Mobster Roselli found dead in oil drum in Florida
Miami police say mobster John Roselli likely died a gangland style killing after his body was found in a chained oil drum drifting in Dumbfoundling Bay. Autopsy cites probable suffocation while investigators assess links to Sam Giancana and Roselli’s Senate CIA testimony about plots to kill Fidel Castro.
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UPI
John Roselli
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
Fidel Castro
Sam Giancana
Roselli
Plantation
Fla
Julio Ojeda
Charles Zatrepalek
Senate Committee
Chicago
Giancana
Castro
Tom Wadden
Washington
Puerto Rico Sato Show crowns mongrel dogs in beauty contest
The third annual Puerto Rico Sato Show in San Juan showcased 227 mixed breed dogs spanning 11 categories such as ears, curliest hair, smallest, and Heinz 76. Organizers from the Animal Rescue Association aimed to improve the image of the sato and its owners, noting the breed is less prone to inherited disease due to lack of inbreeding.
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Puerto Rico
UPI
The
Animal Rescue Association
Island
el Morro Castle
Cermonies
Sato
Satos
Candy
Demonstrators march on Trident base detains 71 at Bangor
Two hundred demonstrators from Canada and the United States gathered at the Trident nuclear base in Bangor Washington. Seventy one were detained after advancing with a 500 foot bamboo Trident Monster. Police issued letters barring entry. Nine additional citations issued for prior barring Malicious trespass. One man cited for assaulting a federal officer. First submarine to enter service in Sept 1979 with funding sought for an eleventh.
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Wash
UPI
Canada
United States
Trident
Peace Arch
Blaine
Tinian Road
Dave Thomas
Navy
Nationwide Showers and a Record Chill Spread
Weather from United Press International reports showers and thundershowers across the nation and a record chill in Dixie. Rain along the Atlantic Seaboard, flash flood watches for Rhode Island and parts of Massachusetts, NYC area downpours closing major highways, and a 110 mph Hurricane Belle nearing the North Carolina coast. Cold snaps hit Birmingham and Atlanta with record lows, while thundershowers and flash flood watches affected the Plains, West, and Northwest.
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Dixie
Atlantic Seaboard
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New York City
Springfield Boulevard
New York
North Carolina
Cape Lookout
Kitty Hawk
Reagan calls land deal story fiction about funds for president
Reagan denounced a Rolling Stone report alleging a 1951 land purchase and a 1966 sale to Twentieth Century-Fox as total fiction. The piece claimed Fox and others used Reagan’s land to seed his political campaign and noted related land trades and ties to MOCA cofounder Jules Stein.
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Reagan
San Francisco
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Rolling Stone
Twentieth Century-Fox
Santa Monica Mountains
California
Los Angeles
The
News Magazine
Fox
Harry Sokolov
State Parks and Recreation Board
Los Angeles County
Santa Monica Mountain
Santa Rosa
57Th Madison Corp
New York
57Th Madison
Delaware
Jules Stein
Califor
Reagan scales stakes after Schweiker pick in Kansas City
Ronald Reagan arrives in Los Angeles after a delegate hunt tour and says his choice of Richard Schweiker as running mate has boosted support beyond public counts. He contends the Schweiker pick has paid off politically as he prepares for events in Kansas City amid the coming storm.
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UPI
Ronald Reagan
West Coast
Kansas City
Richard Schweiker
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