Nevada Echoes and Las Vegas Snippets from a Turbulent Era
A Las Vegas column gathers assorted notes from the era including Steve Wynn denying a Golden Nugget purchase of the Four Queens, debates over food stamp misuse, an invite to write vignettes for Stanley Paher's Nevada Bicentennial Book, praise for Hotel Sahara staff, a mistaken Henry Kissinger headline corrected by Dave Henry, a local property tax scare, and a resident noting inflation raises in housing costs.
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Wynn
Anne's Phone Tapped
Officials tap Princess Anne's private line to trace a month of obscene calls. A listening device was installed at the Camberley exchange to monitor the unlisted number as she and Capt. Mark Phillips remain targets of the calls.
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London
UPI
Princess Anne
Post Office
Camberley
Sandhurst
Frost, floods sweep Midwest and South in sudden cold snap
A Canadian air mass sends early morning temperatures plummeting to 30 in Roseau and 37 in International Falls while frost blankets parts of the Upper Midwest. Arkansas flood woes worsen with five inches of rain in Camden and two to four more inches forecast as storms move east.
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LeSeuer
Mann
Green Giant Co
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Rockies
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Ohio
Bail Set On Alleged Seagram Heir Captors
In New York UPI reports two men, fireman Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne, were ordered jailed on combined 700000 bail for abducting Samuel Bronfman II and threatening to kill him and his father. The FBI traced a ransom payment of 2.3 million to Bronfman, while Byrne defended by saying they were merely amateurs in a lark.
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UPI
Seagram
Samuel Bronfman II
FBI
Bronfman
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U.S
Martin Jacobs
Mel Patrick Lynch
Dominic Byrne
Our Lady of Refuge Church
Paul Curran
Jacobs
Lynch
Byrne
Irish Republican Army
Dublin
Belfast
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Edgar Bronfman
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Young Bronfman
Kent State Gunfire Witnesses Testify in Civil Trial
Ohio National Guard officer Dwight Cline testified he saw two bullets strike behind his men on the Kent State campus during the May 4, 1970 shootings. The defense also called former Kent State President Robert White and Kent-Ravenna Record Courier publisher Robert Dix, who discussed curfew plans and efforts to keep the university open amid the civil case.
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Dwight Cline
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Cline
Blanket Hill
Robert J. White
Robert C Dix Kent
Ohio
Kent-Ravenna Record Courier
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Robert Canterbury
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