Thieu press crackdown triggers strong opposition in Saigon
In Saigon, politicians and publishers condemned the closure of five newspapers and arrests of newsmen. Fifteen opposition representatives urged Thieu to resign, calling him an obstacle to democracy. A publishers group accused Thieu of killing papers that told the truth. Police said at least 15 publishers and journalists were being held.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen van Thieu
National Assembly
Committee For the Struggle of the Freedom of the Press
Thieu
Tran Huu Thanh
U.S
Brando Says Indians Evacuated From Novitiate
Marlon Brando said he and members of the Warrior Society were evacuated by National Guard buses from the Alexian Brothers novitiate after a 34 day takeover. The Rev. James Groppi accompanied them, and authorities would not confirm the Indians were in the second bus. Brando voiced amnesty for the warriors and recalled heavy nightly gunfire during the occupation.
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Brando
Sheriff’s Office
Menominee Warrior Society
Shawano County Sheriff’s Office
Another sighting of Patricia Hearst shocks San Francisco
A 32 year old man claims abduction by a woman resembling Patty Hearst in Los Angeles, just before the SLA kidnapping anniversary. FBI dismisses it as another sighting while Randolph Hearst hopes his daughter remains alive in California and may someday surrender. Authorities say no solid evidence exists.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Los Angeles
Symbionese Liberation Army
FBI
Randolph A. Hearst
California
Hearst
The
San Francisco Examiner
Edward Carr
Patty Hearst
United States
John Morrison
Berkeley
Calif
SLA
Charles Bates
Kennedy Warns Ford Plan Spells Economic Disaster
Senator Edward M. Kennedy warned that President Ford’s economic and energy policies could worsen the nation’s recession, arguing the country faces its worst decline since 1930. He cited 6.5 million unemployed, rising energy costs, and regional reliance on oil, urging economic revitalization as the top priority.
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Boston
UPI
United States
Edward M. Kennedy
Ford
Kennedy
New England
Massachusetts
John Sawhill
Lawhill
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Congress
Volcanic Dust Cloud Creates Spectacular Global Sunsets
A vast dust cloud from October Guatemala eruptions spreads northward, thickest about three miles up, causing extended twilight and brilliant sunsets across the United States and Europe. Observations by U 2 planes lidar and ground sightings trace its drift, likening it to Krakatoa’s ash veil and suggesting a year or more of twilight effects with vivid rosy, ochre, and purple skies.
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N.Y
Hawaii
Wyoming
Massachusetts
France
England
Aden B. Meinel
Tucson
Ariz
Meinel
University of Arizona
Mexico
Fuego Volcano
Guatemala
Meinels
Agung
Mauna Loa
Hawaiian
Frederic E. Volz
Air Force
Cambridge Research Laboratories
Bedford
Mass
Volz
Michael P. McCormick
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Langley Research Center
Virginia
McCormick
William H. Fuller Jr
United States
Langeley
Boston
New film claims conspiracy to kill Kennedy
Chicago based report summarizes claims by Robert Groden that multiple shooters were involved in the JFK assassination, with Oswald not the shooter, supported by a blown up version of the Zapruder film. The film allegedly shows two shooters and argues a front shot, with six bullets fired, contradicting the Warren Commission. Dick Gregory calls for further CIA inquiry as Rockefeller Commission involvement looms.
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Chicago
UPI
Robert Groden
John Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Groden
New York
Dick Gregory
Central Intelligence Agency
Kennedy
Gregory
Abraham Zapruder
Oswald
Time Inc
Warren Commission
Dallas
Texas
Jack Ruby
FBI
Gov. John Connally
Rockefeller Commission
CIA
Senate committeemen to take N H ballots
U.S. Senate subcommittee on privileges and elections plans in New Hampshire to seize about 185000 paper ballots from the narrow November Senate race. Ballots, stored in a Concord garage and a state police vault, will be shipped to Washington in guarded GSA trailers. Voting machines used by about 35000 voters will stay in state custody under guard.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
U.S. Senate Subcommittee On
New Hampshire
U.S. Senate
Thomas Rath
State Ballot Law Commission
U.S. Senate Rules Committee
Senate
Washington
Rules Committee
John Durkin
Republican Elections Subcommittee
James Schoener
National Guard
Schoener
Warren Rudman
Louis Wyman
Durkin
Rudman
Rath
General Services Administration
Bennington Banner Classifieds and Subscription Rates
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sunday and holidays. It lists contact numbers, national news services, and classified advertising. Subscription rates vary by radius and duration, with monthly and yearly options for Vermont and other U.S. locations.
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Bennington Banner Telephone
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
U.S
Gromyko Presses Sadat on Middle East Peace Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at his Nile Delta retreat to urge a joint Soviet U S peace conference. Cairo sources said Egypt rejects a March deadline and prefers limited Kissinger led moves, with Geneva reconvened soon.
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United Press International
Andrei Gromyko
Anwar Sadat
U.S
Middle East
Gromyko
Sadat
Nile Delta
Cairo
Soviet Union
Syria
United States
Henry Kissinger
Geneva
Palestine Liberation Organization
Egypt
Kissinger
Ismail Fahmi
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