Inquiry on Kearns Business Deal Opens Again
The Justice Department reopened its inquiry into Henry Kearns profits from selling stock to Mitsui USA while he led the Export-Import Bank. A 1972 probe found over 300000 dollars in gains but no criminal charges, drawing Sen. Proxmire’s criticism that Kearns violated a blind-trust pledge.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Henry Kearns
Kearns
Mitsui
USA
Richard Nixon
Export-Import Bank
Post
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate
Proxmire
Burns proposes way to avert default
Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns urges New York City banks and municipal employees to bear costs as a condition for federal aid to prevent the city’s default. Congress debates a federal loan guarantee with strong opposition and possible Senate filibuster while Treasury chief William Simon weighs options and a Justice Department review unfolds.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Reserve
Arthur Burns
New York City
Senate
Treasury
William
Simon
House Banking
Beame withholds welcome for Sadat in New York visit
New York Mayor Abraham Beame declined a State Department request to greet Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat during his United Nations address. Beame cited hypocrisy and the U N resolution condemning Zionism as a form of racism. The decision changes the official city welcome planned for Sadat's visit.
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New York
UPI
Anwar el] Sadat
United Nations
Abraham Beame
State Department
Sadat
United States
Beame
U.N
Egypt
John Lindsay
Saudi Arabia
Faisal
Israel
Prince Saud
Wagner
Saud
Mexican heroin dominates U S supply said to sever French link
A UPI report cites a Drug Enforcement Administration analysis showing 90 percent of confiscated heroin in 13 cities during the first half of 1975 was Mexican processed. The study notes a shift from European and Middle Eastern sources, with Chicago and Boston reporting all samples Mexican in 1975 and New York showing 83 percent Mexican processed.
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Drug Enforcement Administration
Charles H. Percy
Republican
Illinois
Percy
Europe
Middle East
Kissinger
Edward H. Levi
Mexico
Chicago
Boston
New York
One Year After FALN Bombings Across U.S. Cities
UPI reports on the first anniversary of FALN bombings including New York Washington and Chicago actions on October 26 1974 and January Fraunces Tavern blast. It notes property damage at the U N mission Sears Building Chicago banks and corporate offices with no injuries in the latest strikes and confirms continued authorities' silence on progress.
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New York
UPI
FALN
Armed Forces of
Puerto Rican National Liberation
Fraunces Tavern
Washington
Chicago
State Department
U.S
United Nations
Sears
F.A.L.N. Central Command
Washington, D.C
Puerto Rico
Harry Truman
White House
House of Representatives
News Council lauds media fairness. Times cited for noncooperation
The National News Council reports progress in its second year monitoring media fairness and accuracy. It praises many outlets, but cites the New York Times for repeatedly refusing cooperation. The council handled 59 complaints, with 5 upheld and 33 unwarranted, plus 21 dismissed.
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New York
UPI
National News Council
Council
the Times
Fuld
Council Activites
United Press International
Associated Press
American Society of Newspaper Editors
New York State Court of Appeals
CBS
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
Now is the hour to buy a dream home now
Mrs. Hoisington, principal broker of Hoisington Realty, urges immediate home buying to beat rising prices and rising interest costs. She notes national existing-home prices rose 11.6 percent in the last year and explains seven years of mortgage payments can offset rate drops as property values climb. She holds leadership roles in regional real estate groups.
Ford relies on GOP man to organize campaign
President Ford turns to 31 year old New Hampshire state representative John Michels to run day to day campaign operations in the states first 1976 primary on February 24. Michels will direct nuts and bolts tasks of voter outreach and staffing from four room headquarters. The Ford effort leans on GOP officeholders like James Cleveland and Speaker George Roberts to carry the load while Reagan garners moderates such as Hugh Gregg Samuel Tamposi and others in New Hampshire. Reagan allies include Sen Paul Laxalt and John Sears as national strategists and a Nashua list swap with Stewart Lamprey.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
GOP
New Hampshire
Ford Committee
James Cleveland
R-N.h
John Michels
Michels
Nuts and Bolts
Danbury
John Sears
James Lake
Paul Laxalt
R-Nev
Nashua
Hugh Gregg
Samuel Tamposi
Walter Peterson
Peterson
Meldrim Thomson
Stewart Lamprey
Thomson
Lamprey
Cleveland
George Roberts
R-Gilmanton
State Senate
House
Congress weighs changes to FCC equal time rule
FCC chairman Richard Wiley suggested Congress may amend Section 315 to exclude president and vice president contenders from equal-time rules. A Pastore McDonald proposal could prompt reform ahead of next year’s presidential campaign. The Bennington Banner notes the ongoing legal challenge to the 1962 reversal that treats campaign activities as news events.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
FCC
Richard Wiley
Post- Newsweek
Wiley
John Pastore
D-R.i
Torbert McDonald
Dmass
Pastore-McDonald
U.S. bomber crew held in Russian slave camps claim
Christian Defense League says documents claim ten U.S. Air Force crew members from a 1953 Sea of Japan crash were captured and imprisoned in eastern Russia slave labor camps. Rev Paul Lindstrom cites notes between the United States and Soviet authorities and says Soviet replies deny any captives.
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Chicago
UPI
Christian Defense League
U.S
Sea of Japan
Paul Lindstrom
Remember the Pueblo Committee
CDL
Siberian
Baltic Sea
Latvia
Lindstrom
Phillip Bennett
Algiers
Russia
Bogoshi
Keska
Komsomolsk
Gandala
Wangar
CDS
Senate Intelligence Committee
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Moscow
Air Force
Rex Stout, Creator of Nero Wolfe, Dies in Conn
Rex Stout, author of 46 Nero Wolfe mysteries selling 45 million copies in 22 languages, died Monday in Danbury, Connecticut. He built High Meadow on the Connecticut‑New York border and is survived by his wife Pola Hoffman, daughters Barbara Selleck and Rebecca Bradbury, two sisters, and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Danbury, Conn
UPI
Rex Stout
Stout
Nero Wolfe
Barbara Selleck
Highmeadow
New York
Wolfe
West 35Th Street
New York City
Archie Goodwin
Sherlock Holmes
Montenegro
Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Pola Hoffman
Rebecca Bradbury
Ruth
Mary Stout
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Rcler Smm
ETI
Madkour
Jovan
Jovan Musk Oil
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