Nomination Delay fuels Kleindienst hearing debate
Senate Judiciary Committee delays action on Richard Kleindienst as key witness Dita Beard remains missing with FBI agents scouring the Denver area. Kennedy urges continued hearings on ITT antitrust settlements tied to GOP convention funds. Eastland insists searches continue and testimony from Beard is essential. Mitchell denies involvement.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Richard
Kleindienst
Dita D. Beard
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
FBI
Denver
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
ITT
San Diego
Beard
Sheraton Hotel
Jack Anderson
Afty
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Nixon
Albany Plane Crash Kills 17 On Mohawk Flight 405
A Mohawk Airlines Fairchild F27 on instrument approach to Albany crashed into a two story home in a tree lined Albany neighborhood killing 17. The plane carried 45 passengers including an infant. pilots Capt. Robert McAdams and Copilot William Matthews died. The crash scattered debris and collapsed the house trapping residents while others were hospitalized. An NTSB team investigated as FAA logged the feathering of engine No. 1 and loss of contact.
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Albany
N.Y
Joseph Rosen
Marcia
Lawrence
Roger
Mohawk Airlines
Sandy Segir
Rosen
Peter Sargent
Thomas O'Leary
Rosens
Washington Avenue
Federal Aviation Administration
National Transportation
New York City
la Guardia
Albany County
Robert McAdams
South Hempstead
William E. Matthews
Orange
N.J
FAA
Kansas lawyers punished by Supreme Court action
The Kansas Supreme Court punished two lawyers in separate rulings. Robert E. Blase of Wichita was found guilty of contempt for practicing law while suspended and fined 1000 dollars with an additional six month suspension. Lester Dean Matthew of Sedan was suspended indefinitely after accepting ethics violation findings and paying costs. Herman Loudermilk in Sedgwick County was affirmed guilty of narcotics possession with his 110 year sentence upheld after a challenged search.
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Topeka
Kan
Wichita
Sedan
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
Robert E. Blase
Supreme Court
Blase
Herman Loudermilk
Sedgwick
Loudermilk
Bilffeld
KU Medical Center seeks $64 million expansion bonds
Dr. William Rieke asked Kansas lawmakers for authority to issue $64 million in revenue bonds to fund expansion at the University of Kansas medical center. The plan would raise beds to 800, add a basic science building and new clinical facilities, and allow larger class sizes. Action hinges on session timing before adjournment.
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Topeka
Kan
University of Kansas Medical Center
William ©. Rieke
House
Senate
Rieke
Fire Hits Empty Fox Run Complex in Shawnee
A late Friday blaze in the Fox Run apartment complex at 77th and Switzer Shawnee Kansas destroyed 18 apartments and a six unit town house, leveled three structures including a work shed, with 180 nursing home residents evacuated downwind. Firefighters faced low hydrant pressure 800 feet away as a 25 mph wind fanned the fire.
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Kansas City
Fox Run
77Th and Switzer
Shawnee
Kan
Four Seasons
Heath Conservative popularity slips in UK poll
A Louis Harris poll reported by the Daily Express shows Labour leading the Conservatives by 14 percentage points and 53 to 39 percent, with Liberals and others at 8 percent. The January figures were 43 49 and 8 respectively.
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London
Edward Heath
Louis Harris
Daily Express
Labor
Harris
Liberals
INDEX Warmer Weather Details Page 5
The weather report notes higher temperatures across the region with a gradual warmup expected today. Forecasters warn of muggy conditions and possible afternoon thunderstorms, advising residents to stay hydrated and limit outdoor activities during peak heat.
Terrorist Dies Near Belfast in Shootout and Bomb Blast
Police say they killed a terrorist and wounded another during a patrol near Belfast as they halted a bomb plan. The blast damaged a shop front minutes later. A hooded body found in Londonderry’s Creggan Estates is believed to be the second gunman. The attacks raise Northern Ireland’s crisis death toll to 261, including Pvt. Stephen Keating who was shot in Shankill Road area. An explosion in Cookstown damaged government offices with no injuries.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Creggan Estates
Pvt
Stephen Keating
Shankhill Road
Cookstown
County Tyrone
Shrimp boat owner linked to half ton heroin haul
Marseille police say the shrimp boat owner admitted delivering 220 pounds of heroin to Miami last year. The drugs, worth about $25 million in the U.S. market, were moved through Latin American intermediary gangs to American pushers. Boucan made two trips earning roughly $195,000 each before his capture on the third voyage.
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Marseille
France
U.S
Latin America
United States
Miami
Marcel Boucan
Lawrence Weekend Warmth Expected with 50s High
Forecasters predict sunny to partly cloudy skies in Lawrence Sunday with a high in the 50s. Tonight will stay around the 20s, with a cooling trend continuing into midweek as temperatures dip below normal Monday, then rise Tuesday before cooling again Wednesday. No precipitation is expected.
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National Weather Service
Kansas House okays reapportionment with southeast borders shifted
The Kansas House tentatively approved a bill to reapportion 40 senatorial districts after altering boundaries in southeast Kansas. Changes by Rep. Bob Talkington put Anderson Bourbon Linn Woodson Allen and Bourbon with Crawford County areas into the 12th district. The 13th would include Crawford Cherokee counties and the 14th would be Wilson Neosho Labette. A competing plan to cut the Senate to 35 members was rejected 52-37.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas House
Kansas
Senate
House
Bob Talkington
R-Iola
Wiliam Bunten
R-Topeka
House Apportionment Committee
Bunten
Anderson, Linn
Woodson
Allen
Bourbon
Walnut, Grant, Osage
Sherman
Crawford County
Cherokee County
Wilson, Neosho
Labette Counties
Anderson
Linn
Wilson
Carlyle
Deer Creek
Elm
Geneva
Marmaton
Osage
Allen County
Labette
Neosho
C.H. Durfee
R-Ness City
Durfee
State Revenue Department
Alcoholic Beverage Control Department
John Bower
R-Mclouth
Department of Education
AEC May Create Caverns To Store Nuclear Wastes
AEC official Dr. Frank Pittman said the agency will study underground caverns formed by nuclear explosions to dispose of radioactive waste. Preferred site is Lyons Kansas salt mine but opposition may force other options across several states. Caverns would adjoin Hanford Washington and Aiken South Carolina reprocessing plants with 80 million gallons stored.
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AEC
San Diego
Calif
Atomic Energy Commission
Frank Pittman
Lyons
Kan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Michigan
New York
Pittman
American Nuclear Society
Hanford
Wash
Aiken
S.C
House Holds First Saturday Session In Topeka
The Kansas House opened its first Saturday session to finish work before adjournment next Friday. The Friday tally included 40 bills, among them a billboard control law tied to preserving 6.8 million dollars in federal highway funds. The measure and 21 others await Gov. Docking signatures.
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Topeka
Kansas
U.S
Russians See America Through Moscow TV Eye
On state television, a Moscow commentator reviewed an American feature showing both prosperity and social woes. He praised highways and the New York towers while noting slums, crime, and poverty, ending with a West Virginia miner’s hungry child desiring food.
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Moscow
America
Valentin Zorin
U. S
Zorin
New York City
West Virginia
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Rates Center
Ways and Means Committee
Hill
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Ong
Warner Markets
Alsa Ces Cis
Tees
Solala Es Mle
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Rexall
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Sweden
Robert Davis
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Davis
Rockford
U.S. Army
Robert Docking
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