12 year death row pardon seals Pitts and Lee release
Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee walk free from Raiford Prison after 12 years on death row as Gov Behr Behr Behr Askew and Attorney General Robert Shevin sign pardons. Warden Sidney Fortner informs them, Pitts seeks distance to recover from the ordeal while Lee hopes to unwind after years of confinement.
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Wilbert Lee
Raiford Prison
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Itifer
Lee
Phil Hubbart
Miami Herald
Gene Miller
Behr Askew
Alty
Robert Shevin
Raiford-Warden
Sidney Fortner
Guilty verdict in Harrisburg robbery case ties to man and boy
Joseph Kallinger, 38, was found guilty Thursday of robbing four Harrisburg area women with his 12-year-old son on December 3. The $20,000 heist was part of a Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland crime spree claimed by a man and boy team. The defense cited insanity or chemical exposure. Kallinger claimed divine status and bizarre past lives. His son Michael, now 12, is confined as a juvenile delinquent in Pittsburgh.
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Guily Thurstday
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Kallinger
Philadelphia
Michael
Warrendale
Pittsburgh
Durkin Sworn In As NH Junior Senator After Bitter Campaign
John Durkin was sworn in as New Hampshire’s junior senator after a 10 month Senate stalemate and a runoff victory over Republican Tous Wyman by 27, 71k votes. President Ford hosted talks with Margaret Thatcher in the Oval Office as Thatcher met Kissinger amid a busy White House schedule.
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New Hampshire
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Durkin
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Wyman
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Britain
Conservative Party
Oval Office
White House
Thatcher
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Boston ends costly school security as desegregation orders fade
The Boston security screen guarding city schools as classes began to open gradually dismantled. The state funded salaries for police and National Guard personnel involved in the program while schools operated with attendance around 72 percent. Several clashes occurred as protesters gathered outside Charlestown High before police dispersed them.
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Fouths
Charlestown High
Schools Open After Strikes End in New York
New York and Chicago ended teachers strikes, returning 1.6 million students to class. Pickets remained at one New York school as parents protested the shorter week tied to the settlement for 65,000 teachers. Strikes continued in five other states with court actions delaying resolution.
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New York
Chicago
Gromyko Ford meeting eyed arms talks differences
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met President Ford for a long discussion on a new nuclear arms limitation treaty. He said both sides still seek points of contact on some matters and described SALT issues as not easy. Kissinger attended the session. Eloise threatening reform into a hurricane again loomed over Cuba with deadly tolls and homelessness in the Caribbean.
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Andrei Gromyko
Ford
Gromyko
Henry Kissinger
Gromyke
Beirut cease-fire ignored as fighting erupts anew
In Beirut militia clashes between Muslim and Christian forces escalated despite a government cease-fire appeal. Mortars rockets and automatic weapons killed at least 30 people in day-long battles as the government moved to deploy the army. In Amman Jordan rejected Ford's Hawk missile sale conditions, calling them insulting to national oligarchs and signaling a possible shift to Soviet SAM missiles.
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Amman
Jordan
Ford
Man slayer Myers gets probation in Florida shooting case
105 year old Manslaughter defendant Possum Slim Myers was sentenced in Tavares Florida to 15 years probation and ordered never to return to Lake County after pleading guilty to the June 7 death of Louise Stewart aged 51 of Sorrento. Judge Joy Hall Jr granted probation and the defendant now lives in Apopka.
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Possum Slim" Myers
Tavares
Fla
Lake County
Myers
Louise Stewart
Sorrento
Circuit Court
Joy Hall, Jr
Apopka
Orange County
Ohn Jameison
Birdsong and Hewlett Reach Divorce Settlement
Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes and her husband Charles Hewlett agreed to terms for a divorce in Hollywood. The pair, who wed on May 24, 1570, had a first marriage for Birdsong and Hewlett’s second.
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The
Supremes
Charles Hewlett
Ms. Birdsong
Hollywood
Hewlett
Thirteen scientists honored at White House ceremony
President Ford awarded the National Medals of Science to 13 men in a brief White House ceremony. Linus Pauling, a five time Nobel laureate, greeted Ford and joined nine professors and four other winners from Stanford Caltech Princeton Harvard and Johns Hopkins among others.
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Linus Paulaing
Stanford
White House
Linus Pauling
U.S
Pauling
Stanford University
Nicolaas Bloombergen
Harvard University
Britton
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