Defense budget forecast to rise about $100 billion
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said the Ford administration approved a defense budget rise for next year to offset inflation and allow growth, while sharing in general budgetary restraint to cut total federal spending by 28 billion. Pentagon officials said next year’s defense outlay would run near 100 billion dollars.
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Washington
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Ford Administration
Rumsfeld
Ford
Congress
Pentagon
Lebanese Crisis Deepens As Karami Talks In Damascus
Premier Rashid Karami met President Hafez al Assad in Damascus to discuss Lebanon's worsening crisis amid cross border clashes in Zahle and Tripoli. A Lebanese military delegation accompanied him as gunfire and shelling disrupted the region.
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Lebanon
Rashid Karami
Damascus
Hafez al Assad
Karami
Hanna Saeed
Mussa Kanaan
Jules Bustany
Bekka
Zahle
Camille Chamoun
Radio Lebanon
Chamoun
Tripoli
Qassem al Imad
Mary Jo Risher Seeks Custody Amid Homosexual Lifestyle Claim
A custody suit filed by Douglas Risher against ex wife Mary Jo Risher alleges she and partner Ann Foreman live as a homosexual couple and questions their fitness to raise their 9 year old son. Court observers show the two outside the deliberation area as jurors begin their verdict process.
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Mary Jo Risher
Ann Foreman
Douglas Risher
Federal election aid certified for 10 candidates
The Federal Election Commission certifies 10 presidential candidates for federal campaign subsidies totaling 1.8 million dollars after January 1, with the Treasury to disburse payments from a fund of one dollar tax form contributions. An additional 710,000 dollars is approved for Democratic and Republican National Committee convention expenses.
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Washington
Federal Election Commission
Treasury Department
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Supreme Court
Lloyd Bentsen Jr
Texas
Ford
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Commission
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
The
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Woman Treated After Machete Attack at AME Apts
A Decatur woman, Maggie Mosely, 1238 2nd St NW, AME Apts, is listed in fairly good condition at Parkway Medical Center after an ankle wound from a machete attack at about 3:45 am. Police arrested Fred McDaniel, 31, 1232 2nd Lt NW, Bldg 13 Apt 5, on a warrant charging assault with a dangerous weapon. He is held in Morgan County Jail on $300 bond.
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AME Apts
2Nd St. NW
Maggie Mosely
Parkway Medical Center
Fred McDaniel
Kissinger on Angolan affair and secret CIA aid
Kissinger says the Angolan issue complicates settling the dispute with the Soviet Union. He notes Congress action blocked new funds and that quiet diplomacy could have worked, with possible Soviet influence on Cuban withdrawals and easier removal of South African troops. He cites remaining ITA funds of about 1 million plus 3.2 million in an emergency reserve.
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CIA
Kissinger
Senate
ITA
Angola
State road limits debated as farmers seek exemption
Edwards pushed to cap interstate weight at 80,000 pounds on state roads with an exemption for farmers. Abercrombie notes Fields Road trucks often exceed 20 tons per axle, rolling by a sign that reads Maximum 10 tons per axle.
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Abercrombie
Fields Road
Retrial Denied in Decatur Burglary Case
James McDonald Jr pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and was sentenced to five years. The State Court of Criminal Appeals upheld last week a Morgan Circuit Court denial of a new trial written by Presiding Judge Aubrey M. Cates. Separately, a three-man car wreck near Old Florence Rd injured Odis Nolan Clifton Oliver and James Abbott with Nolan and Oliver listed in fair condition.
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Morgan Circuit
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Moulton
Lawrence County
Tuscumbia
Here
Florence Rd
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Clifton Oliver
James Abbott
Town Creek
A. M. Yates
Nolan
Oliver
Lawrence County Hospital
Abbott
Nixon aide Chapin may gain parole early
Dwight L. Chapin, appointments secretary to former President Nixon, will be eligible for parole next February after U.S. District Judge Gesell reduced his sentence from 10 to 30 months to six to 18 months. Chapin, who lied to a federal grand jury, is at Lompoc minimum security, and a warden report recommends early parole.
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Washington
Dwight L. Chapin
Richard M. Nixon
U.S
Gerhard A. Gesell
Chapin
Lompoc
Calif
Gesell
Congress Tightens Watch On Budget Ceiling In 1976
Congressional Budget Committees pledge to block any breach of the 374.9 billion ceiling for fiscal 1976. Senate and House chairs note Ford's budget may be unrealistically low as they monitor spending, with latest figures showing a 366.6 billion outlay and 68.5 billion deficit. Also mentioned are CIA talks about Castro and a Chicago murder tied to Giancana. At Dollar General Store two employees report purse thefts with a 2.50 gold piece and 1885 silver dollars among the recovered items.
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White House
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Vail
Colo
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Reva
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Midwest
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Senate
Congress
Edmund S. Muskie
D-Maine
Dollar General Store
J. D. Sherrill
Dale McElyen
Jeane McCluskey
2Nd Ave. SE
Robbery trio eludes pursuit after bank hold up
Three men tied up Eddie McMillian in Centreville and later robbed the Bank of West Blocton. Shots were fired during the pursuit but no one was hurt. The bandits fled in McMillian’s vehicles, while arson at Mount Carmel Baptist Church annex prompted suspicions of a diversion. The suspects remain at large as a manhunt continues with FBI and local authorities.
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Centreville
Bank of West Bloct
FBI
Bibb County
McMillian
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
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