Justice Department charges AT&T of conspiring to monopolize telecom
The Justice Department accuses AT&T of a decades long plan to block competition in telephone and related services. It cites preannounced prices, delayed interconnections, and exclusive control of Bell System assets including Western Electric and Bell Laboratories. The filing seeks breakup of AT&T and sale of units.
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UPI
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United States
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West Point
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Philco
Philadelphia
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Bell
Western Union
Elisha Gray
Thomas Edison
AUT
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Jaycees To Honor Newton At Outstanding Young Men Event
Wayne Newton is named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year by the Jaycees. Awards will be given January 13 to 16 in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Hotel during the Jaycees convention. Ford not slated to speak.
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Jaycees
SUN
Las Vegas
Aladdin Hotel
Gerald Ford
White House
John Carlson
the Sun
Washington
Shielded Boy Fighting Germs
Medical researchers report germs penetrated a protective isolator around David a five year old with a sex linked hereditary disease. Despite exposure about 35 micro organisms have entered the isolator, yet the child shows no disease and some bacteria may aid his intestinal development.
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Houston
UPI
Buford L. Nichols
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
David
Nichols
United States
Murder Probe Deepens In Barbara McNair Husband Slaying
Police interview potential witnesses as the investigation into Manzie McNair's death proceeds. The Las Vegas man, married to Barbara McNair, was found shot in his Bruce Street home. autopsy cites multiple gunshot wounds and possible drug use.
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Barbara McNair
Manzie
Chicago
S. Bruce
United Press International
McNair
Las Vegas
Horace McNair
Bruce Street
Horace
Study Ordered For Age Of Will
Judge Hayes ordered federal authorities to examine a purported 1968 will for fingerprints and ink and paper age in Washington D C next week. The document leaves one sixteenth of the Hughes estate to Dummar who says he gave a desert rider a lift to Las Vegas who claimed to be Howard Hughes.
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Edelin Celebrated as Abortion Murder Charge Is Overturned
Dr Kenneth Edelin of Boston City Hospital reacts to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling overturning his abortion manslaughter conviction. The decision directs acquittal after a protracted case tied to a 1973 abortion. Edelin supports legal abortion and equity in medical care for the poor.
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United Press International
Kenneth Edelin
Boston City Hospital
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Edelin
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Suffolk County Superior Court
James P. McGuire
Commonwealth
Roxbury
BCH
Houston Trial Continued In Silver King James Ray Case
Bankruptcy proceeding for the estate of James Ray Houston and Western Union machines is paused to February 15. Trustee Robert Broadbent seeks 11 telex machines to liquidate estate assets, while Western Union argues the gear was rented and remains its property. Houston, once accused of selling gold and silver with delayed delivery, fled after FBI and SEC actions and has been at large for over a year.
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Western Union
Robert Broadbent
Houston
the Sun
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
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SEC
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