Meharg labeled misfit as he dies leading jail escape
Amarillo report chronicles Darvin Meharg 39 a former Wichita Falls police officer and accused liquor store robber who died by shotgun blast amid a jail uprising. Four inmates including Barbara Thiel escaped with hostages. two guards wounded. one deputy held. Thiel arraigned on aggravated kidnapping.
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Amarillo
Tex
UPI
Darvin Ray Meharg
Wichita Falls
C. C. Daniel
Daniel
Meharg
Barbara Thiel
New Mexico
Potter County
Thiel
T. L. Baker
Stan Snitker
Edward Hosford
Snitker
Baker
Hosford
Trusty
Police tie bomber to muted loner with grudge
LA bomber Muharem Kurbegovic, dubbed alphabet bomber, may have acted from anger over denial of a permit to open a taxi dance hall. Investigators say his taped messages revealed identity, leading to arrest. former coworkers note his two year mute persona while he was a mechanical engineer.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Muharem Kurbegovic
Kurbegovic
Los Angeles International Airport
New Zealand
Isaac Rasin
Aliens of America
Lillian Gerbosi
RPM Industries
Stephen Smith
Smith
Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
United States
Canada
U.S
Rasim
Voice
Police Commission
Emmett C. McGaughey
George Milemore
Commission
Milemore
McGaughey
Som Marguerite Justice
VFW rebuffs Kennedy plea on Ford amnesty call
CHICAGO UP I reports the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention reaffirmed its total opposition to any amnesty for Vietnam era draftees despite pleas from President Ford and Senator Edward M Kennedy. Kennedy urged the group to be generous and lenient while boos rang out from angry veterans.
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Chicago
UPI
Ford
Edward M. Kennedy
Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention
Vietnam
Kennedy
Pat Bohmer
Minneapolis
Minn
Veterans’ Group
New Hampshire AG seeks to curb ecologists' right to block roads
NH Attorney General Warren Rudman urged Congress to limit what he calls the untrammeled right of environmentalists to halt interstate highway projects in federal courts. He warned a lengthy court fight over Interstate 93 could last five to seven years, framing it as a national policy issue for Congress to decide. Forest Society president Paul Bofinger vowed strong resistance, saying protection mandates supersede highway interests.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
Warren Rudman
Congress
Franconia Notch
Executive Council
Rudman
National Association of State Attorneys General
Alaska
Paul Bofinger
The
Forest Society
Notch
Bofinger
U.S. District Court
Hugh Bownes
Interstate 93
Appalachian Mountain Club
Society For the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Littleton
St. Johnsbury
Detroit gunman surrenders fearing lynch mob wrath
Rudolph Acosta, 24, surrendered in Detroit on a murder charge amid fears of a lynch mob in Highland Park where Edith Perchman, 15, was killed while delivering a newspaper. Acosta told police he was warned a man hired to kill him was near, and bail was set at 100000 dollars.
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Detroit
UPI
Rudolph Acosta
Acosta
Highland Park
Edith Perchman
Wayne County
David L. Gonden
Feminists accuse population planners of bias at UN conference
In Bucharest a leading group of feminists challenged the UN sponsored World Population Conference. Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer condemned the plan as biased against women and urged inclusion in development policies through education employment and political participation. The U.S. supported strengthening women’s status references.
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Bucharest
UPI
Betty Friedan
United Nations
Germaine Greer
Ms. Greer
Ms. Friedan
Margaret Mead
U.S
Caspar W. Weinberger
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Souther
Vermont
Cy Bluto
Appliance Center Inc
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W. Main St
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We Bookshop
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