Emmy Awards Roundup Honors TV's Top Shows of 1974 75
The Mary Tyler Moore Show leads with six Emmys at the 27th annual Television Academy honors. QB VII and Love Among the Ruins each win six awards in drama categories. Robert Blake and Jean Marsh win acting prizes. Valerie Harper and Tony Randall take comedy acting honors. Olivier Hepburn win drama acting. The Law is named best single show. Upstairs Downstairs named best drama series. Benjamin Franklin wins best limited series. An Evening with John Denver named best musical special.
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Hollywood
UPI
Our Gang
Robert Blake
Beretta
England
Jean Marsh
Valerie Harper
Rhoda
Tony
Benjamin Franklin
Beau Bridges
Jeff
Questions rise on Mayaguez incident casualties
Reports from Washington show the Pentagon revising the wounded count in the Mayaguez rescue operation to 49, with 5 killed and 16 missing. White House aides say President Ford was puzzled by the casualty information, while officials stress no concealment.
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Philip Sharecoff
New York Times
Washington
Mayaguez
White House
Pentagon
Ron Nessen
Ford
Nessen
Joseph Laitin
Defense
James Schlesinger
Laiting
Lance Cpl
Ashton Loney
Albany
N.Y
Koh Tang Island
Air Force
Richard Vandegeer
Buckland
Mass
Elwood E. Rumbaugh
Dothan
Ala
Laitin
Vietnam
Cambodian
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Department
The
CIA
Bl fund cut fails in House on strategic bomber money
Washington AP reports the House rejected a 108 million dollar cut in production funding for the Bl strategic bomber. The roll call ended 227 voting against the cut and 164 in favor.
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Washington
House
Cambodian crew seeks asylum amid Mayaguez seizure tale
The Cambodian navy subchaser crew fled to Thailand seeking asylum and claimed their vessel captured the Mayaguez on May 12 to prove support for Phnom Penh's Khmer Rouge regime. Discrepancies arose about the ship type and officers aboard, while Thai officials remain reluctant to discuss the incident due to sensitivity toward the Khmer Rouge government.
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Washington
Thailand
Mayaguez
Administration
Phnom Penh
Sattahip
Cambodia
Parrot Star Sues Over Death in Long Beach Case
A parrot performer’s death sparks an $80,000 suit in Long Beach Superior Court. Thomas Stanton claims negligence by dog owners Gene and Kathryn Kefalas and neighbor Nikola Petrovich led to the bird being chewed to death outside Stanton’s San Pedro home. The animal’s autopsy supported homicide.
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Long Beach Superior Court
Thomas Stanton
Highmore Ave
San Pedro
Gene
Kathryn Kefalas
Nikola Petrovich
Stanton
Lawrence Weitzer
Weitzer
Cal Worthington
Doctors widen strike bill to end it rushed
Anesthesiologists slow work at 36 Southern California hospitals including 12 in Long Beach-South Bay and five in Orange County moves into day two as lawmakers push bills to end the crisis. McLennan seeks malpractice pools and premiums cut 50 percent for seven months while hospitals shift to emergency only surgeries.
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Southern California
Long Beach-South Bay Area
Orange County
Assembly
California
McLennan
Weingart
Special session called to pass farm labor bill
Gov. Brown won support from Teamsters California Labor Federation and Building and Construction Trades Council for a delicate farm bill. A unanimous Finance Committee vote preceded a special session to speed passage before the September grape harvest.
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Sacramento
UPI
Brown
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Teamsters Union
California Labor Federation
Building and Construction Trades Council
Finance Committee
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers Union
Assembly
Leo McCarthy
San Francisco
Organized Labor
Labor Federation
Teamsters
United Farm Workers and Growers
Labor Federation and Trades Council
Building and Trades
Ford speeds refugee settlement push in U.S.
President Ford created a 17 member advisory panel to accelerate refugee settlement as the number of Indochina refugees in the country climbed to 127,000. The Defense Department opened a fourth reception center at Indiantown Gap Army reservation near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with 14,000 to 15,000 beds ready.
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Washington
Ford
Defense Department
Pentagon
Indiantown Gap Army Reservation
Harrisburg
California
Indiantown Gap
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Ft. Chaffee
Ark
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Pacific
U.S
Vietnam
Advisory Committee To
America
State Department
Inter-Agency
Indochina
Department
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Flip Wil
Cloris Leachman
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Cher
Love Among Ruins
Tyler Moore Show
Robert McLennan
R-Downey
Finance and Insurance Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Philip W. Weingart
Anesthesia Society
Association
Arthur McGowan
Los Alamitos General Hospital
the Teamsters and the Building Trades Council
John Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Entertainment Field
Ing
Florida
New York
Texas
Virginia
Illi
Nois
Ohio
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Alaska
Hawaii
Inside
Todas Independent
Rockefeller
Castro
Supreme Court
LBSA
Dr. Rooney
Rene
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