Ford refuses to lift grain sale moratorium
President Ford held a frank White House meeting with farm leaders and declined their request to end the one month moratorium on grain sales to Russia. Farm officials said they remained not completely satisfied as Butz cited Ford's commitment to a free market while facing a dilemma from the longshoremen's boycott affecting wheat shipments.
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Ford
Washington
UPI
Russia
William J. Kuhfuss
American Farm Bureau
White House
Earl L. Butz
Union
Butz
Kuhfuss
Secretary of Labor
Labor
AREA FORECAST: Cloudy with drizzle and cooler days ahead
Weather summary shows high temperatures in the mid 60s with today at 58 and 53 at night. Expect mostly cloudy skies tonight and partly cloudy Tuesday with highs near 70. Precipitation totals include .13 inch Sunday and .04 inch today. Area forecast notes southerly winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tribune wins multiple Kansas Better Newspaper Contest awards
The Tribune earned first place in column writing for Keith Wright's At Random and also won makeup and typography in its circulation class. The paper's sweepstakes entries included third in women's pages, with Nelson Showalter accepting the honors at the Editors Day program at the Kansas State Fairgrounds Hutchinson.
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Keith Wright
Kansas
Kansas State Fairgrounds
Hutchinson
The
Tribune
Barbara Kihm
Manhattan Mercury
Parsons Sun
Pratt Tribune
Attica Independent
Marmaton Valley Sun
Moran
Belleville Telescope
Kansas Press Association
Nelson Showalter
Sharpshooter kills would be skyjacker in San Jose
A San Jose gunman Fred Salomon, 24, died after a SWAT sharpshooter shot him during a four hour rampage that began with a stabbing and kidnapping at a home and ended at San Jose Municipal Airport where he held five hostages including a doctor and two maintenance workers aboard a Continental Airlines 727.
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San Jose
Calif
UPI
Continental Airlines
Fred Salomon
San Jose Hospital
Frank Wiesels
Reid-Hillview Airport
Salomon
San Jose Municipal Airport
Solomon
Jay Propst
SWAT
Propst
Attendance rises at Boston schools amid busing integration
Attendance at South Boston High School and Charlestown rose with 603 and 475 pupils respectively as the second week of the busing plan began. White and minority participation increased while visible police presence lessened some and a state police helicopter watched the routes. The 600 man National Guard unit was cut in half as tensions eased.
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Boston
UPS
Charlestown
Bunker Hill
Shrine of the
South Boston High School
South Boston
South
National Guard
Prairie park prospects dim for Kansas national park
In Elmdale Kansas a weekend meeting on the Prairie National Park topic features Interior official John Kyl saying $3 billion in park land development remains behind schedule and a new park would meet a cool reception in the Ford administration due to cost. Representative Larry Winn notes his 60 000 acre reserve bill has little chance of passage.
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Elmdale
Kan
UPI
Prairie National Park
Kansas
John Kyl
Interior Department
Congress
Ford Administration
Larry Winn
Winn
Judge faces censure for rhyming decision in Kansas
Reno County Magistrate Richard Rome faces formal censure from the Kansas Supreme Court over a May 1974 Hutchinson case in which he used a six stanza poem to decide a prostitution-related trial. The commission also targets Robert Baker over campaign conduct. The high court will hear Rome and Baker on September 26.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Reno
Richard Rome
Kansas Supreme Court
Commission On Judicial Qualifications
Rome
Hutchinson
Robert Baker
Ashland
Commission
L. A. McNally
Baker
High Court
Mary Sue Wallace
Tennyson
Browning
Clark
Meade County
Mary
Intercepted Letter Sparks Mixed Reactions
An intercepted letter addressed to Cha reveals a tense exchange touching on propriety and the conduct of women associated with nightlife. The message exposes frustration among unspecified judges about perceived wrongdoing.
Palestinians seize Egyptian Embassy in Madrid threaten diplomats
Palestinian raiders barricaded into the Egyptian Embassy in Madrid and threatened to kill the ambassador and two aides unless Egypt renounces the interim peace accord with Israel by midnight. Five attackers mined the building, and a warning was issued by the group led by Abdel Kader al Housein. Egypt demanded immediate release of the hostages, while PLO affiliates denied involvement in the Madrid raid.
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Madrid
UPI
Egypt
Israel
Anwar Sadat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Cairo
PLO
Arafat
Beirut
Abdel Kader al Housein
Geneva
Henry A. Kissinger
Arab League
Cifra Said
Senate to Hear Who Stockpiled Toxins at CIA
A Senate investigative panel will hold three days of hearings starting Tuesday to identify CIA officials who ordered stockpiling of outlawed toxins and poisons including cobra venom and an instant death toxin. Top CIA leaders and scientists will testify as public witnesses. The move follows findings of a covert CIA in house probe contradicting a 1970 order to destroy such materials.
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Washington
UPI
A _ Senate investigative committee
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
William Colby
Frank Church
Idaho
Church
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Carl Albert
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Malcolm Turner
Don Trujillo
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Mitla
Gidi
Abu Rudeis
Sinai
Mahmoud Abdel Ghaffar
Mohamed el-Shaffei Mekki
Mohammed el-Affifi
Senate
House Select Committee On Intelligence
Mideast War
Albert
Otis Pike
D-N.y
Pike
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