FBI alerts on letter bombs targeting major companies
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley says businesses and individuals must be on alert for letter bombs similar to those mailed to seven corporations and a business executive in five U S cities. Bombs were sent to Merrill Lynch in New York Bunge Corp Beatrice Foods DuPont Exxon McDonald Systems and Marathon Oil with four women injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Washington
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
U.S
Kelley
Manila
Atlanta
Tex
Texarkana
Merrill Lynch Inc
New York
Bunge Corp
Bunge
Roger Noall
Manhattan
DuPont Co
Wilmington
Del
Exxon
McDonald's Systems
Oak Brook
Illa
Chicago
Beatrice Foods Co
Marathon Oil Co
Findlay
Ohio
Collector buys stagecoach at Wells Fargo memorabilia auction
Sam Gordon won a $44,000 bid for a stagecoach at a San Francisco auction of Wells Fargo Overland Express artifacts. He spent over $60,000 for items for Sam's Town Americana Museum in Shingle Springs, including a $3,000 survey. The sale, ordered by a federal judge to help pay REA debts, drew multiple bidders and included signs and memorabilia from Old West firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Gordon
Gordon
Shingle Springs
Calif
Railway Express
San Francisco
UPI
Old West Express
Wells Fargo & Co
Overland Express
Fisherman's Wharf
New York
Chicago
Railway Express Agency
Rea
New Judge to Hand Down Hearst Sentence
AP reports federal judge Oliver J. Carter died sending Hearst sentencing into limbo. Carter had tentatively imposed a 35 year maximum for Patricia Hearst and ordered psychiatric evaluation before final punishment. A three judge panel will select a replacement and finalize sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Oliver J. Carter
Patricia Hearst
Carter
Miss Hearst
San Diego
U.S
Alfonso Zirpoli
Zirpoli
F. Lee Bailey
Albuquerque
N.M
Bailey
Democrats Seek Federal Funding for Congressional Elections
The Democratic platform committee approved a proposal for partial federal financing of congressional campaigns citing presidential campaign success. Opponents warn of heavy new costs with no price tag set. The panel also backed postal service restoration but later narrowed its stance, and approved a ban on Saturday night specials handguns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Democratic Platform Committee
Mattess
Platform
Ment
Pers
de Motrates
Jimmy Carter
Soviet plants linked to germ warfare
US intelligence reports say Russia has built six plants along a rail line in central and western Russia that may be capable of producing biological warfare agents or related products. The Aksu facility near Omsk is under construction, with others at Zagorsk Pokrov Omutninsk Sverdlovsk and Berdsk. Some plants are described as suspected BW facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Russia
United States
Richard M. Nixon
U.S
Army
Nixon
Congress
Aksu
Omsk
Moscow
Zagorsk
Pokrov
Omutninsk Sverdlovsk
Berdsk
National ID plan rejected by federal panel
A plan for universal national identity cards was rejected as a privacy threat by the Federal Advisory Committee on False Identification. The Justice Department task force proposed tighter birth certificate and driver license standards, interstate birth death certificate matching, and electronic funds transfer to curb false identities and related crimes. The panel estimated false ID costs at about 20 billion annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Advisory Committee On
Justice Department Task Force
Richard Thornburgh
Thornburgh
Welfare
Caren
Ford must hold line to keep delegates for Reagan clash
Ford campaign names nine regional chairmen to keep Ford delegates in line as Reagan heads to Washington state for 38 delegates and Carter expands support. Morton says aim is internal discipline. AP tally shows Ford 963 delegates to Reagan 881 with 159 uncommitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Rogers C.B. Morton
Morton
Reagan
California
Washington State
Washington
Ross Davis
Des Moines
Iowa
Los Angeles
Jimmy Carter
Plains
Dallas
New York City
Carter
Associated Press
Minnesota
Connecticut
Delaware
North Dakota
Colorado
New Mexico
Utah
Montana
South
Syrian tanks advance toward Marjayoun in Lebanon
Syrian tank forces moved toward Marjayoun six miles from the Israeli border after capturing Rachaya, the gateway to Palestinian guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon. A Palestinian spokesman said guerrilla activity in northern Israel had been minimal due to Lebanon's civil war. The move aims to deter raids and possible Israeli retaliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beirut
Lebanon
Marjayoun
Israel
Rachaya
U S Signals Base Help for Southeast Asia
U S Ambassador Sullivan said Washington would aid defending Southeast Asia if Philippine bases are used effectively. Negotiations resume on a new agreement for continued American base use, sought with sovereignty and troop jurisdiction for Philippine authorities as a key demand by Ambassador Romualdez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
U.S
William H. Sullivan
Sullivan
Southeast Asia
United States
Eduardo C. Romualdez
US may cut Western Europe nuclear arsenal replace with smaller arms
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told European allies the United States could reduce its roughly 7000 warheads in Western Europe by replacing aging weapons with smaller more accurate arms. He described some existing weapons as big dirty and inaccurate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Belgium
United States
Europe
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
America
Americans urge Italians to vote against Communists
More than 200000 Americans have written relatives in Italy urging them to vote against the Communists in the upcoming national elections. Paul P. Rao Jr. of Americans for Democratic Italy said about 500 Americans flew to Italy to persuade kin in person at a Monday night meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Paul P. Rao Jr
New York
Americans For Democratic
NATO Nuclear Planning Group Meets Amid Connally Campaign
A U.S. spokesman described a seven nation Nuclear Planning Group meeting as a publicity stunt tied to former Gov. John B. Connally's campaign. The remark came Monday during the NATO gathering aimed at discussing arms and defense issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Iyne
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Paign
John B. Connally
Connally
West Germans arrest four on spying charges including SDP official
Four West Germans were arrested on suspicion of spying for the Communists. Kathryn Burger, 30, a press spokesman for the Social Democratic party in West Berlin, admitted spying and implicated her ex-husband Heinrich Burger, 35, and Kurt and Erna Nickel. Prosecutor Dietrich Schultz said she later repudiated the confession and the others denied the espionage charge.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Allan Howe
Salt Lake
Utah Democrat
Salt Lake City
Howe
Wayne L. Black
Colleen Gardner
Capitol Hill
Gravel
Gardner
Young
Oung
Joseph Prendergast
Gray
Miss Ray
New York Daily News
Hearst
Redding
Democratic Party
Harry Truman
Truman
Eizenstat
Vention
Arizona
Morris Udall
Udall
Carter Carter
Frank Church
Oklahoma
Fred Harris
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
Missouri
Kansas City
Orton
Clark Reed
Mississippi
Association of Southern Republican
Ord
Baguso
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!