City worker tied to 2.5 million fraud scheme in LA
Los Angeles officials say a city cashier's internal access helped the theft, with two men arrested and three sought in a plot to pay phony New York and Chicago firms. Investigators call it an organized crime operation, aided by inside access and a forged payoff plan.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Municipal Treasury
Charles Navarro
Congressional Investigating Committee
New York
Navarro
Data Services Bureau
New York City
Chicago
Bahamas
Switzerland
Philip Manuel
Permanent Senate Subcommittee On Investigations
Bernard R. Howard
Yonkers
N.Y
Morton B. Freeman
Beverly Wilshire
Senate
Howard
Brooklyn
Carmine
Lombardozzi
Carlo Gambino
Freeman
Senate Subcommittee
Tom Bradley
Montreal
Data Service Bureau
Strikes halt Texas airline buses ferries and boats nationwide
Strikes grounded planes in Texas, halted buses in the South's largest city, and stopped Puget Sound ferries. Talks in St Paul between Texas International Airlines and the Airline Employer Association yielded little progress with more meetings planned. The strike affected 23 Texas cities eight states and four Mexican cities. A Houston bus strike could extend through Christmas shopping season and into next year. A 23 day San Antonio bus strike ended over the weekend and thousands crowded downtown. Puget Sound ferries were halted as Inlandboatmen's Union stopped nearly all service affecting 28 000 daily riders.
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United Press International
Texas
South
Washington State
Puget Sound
St. Paul
Minn
Texas International Airlines
Houston
E.D
Bud’’ Kincaid
Kincaid
San Antonio
Seattle
Wash
Inlandboatmen’s Union
Sound
Senators push oil embargo and economic defense pacts
Two U S senators urged action against Arab oil, proposing a total embargo and gasoline rationing to curb imports. Senator Lowell Weicker warned of Arab oil power and urged mass transit and new energy sources. Senator Alan Cranston favored converting NATO and SEATO into mutual economic defense pacts to defend industrial nations from oil cartel pressure.
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Los Angeles
API
Lowell Weicker
United States
Alan Cranston
NATO
SEATO
Cranston
Monte Carlo
California
Jewish Federation Council of
Greater Los Angeles
Weicker
Henry Kissinger
U.S
Nixon urged to sell Florida property to curb costs
Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin quotes Robert Abplanalp and C G Rebozo telling Nixon he must sell his Key Biscayne properties to stay solvent. They said Nixon's income from pension and writings would cover legal and medical fees, and disposal of the Florida White House assets to a non profit foundation was a key money saving plan.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Richard Nixon
Key Biscayne
Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin
Newpaper
Robert H. Abplanalo
C.G
Bebe) Rebozo
Nixon
Biscayne
Abplanalp
The
Bulletin
Rebozo
Abplanalo
Casa Pacifica
San Clemente
Florida White House
Guardsmen End Earthquake Exercise In California Drill
More than 20 000 National Guardsmen completed a three day drill simulating a deadly California quake. Maj Gen Glenn C Ames said the exercise included a 2000 man airlift to Camp Roberts for the quake scenario with thousands feared dead and troops acting as rioters refugees and relief workers.
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Sacramento
UPS
California
Glenn C. Ames
Camp Roberts
Paso Robles
San Andreas
Robbers invade Sherry Netherland Hotel in 5th Avenue heist
Five gunmen held 13 employees and guests at the Sherry Netherland on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street for over two hours. They forced captives into a room, searched 40 safe deposit boxes, then fled from the 19th floor as police arrived. no injuries were reported.
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New York
UPI
Sherry Netherland
Fifth Avenue
59Th Street
Miki becomes Japan's prime minister amid Tanaka scandal
Takeo Miki, veteran legislator known as Mr. Clean, is elected prime minister by the Diet 278 to 117, replacing Kakuei Tanaka who resigns after exposure of money politics. Miki led calls for Tanaka's ouster while serving in the lower house. party allies back him as 66th prime minister since 1885.
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Tokyo
UPI
Takeo Miki
Diet
Miki
Kakuei Tanaka
Liberal Democratic Party
Tomomi Narita
Socialist Party
Sanzo Nozaka
Communist Party
Yoshikatsu Takeiri
Koemito Party
Ikko Kasuga
Democratic Socialist Party
Japan
Mr. Clean
Tanaka
Bungei Shunju
Food costs rise faster for needy families says UPI
A US Agriculture Department report shows October costs for four basic diet plans rising across the board, with the Economy Diet at 36 dollars a week and a four person monthly sum of 156 dollars. Needy households face reduced food stamp benefits next March as costs outpace aid.
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Washington
UPI
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Wine Lands Financial, Inc
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Lompoc
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