Baby dies as doctors strike blocks emergency care in London
Christina Bhela found her 5 month old daughter Seema barely breathing and rushed to hospital. Ambulance tried Hillingdon Mount Vernon and Wexham Park but hospitals refused care due to nationwide doctors strike. Death ruled from respiratory failure, sparking an investigation into whether timely treatment could have saved the child.
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London
UPI
Christina Bhela
Bhela
Hillingdon Hospital
Mount Vernon
Wexham Park Hospital
Seema Bhela
London Ambulance
Hillingdon
Paul Copeland
South Boston High begins federal receivership amid fistfights
South Boston High School started direct federal operation amid clashes between black and white students. Two black youths were hurt and three others arrested as tensions rose. one boy bit a police officer. Firebombing damage to the NAACP building was estimated at $500 as marshals and troopers monitored the scene.
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Boston
UPI
South Boston High School
NAACP
U.S
W. Arthur Garmity Jr
Garrity
South Boston
Agreement On Freight Rates Seen
Washington reports state department expects rapid accord with Soviet Union on freight rates for U S grain shipments to Russia and on importing cheaper Russian oil. Undersecretary Charles W. Robinson told a Senate panel the freight pact could wrap by month end and the oil deal in a month or two.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
Charles W. Robinson
Robinson
Hoffa tipster nabbed in $10,000 scheme in New Orleans
Clarence N. Medlin, 49, an ex-convict, was arrested in New Orleans on an FBI warrant connected to a $10,000 payment from CBS for information about the missing Hoffa body. Medlin allegedly sold the tip to CBS and Times-Picayune while claiming to know the burial site off the Florida Keys. He had been serving time for interstate transport of a stolen vehicle and escaped from a Greensboro halfway house.
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New Orleans
UPI
FBI
Clarence N. Medlin
Columbia Broadcasting System
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Medlin
Patrick O'Keefe
Hoffas
O’keefe
Florida Keys
Shallow
CBS
Times-Picayune
Hoffa
Lewisburg
Raleigh
N.C
Hope Harbor
Greensboro
Federal Bureau of Prisons
U.S
Don Hewitt
CBS News 60 Minutes
O'Keefe
University of North Carolina In
Kelley Urges Clear Rules for FBI Oversight by Congress
FBI Director Clarence Kelley pressed Congress to enact a formal charter and explicit guidelines on intelligence gathering to guard national security. He criticized minimal oversight and urged written presidential orders for controversial surveillance, noting past errors under Hoover amid antiwar and New Left violence. The testimony touched on wiretaps, dossiers on Americans, and the Post report of spying on antiwar lawmakers.
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Washington
Congress
FBI
Bureau
Kelley
J. Edgar Hoover
New England
California
Intelligence Committee
Martin Luther King Jr
Nixon Aides Retirement Reported by GSA
Rosemary Woods, secretary to President Nixon, retired from government payroll per GSA confirmation. Moss Woods earned 36000 a year and stayed on payroll after Nixon’s resignation until retirement on November 22, with an annual pension of 15000.
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Washington
UPI
Rosemary Woods
Richard M. Nixon
General Services Administration
Moss Woods
GSA
Nixon
Black Activist Plans NC Trial Over Kidnap Charge
Detroit activist Robert F. Williams says he will try to prove the FBI plotted against him with forged documents and murder attempts as he heads to North Carolina for a 14 year old kidnap case. He claims FBI and Ku Klux Klan collaboration and vows to reveal civil rights movement secrets.
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FBI
Robert F. Williams
Republic of New Africa
Detroit
North Carolina
Upifoto
UPI
Williams
Republic of
New Africa
China
Cuba
Monroe
N.C
State Court of Appeals
Ku Klux Klan
Ousted Officers Challenge Army Promotion Boards
Army lawyers say promotion boards violated a 1952 law by omitting reserve officers from ruling on reservists careers. Capt Ed Newton asks for a partial rejection of a multi hundred name challenge to 1974 and 1975 promotion decisions that ousted officers. Former Army Secretary Howard Callaway defended his instructions but said he did not know the law required reservists.
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Washington
UPI
Army
Newton
Howard H. Callaway
Four Marines Dead in Okinawa Blast Investigated
A UPI report states four Marines were killed and eight wounded in an explosion at Camp Hansen Okinawa while disposing of rocket propellant and blank ammunition. A board of officers investigates the incident with no immediate cause. Names of the dead include Richard L. Shryock Larry J. Rigsby James H. Underwood and James S. Parshall. Wounded are identified as William D. Smith Michael L. Baker Bernard L. McKnay George E. Reed Richard W. Dembeck Roy D. Sotelo Roland D. Moses and William P. Fields.
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Tokyo
UPI
Okinawa
Camp Hansen
Camp Kue Hospital
Richard L. Shryock
Tonville, Ill
Lance Corp
Larry J. Rigsby
Rockford, Il
James H. Underwood
Bryan
Ohio
James S. Parshall
Greenville
S.C
William D. Smith
Shreveport
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
Michael L. Baker
Houston
Tex
CWO
Bernard L. McKnay
Havelock
N.C
George E. Reed
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Reid
Boston School Committee
Massachusetts
W. Arthur Carrity
Raps Congress
King
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Washington Post
FBII
Lyndn B. Johnson
Post
Tinhnenan
Dal
White House
Clarence M. Kelly
South
Mrs. G
Bruce Stegall
Marshville
Ed Newton
Military Review Board
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