Gene Shepherd's America to be rerun by PBS this summer
Public Broadcasting Service will rebroadcast Gene Shepherd's 1971 PBS series Gene Shepherd's America. The 13 episodes cover fishing memories in Maine and Indiana, steel mill labor, wartime trains, travel and the American experience with Shepherd's humorous, observant narration.
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Charles Kuralt
CBS
Gene Shepherd
Public TV
America
Public Broadcasting Service
Shepherd
Maine
Indiana
Television Listings Include Davenport to Des Moines
A fragment lists TV stations 6-WOC-TV Davenport 8-WKBT La Crosse 10-KROC-TV Rochester 12-KIIN-TV Iowa City 13-WHO-TV Des Moines and Waterloo 11 45 4 Wild Wild West as a time block.
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Davenport
WKBT
la Crosse
Kroc.tv
Rochester
Kiin-Tv
Iowa City
Who-Tv
Des Moines
Governor Linked to Oil Deal in 1974 Memo
A government memo from the Arab oil embargo era alleges New York Governor Hugh Carey, then a congressman, helped his brother Edward Carey by guiding an export license for Bart Chamberlain to ship cheap crude to a Bahamas refinery. The case, investigated by the FEA and DOJ, prompted tightened Commerce rules to curb such oil transactions.
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New York
Hugh Carey
Cox Newspapers
Edward) Carey
Albany
N.Y
Carey
Alabama
Bart Chamberlain
Bahamas
Edward Carey
Commerce Department
Chamberlain
U.S
John Sparkman
D-Ala
FEC
Robert Gossin
Bahamas Oil Refining Corp
Congress
Gossin
Cox
IRS
GOP Aims to Register 9.5 Million Republicans Nationwide
Republican leaders target registering 9.5 million more voters after the NBC telecast Republicans Are People Too. Mary Louise Smith announced the goal during the 30 minute program highlighting GOP achievements and local solutions. The drive plans door to door outreach this fall to register the 53 million eligible Americans who did not vote in 1974.
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GOP
Mary Louise Smith
NBC
Ford
Europe
Gary Collins
Mary Ann Mobley
Chicago
Alan Steelman
Texas
Dallas
Richard Lugar
Indianapolis
Jefferson Memorial
Birds Drop In On Prison Diners At Angola
About 50 sparrows and robins have flown into the Louisiana State Prison dining halls in Angola. Warden Murray Henderson says they cannot remove the birds after attempts to catch, poison, or shoot them fail. The issue adds to overcrowding, understaffing, and a federal reform order.
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Angola, la
Louisiana State
Murray Henderson
Henderson
Graduate Kathleen Seifert earns humanities degree at CSU
Kathleen J. Seifert of 2404 Indian Hill Road SE recently graduated from Colorado State University in Fort Collins with a degree in humanities and social sciences.
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Kathleen J. Seifert
Indian Hill Road
Colorado State University At
Fort Collins
British Official To Meet with Amin
British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan agreed to discussions with Ugandan President Idi Amin over Britain Uganda relations after Amin pardoned Denis Hills the English lecturer sentenced to death. Mobutu Sese Seko influenced the situation by pressuring for a resolution and to avoid disruption of the OAU summit.
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Idi Amin
Foreign Office
London
Callaghan
Britain
Uganda
Denis Hills
Amin
Hills
Mobutu
Organization of African Unity
Kampala
Teens booked in parents killings and cremation in Marin County
San Rafael police say Charles David Riley nineteen and his sixteen year old girlfriend were jailed for investigation in the murder and cremation of Naomi Olive fifty three and James Olive fifty eight. The couple allegedly opposed the romance. The bodies were found as charred bone fragments in a cistern used as a barbecue pit between the Civic Center and San Francisco bay.
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Calif
Larry Kelly
Charles David Riley
Kelly
James Olive
Olive
Naomi
Terra Linda
Civic Center
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco
Airline sued for $2 million in New York crash
The widow and two children of a New Orleans surgeon file a $2 million damage suit against Eastern Air Lines in U S district court in New York. The action alleges negligence and willful misconduct in the crash that killed the physician and 111 others. A claim against the federal government for tower personnel at Kennedy International Airport may also be filed.
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New Orleans
Eastern Air Lines
William Norman
U.S. District Court
Eastern
General Tire dodges bribe allegations in Allende era Chile
In Santiago AP reports General Tire and Rubber Co cannot confirm or deny a $100,000 bribe claim linked to two late Chilean officials until it reviews a secret Liechtenstein bank account. Ultimas Noticias alleged the payments aimed to block INSA nationalization. INSA remains 40 percent owned by General Tire.
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General Tire and Rubber Co
President Allende
Liechtenstein
Ultimas Noticias
General Tire
Industria Nacional de Neumaticos
INSA
Chile
Sniper siege ends as San Antonio patrolman is shot
In northeast San Antonio a gunman in a Keck home killed Officer James Anderson and wounded a second officer. After a standoff police used tear gas and an armored car to storm the house, where Robert Keck died by a self inflicted gunshot.
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San Antonio
Texas
Robert Keck
James Anderson
Keck
Anderson
Tommy
Henry Anton
Navy weighs Dog Island as new gunfire training site
The Navy and British government consider using the uninhabited Dog Island in the Caribbean as a new nonexplosive ordnance target site ten miles northwest of Anguilla. It would replace Culebra Puerto Rico where shelling halted after a long dispute with residents over fishing and tourism impacts.
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Washington
Dog Island
Caribbean
Navy
Pentagon
U.S
Anguilla
Culebra
Puerto Rican Commonwealth Government
Portugal Orders Church Radio Return in Rift with Clergy
The government instructs ultra leftists to relinquish control of Radio Renascenca to bishops to avert a church state split. Workers continue occupying the studios and say they will depart only if expelled by force.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Radio Renascenca
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