Vietnam crackdown seen worsening by U S intelligence
Washington reports say South Vietnam's anti Communist measures intensify beyond any period since the regime began. Officials note more disappearances among those linked to the U S backed administration, with no clear figures on the scope of the crackdown.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Khmer Rouge
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Harlem Voices Faces documentary on public TV
AP TV previews report two Swedish producers capture Harlem life in a 90 minute documentary aired by PBS after delays over a controversial post show panel. The film weaves voices and scenes with no narrator showing dignity amid squalor and conflict.
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Jay Sharbutt
New York
New York City
Harlem
Public TV
Public Broadcasting Service
Whitey
Wnet Here
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
PBS
Man charged with murder in Arkansas shooting death
Bill Woodard, 22, of Bay in Craighead County was charged with capital felony murder in the shooting death of Columbus Melvin Barker, 69, near Jonesboro. Arraigned in Poinsett County Circuit Court, no bond, body found by three hunters in a Payneway area wooded spot on Sept. 6 after Barker was shot multiple times.
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Harrisburg, Ark
Bill Woodard
Bay
Craighead County
Columbus
Melvin Barker
Jonesboro
Woodard
Poinsett County
A. S.“Todd” Harrison
Barker
Payneway
Refugee Day Nurseries Open in Hong Kong for Children
International Rescue Committee opens day nurseries in Hong Kong for Kinese and mainland Chinese refugee children. Facilities include all day cafe meals hygienic training and preschool education. The centers help many mothers to work and supplement poor families’ incomes.
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Hong Kong
International Rescue Committee For Children
IRC
Pryor backs European office for Arkansas investment
Gov. David Pryor said talks with European industrialists and financiers show Arkansas would gain from a permanent Brussels office to promote investment and expand exports. He plans to seek $100000 to $150000 yearly funding, pending legislative preparations.
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Associated Press
David Pryor
Arkansas
Europe
Pryor
Brussels
Waterbell fallout drives ex Bell officer to Blanco
Smilin Jim Ashley once led Bell Texas rate negotiations and faced a libel suit over Gravitt's death after a spending probe. Now 46, he lives with his wife Bonnie on 28 acres near Blanco, Texas, pursuing real estate with two children at home and others at university. The case and Bell scrutiny helped spur Texas to create its first state utilities commission.
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Blanco
Tex
Jim Ashley
Bell Telephone Co
Texas
T.O. Gravitt
Dallas
Ashley
Gravitt
Southwestern Bell
Bell
David
Goliath
San Antonio
Watergate
Bell System
Gravitts
Waterbell
Southwest
Missouri
North Caro
Lina
Southern Bell
Texas Senate Subcommittee On Consumer Affairs
Charles Marshall
Lynn
Bill Hobby
Texas’ First State Utilities Commission
Jobn Hill
Hill
Austin
Bonnie
Eric
Elise
University of Texas
Congress kills 62 million Agriculture Dept computer plan
Washington AP report notes Congress curtailed the Agriculture Department’s 62 million plan to buy computers after concerns about privacy. Assistant secretary Joseph Wright says three top bidders were notified of cancellation as the working capital fund was trimmed. Delivery had been slated for December. costs were expected to rise due to delay and fragmented buying. FEDNET blueprint had been scrapped amid congressional pushback.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Department
Joseph R. Wright Jr
House
Senate
Wright
General Services Administration
Fednet
Flooding From Tropical System Hits Gulf Coast
A soggy tropical low over southern Mississippi pushed northeast spreading heavy rain across the Gulf Coast. One teen drowned in Town Creek, evacuations occurred in Jackson and Vicksburg, with eight-inch totals in several towns and flash flood watches across Alabama, Northwest Florida, and parts of Mississippi and Louisiana. Tides were two to three feet above normal as a frontal low forms, while tornados were possible in parts of the region.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Gulf Coast
Elizabeth Crowery
Jackson
Miss
Town Creek
Vicksburg
Miss. Bude
Louisiana
Alabama
Florida
National Weather Service
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Weather Service
Plains States
Georgia
Eight acquitted in $1 million civil rights suit ruling
Federal Judge Oren Harris granted directed verdicts of acquittal Thursday for eight defendants in a $1 million case arising from the May 31, 1971, shooting death of Carnell Russ's husband at the Lincoln County Jail in Star City. Remaining defendants are Charles Ratliff and Jerry Mac Green.
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Pine Bluff, Ark
Oren Harris
Star City
Harris
Charles Ratliff
Jerry MacGreen
Dumas
Carnell Russ
Monticello
Lincoln County
Chambers
Russ
Ratliff
Green
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Solzhenitsyn
Lenin
Paris
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Zurich
Ymca Press
Vladimir Lenin
Russia
Editions du Seuil
Arkansas Industrial Development Commission
Munich
Siemens Corp
Siemens
Allied Telephone Co
Ciers
London
le Group
Virginia
Smilin
Jim
Suburbia
Sears
Curtee
Ges
Nace
White Electric
Bes
SUN
Gospel Meeting
Eastside Church
Hope, Arkansas
Derrel W. Shaw
Debhert
Church of Christ
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