Ford Sends New Supplies by Parachute Aid for Cambodians
President Ford ordered daylight parachute drops of food ammunition and medicine into besieged Phnom Penh to aid Cambodians and renew emergency military aid requests. The plan involves civilian charter crews flying U S cargo planes to deliver relief while Cambodian forces contest rebel advances near the city. The airlift follow a prior evacuation and faces uncertain logistics with no American troops directly participating.
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Gazette
Washington
Cambodia
Ford
U.S
Phnom Penh
Congress
Pentagon
Phoomt Penh
Khmer Rouge
Sak Suthsakhan
Arty
House
Ron Nessen
U.S. Marine Guard
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Thailand
Amr
White House
Nessen
Indo-China
Saigon
Xuan Lac
Xuan Loc
Leaders Try To Unsnarl Oil Talks
In Paris and Algiers, Presidents Boumedienne and Giscard d Estaing intervened to break a deadlock in prep for a world energy conference. They issued a draft agenda but details were not disclosed as producers and consumers clashed over limiting or expanding the scope to other raw materials.
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Paris
Houari Boumedienne
Algeria
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
France
Algiers
Giscard
U.S
European Common Market
Ait Chailal
Enormo
Woman says she infiltrated radical groups for FBI pay
Mary J. Cook, 26, testifies she worked as an undercover paid operative for the FBI from summer 1973 to fall 1974. Under code name Jo Leray she reported on Attica Prison Riot Legal Defense and other groups, earning about 300 dollars monthly. Attorneys Handschu and Kaif backed her account at a Buffalo news conference amid defense challenges in the Attica murder trial.
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Buffalo
N. J
UPI
Attica Prison Riot Legal Defense
FBI
Mary J. Cook
Misa Cook
Nazareth College
Rochester
America
Attica
Barbara Handschu
Leonard Kaif
Miss Cook
Misa Hondsehu
John Hill
Charles Pernasilice
Camillus
William Quinn
Hill
William Kunstler
New York
Kunstler
Chuckle History Repeats Itself Due to Misunderstanding
A lighthearted note on history repeating with bemused humor as readers fail to grasp past jokes. The cartoonish quip hints that time and misunderstanding collide, leaving audiences amused yet puzzled by familiar gags resurfacing in new forms.
Lisbon Firm Destroyed by Raging Blaze
A major fire at the Franks & Sons lumber yard and offices in Lisbon destroyed most of the yards on Saturday night. The Lisbon fire department received the alarm at 5:16 p.m. and battled the flames, saving two storage buildings. Cause and loss figures were not immediately reported, and a separate Franks & Son yard in Camanche was destroyed a week earlier.
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Lisbon
Franks & Sons
Sautrol
Franks & Son
Camanche
Nine Children Die in Fire and Father Charged
An Alabama man, Sylvester Brown of Fairfax, is jailed on murder charges after a Beulah fire killed nine people including five of his children, a 24 year old babysitter, and three others she watched. Authorities cited marital strife as a factor.
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Alabama
Sylvester Brown
Fairfax
Ala
Lee Courtly
Brown
Jim Pearson
Essie
Riverview
Beulah
Donna
Anita
Richard
Vicky
Wanda
Elizabeth Dunn
Evangele Core
Ella Jean Core
Virginia Ann Thomas
Opelika
Truston
N.Y
Kenneth Marshall
Douglas
Kellie Marshall
Vane Marshall
Shirley
States Borrow From Federal Unemployment Fund as Shortages Grow
Seven states and Puerto Rico borrow from the Federal Unemployment Account to pay jobless benefits as trust funds near depletion. The program faces its toughest test in 40 years with loans totaling hundreds of millions and a projected 20 billion in benefits this year.
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Washington
Puerto Rico
Michigan
Massachusetts
New Jersey
House Appropriations Committee
Ford Administration
James Hashian
Leabor Department
Manpower Administration
Hashian
Labor Department
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