Met Museum Buys Japanese Art for 5.1 Million Dollars
The Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to pay 5.1 million dollars for 412 Japanese art works. The purchase, the museum’s largest, will boost its collection to one of the nation’s finest. The seller’s benefactor Harry Packard aided the deal. The government values the set at 11.3 million dollars.
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New York
Metropolitan Museum
Velasquez
Don Juan de Pareta
Harry Packard
U.S. Navy
Nagasaki
Packard
Metropolitan Center For the
Parker
Tokyo
Ford executive predicts 15000 rehires by year end in 1976 outlook
William Benton of Ford Motor Co said at a Las Vegas news conference that 15000 unemployed Ford workers would be back on the job by year end. He noted 8000 layoffs rehired in the past 30 days and forecast 1976 as a turn‑around year toward 1973 peak sales.
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Las Vegas
William Benton
Ford Motor Co
Benton
Ford
Miners vow to extend illegal strike across states
In Charleston West Virginia miners pledge to prolong the illegal walkout until a signed document allows strikes over local grievances without reprisals. A 2 500 strong Boone County rally plans for noon near the federal building as union leader Sim Howze faces contempt of court charges.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Virginia
Boone County
Federal
Sim Howze
Portugal crisis eases as president stalls ouster move
In Lisbon President Francisco da Costa Gomes refuses to dismiss Communist backed Prime Minister Vasco Goncalves. He accepts a democratic election of a 240 member military Assembly and reintegrates moderates into the Revolutionary Council. In Leiria a mob tries to burn Communist Party HQ after a church leader denounces Goncalves.
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Lisbon
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Vasco Goncalves
Portugal
Costa Gomes
Armed Forces Movement
Revolutionary Council
Leiria
Communist Party
Goncalves
Israeli Woman Soldier Given Suspended Sentence in UN Zone Incident
Haifa court sources report 19 year old Jeanette Faraj was honorably discharged after a three month suspended sentence and a 24 dollar fine for entering a UN buffer zone in the Golan Heights to be with an Austrian soldier. She testified tearfully about the two day intrusion and cited deep affection as motive. The tribunal found no intent to endanger state security despite alleged ceasefire line crossing and contact with UN personnel.
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Haifa
Israel
United Nations
Jeanette Faraj
U.N
Golan Heights
Syria
Faraj
Bangladesh arrests 26 ousted leaders in graft case
Bangladesh’s military rulers disclose the arrest of 26 figures from the former regime, including two ex prime ministers Tajuddin Ahmed and Mohammed Mansoor Ali, former Vice President Nazrul Islam, and four ministers. They face charges of wealth amassed beyond income via corruption and nepotism.
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Dacca
Bangladesh
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
Tajuddin Ahmed
Calcutta
Pakistan
Mohammed Mansoor Ali
Nazrul Islam
Sheik
Mohammad Kammaruzzaman
Abdus Samad
Korban Ali
Sheik Abdul Aziz
Timor Refugee Ship Damaged by Mortar Fire near Dili Port
The Hong Kong mercy ship Macdili was damaged by mortar fire while trying to evacuate refugees from Dili on Portuguese Timor. Communiques from a Portuguese naval station said the vessel was hit while anchored outside the port and forced to seek the harbor. Casualty figures were not released.
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Macao
Hong Kong
Dili
Portuguese Timor
Kopechne Parents Critical of Kennedy Account in New Times Interview
The Kopechnes tell New Times they are unsatisfied with Edward Kennedy’s version of the Chappaquiddick accident. They accuse him of confusing statements and poor advice, saying Mary Jo was sleeping in the back seat and that the truth wasn’t told.
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Mary Jo Kopechne
New Times Magazine
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
New Times
Kopechnes
Mary Jo
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Gwen Kopechne
Mrs. Kopechne
Robert
Martha's Vineyard
Missing 18 year old Hinsenbrock joins the Army
Memphis teenager Kimberly Hinsenbrock who disappeared last Tuesday to visit her fiancé was found to have enlisted in the Army instead of marrying. Fortunes of the wedding plans shifted as fiancé Dale Best questioned whether the marriage would proceed. Also noted, Leslie Sanders, 17, won California's Maid of Honor title at the State Fair in Sacramento with contestants from Mono Inyo and Alpine counties.
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Susanna Agnelli
Fiat
Giovanni Agnelli
Monte Argentario
Italy
Kimberly Hinsenbrock
Memphis
Tenn
Miss Hinsenbrock
Dale Best
California
Leslie Sanders
Lee Vining High School
Sanders
Mono
Inyo
Alpine
Sacramento
Wayne Actor John Wayne Resting in Newport Hospital
Wayne actor John Wayne aged 68 is reported resting comfortably at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach after entering for routine tests following admission last week. A hospital spokesman would not disclose test details or confirm reports he has a cough. Wayne, Hollywood’s top box office star with over 200 films and an estimated $700 million in grosses, previously had part of a lung removed in 1964 for cancer and later returned to acting.
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John Wayne
Hoag Memorial Hospital
Newport Beach
Wayne
Independent News Keyed to August Edition
The entry appears as a cryptic newspaper line with date and issue markers for a monthly edition. No readable events, people, or organizations are evident to extract a concrete news item or summary.
Sailor completes 9000 mile solo Pacific voyage to San Francisco
Yukoh Tada, a Tokyo sailor, finished a 9000 mile 48 day solo Pacific crossing in a 30 foot two mast vessel he designed and built. He lived on rice, seaweed and soybean paste, painted and listened to jazz while at sea. He withstood three gales without using the boat’s auxiliary engine and aims to sail back the other way.
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Tokyo
Pacific
Yukoh Tada
San Francisco
Japan
Tada
Woman possibly involved in Bronfman kidnapping probe
Investigators examining a potential female suspect in the $2.3 million kidnapping of Seagram heir Samuel Bronfman II. Time says Bronfman named a woman among his abductors. Newsweek reports the FBI considers a third person, possibly a woman, may have aided the crime. Meanwhile two Brooklyn men, Mel Lynch and Dominic Byrne, age 37 and 53, were arrested and arraigned on federal extortion charges.
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Seagram
Samuel Bronfman II
Time Magazine
Bronfman
Newsweek
FBI
Brooklyn
Mel Lynch
Dominic Byrne
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Lori Hickman
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