Prosecutor says Hearst lied to protect lover in robbery tale
In Sacramento an assistant U.S. attorney challenged Patricia Hearst credibility claiming her secret bank robbery story aimed to shield underground lover Steven Soliah. A court decision awaited whether to hold a hearing to probe Hearst's revelations about the April 24 1975 Crocker National Bank raid in Carmichael where a customer was killed.
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Sacramento
Calif
Patricia Hearst
Steven Soliah
Asst
U.S
Richard Nichols
Soliah
Miss Hearst
Soligh
Crocker National Bank
Sub
Urban Carmichael
Nichols
U.S. District Court
Philip Wilkins
Telephone transfer stirs 5 percent checking account gimmick
The Associated Press reports that some S&Ls offer 5 percent daily interest on funds in checking via telephone transfer. Customers sign contracts giving S&Ls access to their checking, keeping only a minimum balance to qualify for free checking while the rest earns interest for the S&L.
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David R. Nelsen
Associated Press
S&ls
S&l
S&l's
S&Ls eye profits in day loan and transfer deals
Banks loan to other lenders and borrow from them to cover withdrawals. High sums mean big profit potential even with small percentages. First Federal Raleigh sets a $500 minimum savings deposit to cover costs. Business accounts with large sums seek telephone transfer services. $100,000 can earn about $5,389.85 annually at 5.4 percent.
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S&ls
Judy Wilcox
Carolina Federal S&l
Raleigh
First Federal
Tom Miller
Miller
Wilcox
Local readers seek bus stops and pageant info in Durham area
Questions about school bus routes ask why buses stop at nearly every house and whether a central pickup is used. A Durham comic book convention details are uncertain from the Chamber of Commerce. Miss Teenage America pageant info given as national, with no High Point sponsor. Junior Miss details via High Point Jaycees. Found plate guidance offered by police. Youth Services Bureau plans a May 8 auction at Wachovia with donations urged.
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Durham
Chamber of Commerce
High Point
C.A
Thomasville
Empire Central Place
Suite
Dallas
Texas
Dr. Pepper Company
High Point Jaycees
Guilford County
Randolph County
Shirley Atkins
Jaycee
Youth Services Bureau
South Main
Wachovia Bank
Westwood
Lynn Chance
White House Decorator Found Dead
New York AP. Interior designer Michael Greer who helped decorate the White House for three presidents was found dead in his Park Avenue apartment. Police say suspicious death with initial notes of possible strangulation but an autopsy was pending. Greer, 60, known as Mr Directorie, decorated homes of the wealthy and contributed to Eisenhower and Kennedy era White House rooms and later work for Lady Bird Johnson.
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New York
Michael Greer
White House
Greer
Park Avenue
Dominick DiMaio
Small firms drop pensions amid ERISA costs in NC
In Asheville Hobson Construction joins small firms dropping pension plans due to ERISA costs and vesting rules. Mrs Hobson says extending coverage to about 100 workers would require 30 to 40 thousand dollars and heavy red tape, forcing plan termination. North Carolina saw 176 plans terminated in seven months, part of a national rise in pension drops.
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Raleigh
Hobson Construction Co
Asheville
W. H. Hobson
Hobson
North Carolina
William G. Rand
Hobson Construction
Searchers Fail To Find Hughes Will In Bank Box
Los Angeles AP report says the Bank of America South Hollywood box held only jewelry while investigators seek Howard Hughes will. Dietrich and Bautzer insist a handwritten, unwitnessed will exists. officials warn two thirds of the estate could revert to government if no will is found. Summa, Hughes’ firm, and Miami’s Hughes Medical Institute are referenced in the pursuit.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Howard Hughes
Summa Corp
Hughes
South Hollywood
Bank of America
Summa
Farflung Entertainment
Aerospace Enterprises
Corporation
Noah Dietrich
Dietrich
Gregson Bautzer
Associated Press
Hughes Medical Institute
Miami
Arelo Sederberg
Bautzer
DDT Found In Milk Of Poor Black Women
Medical researchers in Tennessee report high DDT levels in the milk of poor Southern black women more than three years after the pesticide ban. In a study in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, Bennie T. Woodard of Meharry Medical College and colleagues found averages of 447 ppb among black mothers vs 75 ppb among white mothers, urging further study on potential infant effects.
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Chicago
Tennessee
World Health Organization
American Journal of Diseases of Children
American Medical Association
Bennie T. Woodard
Meharry Medical College
Bruce B. Ferguson
David J. Wilson
Vanderbilt University
Bolivar County
Miss
Lee County
Ark
Nashville
Insurance Payments Restored
Betty Coleman of Durham North Carolina won a reversal by a three judge panel of the Fourth Circuit. The court unanimously overruled a denial of disability insurance benefits by the HEW secretary, after she left Liggett and Myers Tobacco in 1967 citing numbness and stomach cramps.
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Richmond
Monkeys Face Human Threat Across World
Washington AP reports about 35 percent of global monkey species face extinction risk due to war farming logging medical research and pet keeping. The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding 27 primate species to the endangered or threatened list raising total primates under protection to 19 55.
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Washington
United States
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Hearst
Sheldon Otis
Otis
Keyes
San Francisco Federal Building
Redwood City
Jung
Patty Hearst
Thape
Anon
Hughes Will
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