09 Mar 1977
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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1977
Page
1
Senate testimony described collectors as using intimidation and threats to coerce payment. Witnesses cited practices aimed at instilling fear, including legal action threats, with some former collectors admitting harsh methods to pressure debtors. Several speakers noted industry pressure and the need for oversight.
In a crowded courtroom with school children present, Linda Taylor and three other women labeled "The Welfare Queen" failed to gain a mistrial on publicity grounds. Prosecutors say Taylor used 14 aliases to obtain about 150000 for medical and cash aid between 1973 and 1974.
Romana reports a woman named Figares fordache was buried for 62 hours in a one story building after an earthquake in Bucharest. She heard bulldozers outside and believed rescue might be near as rescuers worked around the rubble with the body of a friend nearby.
Amid debates on human rights in Chile and US influence, Kissinger confirms US funding to Chilean parties while Allende era suppression claims persist. CIA involvement remains unproven. In other front, a Romania quake toll climbs with rescue tales as survivors recount hours under rubble and Nadia Comaneci remains safe.
President Carter's planned overseas visit could expand into a NATO summit and a meeting on neutral ground with Syria's leader. Jody Powell said Carter would travel to London May 7 for economic talks with six major industrialized nations and possibly stay for a Western leaders session and talks with Assad. The trip aims to discuss problems facing both developed and developing nations.
Moore, 48, held after a Monday argument led to a siege at the traffic bureau. He fired several rounds, seized a public safety item, and demanded whites leave within seven days or face a curse. A second held person, Shelley Kiguans, 17, was released unharmed. Two reporters said Moore urged nonviolence and claimed to be acting in faith as negotiations continued.
Police broke up a brief protest by Volga Germans demanding the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union in Red Square amid banners calling for Helsinki Accords and freedom to emigrate. Ten protesters were arrested along with four Western reporters detained and released.
The House debated Gonzalez's resignation amid a battle over consent to avoid roll call. Bauman blocked a unanimous consent move, Wright called for a roll call, and Republicans Samuel Wdevine and Stewart McKinney argued the dispute was between Gonzalez and committee members, not Sprague. The panel will meet Wednesday to brief on Kennedy and King assassinations evidence.
The CIA told Congress that OSS agents used biological methods to poison Hjalmar Schacht to prevent attendance at an economic meeting. The account, cited in a CIA report to a Senate subcommittee, notes no date or further details. Schacht, key Weimar and Nazi financial figure, died in 1970 after a controversial postwar career.
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