Vietnamese refugee Vinh helps run health program in Lawrence
Vinh a 37 year old former intelligence officer fled Vietnam with his wife Anh and six children after Saigon fell. They arrived at Kansas City airport then Lawrence where three refugee committee members welcomed them. Vinh will seek jobs leveraging his past roles in health, welfare and translation as they settle in a rented home.
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Chieu Duc Vinh
Vinh
Lawrence
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Vihn
South
Vietnam
Defense Attache
Saigon
Philippines
Guam
U.S
Anh
Diep Chi Hue
Hue
Kansas City International Airport
Jarek Piekalkiewicz
John and
Carol Boulton
Ind
Astronauts Prepare for Homecoming After Soyuz Landing
Astronauts Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton extend their stay to collect data while Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov return tired but well after six days in orbit. The Soyuz landing in Kazakhstan was televised. News conferences planned in Moscow and Houston celebrate the joint mission.
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Valeri Kubasov
Soyuz
Soviet
Kazakhstan
Stafford
Mission Control
Former CIA lawyer says security can trump legal prosecutions
Lawrence R. Huston, former CIA general counsel, told a House subcommittee he would not have recommended prosecuting an employee for murder if it exposed secret operations. He said none of the nine nonprosecution cases involved murder. The CIA noted 30 cases of alleged wrongdoing since the 1954 agreement with the DOJ, with 19 referred for prosecution and two to another agency.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Lawrence R. Huston
CIA
Huston
House
Justice Department
Select House Intelligence Committee
Paris
Castro
Kennedy
Theodore Sorensen
Rep
Abzug
George L. Cary
Unpaid toll leads to two-day jail hold in Kansas
Five travelers stranded on a cross country trip near Lawrence when Oscar Pizano 29 was jailed for failing to pay a 55 cent toll at the East Lawrence exit of the Kansas Turnpike. Pizano pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor toll violation and received two days in jail with costs abated. The group, from Sweet Home Oregon, included two juvenile women who were questioned as possible runaways before release.
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Tan Son Nhut
Viet
Lawrence
Oscar Pizano
Douglas County
East Lawrence
Kansas Turnpike
Pizano
Rodney Willliams
Williams
Anderson
Georgia
Topeka
Mike Elwell
Elwell
Exxon Earnings Fall in Second Quarter 1975
Exxon Corp reports a 34.3 percent drop in Q2 earnings and a 23.8 percent fall in the first half of 1975. Chairman J K Jamieson cites higher taxes from repealed oil depletion allowances and lost inventory profits as major factors. He notes weaker demand due to conservation, recession, and lower oil sales.
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New York
Exxon Corp
Exxon
J.K. Jamieson
U.S
General Motors
Protest Petition Seeks Zoning Reversal On Quarry Land
Carl Amerine leads a protest petition with 169 signatures from Douglas and Jefferson counties for a 466 acre quarry parcel near the Douglas County line. The petition aims to block re zoning to sanitary landfill and will be presented to the Jefferson County Planning Commission at 8 p m Thursday in Oskaloosa. The panel will study the petition and forward recommendations to the Jefferson County Commission.
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Jefferson County Planning Commission
Oskaloosa
Carl Amerine
Amerine
Jefferson County
Douglas County
Douglas
Jefferson Counties
Planning Commission
Jefferson County Commission
New center left turn lane will alter local driving habits
Lawrence prepares for a new middle lane on 23rd Street dedicated to left turns. Public Works official George Williams says the lane should reduce traffic injuries by about one third, citing Michigan studies showing lower rear end and left turn crashes but a rise in right angle incidents. Center lane painting and signs will be completed this week.
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Lawrence
23Rd Street
Lawrence Public Works
George Williams
Michigan
Wiliams
Williams
India approves emergency, sparks walkout by opposition
In New Delhi the upper house backed Indira Gandhi's emergency resolution 136 to 33. Non Communist members walked out and pledged to boycott the remaining week of parliament as the lower house prepares to vote Wednesday before ratification by President Ahmed.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Gandhi
Ndia
Congress
Christina Onassis to wed Alexander Andreadis in Glyfada ceremony
Christina Onassis plans a private wedding with Alexander Andreadis in a six-person Glyfada chapel near Athens. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis will attend, and Denise Sioris confirms her long-ago relationship with the groom amid expectations he will help run Christina's shipping empire.
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Greece
Christina Onassis
Alexander Andreadis
Andreadis
Glyfada
Christina
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Onassis
U.S
Alexander
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