Israel Planes Blast Bases in Lebanon
Israeli planes struck Arab guerrilla bases in Lebanon over the weekend and ground forces fought infiltrators on the Golan Heights. A cease-fire held along the Suez Canal as Egyptians hailed U.S. efforts, while clashes in Jordan and the Dead Sea region left casualties. The Israeli cabinet debated U.S. guarantees amid disputed terms of a peace plan and frontier security.
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Arkla Tactics Lashed by Candidate
James Malone Jr. of Lonoke charged that the political machine funded Faubus and McClerkin campaigns with hundreds of thousands of dollars. He claimed named Little Rock businessmen and an Arkla employee watched funds for the two camps. He tied the talk of a meeting on the mountain to a hidden government and monitored abuses. The piece also covers a Hope Rotary Club talk on drugs and health.
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Harry King
Associated Press
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James Malone Jr
Lonoke
Orval Faubus
Hayes McClerkin
Malone
Faubus
McClerkin
Jess Odom
Little Rock
Raymond Rebsamen
Winrock Farms
United States
Steve Bader
Hope Rotary Club
Bader
Rotary
Dick Moore
Sammy Strong
Witness in Tate Case to Get Immunity
Linda Kasabian, the key witness against Charles Manson and co defendants, may be granted immunity in the Sharon Tate killings case. A hearing was set to decide immediate immunity amid defense claims she could recant if not prosecuted. she testified she aided on August 9 and 10, 1969 as a lookout. The ruling could affect the fates of Manson, Atkins, Van Houten, and Krenwinkel.
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Los Angeles
Linda Kasabian
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Superior Court
Charles Older
Commission backs repeal of adult pornography laws
Washington AP The Presidents Commission on Obscenity and Pornography recommends repealing laws prohibiting adults from buying or possessing pornographic films books and similar material The draft says protections for children and against unsolicited exposure should remain with no war on government controls for materials available to adults The panel will meet this week and issue a final report by late August The recommendations stop short of live sex shows and echo Denmark’s approach of shielding children while removing adult restrictions
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
President's Commission On
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Nixon signs bill extending unemployment insurance
President Nixon signed a law extending unemployment insurance to about 4.7 million more workers and adding up to 13 weeks of benefits during high unemployment. Key expansions cover nonprofit workers, smaller businesses, state hospitals and colleges, salesmen, and workers abroad. The tax base rises to 4200 in 1972. In Asia, reports from Phnom Penh cite enemy proximity and continued fighting around Suong and Kiri Rom.
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Suang
Bassac
Vietnam
Kiri Rom
Government Subsidies Fund Luxury Ocean Liner Cruises
The government pays up to 400 per passenger to subsidize American passenger ships. The aid, started before World War II for defense, now benefits about 10 South Pacific and Caribbean liners and even a six ship New Year's cruise off California. Officials say the subsidies, though defended as keeping the fleet afloat, are vast and controversial amid broader war and economic concerns.
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James R. Polk
Associated Press
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Arkansas Weather Summary Report
Experiment Station report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Monday records high 98 and low 74 with 0.25 inches of rain. Forecast calls for scattered showers and thunderstorms across Arkansas with locally heavy storms in the south today and extreme south Tuesday. North portions to be partly cloudy Tuesday. Cooler in northern areas today and tonight. little temperature change elsewhere. Highs in the 80s north to the 80s south Tuesday. Lows tonight mid 60s to upper 70s.
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Arkansas
Two Killed on Arkansas Highways
The Associated Press reports two highway deaths in Arkansas over the weekend. Anna Dean Forbes, 45, of Fort Smith died Saturday when her car hit a utility pole in Fort Smith. John A. York, 90, of Locust Grove died Friday on Arkansas 167 north of Batesville when his car collided with another vehicle.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Anna Dean Forbes
Fort Smith
John A. York
Locust Grove
Arkansas 167
Batesville
Obituary notices and Senate Safeguard debate in 1979
MRS BULA J PORTER obituary appears amid a national AP survey showing a Senate vote leaning against expanding the Safeguard antimissile system from two to four sites. The piece also lists multiple local funeral notices for residents of Hope, Arkansas, including Robert B Huckabee Charles W Lewis and Eula J Porter.
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Eula J. Porter
Homer Porter
W. C. Carpenter
Hope
Carl
W. S. Porter
Louisiana
J. A. Spier
California
Robert B. Huckabee
Herndon Chapel
Connie Robbing
Foster Cemetery
Ora
Edwin
Conway
Charles
Mena
Vernon
Tittle Rock
Bruce
Shawnville
Nedra Gilbert
Esther Rateliff
Shafter
Calif
Dixie Laughard
Nashville
Tom Huckabee
Charles W. Lewis
First Pentecostal Church
Macedonia Cemetery
Herndon Funeral Home
Bertie Juris
C. W. Lewis, Jr
Stamps
Mabel Jones
Texarkana
Harold Cummings
Buckner
Billie Ball
Corpus Christi
Tex
Tom
Oak Grove
Bodean
Guy
Maude Mayton
Houston
Irma Wheelington
Estelle Lingo
Ruth Porterfield
Spa Man Killed in Collision Near Piedmont
Spa man Steve Overton, 23, of Hot Springs Arkansas, was killed in a two car crash near Piedmont Alabama on Sunday, authorities said.
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Spa
Piedmont, Ala
Steve Overton
Hot Springs
Ark
Here
Arkansan to lead American Bar Association president
Edward L. Wright 67 of Little Rock will become president of the American Bar Association as the 140,000 member group closes its annual convention in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Edward L. Wright
Little Rock
American Bar Association
Escapee Search Continues for Prison Worker Jesse Maynard
Authorities extend hunt for Jesse W. Maynard 22 of Fort Smith after he apparently walked off a Cummins Prison Farm work detail Saturday. Local investigators, aided by state police, follow leads across Arkansas as crews lock down inmate areas and review surveillance footage. Maynard is described as 5 feet 9 inches, about 180 pounds, with a scar on his left cheek and was last seen wearing a white shirt and denim overalls.
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Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Jesse W. Maynard
Fort Smith
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