Bicentennial views mix praise and critique across the nation
A nationwide UPI survey finds Americans split on the Bicentennial mood with quotes from Boise Salt Lake City Seattle Des Moines Dallas and Memphis. Some praise the celebration while others call it commercial hoopla amid nostalgia and concern of overpricing the event. In Indiana Vanderburgh County passes an ordinance banning strip-mining to protect public safety and property with fines or prison terms for violations.
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Steve Boyer
Salt Lake City
Arthur Williams
Seattle
William Goolsby
Dallas
Ed Weaver
Southland
Boston
Steven Brownback
Columbia, Mo
Evansville
Ind
Apt
Vanderburgh County
Radio Operators Hold Weekend Emergency Exercise
Amateur Radio Operators club of Vigo and Sullivan Counties joined with operators from afar for a weekend emergency drill. Fifteen Vigo Sullivan members set up at Pleasantville fire tower using gasoline power and tents. Two operators manned the tent while two were on the tower with the antenna atop. Pete Crasher said the event doubles as a family outing and camping trip.
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Tim Doty
Jim McCall
Terre Haute
Pleasantville
Pete Crasher
Sullivan
Amateur Radio Operations Club
Vigo Counties
Amateur Radio Operators Club of
Vigo
Sullivan Counties
Linton
Sullivan County Club
Mercenaries’ Angola appeals begin after death sentences
Defense lawyers launch appeals for 13 Americans and Britons condemned as mercenary prostitutes in Angola’s civil war. Four face death by firing squad. others receive 16 to 30 year terms. Britons seek clemency from President Neto as U.S. and UK officials respond.
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Luanda
Angola
UPI
Daniel Gearhart
Queen Elizabeth
James Callaghan
Agostinho Neto
Washington
Bill Wilson
St. Louis
London
Callaghan
Neto
State Department
Red Cross
United States
Gearhart
Kensington
Revolutionary Peoples’ Tribunal
Wild Geese
South Africa
CIA
Britain
FBI
Tony Callan
Costas Georghiou
Bayh to lead new intelligence subcommittee on rights
Indiana Senator Birch Bayh was named head of a new Senate Intelligence Committee subcommittee on the rights of Americans. The panel will oversee intelligence activities impacting legal rights, with hearings planned on a wiretapping bill.
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Washington
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Daniel Inouye
Hawaii
Senate Intelligence Committee
Inouye
Bayh
Senate
Man who spent 66 years in prison will return
Johnson Van Dyke Grigsby, 91, who served 66 years after a 1908 life sentence for a barroom killing, is back at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after failing to adjust to life outside. He spent time in a nursing home since December 1974 and is now in the prison hospital’s old man’s ward.
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Grigsby
Guinness Book of Records
Indiana State
Michigan City
Leo D. Jenkins
Jenkins
Otis R. Bowen
Department of Corrections
James T. Smith
Bowen
Balloonist Near Halfway Mark in Atlantic Crossing
Karl Thomas in the Spirit of 76 is about 1,200 miles east of New York and 250 miles south of Nova Scotia as he nears the Atlantic crossing's halfway point. Ground control notes limited contact, backup radio use, and reliance on sextant navigation with favorable winds but cloud cover hindering visibility.
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New York
API
Karl Thomas
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
New York City
Nova Scotia
Walter Clayton
Clayton
Thomas
Rome
Lakehurst
N.J
Naval Air Station
Tourists Arrested For Carrying Guns At White House Line
Four tourists were arrested in the past month for carrying guns through the White House tour line. The U.S. attorney’s office said they carried guns for protection and were unaware of Washington gun laws. Officials fear more arrests during the July 4 weekend. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bette Uhrmacher noted many travelers come from states with laxer gun laws.
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Washington
UPI
White House
U.S
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Gary Acker
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Division of Education
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Alexandria
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the Land and Water Conservation Fund
South Bend
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Troy, Mich
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William M. Burke
James T. Burtchnell
West Lafayette
Gilman Stewart
Greensburg
Mildred Becker
Woodburn
Purdue University
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Indiana 4-H Foundation
Becker
Indiana Extension Homemakers Association
Fort Wayne
General Telephone
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General Telephone Communications Service
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