Kennedy’s Soviet visit marred by confusion and heckling
UPI report: Senator Edward Kennedy meets Leonid Brezhnev at Moscow State University amid translation glitches and student unease. Kennedy polls the 600 attendees after a campus speech, but a university official cuts the session claiming he is ill. Kennedy dismisses that claim and continues brief remarks before leaving.
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Death toll in Ulster hits 1000 in five years of riots
Belfast UPI reports Inspector Herbert Norris scraped chalk to adjust the tally as the death toll in nearly five years of Northern Ireland violence reaches four figures. Shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday James Corbett, 20, a Roman Catholic, becomes the 1000th casualty.
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UPI
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James Corbett
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Irish Republican Army
IRA
Northern Ireland
Liberal landslide in Colombia open presidential vote
Liberal party candidate Alfonso Lopez Michelsen built a landslide lead in Colombia's first open-call presidential election since 1946. A concession plan emerged from Conservative rival Alvaro Gomez Hurtado as Lopez pledged collaboration and stability in his victory statement.
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UPI
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Alfonso Lopez Michelsen
Colombia
Alvaro Gomez Hurtado
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Gomez
Latin America
Maria Eugenia Rojas
ANAPO
Hernando Echeverri Mejia
Hermes Duarte
Misael Pastrana Borrero
Inflation pains defy textbooks as spending persists
Washington reports that despite high inflation and soaring prices, American consumers continue to spend rather than cut back, contradicting traditional economics texts. The piece notes widespread behavior across households amid rising costs.
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Washington
UPI
Inflation fuels buying binge despite rising prices and weak savings
The first quarter 1974 stats show inflation rising while GNP falls and personal savings decline. Economists note consumers spend despite uncertainty, aided by tax refunds, yet higher inflation erodes real purchasing power. Amid Latin American politics and Northern Ireland violence, diverse global tensions color a period of economic strain.
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Sydney Jones
Department of Commerce
Both sides beef up Mt. Hermon positions
Israeli and Syrian army units under artillery fire built supply roads up the snowy 9000 foot slopes of Mt Hermon as both sides reinforced their positions.
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Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Israel
Tel el Chahar
Golan Heights
UPI
Hugh Alexander
FBI denies Newsweek claim SLA infiltration reports
FBI spokesman denied Newsweek account that agents wore disguises to infiltrate the SLA area near Patricia Hearst case. He said no undercover clothing or posing occurred while the search continued with little success. The Hearst kidnapping case remains tied to bank heist charges and witness status.
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UPI
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Patricia Hearst
Charles Bates
Newsweek Magazine
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Miss Hearst
Berkeley
Calif
SLA
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Randolph A. Hearst
William Randolph Hearst II
van R. Bush
Billy
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Bush
Ralph Brown
The Paper Chase Review Slights Harvard Law Tale
A R Shapiro says The Paper Chase is sophomoric despite focusing on a first year Harvard law student. Timothy Bottoms plays a earnest Minnesotan transplanted into a famous professor and his daughter with assorted law students in a fairly obscure story.
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A.R. Shapiro
Harvard
Timothy Bottoms
The Paper Chase review mocks Harvard lore and romance
The critique argues The Paper Chase is less a love story than a clash between a stern law professor and a naïve student set in Cambridge. It contends the film overemphasizes Harvard prestige and degrades the female lead, while noting other film listings and theater showings in Manchester and Bennington.
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