Farmer keeps dam as judge blasts corps over water plan
U S district judge William R Collinson ruled against ordering farmer Clark J Montgomery to remove a dam and channel he built on the Sac River near Stockton. He condemned the corps of engineers for not showing clean hands and cited ecological damage from 14 foot river level changes, erosion, and turbidity.
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Springfield
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
U. S
Clark J. Montgomery
Sac River
Corps
Stockton
Montgomery
William R. Collinson
Amin confirms belated honeymoon amid Uganda unrest
Audrey Taylor reports from Kampala that Idi Amin told her by telephone he is honeymooning with his fifth wife Sarah and staying alive and well. Kenyan reports claim a failed assassination and mass Ugandan flight to Kenya, but independent confirmation is unavailable. Amin’s fate remains unclear.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Uganda
Idi Amin
Amin
Audrey June Taylor
New York
WWRL
Kampala
Sarah
Taylor
Nairobi Daily Nation
Libya
U.S
Washington
Jail fire at Saint John City Hall kills 20 prisoners
A fire in a padded maximum security cell block in Saint John City Hall killed 20 prisoners and injured 14 others, most of whom had been transferred from a provincial jail after a string of earlier jail fires. Fire officials cited the blaze starting in the cell area, with speculation that padding was involved, as investigators sought the cause.
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Saint John
New Brunswick
Saint John City Hall
Percy Clark
Epton
Doneald Vanderfeltz Vandierfeltz earns doctorate in optometry
Donald J. Vanderfeltz son of Mr and Mrs Leon Vanderfeltz Route 1 has been awarded a Doctor of Optometry degree at the Illinois College of Optometry Chicago He will practice with Dr H M Agniel 215 E Capitol Ave A Helias High School graduate he completed pre optometry study at Christian Brothers College Memphis Tenn During college Vanderfeltz joined the American Optometric Students Association the Collegiat Society for the Advancement of Contact Lensers and served as Missouri state club president He also earned a visual therapy certificate for his work in that specialty.
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Donald J. Vanderfeltz
Leon Vanderfeltz
Route 1
Ilinois College of Optometry
Chicago
I. Vanderfeltz
H.M. Agniel
E. Capitol Ave
Helias High School
Vanderfeltz
Christian Aaners College
Memphis
Tenn
Illinois College of Pisce
Vance to visit China in late August
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance will visit China August 22 through 26 to advance talks on normalizing relations with the mainland. He will then visit Japan for one or two days. The trip aims to build on the Shanghai communique while Taiwan poses a major hurdle.
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Wwiashington
Cyrus R
Vance
China
State Department
Hodding Carter
Japan
Carter
Shanghai
Taiwan
Chi Teng-kuei
United States
Quick Laidton
Soviet Union
Mitchell Begins Prison Term Amid Watergate Fallout
John N Mitchell, 63, entering a 30 month to 8 year sentence at Maxwell Air Force Base prison near Montgomery, Alabama. He is the last of Nixon’s inner circle to go to prison, marking the end of the Watergate saga as Haldeman and Ehrlichman followed earlier in the week.
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Alabama
John N.mitchell
Orice
Mitchell
H. R. Hardieman
Lompoc
Calif
Claxwell Air Force Base
Montgomery
Ala
U.S
John J. Sirica
Dannelly
Richard M. Nixon
John D. Ehrlichman
Haldeman
Democratic Party
Carter
G. Gordon Liddy
Ehrlichman
Nixon
White House
Safford
Ariz
Richard Nixon
United States and Britain reach air transport pact
After all night talks at Shell-Mex House the Bermuda Agreement is phased out by a new accord covering Pan American TWA National and British Airways routes to Seattle Houston Singapore and London live services to Anchorage and London Hong Kong via Cathay Pacific and two U S flights to New York and Los Angeles. The deal limits seats to two airlines on Britain New York and Los Angeles routes and one on each Britain to smaller U S airports while talks continue to finalize wording by mid July.
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Shell-Mex
The
Thames
British Department of Trade
Bermuda
Irl
Pan American
TWA
National
British Airways
Cathay Pacific
Laker
New York
London
Air India
Iranair
el al
Seattle
Houston
United States
Ween
Britain
Atlanta
Dallas-Fort Worth
America
Singapore
Anchorage
Hong Kong
U.S
Japan
Europe
Los Angeles
International Air Transport Association
Rights resolution approved in key OAS committee
In Grenada Saint George CAP a strong American sponsored human rights resolution won committee approval after defeating an effort to tie personal freedoms to terrorism. The Political Juridical Committee backed the measure 14 to 0 with 8 abstentions out of 25 present, sending it to the plenary for final approval.
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ST. Georges
Grenada
Cap
Organization of American States
Inter- American Commission On Human Rights
Senate Panel Rejects Saccharin Ban Block
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to strike a House ban on saccharin, delaying any ban for 15 months. Senator Eagleton noted possible further legislation this summer and cited FDA assurances that no ban would occur before then. The House had sought an 18 month delay and a $1.4 million study.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Thomas Eagleton
D-Mo
Congress
Eagleton
Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee
FDA
Tia
Food and Drug Administration
Agriculture Department
Capitol Hill
Missouri sets deer season dates with restricted zones in 1977
The Missouri Conservation Commission announced the 1977 deer season will run November 19 to 27 with area restrictions tightening some 1976 rules. Archery season remains October 1 to December 31 with one deer of either sex, but closed during the November gun period. Several historic weapon and archery hunts will be scheduled later. Units across the state will have buck or antlerless quotas, with specific zones limiting harvest to bucks except on specified dates, and several units permitting limited total buck quotas. ODESSA AP Larry L. Baker 19 of Independence died when his car struck a tractor trailer on I 20 near Odessa. The crash occurred about 7:20 a.m. during a construction detour four miles west of Odessa and 28 miles east of Kansas City.
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Missouri Conservation Commission
Missouri
Ozarks
Southcentral
Odessa
Larry L. Baker
Independence
Interstate 20
Missouri Highway Patrol
Kansas City
Fourteen banks win state funds deposits for student loans
State Treasurer James J. Spainhower says fourteen banks qualified for nearly 4.7 million dollars in state funds deposits under the Student Loan Time Deposit Program. Each bank received a yearlong deposit between 149000 and 500000 dollars at 5.7 percent interest, with nine banks still holding about 2.6 million in deposits from last year under the incentive program. The program, begun in 1974, aims to spur federally insured student loans. banks qualify if 40 percent of total deposits fund loans and at least half a percent of those loans are federally insured student loans.
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James J. Spainhower
Spainhower
Teasdale signs retirement bill for state workers
Gov Joseph Teasdale signed a retirement bill that raises state employee benefits by four percent annually to offset inflation. William Barton of Jefferson City notes the current average monthly payment is $106 and plans to address the St Joseph and Kansas City chapters of the Retired Missouri State Employees group with talks Friday at noon and 5 p.m. respectively.
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Joseph Teasdale
Association of
Missouri
William Barton
Jefferson City
Barton
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Seg.ment Security
Thornton trial moved to Iowa
The trial of Ft. Leonard Wood military policeman Johnny Lee Thornton, 23, charged in the Jan. 13 slayings of four teens on the Army base, will be held in Council Bluffs Iowa after a court transfer. Jury selection was halted in St. Joseph Missouri as defense lawyers argued an impartial panel could not be impaneled.
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Kansas City
Ft. Leonard Wood
Council Bluffs
Iowa
U.S. District Court
Johnny Lee Thornton
St. Joseph
William R. Collinson
Collinson
U.S. District Attorney’s Office
Missouri
Springfield
Thornton
Russellville
Ark
Missouri Ozarks
Wesley Hawkins
Anthony Lee Bates
Linda Needham
Hawkins
Bates
Miss Needham
Juanita Deckard
Miss Deckard
Brezhnev Leaves Paris After Detente Pledges
Soviet President Leonid L. Brezhnev wrapped up a three day visit to France and departed for home after signing with President Valery Giscard d Estaing a pledge to pursue international detente and nuclear nonproliferation. A declaration on economic cooperation was also signed.
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Paris
Leonid L. Brezhnev
France
Valery Giscard d‘Estaing
Body Found in Car Trunk On Downtown Street
The body of 25 year old Maplewood man Frank J. Avola was found early today stuffed in the trunk of a car parked on a downtown street. Police said the trunk had been opened after an officer noticed the car window is drawn with the body draped in a blanket and shot in the head or left side.
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ST. Louis
Frank J. Avola
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