Connally Trial Drags On With Watergate Backdrop
Testimony in the long running trial centers on alleged milk producer bribes tied to Nixon’s cabinet. Connally denied a cover up while jurors hear accounts from Jacobsen and high level witnesses including McNamara Rusk Strauss.
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Connaily
Jacobsen
Richard M. Nixon
AMPI
Associated Milk Producers Inc
Connally
Nixon
Williams
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Graham
Robert S. Strauss
Lyndon B. Johnson
Strauss
U.S. District Court
George L. Hart Jr
Hart
Congress
Agriculture
Reverie Ware
Cynthia McMahan
Remains of 329 at L A facility during Babylift relief
Eight Vietnamese and Cambodian orphans stayed at the Long Beach Naval Support facility on Monday as hundreds of refugee children arrived in Los Angeles. About 35 remained hospitalized while others were sent to Fort Benning Georgia and Norway for adoption or care. Operation Babylift ended with critics noting ongoing questions of living relatives and possible payments to secure spots, as officials reported 980 children processed through the San Francisco center.
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Long Beach Naval Support Facility
Los Angeles
Navy Station
Navy Regional
Long Beach
Southland
Ft. Benning
Norway
Friends of the Children of
Vietnam
World Vision
Cambodian Children Relief Organization
San Francisco
U.S
Saigon
Maria Eitz
Friends of All Children
Boulder
Colo
Jane Barton
American Friends Service Committee
Govat
California
Vietnam War Crisis Pressures U.S. Congress Ahead of April 19 Deadline
Senators Javits and Percy push for rapid aid to South Vietnam and authority to evacuate Americans. A State Department plan for evacuating up to 400,000 Vietnamese is to be shared with allies. In Vietnam, Bien Hoa ammunition depots explode and Xuan Loc remains a contested battlefield as Viet Minh forces encircle the city.
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Congress
Jacob Javits
Rn.y
Charles Percy
Bill
Nguyen van Thieu
Senate
Ford
U.S
Percy
State Department
Philip C. Habib
Bien Hoa
South Vietnam
Saigon
Xuan Loc
Sion
No-frills airline service sparks price war and cafeteria style meals
About 12,000 passengers on five airlines tried the no-frills service on its first day. Continental offered free drinks and popcorn while selling snacks, and National showed mixed cabins with champagne breakfast for first class and cheap meals for coach. Passengers balanced savings against reduced service as the battle for market share unfolded.
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National
Continental
Baltimore
Roselyn Sperling
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Norfolk
Gregory Shaw
Scotch Plains
N.J
California
David Appelbaum
Brooklyn
Kennedy Airport
John Denver
Boston Symphony
Ida Frank
North Miami Beach
Suzanne Demartino
New York
Peggy Candito
Carteret
Officer wounded in quarrel at Inglewood apartment
Police responded to a family disturbance in Inglewood when Lee A. Taylor 34 allegedly threatened an officer with a butcher knife. Officer Lyle Ellison 37 was wounded as Taylor grabbed the gun. two other officers shot and killed Taylor. Ellison was hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
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Inglewood
Lee A. Taylor
Lyle Ellison
Ellison
Centinela Valley Community Hospital
Taylor
Cyclist Killed in Collision In Hawaiian Gardens
Peter Wormwood a 16 year old cyclist from 11539 Stillman St Lakewood was killed when his motorcycle collided with a car at Carson Street and Ferne Avenue in Hawaiian Gardens. Harold Clemans 61 of 21618 S Juan Ave Hawaiian Gardens was booked on manslaughter felony drunken driving.
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Peter Wormwood
Stillman St
Lakewood
Hawaiian Gardens
Carson Street
Ferne Avenue
Harold Clemans
S. Juan Ave
Lakewood Station
Cooley writes tax fraud book from San Pedro prison
Marvin Cooley, 48, a Mesa farmer serving a three year sentence for income tax violations, works on a second book about filing returns without paying taxes from his Terminal Island federal prison cell. He describes new tactics and cites his first book The Big Bluff.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Marvin Cooley
Mesa
San Pedro
Calif
Cooley
Big Bluff
Terminal Island Federal Correctional Facility
Federal
Sharp inventory decline signals recovery in 1975 economy
United Press International reports the Commerce Department notes February inventories fell by 1.49 billion, the first drop since 1970, while January sales rose 5 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics records unemployment among male household heads doubling in Q1 1975, with women’s unemployment more stable.
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United Press International
Commerce Department
U.S
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Department
Court to hear campaign plea on base post area ban
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on whether base commanders may ban political campaigning in public areas of military posts. The case centers on Ft. Dix New Jersey where Dr. Benjamin Speck and his supporters were allowed to speak and distribute pamphlets during the 1972 presidential campaign.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court
Philadelphia
Benjamin Speck
Ft. Dix
N.J
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L.A
San Francisco Center
House
Thieu
Paris
UPI
Charles R. Smith
Quang Tri
Highway 1
Trang Bom
Hung Loc
Loretta
Internal Revenue Service
James E. Meyers
IRS
Carl
Carpet NG
Pacific Coast Highway
Sun
BankAmericard
CarlPlan
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