Arkansas to Carry Out First Execution Since 1967
Henry Lee Giles, 19, black, deemed developmentally disabled, is scheduled for the electric chair on July 18 for the 1967 robbery of a shoe store in Forrest City in which Evelyn Drummond, 53, was fatally injured. Giles would be the first US inmate executed since 1967. The case prompts debate on Arkansas’s passing penalty law of 1973 and related appeals, with fellow death-row inmates Carl Collins and Charles Martin Neal also awaiting fall executions.
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Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Henry Lee Giless
United States
Luis Joe Monge
Colorado
Giles
Evelyn Drummond
Forrest City
Drummond
Phil Hickey
Arthur Rogers
Veteran’s Administration Hospital
North Little Rock
Atty
Gene Raff
Raff
State Supreme Court
Arkansas
U.S. Supreme
Carl Collins
Charles Martin Neal
Winthrop Rockefeller
Tim Baltz
Corrections Department
Charles Franklin Fields
Tucker Intermediate Reformatory
North Carolina
U.S. Supreme Court
Haiti famine threatens half million peasants in northwest region
In Gonaives Haiti Marie Joseph and her family struggle on meager rations as drought and overpopulation drive more than 600000 Haitians toward starvation. Foreign relief agencies mobilize a relief effort while U S diplomats say 120000 people will be fed for three to five months with imported bulgar wheat beans rice and biscuits. Trucks reach distribution centers via an 80 mile rough road built by US Marines.
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Gonaives
Haiti
Marie Joseph
Joseph
Port-au-Prince
Deny Il
Caribbean
Cuba
Miami
U.S
Heyward Isham
Northwest
Labor survey mailed to 8000 Nashville area homes
More than 8000 homes in the Nashville area received a labor questionnaire from the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and Arkansas Employment Security Division. Residents are asked to complete the form, keep data confidential, and mail it postage free to Rural Manpower Service in Nashville Arkansas.
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Nashville
Nashville Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas Employment Security Division
Rural Manpower Service
P. O. Box
Arkansas
Arkansas Employment Security Office
Howard County
S. Main
Jaworski Calls Watergate Flagrant Truth Violation
In Hot Springs Arkansas Leon Jaworski the Watergate special prosecutor warned the Arkansas Bar Association that the blatant flouting of truth by some officials was a contemptible conduct eroding confidence in leadership. He urged constitutional action and early civic education to preserve free society basics. The Pentagon built in 1943 is the world’s largest office building.
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Hot Springs, Ark
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Arkansas Bar Association
Pentagon
U.S. Department of Defense
Egypt to permit cargoes for Israel through Suez Canal
The Suez Canal may soon allow Israeli cargoes aboard ships of other nations, a quiet move aimed at avoiding regional backlash. U S officials say no test case will be announced, and Egypt will not halt nonmilitary Israeli cargoes if silence is kept. A planned Liberian sugar shipment to Israel sparked a brief test but was halted after Washington opposition and a directive from Israel. Egypt has barred all Israeli ships since 1948, though the disengagement terms with Israel allowed passage of third country cargoes under quiet terms.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Israel
Suez Canal
U.S
Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Anwar Sadat
Gad Yaacobi
Yaacobi
State Department
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