Cedar Rapids Inflation Surges Ahead of Nation Says Report
The latest consumer price index shows Cedar Rapids prices rose 1.9 percent from mid July to mid October, and 10.6 percent over the year, outpacing the national 1.4 percent quarterly gain and 7.6 percent yearly rise. Apparel led quarterly increases, with housing and food also pushing costs. electricity and rents climbed, while buying power fell by about 4.13 weekly dollars from inflation.
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Cedar Rapids
At & Pace
Labor’ Department
Cadar Rapids
Cedar Rapides
Labor Department
Levi orders review of FBI King murder probe
Attorney General Edward Levi asked top Justice Department officials to review the FBI investigation into Martin Luther King Jr.’s death and to advise whether the case should be reopened. The review will be led by J. Stanley Foltinger and Richard Thornburgh with civil and criminal division heads consulting. The move follows Senate testimony about the Hoover era investigation.
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Washington
Edward Levi
Justice Department
FBI
Martin Luther King
Department
Levi
Mornday
Senate
Intelligence Committee
Edgar Hoover
King
J. Stanley Foltinger
Richard Thornburgh
Thornburgh
Iself
John Wilson
Wilson
Civil Rights Division
Memphis
James
Ray
Fromme Jury Weighs Assault Charge in Ford Assassination Bid
A stalled jury in the Ly nette Fromme trial won judge approval to consider the lesser charge of assault rather than attempted assassination of a president. The eight women and four men debated for about 12 hours over two days and asked for new instructions on assault before reassembling.
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Sacramento
Calif
Lynétte
Fromme
U.S
Thomas MacBride
Miss Fromme
Ford
Tife
MacBride
Charles Manson
John Virga
Virga
Loyalist Troops Crush Portuguese Coup Try
In Lisbon pro government commandos overwhelmed a rebel military police regiment behind the presidential palace in a bid to quash a leftist uprising. A 14 tank column supported the assault as artillerymen sought a truce. casualties were reported on both sides before the rebels surrendered. General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was arrested and detained at Belem palace.
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Lisbon
Portugal
UPI
Otelo
Saraiva de Carvalho
Belem
Carvalho
Indicted Indians Named in FBI Slayings on Pine Ridge
A federal grand jury indicts four Lakota men James Eagle Leonard Peltier Robert Robideau and Darrell Butler for the June ambush and killings of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on Pine Ridge reservation. The case follows a five hour shootout with authorities.
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FBI
Pine Ridge
James Theodore Eagle
Leonard Peltier
Robert Eugene Robideau
Darrell Dean Butler
Justice Department
Washington
Peltier
Jack Coler
Ronald Williams
Los Angeles
Eagle
Oxgler
Ne Tice
JFK Death Study Supports Warren Commission View
A scientific analysis of Zapruder films concludes mainly against multiple gunmen theories and supports the Warren Commission. Analysts say Kennedy was shot from the front and that Connally’s reaction aligns with being struck by the same bullet. Some evidence misread as a bush figure is dismissed as optical illusion.
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Lexington
Mass
John F. Kennedy
Texas
John Connally
Kennedy
Zapruder
Web Corp
Dallas
Abraham Zapruder
Warren Com Trisman
Orto
Grassy Knoll
Connally
Warren Commission
Kenedy
Texas Book Depository
Lee Harvey Oswald
Francie Corbett
Tek
Corbett
Lie Hymanine
Wim
Ford to announce aid plan for New York City at news conference
President Ford prepared to outline a federal aid package to prevent NYC default as banks and pension funds agree to refinance the citys short term debt. The plan could total up to 2.5 billion in loans or guarantees to backstop Carey administration efforts.
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Washington
Ford
New York City
White Hawes
New York
Union Pension
Hugh Carey
Albany
Ford Administration
Associated
Plana
Ninth Straight Monthly U S Trade Surplus
The Commerce Department reports October's trade surplus reached 5.076 billion, driven by higher agricultural exports and lower oil imports. Through October exports exceeded imports by 4.497 billion for the year so far, with record 1974 surplus anticipated. machinery and transportation equipment rose while oil imports fell 5 percent.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hughes
Chuckie Woe and the Seament of Equal Rights??
Fragmentary note mentions women's liberation and a garbled phrase. No clear events, people, or organizations readable to form a factual summary card.
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Iowa State University Extension Service
Beirut
JFK
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CBS Television Network
Today's Index
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Crosaward
Farerne Sat
Tedeciaait
Chuckie
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