Local sighting of flying saucer reported on Blueberry Mountain
In Winsted Connecticut 14 hikers including Camp Delaware counselors and campers reported a small flying saucer sighting above Blueberry Mountain near Camp Delaware. Police forwarded the report to UFO Central after noting no investigation, describing a silver upside down saucer about the size of a car that hovered for about 20 seconds before rising away.
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Winsted, Conn
UPI
Blueberry Mountain
Delaware
Winchester
Winsted
UFO Central
Evanston
Ill
Ira Leifer
New York
Leifer
Wildcat coal strikes rapid spread across states
United Press International reports that wildcat coal mine walkouts expanded into additional states despite court orders. Arnold Miller urged strikers in Charleston, West Virginia, to return to the mines as union assets and pensioners’ lives hang in the balance. Western Union reached a tentative three year contract with Local 1177 after a national deal with United Telegraph Workers. Proxmire awards the Golden Fleece to the National Science Foundation for a Purdue Credit Research Center study. Amtrak orders 36 new double deck sleepers. FBI FOIA backlog triggers calls for a plan within a year.
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United Press International
Western Union
Wildcat
Western Union Telegraph Co
Communications Workers of America
New York City
United Telegraph Workers
United Mine Workers
Arnold Miller
Charleston
W.va
Brezhnev Calls Democracy Cheap in Western Politics
In a rare interview with Pravda and Tass, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev claims democracy is cheap to Western politicians and accuses them of trying to block a Communist role in Italy's government.
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Moscow
UPI
Communist Party
Pravda
Tass
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Italy
Hoffa fate remains mystery a year after disappearance
Detroit report notes one year since James R. Hoffa vanished from the Machus Red Fox parking lot in Bloomfield Township. FBI and DOJ pursue alibi gaps as grand jury probes Teamsters Local 560 and alleged mob links. witnesses testify on NJ officials and figures tied to the case.
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Detroit
UPI
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Machus Red Fox
Bloomfield Township
FBI
New Jersey Teamsters
Paul Ciampi
Armand Castellito
Teamsters Local 560
Union City
N.J
New Jersey
Grand Jury
Provenzano
Briguglios
Andrettas
Fred Furino
Gampi
Karen Schnabel
Furino
House votes Sikes reprimand in ethics action
The House approved a reprimand for Florida representative Robert L F Sikes by a 381 to 3 vote after ethics panel findings accusing him of not disclosing stock in Fairchild Industries and a Pensacola bank. The panel did not punish for a Florida land project conflict due to time. Sikes called the action unjustified.
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Washington
UPI
Jom Flynt
D-Ga
House
Ethics Committee
Florida
Robert L.F. Sikes
Sikes
Congress
Common Cause
Citizens Advocacy
Fairchild Industries
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Mars soil mystery puzzles Viking 1 scientists
In Pasadena, UPI reports Viking 1 scientists puzzled by Martian soil’s cohesion and moisture hints. A sampling arm dug trenches, pouring soil into three biology instruments to test for life while engineers assess a possible instrument clog, sample size, grinder motor, or indicator failure. Two other biology instruments are functioning.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Viking 1
Ronald Scott
Mars
Scott
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Viking
Lou Kingland
Italian government sworn in amid uncertain survival
President Giovanni Leone swore in Giulio Andreotti's 21 member cabinet at the Quirinale amid questions over Communist abstention in confidence votes. Tina Anselmi becomes Italy's first woman minister as Communist leaders weigh their stance after June elections.
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Rome
UPI
Giovanni Leone
Giulio Andreotti
Italy
Quirina Palace
L’ Unita
Communist Party
Andreotti
Senate
Aldo Moro
Tina Anselmi
Christian Democrats
Groups seek federal halt to Seabrook A plant
Two groups SAPL and New Hampshire Audubon Society filed an 11th hour federal court petition in Boston to block construction of the Seabrook nuclear plant, arguing the NRC board rashly granted conditional clearance and citing the Water Pollution Act. They seek an injunction as groundbreaking looms on Aug 5 while protests planned at the site include sapling planting and a covered wagon journey.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
Seabrook
Seacoast Anti-Pollution League
New Hampshire Audubon Society Thurly
U.S
Boston
Atomic Safety Licensing Board
The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
SAPL
Guy Chichester
New Hampshire
Public Service Co. of
SAPS
Audubon Society
Meldrim Thomson
Ford
Chichester
New England
Clamshell Alliance
Mickey Cohen Dies After Cancer Surgery at UCLA
Former Los Angeles mob leader Mickey Cohen, once chief of gangland activity, died at UCLA Medical Center from cancer surgery complications nine months after a 1963 beating while imprisoned. Private funeral set at Hillside Memorial Park. Cohen, born Mayer Harris Cohen in Brooklyn, rose from boxer and bookie to LA underworld figure after World War II, and killed gambler Maxie Shaman in 1945.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Ucla Medical Center
Hillside Memorial Park
Quiver Cty
Qohen
Afta
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Golden Fleece Award
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D-Wis
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Credit Research Center
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D-Conn
Robert F. Drinan
Dmass
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams, Mass
21St Roberts CO
West Point
Sidney B. Berry
Academy
Justice Department
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Anthony Provenzano
Salvatore
Gabriel Briguglio
Thomas
Stephen Andretta
the Briguglios
Thomas Andretta
Flynt
Carl Albert
Adam Clayton Powell
90Th Congress
Mission Control
Kingland
Chamber of Deputies
Seabrook A-plant
Hinsdale
Cief
Mayer Harris Cohen
Brooklyn
Chicago
Cleveland
Maxie Shaman
Shultz Jewelers
American Gem Society
Main Street
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Vermont
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