Souter declines Hawaii trip amid travel junket worry
Tribune calls out New Hampshire Attorney General David H. Souter for skipping a Honolulu meeting of state AGs to save over $1,000, arguing the move sets a rare example while condemning widespread public expense junkets and noting skepticism about the motive.
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David H. Souter
New Hampshire
Hawaii
National Association of Attorneys General
Honolulu
Souter
Kansas Association of School Boards
Lawrence Legge
Chanute
Central Milk Products Co
Parsons
Southwestern Creamery Co
Joplin
C.S. Goldsmith
Gilmore judgment spurs pardon board to allow execution
Utah Board of Pardons votes 2 to 1 in favor of Gary Gilmore's wish to die. Critics mount last minute court challenges to stay the order while broader debates on capital punishment continue amid evolving constitutional rulings.
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Utah Board of Pardons
Gary Gilmore
Sardines and other fare spark jokes on aging
Columnist notes a New York doctor's claim that sardines grant youth and mocks the idea. The piece veers into humorous anecdotes about anchovies, dietary oddities, and a park bench veteran who swears by smoking and drinking, saying he is twenty four next May.
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Mike Royko
Chicago
New York
Stanford University
Gun law enforcement hampered by shakeup
Washington reports the ATF faces a preinaugural shakeup by the Treasury Department aimed at reducing field gun law investigations. Amid scandals and low minority representation, officials say reorganization targets enforcement while Carter prepares to take office.
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ATF
The
Treasury Department
Rex Davis
Jimmy Carter
Treasury
Dayton
California
Southeast
Jerry Thomas
John Conyers
D-Mich
Las Vegas
Davis
New trial granted in Screw Magazine obscenity case
Obscenity defendants Al Goldstein James Buckley and Milky Way Production win a new federal trial after Judge Franklin Theis ruled prejudicial prosecutorial statements tainted the Wichita jury The 1974 convictions for mailing obscene materials to Kansas residents are reconsidered amid venue and entrapment questions and strong defense claims.
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Wichita
UPI
al Goldstein
James Buckley
New York
Screw Magazine
U.S. District Court
Franklin Theis
Milky Way Production
Goldstein
Buckley
Kansas
Screw
Smut
Theis
Nixon
Fahringer
Schauf
U.S. Postal Service
Hutchinson
Salina
Lawrence
Pratt
Local Subscription Rates and News Wire Rights Statement
The notice lists various subscription prices including By Mail Outside Trade Territory and By Mail in Area Towns with multiple time options and taxes. It also notes Chanute post office boxholders rates and carrier delivery options, plus a rights declaration that United Press International has exclusive republication rights for local news and UP dispatches, with ABC membership.
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Neosho
Alien, Wilson, and Woodson Co
Chanute
United Press International
Chinese trade outlook grows with Hua Kuo Feng leadership
A two week tour group led by Talbot Shelton reports China under Hua Kuo Feng may increase trade with the outside world. Shelton notes rapid party line adoption, returns to normal life, and hints at improving ties with Japan and oil sales abroad. He describes Shanghai and Peking life, and reports department stores stock limited consumer goods as China modernizes.
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New York
UPI
China
Hua Kuo- Feng
Talbot Shelton
Smith Barney
Harris Upham Co
Stanford University
Peking
Hua
Chinese Communist Party
Mao Tse-Tung
Hua Kuo-Feng
Radical Four
Security tight as Mexico prepares Portillo inauguration
Thousands of police were deployed in Mexico City to guard the inauguration of Jose Lopez Portillo amid four nighttime bomb blasts that injured three. authorities say the attacks are not connected to the ceremony. Rosalynn Carter and a U S official attended as security held on rooftops along the motorcade route.
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Mexico City
UPI
Jose Lopez Portillo
Mexico
Rosalynn Carter
Jimmy Carter
Henry Kissinger
Ford
Jack
Lady Bird Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
Luis Echeverria
Augusto Gomez Villanueva
Mexican Congress
Lopez Portillo
Mexico opens Lopez Portillo presidency amid economic crisis
Lopez Portillo assumes Mexico’s presidency with a faltering economy and peso devaluation looming. Incoming officials include Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma Cid as finance secretary and changes in the cabinet amid land reform unrest and ongoing economic stress.
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Treasury
Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma Cid
Mexico
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Sing Sing
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ERDA
Ford Administration
Ralph Nader
Congress Watch
Crate.e Tribune
N. Evergreen
Fred M. Harris
Mike) Harris
Keith Wright
Member
Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Kweilin
Mao
Chiang Ching
Japan
Durango State
Echeverria
Revolutionary Institutional Party
Porfirio Munoz
Labor Secretariat
Pedro Ojeda Paullada
Federal Attorney General's Office
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