Syrian Tanks Rout Guerrilla Forces
Syrian troops and tanks drove Palestinian guerrillas from a 20 square mile salient east of Beirut in a major setback for the guerrillas and their Lebanese leftist allies. The operation secured the southern edge of the Christian enclave along the Beirut Damascus highway and narrowed guerrilla freedom in Lebanon as Arab mediation pushes for a settlement.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Mount Lebanon
Arab League
Hassan Sabri Khali
Damascus
Beirut-Damascus
Hafez Assad
Syria
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Yasir Arafat
Nixon spokesman denies memoirs claim about Watergate
NEW YORK AP Nixon’s spokesman called reports that his memoir will claim innocence in Watergate false. The Times quoted publishing sources saying Nixon would cast Watergate as partisan, with him as victim, but Franklin Gannon, director of research for Nixon, disputed details.
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NEW York
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
New York Times
Europe
United States
Franklin Gannon
San Clemente
Calif
Richard Nixon
the Times
Gannon
Times
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Meatcutters Strike At Marshall in contract dispute
Marshall Missouri AP union Local 576 struck the Wilson and Co. hog slaughtering plant over a three year offer. Pay increases of 15 20 and 25 cents with pension and sick leave gains. Starting pay 6.05 rising to 6.27 after three years. Old contract expired August 15. 300 workers involved. 70 salaried staff kept on. Plant manager said hogs sent to other Wilson plants. Negotiations ended with no schedule for further talks.
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Marshall, Mo
Wilson and Co
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
Local 576
Sedalia
Wilson
United States
Don Rudder
Marshall
Senate Panel Funds Medicaid Corruption
Senate investigators heard testimony that private computer firms and HEW Medicaid antifraud staff allegedly engaged in wiretaps, conflicts of interest and influence peddling. Executives from FMS Management Services and Richard Ney Associates described payments and favors to HEW employee Charles Cobbler who helped win nearly $1 million in Medicaid computer contracts. A separate subcommittee witness said Health Application Systems secretly wiretapped staff to learn who spoke with GAO investigators on another Medicaid probe.
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Senate
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Antifraud
Charles Cubbler
D.C. Chambless
Cubbler
Chambless
Francis J. Melly
FMS Management Services Inc
New York City
Cobbler
Melly
West Virginia
Maryland
Arizona
Richard Ney
Richard Ney Associates
Washington, D.C
Cub
Subcommittee
David Vienna
Health Application Systems
General Accounting Office
Social Security Office Visits In October
A Columbia branch SSA representative will be in Mexico each Tuesday in October from 9 am to noon in the courthouse community room. He will visit Centralia on Oct 13 at the city auditorium from 9 to 11 am, and make two Vandalia visits on Oct 6 and 20 at the union hall from 9:30 to 11:30 am. He will assist locals filing for retirement disability survivor or health insurance benefits and help with Supplemental Security Income applications and Medicare questions.
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Columbia
Social Security Administration
Mexico
Centralia
City Auditorium
Vandalia
Union Hall
Indictment Charges Harrises in Hearst Kidnap Case
Oakland AP report indicts William and Emily Harris as Symbionese Liberation Army members for the February 4 1974 abduction of Patricia Hearst from a Berkeley apartment with ransom and bodily harm. Bail set at 300000 each. potential life sentence. Hearst seeks a new trial on a prior armed bank robbery conviction.
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Oakland
Calif
William
Emily Harris
Patricia Hearst
Alameda County
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
Berkeley
Harrises
Alameda County Superior Court
Berkeley Municipal Court
Steven Weed
Congress Overrides Ford on HEW Labor Bill Veto
The House voted 312 93 to override President Ford and approve a 58.6 billion HEW Labor appropriation, setting up a Senate decision. Ford called the plan inflationary, while supporters argued it covered rising costs and would protect programs for children the disadvantaged and the elderly. The debate then shifted to a revenue sharing measure to avoid a weekend adjournment and pocket veto on two jobs bills worth 3.7 billion for public works and 260,000 public service jobs. Separate note says Jim Chase, 108 E Orange St, is improving after leg surgery at Columbia Regional Hospital.
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Washington
House
Ford
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Senate
Congress
Gress
Thomas P. O'Neill
Boone Demos Nominate Hallsville Man for Presiding Judge
Boone County Democratic Committee nominated Hallsville Rte. 1 resident Bob Spiva for a two year unexpired term as presiding judge. He will face Republican William Frech in the November 2 general election. Governor Bond appointed Republican James Butcher to serve the rest of the year. Butcher is a lawyer and former official.
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Columbia
Bob Spiva
Hallsville
Rte. 1
Boone County Democratic Committee
William Frech
Christopher Bond
James Butcher
Detroit Police Deputy Chief Dies in Suspected Self‑Inflicted Gunshot
The 47 year old Deputy Chief Reginald Harvel died at his Detroit home from an apparent self inflicted gunshot. Harvel 21 year veteran had recently clashed with Police Chief Philip Tannian amid a narcotics probe involving former official Frank Blount. Tannian was fired and replaced by William Hart as the city’s first Black police chief.
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Detroit
Reginald Harvel
Harvel
Gon
Philip Tannian
Police Department
Frank A. Blount
Tannian
Blount
Harvey
Detroit Free Press
Coleman Young
Young
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Avco Embassy Pictures
Jim Chase
E. Orange St
Columbia Regional Hospital
Boone Demos
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