended negotiations Tuesday over who belongs in the bargaining unit. Page 3.
Ohio grants benefits to pregnant workers who quit or lose jobs
Columbus officials say unemployment benefits will be allowed for women who quit or are dismissed due to pregnancy if they are available for work and physicians certify they can work. The policy appears on page 5.
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Columbus
Ohio
Labor donations back 26 senators in union bill vote
An unofficial tally shows organized labor gave 1.4 million dollars to 26 of 62 senators whose votes helped push a construction union backed bill. Weather section notes clear tonight with 40 near Laws, increasing cloudiness Thursday with highs mid 60s and a small chance of rain.
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Washington
Organized Labor
Senate Votes to Close U S ABM Base in Battle Over Defense Bill
Congress approved an $112.6 billion defense bill ending the nation s sole antiballistic missile facility at Grand Forks North Dakota with radar to be mothballed. The vote followed a clash over defense spending and ABM dismantling amid Ford administration concerns.
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Washington
House
Senate
Ford
United States
Senate Armed Services Committee
Grand Forks
N.C
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Signs of Life in Housing Market Amid Mixed Signals
Commerce Department data show October housing starts at 1.458 million annually, up 15 percent from September and highest since June 1974, with year over year growth of 31.8 percent. Apartment starts slipped 3.4 percent to 257,000 as high costs restrain production. building permits barely budged at 1.092 million, little changed from September.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Ford Preparing New Position on NYC Aid
President Ford weighs a shift toward federal aid for New York City's fiscal crisis. Reports say a three year loan guarantee plan of about 2.3 to 2.5 billion dollars may be proposed if the city and state enact fiscal reforms, while Congress debates a wider loan guarantees package.
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United Nations, N.Y
Henry A. Kissinger
Mideast
Palestine Liberation Organization
New York
Hugh Carey
New York City
Robert Wagner
Capitol Hill
Congress
Ford
NYC Aid
Washington
White House
Ron Nelsen
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Peter Peyser
Rn.y
Los Angeles Times
House of Representatives
Administration
New York State
State Assembly
Albany
Coast Guard to widen sonar scan of Edmund Fitzgerald site
The Coast Guard board chief ordered extended underwater radar work on the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck area in Lake Superior. The search, a joint effort with a contractor, should take about three days weather permitting.
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Cleveland
Coast Guard Board of
Edmund Fitzgerald
Lake Superior
Winford W. Barrow
Fitzgerald
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Barrow
Coast Guard
Peter Pulcer
Raymond R. Waldman
National Weather Service
Chicago
Cmdr
D. C Cunningham
Marine Safety Office
Charles H. Studstill
Coast
James E. Rivard
The
Lloyd Breslau
Coast Guard Research and Development Center
Groton
Reagan Campaigns Start War of Wills for GOP Nomination
Ronald Reagan launches a national campaign tour as both sides mobilize for the early primaries. In New Hampshire officials report heavy calling and volunteer recruitment while Florida forecasts a Reagan victory. Ford aides say early losses won’t derail his bid as strategists gauge Florida Massachusetts North Carolina and Illinois contests.
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Washington
Ronald Reagan
Ford
Reagan
Florida
Illinois
California
Hursday
Charlotte
N.C
Chicago
Los Angeles
Miami
Manchester
North Carolina
Stuart Spencer
New Hampshire
New
Massachusetts
Unknown candidates run for president under modest means
Frank Taylor, Stanley Arnold, and Richard Collins join better known rivals in a year when many hopefuls enter the race with little funding. Arnold bills a $10 record album and vows to pave the White House road with $10 bills while firing Kissinger. Taylor, Bisbee missionary, funds his United American party by recycling cans and pushes baseless tax and debt plans. Collins, San Ramon postal worker, promotes a national morals program and a Biblical Creation emphasis along with a Civilian Conservation Corps style youth program.
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G.B. Labelle
Associated Press
Frank Taylor
Stanley Arnold
Richard Chandler Collins
Taylor
Arnold
Collins
Gerald Ford
George Wallace
Henry Jackson
Paign
White House
Cleveland
Pick-N-Pay
Mary Martin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kissinger
United American Party
Charlotte
San Ramon
Calif
Civilian Conservation Corps
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D-Minn
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San Francisco
Sara Jane Moore
Fop
Er Women
U.S
Thomas F. Eagleton
D-Mo
Eagleton
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D-Ark
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