Lebanon Quiet After Fighting Ends Amid Cease-fire
Beirut reports say security forces cleared street barricades and restored traffic as a cease-fire between left and right factions and Palestinian guerrillas held. Two snipers were neutralized. urban fighting has killed about 125 and wounded 300, with renewed clashes and a cabinet deadlock over Phalangist representation in the new government.
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Karami
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Death penalty favored by 28 governors in poll
United Press International reports 28 of 50 governors support capital punishment, 17 oppose, five undecided. Southern states show near unanimity, while the Northeast Midwest and West are split. Governors Bowen of Indiana and Kneip of South Dakota articulate contrasting views on deterrence and morality amid evolving laws and court rulings. Coast Guard searches for six believed trapped oil rig workers after a capsize off Louisiana with six survivors and seven divers at the scene.
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Tennessee
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California
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South Dakota
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New Hampshire
Idaho
Montana
Utah
United States
Luis Jose Monge
Colorado
Supreme Court
Grand Isle
UPI
Coast Guard
Ken Freeze
Freeze
Louisiana
Portuguese draft new constitution sparks posturing in Lisbon
In Lisbon a 250 member assembly elected in Portugal's first free poll in 49 years began drafting a constitution under military rule. The Socialist majority and Communist minority clash over governance, press freedom, and the AFM framework as President Costa Gomes calls for unity. The document aims at a socialist Portugal within a presidential and legislative system, but may not immediately affect day to day rule.
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Armed Forces Movement
Costa Gomes
AFM
Mafia aid linked to Bay of Pigs plan money recovery
A former CIA agent told the Sacramento Bee that three Mafia figures Russell Bufalino James Plumeri and Salvatore Granello aided CIA planners for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in exchange for help recovering funds left in Cuba and reopening casinos. The informants allegedly provided troop positions and Havana sentiment data and were paid about 45 000 to 50 000.
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Lawrence R. Houston
Houston
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Russell Bufalino
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Bufalino
New York
Crime World
Havana
Castro
Tainly
Wallace to skip New Hampshire race for Florida primary
Governor Wallace plans to announce his presidential candidacy in late June and pursue delegates in nearly every state. He will skip New Hampshire’s primary to focus on Florida, where he won in 1972, and then target states with and without primaries to build a broad delegate base for the Democratic convention. He aims to compete in all but a few primaries and expects a major contest in Florida ahead of the Florida primary.
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North Carolina
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Montgomery
Ala
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Charles S. Snider
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Ford
California
Ronald Reagan
Meldrim Thomson
ONeill cites possible four state regional primary plan
Lt Gov Thomas ONeill III said a regional primary could include four states with March 2 1976 as the date. He met with Vermont Maine and Rhode Island officials who expressed optimism about participation. Connecticut and New Hampshire were aware but did not attend. New Hampshire later moved its primary earlier, prompting regret from ONeill.
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Rhode Island
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