James Earl Ray Captured After 54 Hour Escape Flight
Bloodhounds Sandy and Little Red tracked James Earl Ray to Brushy Mountain Tennessee five miles from the prison after a three day three mile chase through woods and rough terrain. Ray offered no resistance, was muddy exhausted and placed in administrative segregation pending an escape hearing.
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Larry Hacker
Hamilton
Ohio
Earl Hill Jr
Erwin
David Lee Powell
Chicago
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Ray Blanton
Blanton
U.S
Griffin Bell
Bell
Carter
Tennessee
Newest White House aide named to head reorganization effort
Richard Pettigrew, newly appointed assistant for government reorganization, will build a public constituency to support reforms. He plans hearings, seminars, conferences and task forces inviting broad public and congressional participation to ensure widely understood objectives and legitimate recommendations.
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Washington
Carter
White House
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Pettigrew
Florida House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Congress
Congressional
Energy tax break for business next on tap
House Ways and Means Committee moves toward approving a 10 percent tax credit for business investments in energy saving equipment such as insulation and solar heating and cooling systems. The panel also weighs Carter energy plans including higher oil prices and fuel costs while Congress debates appropriations and foreign aid.
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Associated Press
Washington
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White House
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Senate
National Barrow Show to Proceed Despite Pseudorabies
The National Barrow Show in Austin will go ahead September 12 to 14 at the Mower County Fairgrounds. Barrows will be slaughtered beforehand and not tested this year, while all other hogs shown will be tested prior to the event.
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Austin
John Phillips
Phillips
Three Girl Scouts found murdered at Oklahoma summer camp
LOCUST GROVE Oklahoma AP authorities report three Girl Scouts were beaten to death in their sleeping bags at a summer camp. Scene details were scarce and police had not identified any suspects.
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Locust Grove
Oklao
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Dutch commandos end siege on train in northern Holland
One of two hostages died during a Dutch operation to free 53 captives after a 20 day siege by terrorists. A surviving hostage claimed a South Moluccan gunman killed 19 year old Monsjou while another hostage died from the clash. The incident followed a dawn raid that also targeted the Bovensmilde school.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Assen
Netherlands
Holland
Saskia Sein
Associated Press
J.M.O. Monsjou
M. van Baarsel
Justice Ministry
Toos Faber
Miss Monsjou
Bovensmilde
United Nations Ambassadors See Pittsburgh Steel and Baseball
Visiting UN ambassadors toured U.S. Steel's Homestead Works in Pittsburgh and watched a Pirates Padres game. Kurt Waldheim said production helps the UN understand the steel industry, as ambassadors wore hard hats and viewed molten metal and hot steel being poured.
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United Nations
United States
United Nations Association of the
U.S. Steel Corp
Homestead
Pittsburgh Pirates
San Diego Padres
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Great Lakes
Jamil Baroody
US Steel
Edgar Speer
Lawrence of Arabia murder claim in new biography
British government may have had TE Lawrence murdered for political reasons, says Desmond Stewart in a forthcoming biography. Stewart claims an army corporal witnessed a black car at the Dorset crash scene but testified nowhere at the inquest.
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Jeff Bradley
Associated Press
London
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence
Dorset
Desmond Stewart
T.E. Lawrence
Britain
United States
Stewart
George V
Henry Williamson
Oswald Mossey
British Union of Fascists
Berlin
Hitler
Hire farm help advertised in Herald classification
Farmer seeks reliable farm help in the Far mer's Market Classification Situations Wanted. Ad states good pay and working conditions and ran for two days in the low cost Herald want ad section with six day schedule and pay per run.
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Herald
RFK son may enter politics
Joseph P Kennedy III, 24, eldest of the Kennedy generation, appears ready to carry the family political legacy. He may run next year for Massachusetts state treasurer, following the path of his father and uncles.
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Boston
Joseph P Kennedy III
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
New York
Massachusetts
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