Reputed mobster testifies on Castro plot and CIA ties
Santo Trafficante testified before the House Assassinations Committee under immunity claiming he joined the 1960 plot against Fidel Castro to aid the United States government. He described himself as an interpreter and said he believes Castro’s brother Raoul intervened to secure release from a Cuban detention.
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Santo Trafficante
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Fidel Castro
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Kennedy
Dallas
Florida
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Cuba
Miami
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Roselli
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Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Oswald
Ruby
Weather and births listings from a local update segment
Weather report notes highs in the 50s and 70s across days with overnight lows in the 40s and a chance of showers. Sun times given. Birth notices list numerous families welcoming daughters and sons with addresses in Marion, Ely, Central City, Atkins, Vinton, Cedar Rapids, Mount Vernon, and other nearby locales. Marital dissolutions and local incident mentions included with times.
Quick action planned on minor energy matters
Washington AP report on swift moves to advance small parts of President Carter's energy program after the Senate approved a natural gas price compromise. The measure would deregulate most natural gas pricing in 1985, with estimated homeowner cost increases of 20 to 25 dollars annually by then, while some liberals warn of 100 to 200 dollars. The five part plan also includes coal conversion, energy conservation, electric rate setting and energy taxes. House-Senate negotiators aim to finalize minor conservation and electric rate sections as adjournment nears.
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Washington
Carter
Senate
Congress
House
Welfare cheaters on federal payroll face 15 indictments
Washington AP report says Project Match uncovered 15 indictments for mail fraud and obtaining federal funds under false pretenses. Eleven current and four former HEW employees were charged in Washington area cases, with the jury seated after extensive voir dire to screen for prejudices. The trial is set to begin Friday with lawyers' opening statements.
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Washington
Project Match
Joseph Califano
Russians face espionage charges in Newark jurors sworn
Sixteen jurors were sworn in early today in Newark to hear espionage charges against two Russians employed at a New Jersey facility. The men, facing a federal case, are alleged to have gathered sensitive information. Proceedings began as the panel pressed for impartiality and readiness for trial.
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Newark
N.J
Panama volunteers head to join Nicaraguan guerrilla war
In Panama City, about 200 young men kissed goodbye as they boarded buses to join the guerrilla fight against Somoza in Nicaragua. Led by Dr. Hugo Spadafora, vice minister of health who resigned Sept. 15, the volunteer brigade plans to be trained by the Sandinistas en route.
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Panama City
Panama
Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
Dennis Tejada
Hugo Spadafora
Botha Named South Africa Prime Minister in Major Shakeup
Pieter Willem Botha, 62, hawkish defense minister, becomes South Africa's eighth prime minister succeeding the ailing John Vorster after a three hour National Party caucus. Botha pledges law and order while seeking improved ties with the black majority, remaining a relative moderate on race but unlikely to scrap apartheid or separate development.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Pieter Willem Botha
Botha
Pete
John Vorster
National Party
Vance Still Hopes For Target Year Bomber Missile Treaty
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said he hopes to complete a new treaty limiting American and Soviet long range bombers and intercontinental missiles in the year. He told reporters after a two hour twenty minute meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that agreement could come this year, though he would not confirm if Gromyko’s outline narrowed differences.
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New York
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Army drill instructor convicted at Fort Dix NJ
Army drill instructor Robert Collins 26 of Pomona Missouri was found guilty at a court martial of eight counts of improper conduct for abusing trainees at Fort Dix recruit processing center. He faces up to six months at hard labor plus pay loss, reprimand, and demotion.
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Fort DIX
N.J
Robert Collins
Pomona
Born again Democrats raise $1 million for Carter
Washington AP report notes Carter hosts a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser at a 1,400-strong dinner praising Camp David Summit. Brzezinski lauds the president, claiming the night shows Democratic strength and renewed national pride. Also recalls the 1953 Greenlease kidnapping case and its tragic outcome.
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Washington
Camp David
Carter
United States
National Security
Zbigniew Brzezinski
David
Laetrile tests set by U.S. on humans
A government plan to test Laetrile on humans is seen as insufficient to prove effectiveness unless trial subjects also receive vitamin and mineral supplements. Robert Bradford, founder of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, warned that Laetrile does not work by itself.
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National Cancer Institute
Robert Bradford
The
Committee For Freedom of Choice In Cancer
Grain of Sand Mosaic Maps Ancient History of Sand
ASU graduate student William Wellendorf spent 120 hours assembling 1,100 electron microscope photos into a 10 foot mosaic of a single sand grain. Dr. David Krinsley notes this is the first detailed portrait of a grain and can reveal past glaciation or desert exposure from surface irregularities. The work supports a geology master's degree.
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Tempe
Ariz
Arizona State University
William Wellendorf
David Krinsley
ASU
Wellendorf
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