Accused kidnapper offers to bargain in court
Ashby G. Leach faces 13 kidnapping counts tied to a 1976 Chemie hostage siege in Cleveland. He offered a plea bargain if Chessie Railroad agrees to veterans training rights and jobs. He acknowledged restraining hostages and extortion while threatening self harm to pressure action.
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Cleveland
Ashby G. Leach
Eugene J. Sawicki
Cuyahoga County
Roger S Hurley
Cheasie Railroad
Vietnam Veterans Rights
Hurley
Chessie
Howard Skidmore
Railroad
Leach
Chemie
Hays T. Watkin
Watkins
Nantucket Sees 4 To 1 Vote For Secession Referendum
Nantucket residents vote 4-1 in favor of secession in a nonbinding town meeting referendum. Leaders say the issue aims to secure representation as reapportionment could merge the islands with a larger mainland district.
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Nantucket
Mass
Massachusetts
Wayne Holmes
Martha's Vineyard
Cape Cod
John Conway
Terence McCarthy
Michael Dukakis
Dukakis
Scott Anderson
Gosnold
Elizabeth Islands
Ecession
Marth’s Vineyard
Kingdom of
Moby Dick
Guerrilla land mine kills soldier in Northern Ireland
IRA guerrillas detonated a land mine under a British army scout car near Belleck County Armagh killing one soldier. The attack boosts the toll to 1,727 deaths in seven years of religious conflict in Northern Ireland with forty fatalities this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Belleck
County Armagh
The
Irish Republic
Congress moves drought bill with 100 million aid
President Carter is poised to sign a drought relief measure authorizing 100 million in grants and water swaps via a water bank to aid farmers. The Senate passed the bill unanimously and it funds state relief programs and federal water purchases to protect fish and wildlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter
Congress
Senate
Free legal aid expands to five Arkansas counties
Free legal help becomes available to about 60 000 persons in Jefferson Garland Lonoke Faulkner and Saline counties this month after a Legal Services Corp grant. Lawyers worry about federal control but officials say aid targets low income civil cases and will not take fee generating work.
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Little Rock
Mid
Arkansas
Grif Stockley
Legal Aid Bureau
Pulaski County
Jefferson
Garland
Lonoke
Faulkner
Saline
Legal Services Corp
Stockley
Legal Aid
Federal Agency For
Pulaski
Jay Dickey Jr
Pine Bluff
Jefferson County Bar Association
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Gricar
Chilmark
Martha’s Vineyard
D.C
Pan American Union
Kansas City
Kansas City School Board
American Federation of Teachers
James Lyddon
Robert Wheeler
United States
Savannah
James Ceetetee
Atlantic Ocean
James R. Jones
Todd
First Cavalry
Jones
Bernard Conway
Hope
Fort Hood
Tex
5Th Batallion
7Th Cavalry
Germany
First National Bank
FDIC
Federal Funds
Federal Reserve Bank
Municipal
U.S
Ray Lawrence
Charles Sharpe. JR
Lois O Neal
Dean Black
Brenda Searcy
Evelyn Hughes
Guy E. Bayle Bruner
Ivory Handle Co
Herbert Burns
J.P. Duffie
Duttie Hardware Co
Vincent W. Foster
Foster Land & Realty Co
John B Gardner JR
Hope Brick Works
W. H. Gunter JR
Gunter Enterprises
Thomas E. Hays
Thomas £ E. Hays. JR
James T. Hudson
Pres
Hudson Foods Inc
Lloyd Spencer
Syd McMath
Earl Oneal Hope Brick Works
James Pilkinton
Charles E. Sharpe, JR
Robert W. Garrett
Bento
Saline County
Tizes National
F.D.L.C
Federal
Federal Reserve Bank Cash & Exchange
Federal Funds & Securities
Albert Graves
Mitchell Legrone
Dale Jones
Cecil J. O’steen
William M. Reinhardt
C. Reynolds
Louis C. Jordan
Sonny Buster
Dennis Ramsey
Albert Graves, JR
John R. Graves
Joe Hankins
Henry Haynes
Mitchell Lagron
Frank McLarty
Jewell V. Moore, JR
Ned Ray Purtle
Geo. W. Robison
William R. Routun
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