World in Brief summary of POW release and storms
VIENTIANE Laos Pathet Lao spokesman says Emmet James Kay the last American POW in Indochina will be freed within six weeks before June 3 under the cease-fire exchange. A spring storm in Japan kills eight and injures 44 with tornadoes and 557 homes damaged. Brazil floods ease in the south but northeast suffers heavy rains and Natal among hard-hit cities seeking aid. In Cairo West German Chancellor Willy Brandt meets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to discuss Middle East peace and Arab European dialogue begins with talks in Algiers.
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Laos
Emmet James Kay
Indochina
Pathet Lao
Kay
Continental Air Services Inc
Cairo
Willy Brandt
West Germany
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Brandt
Sadat
Middle East
Algiers
Houari Bournedienne
Nations in brief and political shocks across the nation
Navy ships pull from the Indian Ocean signaling a staged withdrawal likely lasting months. Ehrlichman confirms briefing Nixon on the O Brien tax audit memo. Buckley welcomes Cosell bid chatter at Annapolis. Minnesota towns brace as Reserve Mining shuts. Zebra killings prompt station staffing and legal challenges in San Francisco.
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Washington
John Ehrlichman
Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Terry Leamer
Associated Press
Votes on Allegheny County Home Rule charter loom
Voter registration closed as activists push for a county Home Rule charter in Allegheny County to be decided on the May 21 primary. The measure includes a provision for equal gender representation on advisory boards, with efforts to enroll students to vote. State police report slower driving since a December 55 mph limit cut, but speeding tickets rose about 40 percent from 1973.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Hearst Abduction Search Expands As FBI Probes
FBI agent Charles Bates says Patricia Hearst remains missing with an estimated SLA force of about 25 armed members. Police consider a lie detector test for a Hearst cousin’s roommate who says he was abducted, while Hearst’s fiancé Steven Weed was beaten amid the Berkeley campus events linked to the case.
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San Francisco
FBI
Charles Bates
Patricia Hearst
Bates
Newsweek Magazine
Symbionese Liberation Army
Miss Hearst
SLA
van R. Bush
William R. Hearst I
Bush
Young Hearst
Billy
Randolph A. Hearst
The
San Francisco Examiner
Berkeley
Steven Weed
Weed
Nancy Ling Perry
Lopez Michelsen wins Colombia presidency in leftist surge
Alfonso Lopez Michelsen of the Liberal party defeats rivals as official returns show a growing lead. He condemns U.S. policy while pledging to govern amid high inflation and calls for stronger national autonomy.
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U.S
Colombia
Bogota
Alfonso Lopez Michelsen
Liberal Party
United States
Latin America
Lopez
Alvaro Gomez Hurtado
Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Hernando Echeverri
Uno
Hermes Duarte
Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo
Insurance Buying Under Scrutiny in Pennsylvania
A House Republican study questions if Pennsylvania is breaking a 1966 law by purchasing state insurance through brokers rather than carriers. Anthony Trucco, head of the Bureau of Insurance, defends practices, citing coverage and cost needs, while Otis Littleton urges direct bids and competitive procurement to curb over and under insured risks and cut costs estimated at about 1.5 million annually.
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House
Anthony J. Trucco
Bureau of Insurance
Raymond P. Shafer
Trucco
Shapp
Otis Littleton
House Consumer Protection Committee
Littleton
Department of Property and Supplies
Treasury Department
Department of the Auditor General
Secretary of Property and Supplies
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
Bureau
Shafer
Trueco
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