Germans Block NATO Purchase
West Germany blocked a US led NATO plan to buy a 2.5 billion dollar fleet of Boeing AWACS planes to warn against Soviet low altitude attack. A defense ministers meeting was urged for early 1977 after Chancellor Schmidt forms a new government.
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Brussels
Belgium
West Germany
United States
North Atlantic
Helmut Schmidt
Defense Planning Committee
NATO
Donald Rumsfeld
Defense Committee
Henry A. Kissinger
Long-Playing One-Man Band Sets 29 Hour Record
Ron Ruedi performed drums guitar Moog synthesizer cymbals and bass for 29 hours and one minute at a Columbia Maryland restaurant to claim a world record for the longest one man band. He began at 9 0 p m Saturday and finished at 2 01 a m Monday. patrons donated 1100 to aid underprivileged children as the Columbia Junior Chamber of Commerce supported the fundraising effort.
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Columbia, Md
Ron Ruedi
Ruedi
Houston
Columbia Junior Chamber of Commerce
Charges Dropped in Illinois for Radar Warning Motorist
Sammie Graham of Chicago had obstructing justice charges dropped after a July stop for speeding. Judge Joseph Kelley ruled the state failed to prove the conduct of using a citizens band radio to warn drivers about a state trooper on Interstate 55 amounted to obstruction, noting it would be improper to assume all motorists violated the law.
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Pontiac
Ill
Joseph Kelley
Sammie Graham
Chicago
Kelley
Graham
Women prisoners moved to mixed facility near Jefferson City
Jefferson City officials announce all of Missouri's female inmates have been transferred from Tipton's State Correctional Center for Women to the Renz Correctional Center north of the city. The Renz complex becomes the first in the state to house both genders, a move necessary to relieve Tipton overcrowding.
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Jefferson City
State Correctional Center For Women
Tipton
Renz
Tipton institution transfers 113 women to Rent Farm facility
Edward E F Haynes director of Missouri Division of Corrections cites capacity limits of 90 at Tipton and rising female inmate numbers. The final transfer today moved 113 women, following a September relocation of 37 women to Renze.
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Tipton
Missouri
Edward EF. Haynes
Missouri Division of Corrections
Renze
Court ruling pleases death row inmates in California
In California, the Supreme Court ruled the states death penalty unconstitutional for mandatory sentences, prompting relief among San Quentin inmates and concern from victims' families. Atty General Younger and lawmakers pressed to enact a new capital statute while Gov Brown stayed noncommittal. Sixty five men and two women remain on death row.
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Calif
San Quentin
California Supreme Court
San Francisco Bay
Wayne Rebiejo
Rebiejo
California
Evelle Younger
Edmund Brown Jr
Donald Wright
U.S. Supreme Court
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Younger
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