Lebanon's Franjieh Elected President After Violent Session
Suleiman Franjieh, 60, crowned Lebanon’s fifth president by a one vote margin in a violent parliamentary session marked by fistfights and gunfire. He pledged democracy, economic expansion, and national reconciliation amid a tense climate with Palestinian refugee camps and regional rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Antar
Associated Press
Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
al Nahar
Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Elias Sarkis
Central Bank of
Nasser
Pee Camne
Camille Chamoun
Sabri Hamadeh
The Negro Community Calendar and Social Notes
Ester Hicks presents community notes from Malvern Arkansas detailing church events at Bethel AME and Bethel FMC, an annual Women’s Day service planned for September, and assorted coming and going items including travels of Mrs Martha Thompson and visits from Mr and Mrs C G Carmichael.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Woods Sisters of
Malvern
Arkansas
Bethel
Georgia
Aera
W.G. Wynn
Bethel A.M.E
Records Show Hawkins Received Tax Office Payment
Conway County records show Marlin Hawkins received 1038.85 as county tax collector over four years from Crittenden County Sheriff Marion Thomas for Thomas property taxes in Conway County. The payments were for land in Plumerville. Thomas faces four counts of embezzlement totaling 26255.17, with a special audit listing 32393.26 involved. Taxes listed dated 1967 1968 1969 and 1970, and Hawkins did not personally sign the validations.
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Morriston
Ark
Conway County
Hawkins
Thomas
Crittenden County
Richardson
Plumerville
Action on Voting Age Suits Faces Supreme Court
The Nixon administration seeks an early Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the 1970 Voting Rights Act lowering voting age to 18. Idaho and Arizona are named defendants in suits filed by the Justice Department, with implications for 48 states. Kentucky and Georgia already permit 18-year-olds to vote.
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Mark Brown
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Supreme Court
Idaho
Arizona
Justice Department
Robert Robson
Gary K. Nelson
John Mitchell
Kentucky
Georgia
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Right Hope
Alvin Willis
Downtown Merchants Committee
Hulan White
George Frazier
Anderson-Fraizer Agency
John
Hope
Donal Parker
John Shirley
Anderson- Frazier Insurance Agency
Keith
Ester Hicks
Martha Thompson
Gary
Indiana
Chicago
Ilinois
Dardenelle
C.G. Carmichael
Buster Perry
Messrs Ontee
Ernest Douglas
Lorenz Texas
Illinois
Earnestine Currie
Osceola, Arkansas
Howard Benedict
Wester
Hartley
LeBaron Russell Briggs
Elizabeth Moran
Ita
Bahamas
Navy
A.G. Hamilton Jr
Coast Guard
Mendota
Port Jefferson
Sunny Point
N.C
Briggs
Hamilton
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Jeas Schiavone
Lincroft
Conrad Cheek
Chemical Oceanography Branch
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC
Cheek
Woods Hole
Mass
Rockefeller
Arkansans
Rockefeller Knoe
Tay Adair Ny
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