FBI Foils $150000 Bomb Belt Extortion Plot in St Louis
In St Louis, FBI agents thwarted an extortion plot targeting Clarence C. Barksdale, president of First National Bank, by using a bank employee as a stand‑in and staging a call‑and‑drop of two money bags. John D. Frazier, 53, of St Charles County, was arrested after failing to approach the money at Lambert Airport.
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Clarence C. Barksdale
First National ” Bank
FBI
Barksdale
John D. Frazier
St. Charles County
St. Peters
Frazier
U.S. Navy
W Frazier
William H. Bond
First National Bank
Lambert St. Louis International Airport
O’fallon
Bank
Time Magazine
Clarence M. Barksdale
Henry S. Caufield
Missouri
Lambert Good To 2000 A.D. Study Says
Washington AP report says a federally sponsored study supports Lambert Airport as St. Louis area’s main airline facility until 2000. Missouri officials praise the finding while Illinois officials favor a Columbia Waterloo area airport. Transportation Secretary Coleman to hold a final St. Louis hearing Dec. 18 before a written verdict in 30 to 60 days.
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Washington
Lambert
St. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Christopher Bond
Thomas Eagleton
Columbia Waterloo
Transportation
William T. Coleman Jr
Dan Walker
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co
San Francisco
Ilinois
Mississippi
Charles H. Percy
Columbia- Waterloo
Coleman
Congress Backs Compromise on $36 Billion Budget Bill
A conference panel approved a compromise $36 billion funding bill for HEW and Labor. The Byrd and Biden anti busing amendments remain unsettled and will go to the House for separate votes. A pocket veto risk looms if Congress adjourns.
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Senate
House
Conference Committee
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Department of Health
Education and Welfare
Ford
Congress
Ace
Delaware
Joseph R. Biden Jr
HEW
Robert C.byrd
D-W.va
Edward W. Brooke
R.q Mass
Biden
Pittsburgh Boards Lays Off More School Staff
Pittsburgh City Board of Public Education furloughed 735 nonstriking employees amid a looming teachers strike. About 500 custodians and 235 clerical workers received notices, bringing total idled since Monday to over 1,450.
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City Board of Public Education
Train Hijackers Have New Demands
Five Indonesians holding about 50 hostages aboard a hijacked Dutch train fired on a mediator and released a Chinese cook with new demands including an engineer, food for 55 people, a bullhorn and medicines. Police ringed the scene as officials rejected safe conduct out of the country.
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Beilen
Netherlands
Holland
Justice
Dries van Agt
South Molucca
Spice Islands
Indonesia
Amsterdam
Schiphol
Independence Movement
Hague
Suharto
Hostage Bank Hold-Up Demands 2 Million Cash Escort
In Paris near the Eiffel Tower gunmen seized customers in a Credit Lyonnais Bank on Avenue Bosquet during an attempted holdup. They demanded 2 million dollars and a getaway car in U.S. currency, with shots fired inside and at a police car. A bystander was wounded in the foot. The number of gunmen and hostages was not confirmed. Brink's guards arrived moments before police.
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Eiffel Tower
Credit Lyonnais
Avenue Bosquet
U.S
Brink's Money Transporting Company
AMA sidesteps call to condemn doctors strikes at convention
In Honolulu the AMA House of Delegates approved a mild stance urging hospitals to resolve labor disputes without disrupting care. The body rejected a move to condemn Chicago residents and interns at Cook County Hospital and refused to order an investigation. The action drew fire from the Physicians National House Staff Association, which urged stronger action to defend young hospital doctors.
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Ihe American Medical Association
Chicago
House of Delegates
AMA
Cook County
Chicago Medical Society
Physicians National House Staff Association
Medicine
Robert G. Harmon
House Staff Association
Max H. Parrott
Portland
Ore
Adult Classes Chosen For Second Semester
The Mexico Evening School advisory committee selected the second semester night classes starting Feb 2 1976. Offerings include Antique watch and clock repair, furniture repair and woodworking, boating safety, bridge, cake decorating, crocheting, driving training, home repair, guitar, sewing, first aid, weight lifting, parenting, painting, jewelry making, stained glass, public speaking, auto mechanics for all ages, interior design, and MU Extension courses in remodeling, banking, death and dying, and more.
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Mexico Evening School
P. E
Commission To Consider Zoning Rules In Mexico
The Mexico Planning and Zoning Commission tentatively set December 10 for a meeting to review several proposals. Only three members attended, one short of a quorum, while they discussed The Ledger’s plan to landscape north and east parking areas. Preliminary talks covered commercial uses and allowing apartments above downtown stores, currently prohibited but with grandfathered preexisting units.
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Mexico
the Ledger
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