Handwriting expert to test Hughes will in Las Vegas case
Los Angeles attorney for three women claiming Hughes cousins will bring handwriting expert Jack Harris to Las Vegas to test the will. Judge Keith Hayes allows removal from bank vault for examination. The women Barbara Cameron Agnes Roberts and Elspeth DePould seek to challenge the document while many others claim rights to the Hughes fortune.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Las Vegas
Hughes
Jerome Blut
District Court
Keith Hayes
Jack Harris
Trains Collide in Netherlands Killing 24 and Injuring 10
A rush hour collision in Schiedam between a blue and yellow commuter train and the Rhine Express killed 24 and injured 10, with the express driver escaping injury. Dutch rail officials cited possible human error or technical failure and described a grim scene of wreckage and rescues as the two trains collided head on on a two line system.
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Schiedam
The
Netherlands
UPI
Hoek van Holland
Munich
Germany
Rotterdam
Kornet
Holland
Harmelen
Utrecht
Hague
FBI finds two more Hearst hideouts in downtown Sacramento
The FBI reports two additional low rent apartments in downtown Sacramento used by Patricia Hearst, William and Emily Harris and SLA associate Wendy Yoshimura. Emily Harris rented a W Street unit, Kathleen Soliah rented Capitol Avenue, and James Kilgore rented T Street. The Union notes FBI fingerprinting occurred at the two flats and residents were partially identified.
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Sacramento
UPI
FBI
Patricia Hearst
Hearst
San Francisco
Emily Harris
Kathleen Soliah
Capitol Avenue
James Kilgore
Miss Soliah
Steven Soliah
SLA
Carmichael
Soliah
Los Angeles
Ne “i
Harris
the Union
Ed Richardson
Buiding
Kilgore
Myron Cohen Stable in Nyack After Pacemaker Implant
Comedian Myron Cohen remains in the coronary care unit at Nyack Hospital in stable condition after receiving a pacemaker. The 73 year old entered the hospital Sunday due to a dangerously low pulse rate and underwent surgery later that day. His manager said Cohen called his doctor after feeling weak at his home in New City and was set to open a three week engagement at the Rainbow Grill atop the RCA Building.
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Nyack
N.Y
UPI
Myron Cohen
Nyack Hospital
Cohen
Robert Marshall
New City
America
Rainbow Grill
RCA
Food Stamp Cut Hits 10 Million
Agriculture officials announce tighter eligibility that could remove at least five million Americans from food stamp aid while about five million needy participants would gain higher benefits. The rules, slated to begin June 1 with possible delays, cap cash shares and shift to a 90 day income lookback, drawing lawsuits from civil rights and church groups.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
Agriculture
Ronald Pollack
Food Research and Action Center
New York
Pollack
Edmonton man challenges Dummar claim in Hughes tale
James Guilmner, president of the Tour Canada Association, says he and Melvin Dummar found Howard Hughes in Las Vegas in 1968 and Guilmner gave Hughes a quarter after the singer asked for money. Guilmner says Dummar later claimed credit and inherited a disputed $150 million bequest in a forged will.
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Edmonton
Canada
UPI
Howard Hughes
James Guilmner
Tour Canada Association
Melvin Dummar
Willard
Utah
Las Vegas
Hughes
Guiltner
Dummar
U S Ignored Saudi Offers in Oil and Bases Talk
Former ambassador James Akins testified that State Department leaders ignored Saudi proposals to roll back oil prices and move the Russian base in Somaliland. He said Saudi offers included economic aid to Somaliland and buying U S weapons for Somalia, tied to a broader push amid Diego Garcia plans.
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Washington
State Department
Akins
Senate
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Othe
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Somalia
Somaliland
U.S
Congress
Diego Garcia
Indian Ocean
Church
Cambodian defector reports Khmer Rouge massacre in Phnom Penh
Lt. Pech Lim Kuon, a Cambodian pilot who defected to Thailand, claimed up to half a million people were killed after the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. He described streets littered with corpses and said elections were not real.
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Bangkok
UPI
Thailand
Cambodia
Pech Lim Kuon
Khmer Rouge
Phnom Penh
Kratie
Lon Nol
Kuan
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Noah Dietrich
Mormon Church
Lavan E. Coberly
Phoenix
Ariz
Coberly
Sven Nelson
Pasadena
Calif
Hollywood
Nelson
Russell Waite
Waite
Rhein- Express
Schiedam Station
Henk Kornet
Oscar B. Goodman
Temple Beth Sholom
Israel
Hank Greenspun
Las Vegas Sun
State of Israel
Greenspun
E. Oakey Blvd
Philip Shnairson
Joseph Kohn
Sisterhood
Temple
Annette Graziani
Martha Olson
Bates
Radio Phnom Penh
Kuon
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