Castigated By Judge Moore Gets Life Sentence
Sara Jane Moore, 45, received a life term in U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to firing at President Ford in San Francisco. Judge Samuel Conti condemned her as misguided and said tougher capital punishment laws deter crime. Moore must serve 15 years before parole eligibility, with her son Frederick Ratberg placed in juvenile custody.
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San Francisco
Sara Jane Moore
Ford
Miss Moore
U.S. District Court
Samuel Conti
Conte
Invernment
Frederick Ratberg
James Hewitt
Letters on employment discrimination and calendar questions
A reader asks why a Furniture Company with 63 years in business has never allowed Black workers in the office and how to pursue action, with contact numbers for the U3 Labor Dept. and the Human Relations Commission. The page also answers how five Sundays in February occur, notes leap year rules, and recounts calendar history from Roman times to Gregorian reform.
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T.J. A
U3. Labor Dept
Harold Cox
Reagan Weaver
Human Relations Commission
S.C
AT. A
Januarius
Februarius
Caesar
Augustus
Gregory
Great Britain
George Washington
Russians Land More Weapons In Angola Amid Renewed Fighting
Washington reports say Soviet backed forces in northern Angola are near collapse as MPLA units aided by Cuban troops push toward Zaire. U.S. cables note UNITA faltering while Moscow ships armaments to Luanda and Gulf of Guinea, with South African units pulled back but no clear disengagement plan.
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Washington
Russia
Angola
United States
U.S
NATO
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
Zaire
National Front
National Union For the ‘Total Independence of Angola
UNITA
Luanda
Gulf of Guinea
State Department
South Africa
Ford to seek Social Security tax hike in 1977 budget
President Ford plans a January 1 1977 Social Security tax increase and Medicare changes in his coming budget to Congress. It projects 394 billion dollars in spending against 351 billion in revenues, yielding a 43 billion dollar deficit for 1977. The plan aims to strengthen the Social Security Trust Fund despite unpopularity and includes caps on elderly outlays for hospital, nursing care, and physician services.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Associated Press
Death Sentence For Man In Lost Dog Rape Case
Forsyth County Superior Court jurors convict 86 year old John Newman Montgomery of raping an 11 year old girl in July 1974 after luring her with a lost dog ruse. He receives the mandatory death penalty and faces additional rape charges in Piedmont counties. Montgomery was arrested in Syracuse after a prolonged manhunt and extradited to North Carolina.
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Winston-Salem
Forsyth County
John Newman Montgomery
Cynthia Marie Reed
Montgomery
Clemmons Church
Piedmont
Syracuse
N.Y
North Carolina
Williams Kidnapping Charges Dropped Over Witness Ill Health
Union County prosecutors dropped the 1961 kidnapping charges against black activist Robert Williams due to the illness and death of key witness Mrs Bruce Stegall. District Attorney Carroll Lowder said her testimony would have been essential, while Williams' attorney called the move a delayed but necessary act for justice.
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Monroe
N.C
Union County
Robert Williams
Carroll Lowder
Williams
Lowder
Bruce Stegall
Stegall
Republic of
New Africa
Boy rides bus alone to school in Warren district
Darren Westergaard, age 10, a fifth grader from Warren Woods district in Warren Michigan, lives less than two blocks from Atwood Elementary and rides the school bus alone each morning.
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Darren Westergaard
Atwood Elementary
Warren Woods
Warren
Michigan
Perils Of Loose Talk Recall Democrats Making No Claims On Nomination
The piece notes Democrats avoid predicting primary outcomes as Ford and Reagan clash in early forecasts. Six major candidates linger with no clear frontrunner for New Hampshire on February 24 or Massachusetts ballots. Undecided blocs and a crowded field erode certainty, while both camps dodge bold claims about winners.
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Washington
Ford
Ronald Reagan
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Fai
Reagan
Lyndon B. Johnson
Eugene J
Young Americans Prejudiced says studies show bias among youth
Berkeley based sociologist Dr Charles Glock reported at the Anti Defamation League meeting that 5000 students from 8th and 12th grades in three New York area districts reveal white non Jewish youths hold stronger prejudice against Black peers than Jewish peers. He blamed public schools for mirroring community attitudes and noted white flight and private schools isolating groups.
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Berkeley
Calif
Sal's
Charles Y. Glock
Glock
University of California
Anti Defamation League of B'nai
Glack
New York City
Allosaurus Safari Planned From Utah for Museum Gift
A buyer funded by a Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue gift will sponsor a September dinosaur safari in eastern Utah's Wenner basin for Allosaurus bones. James Madsen Jr of the University of Utah confirms bones will be found and later shipped to the university for cleaning and study, with some loaned to the North Carolina Museum.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
James H. Madsen Jr
University of Utah
Neiman- Marcus
The
Deseret News
Rick Boswell
Pinehurst Mortgage & Loan Co
Southern Pines
N.C
Madsen
Boswell
Africa
North Carolina Museum
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Charles Manson
Lynette Squeaky” Fromme
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A Hopes
Chamuel 5
Raleigh
Anon
Aa Financial
Firebrand
Michigan Supreme Court
Cuba
Ching
Durham
Karen Galloway
Redwood
N.C. Museum
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