Bangladesh Hero Killed In Coup
New Delhi AP reports pro Moslem military officers overthrew Bangladesh's leftist government at predawn coup killing President Mujibur Rahman and reportedly also killing Prime Minister Mansoor Ali Sind. Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed named new leader as curfew imposed and martial law proclaimed.
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India
Bangladesh
Mujibur Rahman
Radio
Mansoor Ali Sind
Anks
Pacca
State Department
Washington
Radio Bangladesh
Sheik Mujib
A For
Mer
Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed
Sheik
United States
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Islamabad
Pakistan
Dacca
United News of India News Agency
Ahmed
Tanker Crashes Gulf Oil Tower Near Lake Charles
A 734 foot tanker Globuk Sun carrying 46 crew and 14.7 million gallons of Arabian light crude struck an unmanned Gulf of Mexico drilling platform 100 miles south of Lake Charles. Five crewmen missing. forty one rescued. Two in serious condition. Platform owned by Chevron with no wells active. Coast Guard searches continue as slick spreads.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
Lake Charles
Galveston
Tex
Nora E. Strangeland
Somme
Norway
John Sealy Hospital
Globuk Sun
Bahamas
Houston
Louisiana-Texas
Chevron
YAF Slogan Pushes Ford on Reagan at Chicago Convention
At the Young Americans for Freedom convention in Chicago the 750 members lean toward Ronald Reagan for president though Ford is praised by some. John Sears says Reagan will run. Wallace support grows among others as talk turns to a possible third party.
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Chicago
Ford
Sto Congress
Young Americans For Freedom
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
John Sears
YAF
Pee
Sharon, Conn
William F.buckley Jr
Students For A Democratic
John Birchers
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Republice
Allace
Dan Rea
Richard M. ‘Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Rea
John Buckley
Buckley
Wallace
Britain
Head Start Open House Set for September 10
Head Start for 1975 76 will hold an open house for parents volunteers and others on Sept 10 from 9 am to 1 30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church educational building. Classes begin Sept 11 at 8 30 am with sessions Monday to Thursday and staff inservice Fridays.
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First Presbyterian Church
Head Start
Frances Henderson
Heat Start
HDC
Washington
Queen Elizabeth II Delays Nigeria Visit Amid Coup Fallout
Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will postpone their October trip to Nigeria. The delay follows the recent military coup in Nigeria and reflects tensions after Gen. Yakubu Gowon was honored in a prior state visit to Britain two years ago.
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London
Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Nigeria
Buckingham Palace
Britain
Yakubu Gowon
Went to Auction to Buy Couch and Bought Entire Hotel
Superior Nebraska AP report says Fredrick Rick Alexander went to bid on an antique couch at Union Hotel sale and unexpectedly won the hotel for 3000 dollars. He plans to keep the hotel, raise rents modestly, and explore future business ideas while preserving its historic features.
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Superior
Neb
Fredrick
Rick
Alexander
Union Hotel
Maurice Kilgore
California
Kansas State University
University of Nebraska
Alexanders
Kilgore
Mississippi River
Lincoln
Money Flow Figures Are Contradictory
Washington AP report shows mixed signals from two balance of payments measures for April-June. Net liquidity balance shows a $1.2 billion surplus, down from $2.9 billion in Q1, while official reserve transactions show a $1.6 billion deficit, improved from $3.3 billion. Figures reflect methods tracking money flows under different exchange regimes. officials consider revamping statistics. The forthcoming basic balance figures are awaited.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
U.S
Official Reserve
Portugal Reclaims Angola Amid Civil War Fears
Lisbon disbands Angola’s provisional government and resumes direct rule after clashes between MPLA FNLA and UNITA push the colony toward civil war. A high official says independence remains planned for November 11, with Gov. General reinstalled under the Alvor accord framework.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Angola
Vasco Viera Almeida
Luanda
Lobito
Almeida
Fereira de Macedo
Alvor
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Vasco Goncalves
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
National Union For the Total Independence of Angola
UNITA
Bike Car Collision Injures Schoolboy Near Tracks
Darrel Skaggs, 11, of 220 E Barnes Sr escaped injury when his bicycle rode into the path of a car driven by Charles Graves, 22, of Scott's Trailer Court at 6 p.m. Wednesday near ICG tracks. Graves tried to stop but could not. There was no arrest.
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Centralia
Darrel Skaggs
E. Barnes, Sr
Charles R. Graves
Scott's
Graves
500000 Keeps KC In Running For GOP
Kansas City officials move to raise 500000 from the occupational license tax to stay in the bid for the 1976 Republican National Convention. The planned ordinance would replace flat business rates with a gross receipts based schedule and meet a deadline set by the Republican National Committee to make a firm offer.
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Kansas City
Republican National Committee
Rate Hearing On Gas Power At Capital
Jefferson City hearing set for August 20 by the Missouri Public Service Commission on Missouri Power and Light Co proposed rate increases. Hearing room on the Jefferson Building tenth floor to hear revised budgets and advertising expense testimony. Previous sessions July 28–31 recessed. the utility seeks $3.5 million more annual electric revenue and $600,000 more from natural gas.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Power and Light Co
Missouri Public Service Commission
Commission
Jefferson Building
Missouri Power and Light
White House denies Anderson report on pleaders’ fate
In Vail Colorado a White House spokesman denied columnist Jack Anderson’s claim that President Ford planned to appoint three men who pleaded guilty to Watergate related misdemeanors. Anderson named Richard Kleindienst Harry Dent and Wendell Wyatt as possible appointees to public trust posts. The spokesman stated none are being considered for any presidential appointment.
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Anderson
White House
Ballistics Test Ordered in RFK Death
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered renewed ballistics testing on the .22 caliber pistol tied to the RFK assassination. Criminologists contended bullets came from two guns, prompting a bid to reopen the case and release the police report and evidence. Sirhan Sirhan is serving life for Kennedy’s death. The judge set a Sept 11 deadline to decide testing methods or appoint experts.
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Los Angeles
Robert F. Kennedy
Superior Court
Robert A. Wenke
Paul Schrade
Kennedy
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Sirhan
Herbert McDonnell
New York
Lowell Bradford
Campbell
Calif
Venke
Library Stabbing Victim Dies in Downtown
In St. Louis, Harald Newman, 78, died after being stabbed at the downtown public library while reading a newspaper. Phillip Kiefer, 29, captured after the assault, faces charges including assault with intent to kill. investigators planned to seek murder warrants. He had recently escaped from a home before the attack.
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ST. Louis
Harald Newman
Phillip Kiefer
Tama
Towa
Newman
Kiefer
Malcolm: Bliss Mental Health Center
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