French Nice Bank Robbery Earns Crowned “Robbery of the Century”
In Nice on the Riviera, six thieves tunneled into a Societe Generale bank vault Friday night and rifled hundreds of deposit boxes over 48 hours. Police estimate the haul around 16 million dollars, with 40 boxes emptied. Bank kept closed Tuesday amid angry customers.
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France
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England
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Societe Generale
Jacques Besson
Avalon raid nets 110 illegal aliens
A raid in Avalon leads to the detention of 110 undocumented individuals. Authorities say the operation targeted a suspected network and disrupted trafficking channels. Officials stressed ongoing prosecutions and the need for border enforcement.
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Avalon
Viking 1 lands on Mars sparks life search hope
Mars rocks seen by Viking 1 lander reveal niches likely to host microscopic life, scientists say. Gerald Soffen notes Earth's twin niches could harbor life if on Earth, as images arrive from 214 million miles away. President Ford hails mission as wonderful and remarkable, while Thomas Mutch calls the landing site a geologist’s dream with desertlike dunes and depressions.
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Mars
United States
Viking Mission
Tresday
Earth
Gerald A. Soffen
Soffen
U.S
Ford
Project Headquarters
Thomas Mutch
Viking
California cannery strike halts harvest across state
Thousands of California cannery workers walked out on the eve of summer picking, risking tens of thousands of tons of produce. James Seearce, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, sent telegrams urging a Thursday Washington meeting with striking Teamsters. Union leaders, led by Freddy Sanchez, refused to return to work, saying the contract negotiations failed. Seearce urged settlement to avert crop losses, while Sanchez asserted the strike was necessary to press for an equitable contract after three months of talks. The action idled 16 canneries and drew attention to federal mediation and taft hartley intervention pressures.
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Art Wan
Ford
Fred Heringer
California Farm Bureau
Ford Seen Close to Nomination in GOP Race
President Ford and aides claimed he was within a dozen votes of clinching the GOP nomination, though Reagan backers disputed the tally. Independent counts marginally favor Ford, with Baker announcing 16 delegates shifting to Ford from Reagan or uncommitted at a morning news conference.
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Ford
Barrie
Ronald Reagan
James Baker
Hunter
President
Ford Committee
Reafan
Arrests Expected in Chowchilla Kidnapping Case
Authorities said arrests were imminent in the Chowchilla kidnaping of 28 children and their bus driver after the victims were buried alive in a sock quarry. Alameda and Madera County officials were coordinating procedures as investigators pursued three masked suspects.
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Alameda
Madera
Accused of Falsely Confirming Pregnancies at Clinic
A Long Beach abortion clinic was ordered to halt certain pregnancy testing after a Los Angeles judge found test results on urine samples misreported. The district attorney said a Long Beach State University nursing student was told she was pregnant though she was not. A temporary restraining order blocks the Phoenix Family Medical Clinic from pregnancy testing without physician or nurse oversight and from diagnosing pregnancy without licensed medical confirmation. A full hearing is set for August 4.
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Los Angeles
Altorney
Long Beach State University
Norman Dowds
Phoenix Family Medical Clinic
Long Beach Blvd
Dick Kalustian
Lbsu Ursing
Lauren Carlson
Egypt and Morocco Withdraw From Olympic Games
Egypt and Morocco pulled out of the Montreal Olympics in a continental boycott over New Zealand’s rugby tour of South Africa amid apartheid. Senegal Tunisia Ivory Coast remain, while nationalist China also left, bringing absent nations to 24 and about 700 athletes.
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Morocco
Senegal
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New Zealand
South Africa
China
Taiwan
Growth rate of economy cut in half
The Commerce Department reported that the Spring quarter growth rate for the economy was cut in half, rising at an annual rate of 4.4 percent from 1.2 percent in Q1. Inflation climbed, with prices in GNP up 4.7 percent annually, and per capita disposable income at 5452 dollars.
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Comerce Department
Commerce Department
John W. Kendrick
White House
Ron Nessen
GNP
Senate votes to extend tax cuts amid recession delay
The Senate approved an extension of the $15 billion per year package of individual tax cuts for at least 18 months after a Tuesday vote 86 to 28. Senator James A. Allen led an amendment extending major parts of the cuts through 1977, while a separate 5 to 42 vote kept deductibility of state and local gasoline taxes. The measure would affect a four member family earning $15,000, saving or costing amounts based on filing status, with the poorest families bearing the heaviest impact if not extended.
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Senate
House
James B. Alien
D-Ala
Senate Finance Committee
Sion
Greeinane Committee
Allen
Independent TodA Inside Story Smuggled in Jury Room
A fragment from a newspaper mentions an alleged indirect report about Nixon's pardon and a U S campaign subsidy. It references pages A-3 A-6 A-11 and notes a plane leaves Thailand. The ACLU accuses a state agency of running a spy club.
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