Carter considers selling controlling stake in peanut business
President Carter seeks to exit the family peanut operation amid a poor crop and tax changes. His trustee Kirbo seeks a sale or long lease as droughts and insects cut production by about 18 percent. Billy Carter faced IRS friction over books as Gold Kist leases the Plains facility through next August.
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Carter
Billy
Jimmy Carter
Billy Carter
Internal Revenue Service
Peanut
White House
Gold Kist
Charles Kirbo
Atlanta Kinger
Plains
Tyron Spearman
Georgia Peanut Commission
Kirbo
Kist
Bert Lance
Bank
IRS
Carver
Miss Lillian
Kirko Pai
Berkowitz seeks to tell story before death penalty
David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, urged to share his tale in exchange for a potential death sentence. A tape of his conversation with a psychiatrist was played at a competency hearing as he faces charges for a year of shootings that left six dead and seven wounded. He claimed he would accept life without parole or the death penalty, saying he would gain peace of mind by telling his story in court.
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David Berkowitz
Samslayrings
Berkowitz
C Berkowitz
Berkowit
Ryansville
Ind
Rey Ryan
Ryan
William Holden
Treasury Department
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
Olympia Health and Beauty Resort
Spa
Palm Springs
Las Vegas
Molden
Mt. Kenya
Sam Davis to quit smoking for 24 hours in charity event
Non-smoker entertainer Sammy Davis says he will stop his two-pack-a-day habit for one day on November 17 as chairman of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout. He reveals a fruit bowl full of cigarettes on his dressing-room table.
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Sammy Davis
Davis
American Cancer Society
American Communist Party hails 4 visits from Mexican comrades
In New York Gus Hall, leader of the US Communist Party, praised a four-visit delegation from Mexican Communists as a breach of the U.S. thought control curtain, noting the visit is the first in 30 years from a fraternal party abroad.
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American Communist Party
U.S
Gus Hall
Communist Party
United States
New York
Vorster faces protests as South Africa arrests surge
In Johannesburg protests spread against the crack down on the black press and activists after police fire wounded a black youth. Prime Minister Vorster defended his government amid international criticism, insisting the actions are irrelevant to U.S. pressure and claiming responsibility for the measures.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Minist
John Vorster
Verster
Alberton
State Department
Hodding Carter HY
Vorster
Jimmy Carter
United Nations
New York
Security Council
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Golomat
Goldberg
U.N
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Solti
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Bernard Haitink
Royal Opera
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LPO
Lomion
Haitink
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Amsterdam
Holland
Chip
Lafehouse
Ford
Whippany
New Jersey
Raymond IE. Bateman
Fidel Castro
Kingston
Jamaica
Comrades
Nubined News Services
S. Africa
Roy
Aygabst
Cleveland
Raleigh
N.C
Jerry Paul
Durham
Joan Little
Ittle
Beaufort County
Clarence Alligood
Wake County
Alligood
Paul
Washington
Senate
Administration
Flos Lakewood
Henry Rosenfeld
Orig
Pullman
Ine
Sun
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Lakewood
Clark Avenue
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