Morality in Derby and Junk Mail Debates Stir Opinion
A Boulder juvenile court judge fined James Lange Sr. 2000 dollars for helping his nephew cheat in the 1973 National Soapbox Derby by installing an electromagnet. He was ordered to apologize and barred from derby operations until 1975. The DA cited 34 drivers altering racers, including six of the top 10.
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Denver
Akron
Ohio
James Lange Sr
Boulder Boys Club
Chattanooga
Tenn
Israel Reports Plane Downed by Egyptians
Israel reported Egyptian missiles shot down an Israeli reconnaissance plane. Premier Golda Meir met with the U.S. ambassador amid talks on a U.S.-brokered Middle East package. Cairo reportedly had not agreed to a Red Sea blockade plan.
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Associated Press
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U.S
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Sinai Desert
Middle East
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Red Sea
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Suez Front
Egypt
West Bank
Suez Canal
Four Watergate conspirators sentenced in federal case
Bernard L Barker received 14 to 6 years in prison for organizing the Watergate break in with three CIA associates. Eugenio R Martinez Frank A Sturgis and Virgilio R Gonzalez drew one to four year terms. G Gardon Liddy was sentenced to at least six and a half years. The group has served over 11 months. McCord may appeal within ten days.
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Watergate
Bernard L. Barker
Miami
Three Central
Telligence Agency
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Frank A. Sturgis
Virgilio R. Gonzalez
U.S District Court
John J. Sirica
Ment
McCord
Sirica
G. Gordon Liddy
Committee
Hunt
CIA
White House
Egypt and Israel Accept Six Point Peace Plan
The United States says Egypt and Israel accepted a six point agreement to pave the way for negotiations toward a permanent settlement in the Middle East. Kissinger said representatives would meet to sign, with immediate talks to settle the return to Oct 22 lines under UN auspices and a Suez relief plan including daily aid and civilian evacuations for Suez.
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Sinai Desert
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Kissinger
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Todey
Egypt
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White House
Henry Aissinger
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Bab el Mandeb
Red Sea
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United Nations
Suez
Arkansas schools may cut term amid LP gas shortage
Arkansas education officials warned many districts rely on liquefied petroleum gas could close for up to six weeks this winter. State Education Commissioner A W Ford said about 100 of 384 districts use LP gas and rising prices threaten start of next term. He noted Viola district saw LP cost jump from 11.9 cents to 3 cents per gallon. Ford also projected kindergarten funding costs from 8.5 to 10 million next year, with specifics pending March elections and bond issues.
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Arkansas
A. W. Ford
Ford
Dale Bumpers
Viola
Fulton County
Legislative Council
Friday Faith and Courage in Bible Verse Quoted
A religious musing cites Hebrews chapters 11 33 to 34 praising faith that conquers kingdoms enforces justice and defies danger. It attributes strength to weakness and faith in God, echoing Charles Wesley on faith seeing the promise and laughing at impossibilities.
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Mebsens
Charles Wesley
Tapes introduced in Memphis trial
A taped broadcast record from a 1971 Memphis traffic chase went blank just before the fatal beating of Elton Hayes. Prosecutors presented additional tapes while defense lawyers pressed for sequence tapes, as witnesses described who operated the tape machine and which frequencies captured the pursuit.
Nixon energy adviser says gasoline rationing likely by spring
Washington AP Nixon energy policy chief John A. Love cautioned no decision has been made to order rationing for the first time since World War I but said personal view favors odds of rationing by next spring. He noted local boards and coupons would gauge allotments by priority use if it occurs. Nixon urged Congress to grant authority by mid-December though the president tempered expectations, saying it might be needed only if other measures fail.
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U. S
Syria
Kinsinger
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Kissinger
Middle East
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Faisal
Washington
Nixon
John A. Love
Energy Policy Office
White House
Love
Nation
Congress
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
City Departments and 24-Hour Police Staffing Details
The text analyzes city budgeting with emphasis on salaries in police and fire departments. It notes 16 officers on the police force, including a chief, leaving 15 for patrol across three shifts. After vacations and off days, about four are on duty per shift, with one as radio dispatcher and three on patrol. Actual staffing varies with demand. It also reports 32 new three-cubic-yard trash containers for the Sanitation Department, 25 placed, with more to follow, and provides a contact number for containerization information.
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Fire
Cox returns to Harvard as Williston Professor of Law
Archibald Cox, former Watergate special prosecutor fired by the Nixon administration, will return to Harvard University in January as Williston Professor of Law the post he held before leaving in May to head the prosectors’ duties in Washington. Cox has served at Harvard since 1945. He was solicitor general of the United States from 1961 to 1965.
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Maas
Archibald Cox
Watergate
Harvard University
Harvard
Derek Bok
Cox
Williston
Washington
The
University
United States
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