Former CIA official denies help to topple Allende
David A. Phillips, former CIA Latin America chief, says the agency did not aid in overthrowing Chile's Allende and aimed to preserve democratic sectors for a 1976 election. He claims CIA sought to counter critics while denying involvement in assassinations and Castro's role. He resigns to form an association of retired intelligence agents.
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Washington
CIA
Salvador Allende
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
David Allee Phillips
Kennedy
Phillips
Allende
United States
Mr. Allende
Chile
U.S
Cuba
Castro
Indochina War Developments Across the Region
Reports from Phnom Penh to Saigon and Hanoi describe a Cambodian push to restrict foreigners as it rebuilds a new society. North Vietnamese and Thai authorities react to the Saigon regime’s collapse amid fears of Communist expansion in Laos and ongoing tensions with the United States over airlifted aircraft.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Communist Party
Nhan Dan
U.S
Saigon
South Vietnam
United States
Radio
Hanoi
Kyodo
Thailand
Laos
Indochina
Vietnam
Safety rules may boost power mower prices, close firms
A private Stanford study for industry groups estimates mandatory safety standards from Consumers Union could raise mower prices 24 to 49 percent and shut about 24 firms. A $100 gas powered rotary mower could cost as much as $186, with push and riding models bearing the largest increases. The plan, due June 19, targets reducing roughly 190,000 annual mower injuries.
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Washington
Consumers Union
Stanford Research Institute
Dennis C. Dix
Outdoor Power Equipment Institute
Bertram Strauss
Consumers Union Standards Development Group
U.S
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Research Institute
Dix
Ford hosts ministers at White House without Cuba mention
President Ford, hosting a White House reception for ministers, made no reference to Cuba while signaling progress toward a Panama Canal treaty and a new relation with Panama. He stressed mutual interests and global canal dependence, and endorsed states’ rights to choose governance and economic systems.
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Ford
White House
Cuba
United States
Panama Canal
Panama
Fort Ticonderoga Reenactment Draws 40000 Spectators
More than 150 descendants of Arnold Allen and the Green Mountain Boys joined three reenactments of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, hailed as the first American Revolution victory. Ronald Arnold recalled the emigration to Canada and said we had to leave. The National bicentennial event drew an estimated 40,000 spectators on Saturday as Fach offered his own interpretation of the history.
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Allen
Green Mountain Boys
FL Ticonderoga
Concord
Lexington
Fach
Saigon refugee arrival and missing man at El Toro base
A California broadcast journalist said Vien arrived at El Toro Marine Air Station with refugees and was met by a Marine Gen. Taylor staff car before vanishing. An El Toro spokesman said Vien left the base and his whereabouts are unknown. Separately, Tran Chanh Tranh, a Hanoi Viet Minh official who defected to the South, killed himself at 4 a.m. May 2 after Saigon’s occupation.
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U.S. Navy
California
Vien
el Toro Marine Air State
Robert N. Taylor
el Toro
Tran Chanh Tranh
Hanoi
Viet Minh
Saigon
Boston busing plan aims to desegregate by district
In a 104 page ruling Judge Garrity says neighborhood school assignments cannot achieve substantial desegregation in Boston due to city geography and racial distribution. His plan, superseding an earlier panel's, divides Boston into eight districts and would have bussed 10,000 to 15,000 students, with eight districts largely containing parts of the black center.
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Garrity
Boston
Major Quake Hits Chile Southern Region
A major earthquake struck Chile's southern agricultural region causing structural damage including some homes and a hospital. No deaths or serious injuries were reported. The National Earthquake Information Center recorded 7.8 magnitude, the largest so far this year, centered off the Chilean coast southwest of Santiago.
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Chile
National
Denver
US Geological Survey
San Francisco
Mothers Day Proclamation Links to West Virginia History
The article traces early state actions around Mothers Day from 1910 to 1914 with Gov William E Glasscock and the national proclamation by Woodrow Wilson. It notes Anna Jarvis’s connections to Grafton, the Andrews Methodist church shrine, and the shrine committee’s plans to add a museum using state bicentennial funding and $5,000 yearly state support.
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William E. Glasscock
West Virginia
Woodrow Wilson
Anna Jarvis
Grafton
Andrews Methodist Church
Mothers Day Shrine Committee
Fire kills mother and five children in Newark NJ
A carousing fire on a third floor porch in Newark South Side killed Evelyn Mills 34 and five of her children Pamela 7 Lavonche 4 Pope Jr. 3 Leeandre 2 and Insione 3 months. Four Mills children escaped and a 11th child was not home. Fire dept suspects arson as resident Charles Saunders 49 severely burned, critical after leaping from a window. Police said Pope Jr. may have been dropped from a window to save him.
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Newark
John Caufield
Evelyn Mills
Pamela
Lavonche
Pope Jr
Leeandre
Insione
Mills
South Side
Charles Saunders
Martland Medical Center
Castro’s Cuba Focuses on Youth Education and Trade Growth
The article notes Fidel Castro, now 47, steering funds into schools and factories while old government buildings host relics of the revolution. Havana’s neglected palaces stand as witnesses to a changing economy with new apartments, highways, and factories under construction. Gambling houses are gone, yet European businessmen seek deals in a nine million population market long cut off from the United States.
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Ful- Bencic Batista
Bay of Pigs
Havana
Castro
Cuba
United States
Two Teens Raped Then Set Afire Killing One Girl
In Philadelphia, two 16 year olds were raped and a trailer was set ablaze killing Tina Statuti and severely burning Beverley Rodenbaugh. Police say revenge for a beatings motive may apply. suspects include Robert Rigler and Charles Stickle.
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Philadelphia
Robert Rigler
Sah
Charles Stickle
French Creek Inn
Tina Statuti
Conshohocken
Beverley Rodenbaugh
Rosa Mystica
St. Agnes Hospital
Tina
Miss Rodenbaugh
Miss Statuti
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Charles Millhouse
West Conshohocken
Millhouse
Robert Jacquot
Rigier
Bridgeport
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