Lockheed Bribes in Saudi Sales Highlight Senate Probe
Senate subcommittee chair Frank Church says Lockheed Aircraft Corp paid about 100 million dollars in bribes to influence fighter jet sales in Saudi Arabia, amounting to 11 percent of overseas income in 1974. Lockheed says the payments were added to prices and necessary to compete, with profits intact.
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UPI
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Saudi Arabia
Frank Church
Didaho
Church
Senate
Lockheed
Daniel J. Haughton
Subcommittee Today
Prince Khalid
Air Force
Northrop
Bill would limit teacher political activity in Kansas
A Kansas legislative committee tentatively drafted a bill to bar partisan political activity by the Kansas National Education Association and to prohibit strikes and unfair labor practices in teacher negotiations. The measure mirrors limits in the public employee relations act and adds impasse procedures with nonbinding last best offers.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Kansas National Education Association
Wayne Zimmerman
R-Clathe
Zimmerman
Bennett leads rain soaked Governor Farm Tour
About 100 people toured area farms despite heavy rain on Thursday. Gov. Robert F. Bennett and officials visited Richard Reinhardt dairy farm and Don Sailors hog farm before moving to E. K. Siefker in Allen County and finishing at Jim Strong’s luau. Visitors stayed in barns as showers continued.
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Robert F. Bennett
Richard Reinhardt
Don Sailors
Allen County
E. K. Siefker
Jim Strong
Sailors Farm
Bennett
City to Spray Mosquitoes Citywide After Health Board Request
City crews will spray mosquitos tonight and Saturday then again Monday as part of a program mandated by the state Board of Health and Environment. The fogging targets adult mosquitoes and avoids people, plants, and pets. larvae are not killed. Citizens should drain standing water and remove trash to curb breeding.
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State Board of Health and Environment
Jim Beck
Beck
Labor Day
Teacher strike deadline passes without resolved end in New York
In New York the deadline set by State Supreme Court Justice Irving Saypol to end the strike by the 80,000 member United Federation of Teachers passed with no confirmation that picket lines had been removed. The union had faced pressure to return to work and comply with court orders.
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New York
UPI
Supreme Court
Irving Saypol
United Federation of
Weather With Picket Line Update Across City Schools
Mostly sunny and cool through Saturday. Tonight clear to partly cloudy with lows in the mid to upper 40s. Saturday highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. Light southeast winds tonight. Across the nation the New York city walkout affects 1.1 million students with widespread strike action in public schools. Picket lines reportedly disappear at some schools as officials seek confirmation of an end to the walkout.
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New York
Ford heads for Midwest and Texas campaign swing
President Ford returns to Washington briefly for a clean shirt then embarks on a two day Midwest and Texas tour. He plans interviews in St Louis attend National Baptist Convention GOP fundraisers speak at a White House conference and visit Dallas and Midland to boost Republican candidates and programs.
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UPI
Ford
White House
New Hampshire
Midwest
Texas
St. Louis
National Baptist Convention
Dallas
Tex
National Federation of Republican Women
Southern Methodist University
West Texas
Midland
Republican Party
Lynette Alice Fromme
Sacramento
John Kennedy
Louis Wyman
John Durkin
U.S. Senate
Ford to stay at Alameda Plaza Hotel in Kansas City
Hotel staff raced to re coordinate rooms for President Ford and entourage for an overnight visit. The Alameda Plaza prepared about 200 rooms and a presidential suite for a White House security complex and a fund raising dinner.
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Kansas City
UPI
Alameda Plaza
Ford
Philip Pistilli
Alameda
Pistilli
White House
Teddy Roosevelt
Muehlebach
Harry S. Truman
Locke
The
Intercepted Letter to Cha Reveals Reluctance at Dawn
An intercepted letter to Cha quotes a weary speaker saying sleepiness haunts mornings likely from illness. The fragment notes a reluctance to rise and hints at a possible sleeping sickness influence on mood.
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