Garder McKay Bids Lions Farewell at Mesquite Park
Television actor Gardner McKay released a pair of pet lions at the World of Animals park in Mesquite Texas after Beverly Hills officials declared them persona non grata. He donated the animals to the park where they would roam with others in a largely open area near Dallas.
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Gardner McKay
World of Animals
Mesquite
Texas
Beverly Hills
Calif
McKay
Dallas
Powers Urge Devaluation By Global Finance Officials
Worldwide pressure on the United States to devalue the dollar grows as 118 nations gather in Washington for the IMF World Bank meeting. Schweitzer seeks direct devaluation by raising gold price from 35 dollars an ounce. Nixon’s August 15 actions aimed to trigger upvaluations and reduce the U.S. balance of payments deficit, provoking strong European and Japanese opposition and critique of the 10 percent tariff surcharge.
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Washington
United States
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
U.S
Nixon
Japan
Britain
European Common Market
Government Wins Fights Over Hikes
The government reports success in preventing 144 petroleum price increases without court action and aims to curb 269 more. Arnold Weber of the Cost of Living Council says cooperation is likely as 1,012 complaints reached IRS offices since the 90 day wage and price freeze began. 599 found meritless.
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Washington
Arnold R. Weber
Cost of Living Council
Nixon
William Proxmire
Proxmire
D-Wis
Weber
Internal Revenue Service
Revelations Of Soviet Spy Seen As Causing Troubles
London AP report says a Soviet KGB defector exposed espionage networks in the United States and Western Europe. Britain expelled 90 officials and barred 15 more, halting replacement. The move heightens East West tensions and follows warnings of sabotage and covert operations.
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Ronald Thomson
Associated Press
London
Britain
KGB
United States
Europe
Moscow
Kremlin
Unin
Narodny Bank
Soviet Intourist Travel Organization
Aeroflot
North Carolina trustees oppose university deconsolidation
At a Chapel Hill meeting with Gov. Bob Scott trustees described the Consolidated University as adamant and inflexible against breaking up the system. Senate and House committees weighed proposals for a centralized board with control over all 16 state universities, signaling a move toward deconsolidation unless compromise is found.
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Kirby
Ible
Chapel Hill
General Assembly
Joint Higher Education
John Burney
New Hanover
L. P. McLendon
Absenteeism Slows Military Hardware Measure
Washington AP Senate leaders weigh Saturday sessions to speed a $21 billion military hardware bill as absenteeism hinders weekday work. A bare 51 senators attended the vote to defeat Humphrey’s MIRV amendment with 39 to 12, drawing critique from arms control advocates.
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Carl P. Leabsdorf
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Senate
U.S
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Sal
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Oregon
Robert W. Packwood
Gunfight At Funeral Fails To Free Man
Deputy U.S. marshal dies in a churchyard gun battle after the prisoner’s stepbrother fires during the funeral of the inmate’s father. The brothers flee in a car, trigger a citywide chase, and are captured two miles away. one marshal dies and the prisoner and his brother are wounded.
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Robert L. Campbell
Associated Press
Washington
U.S
Willie Christy
Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Robert L. Rollins
Rollins
Randolph J
Arms Race Reported In Hancock County Georgia
Governor Jimmy Carter asked the FBI to probe reports of an arms race in Hancock County where blacks and whites allegedly order shotguns rifles and submachine guns. Mayor Patterson of Sparta says everything is fine while a new hunting club backs gun purchases.
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Atlanta
Georgia
FBI
Hancock County
Sparta
Jimmy Carter
Hancock Rangers
John McGowan
McGowan
Georgia Commission On Human Relations
Atlanta Constitution
T.M. Patterson
Patterson
Retired Justice Black Dies At 85
Washington AP reports former Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black died in his sleep at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 1 a.m. EDT at age 85 after a long tenure on the court from 1937 to 1971. The firm defender of strict constitutional interpretation faced both praise and controversy for his rulings including the 1962 school prayer decision.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Black
Warren
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marshall Harlan
Nixon
High Court
U.S
Felix Frankfurter
Harlan
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Bristol
Northern Ireland
Alec Douglas-Home
Andrei A. Gromyko
Perry Martin
Northampton
House Higher Education Committee
Martin
Joint Committee
Bob Scott
Justice Black
Roan
Hugo L, Black
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