Kissinger to be quizzed in corporate bribery probe
Senate Banking Committee will question Secretary of State Henry Kissinger amid ongoing bribery disclosures. Sen. Jesse Helms urged the inquiry as SEC chair Rodger Hills said more corporations may admit bribes in filings. The panel also noted Rollins Inc and Lockheed probe details. Sacramento report on Gov Brown’s diet reform follows.
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Roderick Hills
SEC
Hills
Committee
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Rollins, Inc
Atlanta
Mexico
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
U.S
Lockheed
Robert Haacke
Retired Lockheed figure in Japan bribery scandal
John W. Clutter a former Lockheed marketing director in Japan from 1972 to 1974 retired Feb 29 at age 64. His retirement follows top executives Arch Folden Ralph Osborn and amid a probe into Lockheed’s $24 million in bribes to win foreign contracts in Japan.
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Calif
UPI
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Japan
John W. Clutter
Lockheed
Clutter
Arch Folden
Ralph Osborn Folden
Lockheed California
Osborn
Daniel Haughton
A. Daniel Kotchian
Lockheed Aircraft Asia Ltd
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Kotchian
Senate
Gunman in Detroit shootout wounds three before killed
A 52-year-old hotel owner was shot by a gunman who then barricaded himself in a sixth floor stairwell. Police and fire units surrounded the Addison Hotel as Chauncey West fired on them. Reverend William Paris, the police chaplain, was shot and left in critical condition.
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Detroit
UPI
Harry Zartarian
Addison
Chauncey West
Zartarian
West
William Paris
Paris
Brown signs impound bill in California
Gov Edmund G Brown Jr signed AB484 requiring banks and savings and loan associations making home loans to pay two percent interest on impound accounts starting 1977. Assemblyman Louis Papan said the measure could trigger over seven million dollars in interest in the first year and influenced Bank of America and Wells Fargo to voluntarily pay interest on impound accounts.
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Sacramento
UPI
Savings and Loan
Edmund G. Brown
Louis Papan
D-Daly City
Bank of America
Wells Fargo
Violence threats rise as Catholics barred from NI governing role
Northern Ireland debate ends with 46 to 15 vote to reject power sharing and exclude Catholics, likely prolonging direct rule from London. IRA warns of more bombings, including London transport attacks, amid renewed violence fears.
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Northern Ireland
UPI
London
Ernest Baird
United Unionist Party
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Army Council
Britain
Scotland Yard
Aftershocks worry Guatemalans after deadly quake
One month after Central America's worst quake, Guatemala endures continuing aftershocks and tremors. Thousands remain homeless as authorities fear another major quake. The disaster has killed nearly 23,000 and injured over 50,000, with ongoing discoveries of rotting bodies near the capital.
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Guatemala City
Guatemala
UPI
Central America
Snow and ice blanket much of the nation
A nationwide weather summary reports cold temperatures and winter storms bringing snow ice and rain across much of the country. Southern California saw clearing skies after a storm dropped 1.61 inches of rain at the Los Angeles Civic Center while mountains received snow.
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UPI
California
Los Angeles Civic Center
White Mountains
Arizona
Colorado
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