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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1975
Page
1
Jackie Onassis joins Viking Press as consulting editor
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis will work at Viking Press as a consulting editor, based at the New York City headquarters on Madison Avenue. President Mat Thomas Guinzburg said she may spend limited time in the office, with duties spanning Viking divisions, and noted her past editorial work for the Washington Times Herald and contributions to the New Yorker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacqueline Kennedy ‘Onassis
Viking Press
Idit
John of. Kennedy
Aristotle Onassis
Nadiceon Avenue
New York City
Mat Thomas Guinzburg
Viking
Guinzburg
Onassis
Alost
Studio Illustrated
Free men to be released after 12 years on death row
Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, black men once condemned by all white juries for 1963 Port St. Joe murders, will be freed Friday after 12 years 45 days at Florida State Prison. Curtis Adams confessed to the killings in 1966, fueling their release effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freddie Pitts
Wilbert Lee
Florida State Prison
Port St. Joe
Marianna
Grover Floyd Jr
Jesse Burkett
Curtis
Boo” Adams
Mwe
Pitts
Lee
Eloise Kills Seven as Puerto Rico Hit by Hurricane
Eloise intensified to a hurricane and brushed Puerto Rico killing seven people, leaving more than 6000 homeless and dozens of villages flooded as winds reach 75 mph while it heads toward the Dominican Republic. UN General Assembly opens after economic talks push toward negotiated settlement among rich and poor nations. Mozambique Cape Verde Sao Tome and Principe join the UN. Portuguese Communist Party signals readiness for combat if excluded from government amid Lisbon rally. Beirut government declares cease-fire with Palestinian groups, police patrols to monitor truce amid ongoing shelling and clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Combined News Services
San Juan
P.R
Eloise
Puerto Rico
National Weather Service
Dominican Republic
United Nations
U.N
General Assembly
Gaston Thorn
Luxembourg
World Organization
Mozambique
Cape Verde Islands
Sao Tome-Principe
Sesson
South Korea
Palestine
South Afrca
Lisbon
Alvaro Cunhal
Cunhal
Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo
Portugal
Dunhal
Beirut
Policemen Shot Dead in New York Ambush
In Manhattan lower east side a gunman fatally wounded two police officers during a car inspection. Sgt. Frederick Reddy and Patrolman Andrew Glover died. the suspect escaped. Doctors at Bellvue Hospital reported the officers were dead on arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Bellvue Hospital
Frederick Reddy
Andrew Glover
Butterfly Kallinger testifies amid claims of God talk
Butterfly Joseph Kallinger, 38, testified in Harnsburg Pa in a robbery and trial related case. He claimed to talk directly to God and to be 1,600 years old and once a butterfly. He described his Kensington Philadelphia shoemaking work as direct God instruction and described a three state crime spree with his son including robbing four suburban Harrisburg women of 20000 last December 3. A first trial ended in a mistrial. He faces related charges in New Jersey and Maryland including a nurse murder in Leonia New Jersey and robbery and sexual assault against a Dumont New Jersey housewife. The case expands to other father son crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butterfly Joseph Kallinger
Harnsburg
Philadelphia
Rough Kensington
Kallinger
Harrisburg
New Jersey
Maryland
Leonia
Dumont
Turner loses to U S in pyramid scheme case
Glenn Turner, once a self made magnate and sharecropper's son, pleaded no contest to federal securities violations and mail fraud conspiracy in a $90,000 pyramid scheme. He and three former associates were fined $5,000 each, while Turner faced an $8,000 total for related counts. The six week trial ended after a prior hung jury. Turner lamented seven years of government battles and said he would continue helping people, despite extensive civil suits and debt. He has lost control of three companies including Koscot, now in receivership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Turner
Turner
Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. District Court
Terrell Hodges
Roscot Cosmetics Co
Tye
Hodges
Koscot
Dare To Be Great, Inc
Glenn Turner Enterprises
Dutch court orders psychiatric exam for Rembrandt theft suspect
A Dutch court on Tuesday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Wilhelmus A te Rijk, 38, held after the knife attack on Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Madame Chiang Kaishiek, widow of Nationalist China’s former leader, said she will seek medical treatment in the United States, leaving Formosa today. She is reportedly in ill health, with undisclosed details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelmus A. Te Rijk
Rembrarkt
Chiang
Chiang Kai- Shiek
China
Formosa
United States
Madame Chiang
Wellesley College
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Jackie Onassis
Ford
Oval Office
White House
Israel
Ae Wiresteta
Kennedy Space Center
Air Force
Thomas Stafford
Apollo
Joseph Quinlan
Karen
Karen Ann Quinlan
Morristown
Quinlan
Julia
Morris County
Donald Collester
Vvvtorld
Reds
Lebanon
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Britain
City Hall
London
Margaret Thatcher
Abraham Beane
Washington
Chicago
Thatcher
Edward Heath
U.S
Tampa
Fla
AP Witerbete
Allel
Sai
Sun
Butlock’s
Lakewood
Clark Ave
Gates
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