Cable car crash in Cavalese kills 42 skiers
The Cavalese gondola fell 230 feet after a pylon failed, killing 42 skiers and injuring others. One unnamed woman survived in critical condition. Most victims were West Germans from Hamburg. officials probe cause while identifying passengers. Cavalese, near Trento, Italy, is a Dolomite resort in Alto Adige.
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Joint Economic Committee urges alternative budget plan
The Joint Economic Committee criticizes President Ford's budget as worsening recession and inflation. Democrats push higher spending, temporary jobs for a million people, and a voluntary price incomes policy to lower inflation to 4 percent by 1977. Republicans fault the plan as excessive, deficit driven, and inflationary.
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Ohio
Bailey cross examines Hearst witness over Alice in Wonderland
Defense attorney F Lee Bailey challenged Dr Joel Fort during a daylong cross examination in the Patricia Hearst case. Fort admitted reading Alice in Wonderland and Kafka The Trial while preparing, and Bailey pressed his credibility while hinting at a potential clash with Catherine Hearst. Fort said Mrs Hearst claimed Bailey seeks publicity and Browning a judgeship.
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Lewis Carroll
Kafka
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U.S
James Browning Jr
Schorr Refuses to Reveal Sources in CIA Report Probe
CBS reporter Daniel Schorr said he would protect his sources amid a House Ethics Committee inquiry into a CIA report leak. He admitted sharing a draft House Intelligence Committee document with Village Voice and criticized colleagues for parochialism while noting the CIA faced embarrassing disclosures.
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New York
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Fifteen miners die in Kentucky mine gas blast
PARTRIDGE Ky UPI the bodies of fifteen miners trapped five percent miles underground after a methane gas explosion at Scotia Coal Co mine near the Virginia border were recovered. Nine killed instantly six survived long enough to barricade themselves with brattice cloth. The blast prompted safety inquiries and a probe into gas levels and mine conditions.
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Scotia Coal Co
Blue Diamond Coal Co
Virginia Border
Hyden
Kirkpatrick
Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
Washington
Scotia
Jasper Cornetti
Knoxville
Western Kentucky Coal Co
Clay
GM Warranties Labeled Dealer Responsibility in Trial
In Middlesex Superior Court, GM executive says supervision of repairs at Butler Chevrolet is not handled by the company, placing responsibility on the dealer. The fraud case against George C. Edgerly involves alleged warranty fraud up to $600,000 as claims show many rejections for unverified work.
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Lewis L. MacDonald
Tarrytown
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Pat Piscitelli
General Motors
Butler
MacDonald
Butler Chevrolet
Agency moves to discipline leakers
Edgerly remains free on 150000 bail in four other cases including murder assault with intent to rape and larceny. He was acquitted of murdering his wife in 1961 and of stabbing James Dolson in 1975. An indictment accuses him in the murder of Francis W. Smith Jr., a GM executive tied to an alleged fraud probe.
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James Dolson
Lowell
Francis W. Smith Jr
Randolph
General Motors
Emission standards postponed by House committee
Washington UPI reports the House Commerce Committee approved delaying stricter auto exhaust controls for at least two years. The plan keeps present limits through 1979 with tougher rules after, opposing Rep. Dingell's 1981 extension. The vote 20 to 16 rejects the longer freeze favored by some.
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UPI
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
House Commerce Committee
John D. Dingell
Dmich
Rogers
William M. Brodhead
D-Mich
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