Postal Service defends mail surveillance as crime-fighting tool
The Postal Service defended mail monitoring as vital to crime fighting noting 8,600 mail surveillances in 1973 and 1974 across national security, fugitive location and crime cases. 73 postal employees can approve noncourt mail cover requests, while national security requests require William J. Cotter’s approval.
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U.S. Postal Service
Robert W. Kastenmeier
D-Wis
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Plant yields to demands by Indians
The Yankton Sioux reservation meat packing plant agreed to a 15 percent wage increase and expanded opportunities for Indian workers after a three day occupation led by the Eagle Warrior Society. State Indian Affairs Commissioner Don Loudner helped broker the deal while Tribal President Percy Archambeau noted tribal ownership but white management. Ted Means of AIM said negotiations showed progress.
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Boston Busing Protest Moves Toward Washington
A national coalition led by Boston City Councilwoman Louise Day Hicks planned a march on the U S Capitol to protest court ordered busing. Delegations from 14 states including Massachusetts would travel from the Washington Monument to the Capitol steps to urge a constitutional amendment banning assignment of students by race creed or color.
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UPI
Boston
Louise Day Hicks
Massachusetts
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Nixon pays back NYC back taxes with check
Former President Richard Nixon settled his New York back city income tax bill, sending $1,227.35 via Bank of America from San Clemente. The payment covered $926.13 owed plus $301.22 in interest. An attorney for Nixon and his wife forwarded the check after March 7 as part of a broader political rally context described in the report.
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UPI
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Lovers plotted murder doctor on trial for life
SEARCY Ark UPI Dr Porter Rodgers 70 and his receptionist Peggy Hale 21 were lovers. They kept a notebook recording sexual activity while Rodgers stands trial for conspiring to kill his estranged wife Fern Rodgers 67. Hale testifies of seduction in 1973 and plan to murder Mrs. Rodgers so they could marry.
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Albany senior building fire claims two lives
Two elderly women died and 18 others were injured in a three alarm fire on the 11th floor of a 14 story city owned senior citizens building in Albany. The blaze began on the 11th floor and most damage occurred there and on the 12th while residents remained calm awaiting aid from three local hospitals.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
Richard Downes
St. Peter’s Hospital
City of
Tilden Captures Democratic Nomination in St Louis 1876
New York Governor Samuel Tilden won the presidential nomination at the first Democratic national convention held west of the Mississippi, staged in St Louis in 1876.
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UPI
New York
Samuel Tilden
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