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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1975
Page
1
Columnist uses humor to reflect on past mistakes and personal growth while noting a feature about C W Williams who is listed as injured on page 4. The item frames optimism through self mockery and a sports media blurb.
Weather summary notes hot and humid conditions with high temperatures around 107 and 105 in recent days. Historical aside shows a quote from Benjamin Franklin and references to sunrise and sunset times.
Former President Richard Nixon will tape four no holds barred ninety-minute memoirs with David Frost for international air after the 1976 elections. Frost, acting for an international consortium, said contracts and broadcasters are confidential and negotiations have lasted over a month. Nixon agreed to twenty taping sessions at San Clemente with no editorial control, and no subject, including Watergate, is barred.
First Lady Betty Ford says premarital relationships might reduce divorces if with the right partner and accepts that her children may have experimented with marijuana. She notes openness among youth, predicts ERA ratification, urges a woman on the Supreme Court, and endorses the abortion decision as positive.
Betty Ford says her husband remains a homebody and keeps busy, easing pressures on a First Lady in Washington. She rejects harsh feminist slogans and reports no cancer recurrence. Walter J. Scott, linked to the Patricia Hearst case, disappeared after saying he would give an affidavit to defense, with his brother claiming fear for his life and noting Scott’s government agency work.
FBI chemists in Washington determined blood on the front seat of a car driven by Hoffa's foster son is not human blood. The finding comes 11 days after James R. Hoffa vanished in Detroit and is part of the ongoing investigation.
Samuel Bronfman Jr aged 21, son of Seagram Distillers Co. chairman, reportedly kidnapped in Yorktown Heights New York over the weekend. FBI could not confirm. sources say story largely correct. No ransom demanded and local police reported no knowledge of a kidnapping in Westchester County.
Several city police chiefs on NBC Meet the Press argued unemployment and economic woes fuel street crime. Edward Davis of Los Angeles blamed moral poverty, while Patrick Murphy cited reducing urban youth unemployment as key. Others urged tougher justice and handgun controls.
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