German Envoy Slain in Guatemala City
West German ambassador Count Carl von Sprell was found shot dead outside Guatemala City, five days after his kidnapping. Guatemala refused ransom for 22 political prisoners and $700,000, provoking West Germany’s condemnation while noting the diplomat’s age and the ongoing wave of terrorist kidnappings in South America.
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UPS
Guatemala
Carl von Sprell
South America
Willy Brandt
West Germany
el Paso
Tex
von Sprell
von Spreti
Argentina
Action Line Service Offers Public Help In Long Beach
The 432 3451 ACTION LINE provides readers with help on problems and rights. To get action send requests to Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or call between 9 am and 1 pm or 5 pm and 3 pm Monday through Friday.
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Long Beach
Calif
From Rags to Rabbits Playboy Founder Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner built a multimillion dollar enterprise from $600 in the mid 1950s after working for magazines like Esquire. A Playboy spokesman in Chicago cites Heffner as worth several billions. His latest companion is 16 year old Barbara Benton, and Hefner denied any marriage plans.
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Playboy Magazine
Hugh Tefner
Long Beach
Hugh Marston Hefner
Esquire
Heiner
Chicago
Barbara Benton
Hefner
Teacher Corps seeks new entrants for five year training program
A HEW spokesman explains that the Teacher Corps trains teachers for poverty areas and allows placement preferences. Applicants generally need a bachelor's degree and may earn about 75 dollars weekly. The program targets young graduates and is not ideal for experienced credentialed teachers. more details are available from HEW in Washington and the Los Angeles office.
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Garden Grave
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Washington, D.C
Los Angeles
HEW
Pico Ave
Corps
Teamsters Strike Could Freeze Los Angeles Freight Traffic
A wildcat walkout by Los Angeles County Teamsters, representing about 14,700 members in four locals, threatens to halt all freight movement early next week. Terminals were shut at many LA ports as 40 of 70 freight facilities halted operations. Nationwide pockets of rebellion follow the dispute over a 2 sick leave provision in the national contract. Local leaders warn that strikers risk firing, while many members are expected to stay out in solidarity.
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Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
California
Stri
Kers
Archié Murrietta
Marrietta
Pacific Motor ‘Trucking Co
Yellow’ Freight Systems, Inc
Pacific
Cleveland Local 407
Cairo
Ill
Cape Girardeau
St. Louis
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Highfield
Ohio
Recommittal Vote Clouds Carswell Nomination
Washington forecast a failed move to recommit the Carswell Supreme Court nomination. A New York Times survey predicts a 4 to 6 vote loss in the Senate Judiciary Committee, with 45 senators leaning against and 49 needed to pass while 48 could defeat. Senator Dodd opposes recommittal, calling it evasion of responsibility, and Percy remained undecided.
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G. Harrold
Carswell
Supreme Court
Senate
New York Times
Senate Judiciary Committee
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Agnew
Charles H. Percy
Ral
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Dodd
Consul Cutter Thwarts Kidnap Bid in Porto Alegre
PORTO ALEGRE Brazil US Consul Curtis C Cutter fought off a kidnap attempt late Saturday night fleeing car fire shot at by four or five gunmen. He struck one attacker with his car and escaped after being wounded in the shoulder. Cutter, 41, with his wife Catherine and friend Hovey Clark, drove from dinner when gunmen in a blue car forced them to stop. Cutter’s car swerved and bounced a gunman off the hood before running over another. The attackers fired on the fleeing vehicle. Cutter drove a mile and a half home then to hospital. He has served in the foreign service since 1957 and previously in Cambodia and Peru. Authorities later recovered the gunmen’s stolen car.
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Porto Algere
Brazil
Curtis C. Cutter
Cutter
Catherine
Hovey Clark
Foreign Service
Cambodia
Peru
California
University of California At Berkeley
Porto Alegre
Rio Grande Do Sul
U.S
Violence erupts at Chavez rally in Coachella
A farm workers rally for Cesar Chavez devolved into a full-scale disturbance as a mob of youths burned a patrol car and damaged schools and a post office. Police called reinforcements to quell rock throwing by youths from the Brown Berets. Mayor Nick Abdelmour’s home was set on fire but controlled. several arrests reported. Chavez signed two table grape grower labor contracts last week between UPWOC and growers.
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Coachella
Brown Berets
Los Angeles
Lester O'Niel
Nick Abdelmour
Chavez
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
UPWOG
Countdown Starts on Apollo 13 Moon Mission
CAPE KENNEDY Fla Sunday night marked the start of Apollo 13 countdown despite a fuel pressure issue in the Tuna landing craft. Astronauts Lovell Mattingly and Halse Jr. monitored developments as NASA tested an engine ignition system facing helium heat loss that could affect the moon landing schedule with a potential May 9 postponement if delays persist.
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Fla.d
Space Agency
James A. Lovell Jr. Thomas
K. Mattingly
Fred W. Halse Jr
Moon
NASA
Fra Mauro
Stricken at Party LSD Chips Sickens Playa del Rey Residents
About 200 partygoers at the South Bay Chub complex in Marina Drive attended a Saturday night event. Twenty seven sought treatment after eating LSD spiked chips. 17 hospitalized, three women in serious condition, one man in a coma. Victims included Lidi Anders of Inglewood and Richard L Blumenthal of Thousand Oaks. Deputies confiscated chips for analysis. no suspects named. The party occurred in a clubhouse and attracted mostly well to do singles.
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South Bay
Marina Drive
Lidi Anders
Inglewood
Benny Woodard
James Lyle
Memorial Hospital of
Southern California
Culver City
Weadard
Richard L. Blumenthal
Thousand Oaks
Miss Anders
Pam R. Kartanen
Mesibou
Marina del Rey
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