Oil search off Florida Gulf Coast seen as risky flop
Bill Caider reports on the MAFLA Frontier offshore area from New Orleans where bids and hopes for big oil yield may have been overpromised. Major companies Exxon Mobil Champlin Shell Texaco Gulf and Sun Oil invest billions while deep wells risk costly dry holes as environmental foes watch.
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St. Petersburg
Shell
Sun Oil Corp
Tampa
Gulf Oil Corp
Spud
Pensacola
Fla
Bleu Beathard
Exxon
Truce in Northern Ireland in danger after deadly weekend
Violence across Belfast raises alarm over the IRA Provisional truce. Ten people killed and more than 80 wounded as sectarian attacks and internal feuds flare, with police blaming tensions between Protestant and Catholic extremist groups and rival IRA wings.
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Northern Ireland
Merlyn Rees
Irish Republican Army
Gerald Fitt
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IRA
Rees
Provisionals
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Ulster Defense Association
Ulster Volunteer Force
Andersonstown
AP report traces 1974 news through economy and reform
The Associated Press board says the main current of 1974 news began and ended with the economy. Inflation and energy dominated the start, Watergate peaked in summer, and a recession framed public focus as AP expanded broadcasting, data streams, and regional coverage.
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Associated Press
Paul Miller
The
Bannett Co. Inc
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Ford
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Sound
AP News
Oil Export Talks Open as U S Aims to Break Cartel
Paris delegates from oil exporting nations and key buyers form preparatory talks for a summer energy conference. Louis de Guiringaud urges cooperation while Washington seeks to break the exporters’ cartel, with draft agendas balancing sovereignty and interdependence. OPEC says it would join only if non oil materials are included. The White House in Washington, D C, has 132 rooms.
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France
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Langston University feared closed as state cuts loom
Langston University faces a summer shutdown after a state agency voted to close the financially strapped campus. Students and the alumni association argue funds remain to run through June 30 and a July 1 appropriation could reopen. Many fear long-term loss of education and credits that may not transfer.
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Okla
Oklahoma
Langston University
Langston
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Ardmore
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Ac Ofice
Oklahoma A&m
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Leonard Tucker
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ronald Gamble
Tucker
Wanda Triplett
Spiro
Langston Summer School
Oklahoma State University
Brenda Patterson
Oklahoma City
Texas Surfers Boost In Bad Check Writing
Inflation and recession push Texans to write hot checks. Dallas County DA Henry Wade reports bad check complaints more than doubled from Jan 1974 to Jan 1975. Houston merchants filed over $2 million in hot check claims. firms tighten verification and require full identification from old customers.
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Dallas
Dallas County
Henry Wade
Bob Bond
Houston
Merchant's Information Exchange, Inc
Bond
Wade
Ross Rommell
Harris County
Rommell
Justice of the Peace Courts
Five Cambodian refugee babies find homes in Oklahoma
Five Cambodian orphans arrive in Oklahoma with passports and new American adoptive families. The Rev. Todd Burke, who led the mission, says the five day journey was grueling but hopeful as pediatrics care is arranged. The group includes Sarah Bennett now with the Bennetts of Tulsa and girls and boys adopted by families in Minnesota and Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma City
Cambodia
United States
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Burke
Oral Roberts University
Sarah Samkol Bennett
Sarah
David
Bennett
Bennetts
Carol Selness
Minneapolis
Minn
Bob Davis
Piedmont
Okla
Gary Miller
Kiowa
Dan Rudolph
Cheata
Valerie Eades Davis
Mike
Davis
Burke’s
Phnom Penh
Guam
Honolulu
San Francisco
California Condors Reach Nearly Ten Foot Wingspan
California condors, North America's largest birds, boast wingspans approaching ten feet, highlighting their impressive size and soaring ability.
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California
North America
New Tornado Safety Rules From School Study
A team of researchers examining tornado wreckage offers refuge guidance for schools. Avoid large free span rooms, choose interior walls and north facing corridors, basements first floor second, and steer clear of southwest corners and wind tunnels in corridors.
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National Weather Service
The
Weather Service
Florida Tourists Stay On In Easter Afterglow
Florida tourism officials report Northern visitors normally leaving after Easter are staying through April and likely into summer. Miami hotel owner says this sun magnet has created a miracle run with strong winter sales, while 1900 daily inquiries drive optimistic forecasts as Auto-Train records its busiest March since 1971.
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Rhea Gladwin
Lew Price
Auto-Train Corp
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