New Trial Denied For Wilmington 10 in North Carolina
Superior Court Judge George M. Fountain denied a post conviction appeal for the Wilmington 10 nine Black men and one white woman convicted of arson and conspiracy in 1972. He ruled no substantial denial of constitutional rights occurred and noted the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
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Burgaw
N.C
George M. Fountain
Wilmington
Fountain
James Ferguson
U.S. Supreme Court
Lindy’s Early Flight Tutor Recalled By Idaho Teacher
Wilbur Hill, 88, recalls teaching a 20 year old Lindbergh in 1922 at Lincoln, Nebraska. Hill says Lindbergh was brilliant and a devoted student as he later electrified the world with the New York to Paris solo flight fifty years ago.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Charles A. Lindbergh
Nebraska
Wilbur
Pete’’ Hill
Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Hill
Lincoln Standard Aircraft Co
Lincoln, Neb
Long Island
Newfoundland
Sea
Charles Lindbergh
Europe
America
San Diego
Ryan Airlines Co
St. Louis
Roosevelt Field
New York City
Raymond Orteig
Real estate appraisal questions and a lost jump suit case
A reader asks about legal recourse after an over optimistic appraisal affecting financing. An advisor explains appraisals are opinions and loan amounts depend on lender guidelines. A separate note seeks help for a marital issue and a lost white jump suit at Shore's Cleaners with a reward for its return.
Mondale Vorster fail to reach race policy agreement in Vienna
In Vienna US Vice President Mondale and South African Prime Minister Vorster failed to bridge gaps over apartheid. Mondale said Washington will not intervene to save South Africa from its policies while Vorster argued blacks in South Africa have own government and voting rights amid persistent tensions on Namibia and Rhodesia.
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Vienna
Austria
U.S
Walter F. Mondale
John Vorster
South Africa
Mondale
Vorster
Namibia
Rhodesia
United States
General Singlaub summoned after warning on Korea pullout
Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, a top U.S. Army officer in Korea, flies to Washington after publicly warning that Carter’s plan to pull U.S. ground forces from South Korea could provoke war. Singlaub says he did not mean to undermine policy and will apologize if needed. White House officials weigh whether Carter will meet him this weekend.
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Washington
Carter
Korea
White House
South Korea
John K. Singlaub
U.S
CBS News
Singlaub
United Nations Command
Harry S. Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Rex Granum
General Hershey Dies At 83
Gen. Lewis Blaine Hershey longtime director of Selective Service who drafted 14.5 million Americans in four wars died in Angola Indiana at 83 He was found in a motel room by his son Col Gilbert Hershey Autopsy planned at Ft Benjamin Harrison Ohio burial at Arlington National Cemetery He directed the Greetings letters to draftees from 1941 to 1970.
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Angola
Ind
Lewis Blaine Hershey
Indiana
Hershey
Steuben County
Paul Gordon
Tri-State University
Gordon
Food Price Jump Fuels Inflation Amid April Rise
The April consumer price index rose eight tenths of 1 percent led by a 1.5 percent food increase. Ground coffee surged 13.1 percent as inflation persists, though excluding food and energy prices rose six tenths of 1 percent. The Labor Department notes overall 1977 price gains near 3.2 percent year to date.
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Washington
Carter
Labor Department
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CBS
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