Murphy Memorial Statue Unveiled at San Antonio Center
An eight foot bronze statue of Audie Murphy, America's most decorated WWII soldier, was unveiled at the Audie L. Murphy Veterans Hospital in San Antonio. The ceremony drew several thousand as Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway urged tribute to President Ford over the Mayaguez crisis. Murphy's widow attended, calling the sculpture a good likeness.
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Audie L. Murphy
San Antonio
Texas
Howard Callaway
Ford
Mayaguez
Murphy
Jimila Mason
Alexandria
15Th Infantry
3Rd Infantry Division
Hell
Washington, D.C
Audie L. Murphy Veterans
Harvard Cambridge plan blocked by residents and UMASS site move
Harvard seeks to save part of the JFK Library in Cambridge but the museum and archives may relocate to a University of Massachusetts campus. A final decision by the JFK Library Corporation is due next month after Cambridge residents protested an influx of tourists.
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John F. Kennedy
Cambridge
University of Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy Library Corporation
Corporation
Stephen E. Smith
Harvard
Charles A. Daly
Hand decides new poker champ in Las Vegas final
Brian Sailor Roberts won the 1975 world poker title with a final hand pair of jacks worth $115,000 at the Horseshoe Club in Las Vegas. Finalists Bob Hooks and Addington fought down to the last deal as Aubrey Day exited early with $62,000 after nine hours.
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Brian
Roberts
Hooks
Hook
Dallas
Addington
Aubrey Day
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Sailor Roberts
Bob Hooks
U.S. sues over Viet Nam war aid fraud tied to Saigon officials
The Justice Department filed a civil suit in the Hong Kong Supreme Court seeking 4.3 million dollars in damages for conspiracy and conversion in a scheme that diverted petroleum aid for the Vietnamese air force. Defendants include David Simmons and Richard Sakai, two former Saigon embassy aides, plus two Hong Kong firms and an Italian oil employee. A Hong Kong court froze about 2 million in assets. no trial date is set.
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U.S
Saigon
Thieu
South Vietnam Air Force
Justice Department
Hong Kong Supreme Court
David Creig Simmons
Richard Kenichi Sakai
Bruno Ristau
Department
Simmons
Ristau
National Bank of Vietnam
Air Force
Army
Sam
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Ristan
Gordon Hampton
Simmons and Sakai
Sakai
South Vietnam
U S firm charged in Latin bribery
Honduran authorities file preliminary charges against United Brands Co subsidiary Tela Railroad and ex economy minister Bennaton Ramos over a 1.2 million bribery to cut a banana export tax. The case spans Honduras Switzerland France and the United States with arrests and travel bans ordered.
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Freddy Cuevas
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
United Brands Co
Abraham Bennaton Ramos
Attorney General's
First Criminal Court
Lopez
Independent Press Telegram May 18 1975 page notice
Historic local paper reads as a clerical page fragment with postal and edition details for the Independent Press Telegram of Long Beach California The text lists volume number date and routing codes rather than a full news item or named events.
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