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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1976
Page
5
A 21 year old Chicago man identified as Carl Roy Thurmond attempted to kill himself in a police cell after a reported rape attempt on a first grade teacher. He was revived with mouth to mouth resuscitation and placed under constant surveillance following discovery on the cell floor with a sweater tied to the bars.
The Senate intelligence committee staff will oppose calling Frank Sinatra as a witness. The staff says he would not add information about CIA plots against Fidel Castro. The committee plans to vote on turning over files to Justice Department attorneys probing charges against former CIA Director Richard Helms and others. Sinatra is described as the mutual friend who introduced Kennedy to Judith Campbell Exner, who was linked to two underworld figures tied to the Castro plot.
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk says CIA covert funding of the National Student Association in the 1960s could have been handled by other agencies with proper State Department policy. Nicholas Katzenbach urges a moratorium on overseas covert actions until broader consensus is built and favors secret funding to parties and unions abroad.
Beirut Airport reopened as a first Syrian army officers team arrived to help oversee Lebanon cease fire. Despite nightly gunfire, officials report 75 percent de escalation across fronts and 9 000 killed in nine months. UN FAO says emergency aid flows to 350 000. looting ove r $2 million. 2 000 Palestinians to be withdrawn. Syria pledges crackdown.
British reporters with the MPLA say Cuban-backed forces captured Cela Santa Combo and Amboiva about 100 miles northeast of Huambo, as MPLA shells Queve River defenses and advances toward Huambo with Soviet tank and artillery support. UNITA counterattacks loom around Teixeira de Sousa and Uso along the Benguela railroad.
Illinois and Elan One child care officials reached a settlement over abuse claims at the Maine center where 11 wards were housed. Illinois will drop a $788,000 civil rights suit and two Illinois teens at Elan One will be returned home within a week to 10 days.
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