Ford No On Gas Tax And Controls
President Ford told a road conference and real estate crowd he will not seek wage or price controls or higher gasoline taxes. He urged Congress to confirm Nelson Rockefeller as vice president with no conditions, said he would not withdraw Rockefeller, and defended the Rockefeller gifts, saying donors have a right to give. He blamed Democrats for last week’s losses but said the GOP remains a middle of the road party.
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Israel
Palestine Liberation
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Las Vegas
Rogers C. B. Morton
Bath County Without Baths
Owingsville receives water service after city plant pump failure. A reporter was told everyone has been given permission not to take a bath, reflecting the light side of the breakdown in Bath County.
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Owingsville, Ky
Owingsville
Bath County
Wells Fargo Can't Collect On Rock Fest
In Kansas City AP: Wells Fargo Guard Service division files an involuntary bankruptcy petition in federal court against Musical Productions Inc doing business as Ozark Music Festival. The claim covers $46,255.63 for 13,327 guard hours at 4.50 and 1,449 overtime at 6.75 after a $25,000 July advance, with additional hours bringing total to $52,564.63, plus a $4.4 million defamation suit from August 10.
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Kansas City
Wells Fargo Guard Service Division
Baker Protective Services, Inc
Musical Productions, Inc
Wells Fargo
Ozark
Sedalia
Women Flown From Angola Amid Angolan Tensions
More than 100 American women and children were flown from Luanda to Johannesburg to escape potential violence. They are mainly wives and children of Cabinda Gulf Oil employees. Cabinda Gulf executive Joe Connor said Luanda is calm now but fears of weekend trouble persist as tensions rise in Angola.
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South Africa
Luanda
Angola
Cabinda Gulf Oil
Cabinda
Joe Connor
Coll
FBI
Miss Saxe
Miss Power
Bernadine Dohrn
Chicago
Weatherman
Nixon Returns Home From Hospital After Surgery
Former President Richard Nixon, pale and thin, settled into his San Clemente villa for recovery from phlebitis surgery. He left Long Beach Hospital in a wheelchair and was driven home with wife Pat, having lost 10 to 15 pounds. A medical team overseeing whether he can testify in the Watergate case asked the court to clarify arrangements for any examination, noting it may not require a physical check.
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San Clemente
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
Oceanside
Nixon
Long Beach Hospital Medical Center
Charles A. Hufnagel
Washington
Hufnagel
Georgetown University Hospital
U.S
John J. Sirica
Pat
Ford press conference outlines policy and personnel shifts
President Ford defended his nomination slate and urged Congress to approve his tax plan while signaling possible energy use restrictions if voluntary limits fail. He left Israel to decide on negotiating with the PLO and backed Kissinger's broad foreign powers, not seeking Brown’s resignation, and admitted a misstep in Gibson nomination. Mrs Lewis leaves hospital. Troy sale ad notes move to Hawaii.
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Ariz
Ford
Rockefeller
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Congress
Palestine Liberation Organization
Israel
Henry A. Kissinger
Brown
George Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
Gibson
Andrew Gibson
Federal Energy Office
Troy
Troy Free Press
Hawaii
DeFeo Charged In Amityville Family Slayings
Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, was booked on six counts of second degree murder after police say he fatally shot his father Ronald Sr, mother Louise, and four siblings while they slept in their $75,000 Amityville home. The bodies ranged in age from 9 to 18. motive not disclosed.
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Hauppauge
N.Y
Tong Island
Ronald DeFeo Jr
Suffolk County
Robert C. Rapp
Amityville
Rapp
DeFeo
Ronald J. DeFeo Sr
Louise
Howard Adelman
Suffolk County Police
Woman Gets 7 Years For Pike Co. Killing
An admitted prostitute from St. Louis was sentenced to seven years after a Pike County manslaughter verdict in the shooting death of William E. Spahn. Donna Favell, 25, testified that Spahn struck her with a pistol and a struggle led to the fatal shot. She will serve at Tipton’s state facility. Spahn, 50, operated a St. Louis photography studio and died eight days after the Dec. 12 shooting. The case was heard in St. Charles County Circuit Court after a change of venue.
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St. Louis
William E. Spahn
Donna Jean Favell
Miss Favell
Department of Corrections
Tipton
Spahn
Pike County
Los Angeles
St. Charles County Circuit Court
Willim M. Turpin
Underground Bomb Woman Surrenders
Jane L. Alpert, 27, a former Weatherman militant, surrendered to U S District Court to plead guilty to bail jumping after fleeing in 1970 before sentencing for conspiring to bomb federal buildings. Bail set at 20,000 dollars. she faces up to ten years total.
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New York
Jane L. Alpert
Weatherman
U.S
Milton Pollack
Miss Alpert
Samuel Melville
Melville
Attica
Michael Armstrong
Pollack
John Alpert
FBI
Susan Edith Saxe
Katherine Ann Power
Tom Coll
Boston
Grain Firms Ready To Ship To Russia Now
Memphis based Cook Industries says negotiations on the 1.3 million ton corn and 570000 ton grain sale to the Soviet Union are complete and exports will start within days. The deal is a reduced corn sale with grain shipments unchanged, and loading will begin from Gulf of Mexico ports. Chief executive officials declined to reveal price terms citing confidentiality.
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Memphis, Tenn
Ford
Soviet Union
Cook Industries Inc
Cook and the Continential Grain Co
Cook
Willard Sparks
Cook Grain Division
Sparks
Gulf of Mexico
Joseph W. McLeary
Cook Industries
Arab Power Shows Third Day In UN
The United Nations General Assembly limited each country to one major speech during the Palestine debate by a 75 to 23 vote with 18 abstentions. Arab, African, Asian and Communist blocs backed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in a move seen as strengthening Arab influence over the debate against Israel and the PLO.
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United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Palestine Liberation Organization
Assembly
Palestine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
United States
Bouteflika
South Africa
Yasir Arafat
U.N
Arafat
Israel
Yosef Tekoah
PLO
Tekoah
U.S
John A. Scali
Mugger Found It Was In Bag
Mrs. Hollis Sharpe, despite a broken arm, recalls a mugger who grabbed a plastic bag she carried to clean up after her poodle. She notes the incident and wryly adds she wishes there had been more in the bag, warning others walking dogs.
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Los Angeles
Hollis Sharpe
Litton Links Food Aid to Birth Control Policy
Rep. Jerry Litton of Missouri, a World Food Conference delegate, urges halting aid to fast-growing nations unless they pursue birth control programs. He recalled African leaders calling family planning “dirty words” and said the US should not assist countries unwilling to help themselves, while remaining compassionate to disaster impacts.
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Washington
Jerry Litton
D-Mo
U.S
Litton
Rome
America
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