Ray trial helper questioned over book deal and lawyers
James Earl Ray testified about financial deals with author William Bradford Huie touching his 1969 plea and trial lawyers Arthur Hanes and Percy Foreman. Brothers Jerry and John Ray backed claims Huie offered money to influence testimony and to keep James off the stand, while Huie pursued a high profile book about the King case.
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Memphis, Tenn
UPI
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
William Bradford Huie
Ray
Jerry
Huie
James
King
Arthur Hanes Sr
Bir
Mingham
Ala
Percy Foreman
Houston
Tex
James Lesar
Foreman
Hanes
Lesar
United States
Memphis
Mississippi
Philadelphia
Miss. Earlie
John
Jerry Ray
James Earl
Huntsville
Fla
Arthur Hanes
John Ray
Illinois
Martin Luther King
Vermont panel halts I-93 plans for five years
A Vermont Transportation Advisory Board subcommittee moves to recommend a five year moratorium on further Interstate 93 construction. The plan to build from St Johnsbury to the New Hampshire line is slated to start in 1977. Environmentalists seek a court injunction to stop work through Franconia Notch. The Vermont panel says its 1937 plan should wait for New Hampshire court decisions.
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Montpelier
UPI
State Transportation Advisory Board
State Highway Department
St. Johnsbury
Waterford
New Hampshire
Franconia Notch
Vermont
Costliest warplane faces crucial test
The prototype supersonic B1 bomber, defended by the Air Force as vital to U.S. defense beyond the 1980s and criticized as costly and obsolete, rolls out of its Palmdale hangar as flight tests begin scheduled to start.
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Congress
Pentagon
U.S
Soviet Union
Vermont joins Maine in Supreme Court appeal on New Hampshire tax
Vermont Attorney General Kimberly Cheney said New Hampshire commuter income tax is unconstitutional and a raid on Vermont's treasury. Vermont will join Maine in supporting the Maine resident appealing a New Hampshire tax ruling and seek recovery of lost tax credits totaling about 2.6 million dollars since July 1970. Massachusetts may join as a co plaintiff in the case.
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UPI
Vermont
Maine
U.S. Supreme Court
New Hampshire
Vermont Attoney
Kimberly Cheney
Supreme Court
Cheney
Massachusetts
Power company fights to keep large temporary rate hike
In Montpelier UPI the Green Mountain Power Co. asks the Public Service Board to stave off a 55.6 percent temporary rate increase arguing no jurisdiction to cut it until permanent rates are set. Public counsel urges cuts to 34.4 percent, citing inflated taxes and future inflation. The board gave a week for more briefings, with no decision date.
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PSB
Martin Miller
Martin
Weather Outlook: Cloudy and Breezy With Showers Likely
Partly cloudy and breezy today with scattered showers possible by evening. Highs near the mid 40s to low 50s. Tomorrow remains cloudy with a chance of showers. Tonight’s lows in the upper 30s to low 40s, and tomorrow’s highs in the mid 50s.
Dean wraps up Watergate testimony in tense court session
John W. Dean II finished eight days of Watergate testimony as Judge Sirica ordered Nixon tape transcripts provided for possible testimony. Hunt is scheduled to testify next as prosecutors plan to call more Nixon aides and others linked to the cover up.
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Washington
UPI
John W. Dean II
John J. Sirica
White House
Richard M. Nixon
E. Howard Hunt
Sirica
Herbert J. Miller Jr
Nixon
Long Beach
Calif
Dean
James F. Neal
Hunt
H. R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
John N
Clergymen call for world food reserve
Eight Protestant leaders urge Kissinger to back a global food reserve at the World Food Conference in Rome. They warn against using food as a political weapon and advocate a non political, trans national system to prevent bargaining in international trade.
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UPI
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
U.S
Rome
Soviet Union
Robert C. Campbell
American Baptist Churches
U.S.A
Campbell
Robert W. Moss
United Church of Christ
Robert J. Marshall
Lutheran Church In America
Moss
Marshall
Clocks Return to Standard Time Nationwide
The nation ends the year long daylight saving time experiment as clocks revert to 2 a.m. standard time this Sunday. Congress repealed the change on October 5, and government officials remind readers to set clocks back one hour.
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Vermont candidates clash over tainted money in politics
Vermont races see candidates rejecting or limiting donations from special interest groups. Gov Salmon refused AFSCME funds and Jeffords Mallary Kennedy pledge to reject such money, while Cain Leahy face fundraising hurdles. Rejected donors include PACs from Life Underwriters, NAACP none. Boosters Club funds cited.
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Walter L. Kennedy
Kennedy
Republican Congressional Boosters Club of
Washington
George T. Aiken
RVI
Cain
Patrick J. Leahy
Boosters Committee
Aiken
Ford
Jefford
Rod Clarke
Mallory
Waring Partridge
Life Underwriters Political Action Committee
Business and Industry Political Action Committee
American Hotel-Motel Association
American Dental Association
National Automobile Dealers Political Action Committee
American Medical Political Action Committee
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American Medical Pac
Business and Industry Pac
National Association of Realtors
National Education Association
Leahy
Seafaers
Marine Engineers Unions
Nae
Vermont
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Daniel Ellsberg
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Liddy
Magruder
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Hoff
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Richard W. Mallary
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Mallary
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