Pro Communist Leads Portugal Crisis Deepens
Pro Communist Premier Vasco Goncalves formed a temporary government in Portugal amid the worst crisis of the revolution. He warned of severity and repression to counter opponents while austerity measures loom. Four killed and scores injured in anti Communist clashes in the north as moderates left the cabinet.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Vasco Goncalves
Goncalves
Popular Democrats
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Socialists
Antonio Arnau Metelo
Joaquim Teixeira Ribeiro
Armed Forces Movement
Costa Gomes
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Troika
Armed Forces
AFM
Revolutionary Council
Associated Press
AFN
Wentworth Fire Loss at Wentworth Military Academy
A Wentworth Military Academy fire damaged two three story buildings built after 1880 destroying the maintenance shop high school barracks offices classrooms band room and rifle range estimated to cost 500000 with 60 cadets displaced no one injured federal government to replace 400 M14 rifles fire started by an exploding furnace embers and smoke damaged the administration hall neighbors aided by watering roofs and lawns fire departments from nearby towns assisted and water supply was strained.
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Lexington
Wentworth Military Academy
James M. Sellers
John Magnuson
Military Academy
Richmond
Carrollton
Excelsior Springs
Higginsville
Lehr audit finds Missouri emergency center substandard
State Auditor George Lehr said the disaster operations center is substandard in readiness. A five year audit of Public Safety's office found inadequate supplies for 200 people for two weeks, inoperative water tanks, scant food, no laundry equipment, and no medical supplies. Officials partly agree to fix three findings but dispute food shortfall. The report cites missing radiation leakage reports and weak training controls.
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Jefferson City
George Lehr
Department of Public Safety
Lehr
Won't Reveal Phone Tapping Refuses Public Statement
Washington AP reports the director of the National Security Agency declined to issue any public statement on foreign telephone monitoring. The disclosure policy posture leaves questions unresolved about covert surveillance practices and national security considerations.
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Washington
National Security Agency
Lew Allen Jr
Select
House Intelligence Committee
Central Intelligence
William E Colby
Allen
Otis G. Pike
D-N.y
Mrs William Lowry Dies Rites Monday
Mrs. William Lowry 52 wife of Mexico High School principal died at Audrain Medical Center where she had been a patient since July 11. Funeral services are 10 a.m. Monday at Cotrell Funeral Home Poplar Bluff with visitation 7-9 p.m. Sunday. Burial in Memorial Garden Cemetery. Memorials to cancer fund. Born Feb 25 1923 in Poplar Bluff she was Miss Wilma Ruser. Survived by husband two children Susan Beth Marcussen and David K Lowry, father John D. Ruser, siblings Willis D Ruser Dorothy Shields Pauline Alcorn, and one brother preceded her in death. She had lived in several places due to her husband’s teaching career. Local visitation 7-9 Saturday at Arnold Funeral Home.
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William Lowry
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Cotrell Funeral Home
Poplar Bluff
Memorial Garden
Arnold Funeral Home
Cancer Fund
Wilma Ruser
John TD
Margaret Whalen Ruser
William FE. Lowry
Columbia
5. C
North Kentucky Rd
Lowry
First Baptist Church
Thomasville
France
Air Force
Chateauroux
Hardin
Joe Hodgin
David
Susan Beth) Marcussen
Petersburg
David K. Lowry
Kansas City
John D. Ruser
Willis D. Ruser
Puxico
Thomas
Dorothy) Shields
Florissant
Ernest
Pauline) Alcorn
Mexicoan Held In Stakeout Arrest
A 33 year old Mexico man James Wilbert Richardson and two men from Columbia Mitchell Maurice Jackson 24 and William Edward Linzie 27 are jailed in Boone County on second degree robbery by threat charges. They were arrested at Biscayne Mall after a $500 payment to Carl Berryman amid an extortion probe. Bond set at $10,000 each. Authorities investigate potential assault charges as well. Berryman co owns a pet shop. Richardson and Linzie co own Caesar's Palace Massage Parlor on Auxvasse hill off Highway 54.
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Mexico
James Wilbert Richardson
Columbia
Boone County
Mitchell Maurice Jackson
William Edward Linzie
Biscayne Mall
Richardson
Linzie
Caesar's Palace
Auxvasse Hill
Highway 54
Carl Berryman
Berryman
Boone County Sheriff's
Callaway
Callaway County
Jack Meyer
News On Gas Prices Not An Increase
New York AP reports Standard Oil of Ohio says competition has pushed gasoline prices down one cent per gallon at its stations. Union Oil Co of Los Angeles states it will not raise wholesale gasoline prices by more than two cents per gallon.
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New York
Standard Oil of Ohio
Union Oil Co
Los Angeles
Sohio
Ohio
Borak
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Michigan
Kentucky
Indiana
Fred Hartley
Union Oil
Nixon Ends Painful Year Of Self-Imposed Isolation
San Clemente readers recall Richard Nixon one year after his resignation as the first U.S. president to quit. He remains private, undergoing recovery from surgery and continuing work on his autobiography while the town hosts bicentennial events and tourists visit his villa.
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Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
America
Emil Radics
Herb Klein
Baruch Korff
White House
Ford Says Confidence in Government Restored
President Ford, reflecting on the Watergate era, asserts the nation’s government survived and that there will be no repeat of Watergate due to a vigilant system. He notes the transition from Nixon’s resignation a year ago and cites improved openness, inflation, and recession battles as evidence of restored public trust.
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Ford
Washington (Ap
Richard M. Nixon
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NSA
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