Nixon Testimony Brings Watergate Echoes To Court
In Washington Nixon testifies in federal court about FBI warrantless searches tied to anti-terrorism efforts in the early 1970s. W. Mark Felt and Edward Miller, accused of civil rights violations, face up to 10 years and $10,000 fines if convicted. A heckler incident interrupts the proceedings as jurors listen to the former president.
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Washington
Watergate
Richard Nixon
FBI
Nixon
U.S
White House
W. Mark Felt
Bureau
Edward Miller
Weather Underground
Spruce Goose Emerges From Hangar in Long Beach Display Move
Howard Hughes 200 ton Spruce Goose, dubbed the Spruce Goose by skeptics, is pulled by tugboats into Long Beach California Harbor. The giant wooden plane, in a hangar for over 30 years, will be hoisted ashore with a large crane for public display preparation.
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Howard Hughes
Long Beach
Calif
Arson fire investigation and multiple detentions in Chicago tragedy
Police hold several suspects after an arson that killed two teenagers and seven children. Neighbors supplied a suspect list, lie detector tests are planned, and the boyfriend of one victim was questioned and released. Additional stories note indictments of former Gov. Blanton, a pill cancer protection study, Carter cooperation questions, Haitian refugee influx in Miami, and Czechoslovakia's 1918 independence.
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Chicago
UPI
Julius Watson
Terrorist explosion kills nine at Peking railway station
An explosion at Peking's main railroad station killed nine people and injured 81. Xinhua said the blast was caused by an explosive charge carried into the station by an unknown person, marking it as a deliberate act with possible political implications. In Moscow, Polish Communist leaders met Kremlin officials to discuss labor unrest and stability amid recent concessions.
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Peking
UPI
Xinhua
Gang of Four
Mao Tse-tung
Jiang Qing
Moscow
Poland
Communist Party
Kremlin
Stanislaw Kanin
Jozef Pinkowski
Leonid Brezhnev
Carter campaigns among Jews and Poles in Philadelphia
President Carter rallies Jewish and Polish American voters urging religious tolerance. He appears with Stanley Walesa, the father of Lech Walesa, at a Polish American club, then addresses the Young Men's Hebrew Association with New York Mayor Edward Koch. Reagan warns voters about hostages timing before the election.
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Philadelphia
Carter
Lech Walesa
Ronald Reagan
U.S
Iran
Richard Allen
Nixon White House
Stanley Walesa
Jersey City
N.J
Port Richmond
Young Men’s Hebrew Association of
New York
Edward Koch
New York Garment District
Reagan
Dallas
John Anderson
White House
Presidential campaign schedules Friday tentative
The AP reports tentative campaign stops for three major candidates. Carter plans Lakeland Memphis Jackson Houston while Reagan hits Pittsburgh Chicago Des Plaines Milwaukee Grand Rapids and Anderson schedules White Plains Newton and Boston plus San Jose.
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Washington
President Carter
Lakeland
Fla
Memphis
Inmate Holds Two Nurses At Nevada Prison
An armed inmate David Wayne held two nurses hostage for 12 hours at Nevada's Maximum Security Prison before surrendering. Wayne demanded television interviews to air his complaints about prison conditions. negotiations involved Tad Dunbar and others. The two nurses and six inmate patients were released unharmed.
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Carson City
Nev
UPI
Nevada
David Wayne
John Slansky
Teree
Wayne
Tad Dunbar
Slansky
Dunbar
Robert Whittemore
Max Neuneker
Montgomery acquitted in Texas ax murder case
Candace Montgomery is cleared of murder after a four month legal fight over the fatal ax attack on her friend Betty Gore. The trial highlighted alleged affairs with Gore's husband Allan and a self defense confession. The Montgomerys plan to move to Atlanta after the verdict.
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Mckinney, Texas
Candace Montgomery
Montgomerys
Atlanta
Betty
Don Crowder
Espionage tale unfolds as seven KGB agents cited
The government says the Soviet KGB mobilized seven agents on three continents and paid out 92600 to recruit a debt-ridden former CIA operative who betrayed the United States. The case centered on clandestine meetings outside Vienna and on shopping center pay phones as David Barnett pleaded guilty to one count of espionage. Barnett, now running an export-import business and living in Bethesda Maryland, showed no emotion as details were presented by a Department of Justice lawyer.
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Nashville, Tenn
Ray Blanton
Tennessee
Blanton
Congress
Baltimore
United States
Vienna
Austria
U.S
CIA
David Barnett
Guily
Barnett
Bethesda
Washington
Justice Department
George Matava
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John Nields Jr
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Boston University
New England Journal of Medicine
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Justice
Miami
Florida
Bill Kalis
Ministry of Home Affairs
Czechoslovakia
Pat Trexler
Jean Oxley
Linn County
Coms
Bernice Bell
Johnson
Lena Nelson
Lande
Joan Lipsky
Chuck Lande
Robert D. Ray
Cedar Rapids
Robert M . Johnson
Bud Kudart
Montgomery
Fantastic
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