Pepsi Tie to Chile Coup Sparks Senate Hearing
Washington testimony links a 1970 Pepsi executive to a White House meeting with Kissinger Mitchell and Edwards. Nixon then directed the CIA to pursue a coup against Salvador Allende, with Edwards' Chilean newspaper role cited. Kerry and staff discount Pepsi investment motive.
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Washington
U.S
Chile
Salvador Allende
Nixon
Bay of Pigs
Senate Intelligence Committee
Donald Randall
Pepsi Cola
Henry Kissinger
Atty
John Mitchell
Augustin Edwards
el Mercurio
Edward Kerry
Edwards
Mitchell
CIA
Richard Helms
Allende
Helms
Kendall
Kerry
ITT
U U.S
Love Mt. Vernon Couple Launches Weekly Newspaper
Ed and Beverly Nykwest plan a weekly paper in Mt. Vernon and Lisbon to rival Mt. Vernon Hawkeye and Lisbon Herald. They will cover news, features, sports, and farm news in a six column format with student help, seeking advertiser support and a second class postage later.
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Love
MT. Vernon
Lisbon
the Sun
Beverly
Nykwest
Mr. Vernon
Washington, D.C
Nykwests
Burglar Gets Away with A Headache
Mrs Carter, widow of 800 Tenth Street SW, faced a white intruder wearing a green army coat with wood over his head Thursday night. He demanded money, but she struck him with a metal bottle, knocking off her glasses as he fled, believed empty handed.
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Elizabeth Carter
Tenth Street
AIM Infiltrator to Speak at Washington High School
Douglass Durham, once an FBI undercover operative who infiltrated AIM in 1973, will speak at Washington High School on December 12 under Lumi County Support Your Local Police committee. He criticizes AIM as a disruptor of the 1976 Bicentennial. Tickets are $1 for students, $1.80 adults, or $2 at the door. Also noted, eleven men were arrested in Ireland on this date in 1970 amid a widening counterterrorism probe.
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Douglass Durham
FBI
Washington High School
Durham
AIM
Lumi County
School Board Votes for Closed Negotiation Session
Cedar Rapids community school board met Friday morning to vote on entering a closed session to discuss negotiation matters. Board President H Edward Beatty called a special meeting to set the time, with town law permitting closed sessions only after an open vote.
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Cedar Rapids
Young Bell Clerk Arrested on Drug Possession Charge
A seven-year-old boy working as a bell clerk at a motel on Williams Boulevard SW was arrested Thursday on a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Detectives, after a tip he sold drugs in a motel restroom, seized nearly three ounces of a substance believed to be marijuana. Police released him pending court action. A pocket calculator stolen from a Center Point school district garage was reported by Linn officials to have occurred late Wednesday or early Thursday.
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Williams Boulevard
Yale
Center Point
Linn
Linn Sheriff’s Department
Magistrate Hears Seven Linn County Drunk Driving Cases
A Cedar Rapids man Ralph Davis pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance on Oct 26 1974 and was ordered to serve 120 days in Linn County jail plus court costs after a deferred sentence. Steven Krizek Marion pled guilty Oct 30 to possession of a controlled substance and received a 1 1/2 month suspended sentence with costs. Krizek also pled guilty to drunk driving with a $300 fine and costs and license suspension. Two area men charged with drunk driving Joseph Lee and Mark Moelier had July offenses with sentences deferred until Nov 14 1977. Larry Squires Toddville pled guilty to drunk driving Sept 7 and was fined $500 with 60 days in jail suspended. attend driving school. Thomas Feye pled guilty to a Sept 13 drunk driving charge with a $200 fine a 15 day suspended sentence. Roger Powers charged Sept 5 with gross fraud pled guilty received a suspended 30 day sentence and costs.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Ralph Davis
Seventh Street
Steven Krizek
Fourth Street
Marion
Joseph Lee
Trailridge Road
Mark Moelier
Ninth Avenue
Larry Squires
Toddville
Thomas Feye
Ohio Street
Roger Powers
Third Avenue SE
Linn Men Held on Drunk Driving Counts
A Cedar Rapids man and a rural Ely man were arrested Thursday on charges of drunk driving. Eldon E. Donald, 62, of Ely, was taken into custody at the Linn county jail after state troopers detained him Thursday afternoon. Ronald A. Edgeton, 37, of 315 Eighteenth Street SE, was arrested around 11 p.m. Thursday by Linn deputies at First Avenue and Eighteenth Street NE and held under $500 bond.
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Cedar Rapids
Ely
Eldon E. Donald
Linn County
Ronald A. Edgeton
Eighteenth Street
Linn
First Avenue
Edgeton
Three Active Participants Named in Hoffa Disappearance
Federal officials set a lineup for a witness to identify three New Jersey Teamsters named as active participants in James Hoffa s abduction and murder. Salvatore Briguglio Gabriel Briguglio Thomas Andretta were among those named as suspects in the 1975 case.
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Hoffa
Detroit
API
New Jersey
Teamsters International
James Hoffa
Robert Ozer
U.S. Organized Crime Strike Task Force
Ozer
James. Churchill
Salvatore Briguglio
Paramus
N.J
Teamsters Local 560
Union City
Anthony
Tony Pro” Provenzano
560
Provenzano
Gabriel Briguglio
East Rutherford
Salvatore
Thomas Andretta
Hasbrouck Heights
Joseph
Bayonne
Joe” Zivarelli
Andretta
Stephen
Little Ferry
Rolland McMaster
McMaster
Three Injured In Two Linn Vehicle Mishaps
Two Linn County residents sustained injuries in separate one car crashes investigated by the sheriff’s department on Thursday. Roger Reed, 15, Center Point, and Douglas Becer, 16, Center Point, were treated and released after a crash near Center Point when Becker’s car crossed the road, struck a reflector post, and rolled into a field. Bonnie M. Farley, 37, Cogan, was injured near Walker on Highway 150 when her vehicle went onto the shoulder and down a bank into a creek. the incident remained under investigation.
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Link County
Sheriffs Department
Cedar Rapids
Roger Reed
Center Point
Douglas Becer
Becker
Bonnie M. Farley
Coggan
Walker
Canadian resident sues in Iowa for 100000 in truck crash case
Nikola Stanojevic of Ontario sues James L Bates of Independence in Cedar Rapids federal court seeking 100000 in damages from a June 8 1974 collision on highway 150 six and a half miles south of Independence. Stanojevic alleges Bates drove a truck across the center line causing the crash and injuries including back neck arm and leg pain along with lost wages and medical expenses. A jury trial was requested along with the damages.
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Cedar Rapids
Conteglion
Buchanan County
Nikola Stanojevic
Ontario
James L. Bates
Independence
Highway 150
Bates
Stanojevic
Springville Man Reports Mailbox Theft
A Springville man reported to Linn deputies that his mailbox near his home was stolen on Thursday and that a $120 check may have been inside. The case notes the theft of the mailbox and possible loss as investigated by local deputies.
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Springville
Linn
Ted Nunemaker
AqverTaement
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Pepsi
Kissinger
The
Washington Star
Ireland
C.R
Cedar Memorial
Foster
Marlon
Carpetland
U.S.A
Superscope
1St Street
Ames
Cedar. Rapids
Waterloo
Sun
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Iowa
Peek’s
Macrome
Center Pt. Rd. N.E
Pam
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