Communists clash with anti-Communists in Sintra disrupt council bid
In Sintra near Lisbon Communist crowds battled anti-Communist demonstrators and attacked foreign reporters including CBS producer Mario Biasetti and his soundman. The incident occurred as leaders urged a government of national salvation amid Portugal's political crisis and coalition fallout.
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Portugal
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Helsinki
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Biasetti
Mario Soares
National Salvation
Socialists
Popular Democrats
Detroit youth riot follows bar shooting sours tense night
In Detroit on Livernois Avenue a white tavern owner shot Obie Wynn 18 after a suspected weapon incident. A black mob of hundreds looted set eight fires and hurled rocks at police and fire crews. Police arrested about 36 and deployed teargas and 500 to 700 officers to quell the disorder. Mayor Young pledged a full investigation and praised most citizens for remaining calm.
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UPI
West Side
Threequarter Square Mile
Bolton
Livernois Avenue
Andrew Chinarian
Chinarian
Obie Wynn
Wynn
Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital
Coleman A. Young
Ford campaign plans swirl in New Hampshire race
In Concord New Hampshire Republicans await President Ford's decision on entering the March 2 1976 presidential primary. Retired Sen Norris Cotton says Ford likely must campaign in the first primary though Gov Meldrim Thomson mulls a third term potentially delaying Ford's New Hampshire effort. Cotton notes no White House contact yet to designate a primary chair despite discussions about James Cleveland.
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UPI
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White House
Norris Cotton
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson
Cotton
National Conservative Caucus
Thomson
Peter
Congress
GOP
James Cleveland
R. Sargent Shriver
Kennedy
Concord Monitor
Shriver
France
Office of Economic Opportunity
Durkin says special election would be unconstitutional
UPI reports Democrat John A. Durkin and Republican Louis C. Wyman cannot negotiate a special election to settle their New Hampshire Senate dispute. Durkin argues only the Senate can judge eligibility under the Constitution, rejecting a runoff date and stressing constitutional process amid a prolonged eight month stalemate. Senate leaders Mansfield and Scott defend constitutional duties and question alternate election tactics. Wyman had proposed Oct 7 runoff, but Durkin remains opposed.
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UPI
John A. Durkin
Louis C. Wyman
New Hampshire
Senate
Wyman
Durkin
Hugh Scott
Scott
Rules Committee
Watergate reform bill eyed by Senate panel
Washington United Press International reports Sen. Abraham Ribicoff chairing hearings on proposed reforms to prevent Watergate abuses. The plan includes an Office of Public Attorney independent of Justice to probe executive branch and federal elections, new rules of conduct, access to sensitive materials, and harsher campaign penalties, with witnesses including Howard Baker and Sam Dash.
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UPI
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Congress
Ribicoff
Senate Government Operations Committee
Public Attorney
Justice Department
Sam Ervin
D-N.c
Senate
Watergate Committee
Ervin
Howard Baker, Jr
Rtenn
Sam Dash
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Henry Ruth, Jr
Ruth
Special Prosecutor’s
Richard Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Executive Branch
White House
CIA
Internal Revenue Service
Jailer’s death described on first day of Joan Little trial
Two police officers testified about finding jailer Clarence Alligood’s half naked body in Joan Little’s Beaufort County Jail cell. They described blood, the icepick, and the position of the victim as Little sits with defense counsel, while the defendant had surrendered a week later in Raleigh.
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Joan Little
Raleigh, N.C
UPI
Clarence Alligood
Johnny Rose
Washington, N.C
Alligood
Beaufort County Jail
Rose
Jerry Helms
Miss Little
Karen Galloway
Helms
William Griffin
Raleigh
Allsgood
Keene PVC spill may trigger action against trucking firm
New Hampshire officials weigh civil or criminal action against Maislin Transport Co after a tractor trailer left I 89 July 18 spilling about 400 gallons of lethal polyvinyl chloride into a brook feeding Keene's water system. Evidence shows traces in the brook. the city will install activated carbon treatment at the company’s expense to absorb any remaining material.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
Keene Trucking Company
Donald Stever
Environmental Protection Division
State Water Supply and Pollution Control Commission
Stever
Maislin Transport Co
I-89
Russell Nylander
Water Supply and Pollution Control Commission
Voting rights extension sent to White House for signature
Congress approved a seven year extension of the voting rights law in a 346 to 56 House vote. The measure expands coverage and preserves bilingual voting instructions while banning literacy tests. The act, first enacted in 1965, covers seven southern states and parts of others and has helped enroll more than a million Black voters.
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Mississippi
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