Hearst and 3 SLA members captured in San Francisco
FBI arrests Patricia Hearst and three SLA fugitives in San Francisco ending a long manhunt. William Harris Emily Harris and hearing Yoshimura were taken separately in the Mission District and Alameda custody, bail set at 500000. Hearst faces bank robbery and weapons charges alongside state kidnapping and robbery counts.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
FBI
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
William
Emily Harris
Wendy Yoshimura
Mission District
Patricia Campbell Hearst
Berkeley
SLA
Harrises
Asst
John Howard
Los Angeles
William Harris
Emily
Harris
Terrence Hallinan
Miss Yoshimura
Alameda County
Charles Bates
Hearst
Yoshimura
America
Stephen Weed
Tet attacks stunned U S forces say former CIA analyst
Former CIA analyst Samuel A. Adams testified that top officials created phony enemy strength figures to fool the press public and Congress. He said the 1968 Tet attack left U S forces unprepared and caused 3895 American deaths.
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Washington
CIA
U. S
Congress
Samuel A. Adams
Durkin Sworn In as New Hampshire Senator
John A. Durkin was sworn in as a U S senator for New Hampshire after winning a special election over Louis C. Wyman. The move signals possible committee reshuffles and a broadened probe into an Oklahoma election dispute while Republicans and Democrats weigh assignments affecting seven GOP senators.
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Washington
New Hampshire
John A. Durkin
Oklahoma
Senate
Durkin
Louis C. Wyman
Henry L. Bellman
Rules Committee
Postal Service seeks 13 cent first class stamp rise
The Postal Service filed with the Postal Rate Commission to raise the first class stamp from 10 to 13 cents and postcard from 7 to 10 cents effective after Christmas. The plan would boost annual revenue by about 2.4 billion dollars while current losses run at 2.6 billion. Additional increases would apply to second class, third class bulk rate, parcel post and special rate parcels, plus air mail from 13 to 17 cents. Special services and international rates would rise 34 to 100 percent.
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Washington
Postal Service
Postal Rate Commission
No Toy Gallows in Texas Jail Cure All for Drunks
Hemphill Texas AP report describes Sheriff Alan Greer’s 70 year old makeshift gallows in a four cell jail near the Louisiana border. He claims it calms drunks and recalls the last execution around 1917 though Texas uses state prison to carry out death sentences. The piece notes the rope was replaced after rotting and recounts a drunk inmate’s chilling reaction to the noose.
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Hemphill
Tex
Alan Greer
Greer
Texas
Louisiana
Huntsville
Ed Harper
Senate Holds Federal Pay Raise At 5 Percent
The Senate voted 53 to 39 to limit a 8.66 percent pay raise for Congress and federal workers to 5 percent, as urged by President Ford. If the House does not disapprove by Oct 1, the 5 percent raise will take effect. Ford said the saver is about 1.6 billion annually.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Ford
House
House Post Office
Civil Service
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Legally Blind Hotel Resident Hero In Princeton Fire
Mary Anne Stevens profiles 23 year old legally blind resident of Princeton who helped avert a Virginian Hotel fire. He and his wife had just moved from Maryland. he located the blaze and a hotel hose, aided others to escape, and sustained burns to his feet and hand. Fire officials credit his quick thinking with limiting damage to one room and preventing a larger disaster.
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Princeton
Saulpaugh
Kay
Soulpaugh
Ulpaugh
de Mises Sieepee
Maryland
Radio
WAEY
Jordan rejects Ford hawk missile terms may buy Soviet SAMs
Jordan Prime Minister Zaid Rifai denounces Ford conditional guarantees as insulting to national dignity and says Jordan may seek Soviet antiaircraft missiles if the Hawk sale cannot proceed. Hussein supports Soviet defenses as a fallback while U.S. officials urge Congress to approve the 270 million deal for 14 batteries.
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Amman
Jordan
Ford
Zaid Rifai
U.S
Congress
Rifai
United States
Hussein
Soviet Union
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S. Mideast
Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
Jonathan B. Bingham
D-N.y
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Patty Hearst
Catherine
Randolph A. Hearst
New York
Owen Woodruff
Morse Street
Senate Intelligence Committee
Frank Church
Didaho
William Colby
Louisville
Jefferson County
J. Bruce Miller
Gene Snyder
White House
Iran
Vienna
Arddeshir Zahedi
Mary Anne Stevens
Snd
Baltimore School For the Blind
The
Virginian
Israel
Hawks
Joseph Kallinger
Philadelphia
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Kallinger
Michael
Pittsburgh
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