Ex FBI Agent Monitored Conversations
New York AP report: former FBI agent Robert N. Wall says he was assigned to monitor telephone conversations at the Israeli Embassy in Washington during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and that the Egyptian embassy was monitored too. He details FBI and IRS practices, including informant placement, anonymous letters, and efforts to disrupt radical groups. Wall now studies law and plans to move his family to a Nova Scotia farm.
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New York
FBI
Bureau
Washington
Robert N. Wall
Wall
Internal Revenue Service
New York Review of Books
Institute For Policy Studies
IRS
Institute For Political Studies
National Moblization Committee
State University of Buffalo
United States
Nova Scotia
DDT Use Reduction Sought
The government launches a multimillion-dollar pest control program to cut DDT and other chemicals. Led by Agriculture, EPA, and NSF, it blends chemical, biological, and cultural methods to help farmers, starting with cotton. $2.25 million will fund on-farm efforts and $3.5 million for expanded research this year.
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Washington
Butz
Agriculture Department
State Seeks Used Plane for Gov Shapp in Weather Limited Flights
Harrisburg AP reports Pennsylvania seeks a used all weather aircraft to replace Gov Shapp’s five seater for clear weather flights. Bids are being received on used aircraft with price expectations ranging from under 500 thousand to near one million dollars. The Beechcraft currently in service has flown 500 thousand accident free miles and is based at Capital City Airport in New Cumberland.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
Transportation
Jacob G. Kassab
U.S. Steel Corp
Dallas
Tex
Grumman Gulfstream
Wdau-Tv
Scranton
Kassab
Beechcraft
Capital City
New Cumberland
Farm Show director Horace Mann faces dismissal plan
Agriculture Secretary Jim McHale says Horace Mann will be fired as Farm Show director, contending the 11 acre complex wastes funds while Mann accuses McHale of misunderstanding operations. The process faces resistance from the Farm Show commission and a looming cost review.
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Harrisburg
Jim McHale
Pennsylvania
Horace Mann
McHale
Mann
Farm Show Commission
Gov
Shapp
Crawford County to Appeal 50th District Reapportionment
Crawford County commissioners will appeal to the State Supreme Court against the reapportionment of the 50th state senatorial district citing the transfer of Titusville to the 25th district. The unanimous move was supported by Senator R. Budd Dwyer and follows two other suits against the redistricting by a five member commission.
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Meadville, Pa
Crawford County
State Supreme Court
Titusville
50Th
Oakley M. Lamb
Harry Kerr
Harold B. Turner
R. Budd Dwyer
West Coast longshore talks resume amid merger plot risk
Critical negotiations between ILWU and PMA reopen as merger rumors with the Teamsters surface in Washington. A potential 24 port strike looms if no accord is reached, with key issues over container handling and off dock contracts fueling the dispute.
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SAN Franghco
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Teamsters Union
Pacific
Teamsters
ILWU
Harry Bridges
Washington
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Washington Post
Bridges
San Francisco
United California
California
Oregon
PMA
Fitzsimmons
Los Angeles
James D. Hodgson
One Member Held Over by Governor Shapp
Mrs. Ferne Smith Herrick is the sole Pennsylvan ia Historical and Museum Commission member retained by Gov. Shapp. The appointee, descendant of York County farmers who received land from William Penn, chairs the nine member panel and has led efforts to celebrate Penn’s birthday. She previously served under Scranton and Shafer and now faces a third term while living on an 83 acre York County farm.
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Harrisburg
Ferne Smith Herrick
The
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Shapp
York County
William Penn
Hetrick
Penn
William Scranton
Raymond P. Shafer
James B. Stevenson
Titusville
Fairview Township
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Bob Bacha
Frankie Carle
Mary Ann Ballard
Wqmu-Fm
New Hampshire
Paul McCloskey
Sam Yorty
Jacob C. Gordon
Joe Lex
Austin Burtin
Target
State Farm Show
Sec. McHale
Mark Winstein
Bureau of Animal Industry
Aluminum
Nowiea
C. E. Rager
Josephine
Raute
Indiana
Jimmy Rizzo
Tom Euston
Pacific Maritime Association
J. Curtis Counts
Ponting Bonneville
Ford Toring
Satellite
P.S
Sharp
Wood Pontiac Chevrolet, Inc
Plumville
C. L. Ruffner & Sons
Fiat
Jare-Ven
Europe
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