CIA funded drugs as rewards in 1950s experiments
The CIA admitted funding over 30 universities for LSD and other drug tests in the 1950s and 60s. At Lexington Kentucky’s Addiction Research Center inmates received drugs or sentence time off as rewards, with majorities choosing narcotics, testimony shows.
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CIA
National Institute of Mental Health
Addiction Research Center
Lexington
Edward M. Flowers
Carl Duckett
Office of Science and Technology
Office of Naval Research
James Henderson Childs
Veterans Administration
Duckett
Allen Dulles
Frank Olson
Bureau of Narcotics
Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema released unharmed in Ireland
Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema, held by Irish Republican Army kidnappers for 36 days, was released unharmed after negotiations. He described the prison as a filthy hellhole and displayed a .38 caliber bullet souvenir. He appeared in good health after a medical check and brief rest.
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Dublin
Ireland
Tiede Herrema
Herrema
Committee Okays Tax Cut Measure
The House Ways and Means Committee approves a tax bill with broad cuts for most Americans and targeted aid for investors hit by losses. It retains key 1976 anti recession cuts and includes a potential record tax break for Texas businessman H Ross Perot, estimated at about 15 million dollars.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Texas
H. Ross Perot
Perot
The
Wall Street Journal
Journal
Treasury
Tuch
Congress
Ford
Phil Landrum
D-Ga
Ministers Seek Saharan Compromise Amid Moroccan Border Crisis
Spanish and Moroccan ministers worked toward a Saharan compromise to allow hundreds of thousands of unarmed Moroccans bivouacked near the Spanish Sahara border to go home. The effort follows a mass march into Spanish Sahara and talks involving Ernesto Caro and King Hassan II, with a 24 hour promise of decisive events.
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Agadir
Morocco
Spanish Sahara
Ernesto Caro
Carlos Arias Navarro
Ahmed Saraki
Caro
Hassan II of
Africa
Ahmed Taibi Benhima
Spain
Tarfaya
Abbatteh
el Aaiun
Youthful Mayor Having Trouble With Oldsters
Liberty Center Ohio news reports Craig Myers 18 the nation's youngest mayor faces friction with a middle aged city council. He takes office Jan 1 after a six vote win and cites age resentment from officials who say they will get along once he proves himself.
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Liberty Center
Ohio
Craig Myers
Myers
Hearst Declared Competent to Stand Trial in Bank Robbery
Patricia Hearst, 21, deemed mentally competent by U S District Court Judge Oliver J Carter to face charges of taking part in an armed bank robbery with the Symbionese Liberation Army. The judge warned further legal wrangling, as defense lawyers seek private psychotherapy and possible transfer to a private hospital.
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U.S. District Court
Oliver J. Carter
Symbionese Liberation Army
Miss Hearst
Albert Johnson
Johnson
F. Lee Bailey
San Mateo Couny
John R. McDonald
Randolph A. Hearst
Hibernia Bank
Los Angeles County
Carter
U.S
James L. Browning
Ford Pledges Shake Up Won’t Change Policy
President Ford assures Moscow Peking and U.S. allies that his shake up of national security advisers will not alter overall U.S. foreign policy stance. The pledge comes amid personnel changes and ongoing Cold War tensions.
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Boston
Moscow
Peking
U.S
Henry Kissinger
National Security Council
New England Council
James Schlesinger
CIA
William Colby
America
White House
Soviet Union
China
Russia
Donald Rumsfeld
George Bush
Schlesinger
Colby
United States
Springfield
Mass
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
New England Society of Newspaper Editors
Rumsfeld
Bush
Jackson
Massachusetts
Marine 2nd Lt. Niflis discharged amid sex case dispute
Marine 2nd Lt. Mary Niflis is honorably discharged after resigning rather than facing court martial over alleged sexual relations with six enlisted men. Her mother calls for a congressional probe into Marine Corps handling, asserting social isolation and unequal justice.
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Yuma, Ariz
Mary Niflis
Marine Corps
Niflis
Marine Corps Air Station
Rickard
Jay Jeffcoat
Secretary of the Navy
Jeffcoat
Pentagon
Lt. Niflis
Franco Receives Massive Blood Transfusions in Madrid
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, underwent a four hour stomach operation at La Paz Clinic after ulcers caused heavy bleeding. Doctors reported more than 26 pints of blood were given over two sessions and described his condition as very grave.
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Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Pardo Palace
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