Senate panel cites widespread abuses by intelligence agencies
A 396 page Senate report details CIA domestic spying FBI counterprobes and NSA eavesdropping. It urges a strong congressional watchdog panel to prevent future abuses and ends with calls for warrants, data destruction, and tighter oversight.
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Washington
Senate Intelligence Committee
Congressional Panel
CIA
FBI
National Security Agency
Walter F. Mondale
Dminn
Mondale
Senate Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Dick Clark
Iowa
Pstead
Howard W. Cannon
D-Nev
Clark
Intelligence Committee
Mandate
Senate
U.S
Intelligence
John Tower
Texas
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
United
Tower
Goldwater
Armed Services Committee
CTA
Defense Intelligence Arrnev
NSA
Richard S
Honest cabbie finds purse and returns $42,000
Washington AP reports cab driver William Taylor Sr. found a brown suede purse containing nearly 42,000 in cash travelers checks and jewelry. He turned it in to police. the purse owner Dollie Cole offered a $10,000 reward and possible chauffeur position worth 18,000 a year, echoing the driver’s long standing ethic of returning lost items.
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Dollie Cole
General Motors
Edward N. Cole
Taylor
National Airport
Washington
Mrs. Cole
Coles
Louisiana Eyes Unusual Saturday Delegate Primary
Louisiana voters face a first of its kind party only vote to select 32 Democratic delegates for the national convention. Balloting runs at 203 polling places with paper ballots listing 18 to 32 names per district and one of five options per candidate. Carter Wallace Warris McCormack or uncommitted appear on ballots as the process unfolds.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmy Carter
George Wallace
Edwin Edwards
Louisiana
Orleans
Jefferson Parishes
State Central Committee
Carter
Wallace
Warris
McCormack
Alexandria
Levi finds no fault in FBI King's assassination probe
Attorney General Edward H. Levi announced a seven month Justice Department inquiry found no evidence that the FBI's official investigation into Martin Luther King Jr. assassination was faulty. The review confirmed the probe met standards and procedures at the time.
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Washington
Edward HW. Levi
Justice Department
F.B.L
Martin Luther King
Boy Scouts Hold Bicentennial Camp in Terral Estate
Beginning June 13 the Quachita Valley Council runs Bicentennial Summer Camp at Camp Terral on the Terral estate north of Farmerville. Scouts will practice pioneer skills study Indian lore visit a trading post and share a frontier feast under Scoutmaster Ray Mears. Women of the Moose serve gumbo at West Monroe Moose Lodge.
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Camp
of the Moose
Moose Lodge
West Monroe
Rat Killing Leaves Youth With Wealthy Yard Litter
Memphis youth David Leake, 16, used a $50 gift to buy clothes then shot a rat in his yard. Bills and fragments flew. only some notes survived, and the rest lay scattered as chickens pecked at them. His mother contemplates mailing the pieces to Washington for Treasury action.
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Memphis
David Leake
Leake
Oral Reserve Bank
St. Louis
Treasury Department
Washington
Marines Face Court Martial Over Pvt Lynn McClure Death
In San Diego three drill instructors and a captain at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot face courts-martial in the death of Private Lynn McClure. Two other officers, including the colonel commanding the recruit training regiment, accept nonjudicial punishment.
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San Diego
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Lynn McClure
State Civil Defense Conference Heads to Monroe
The 200 Years of Preparedness bicentennial conference of Louisiana Civil Defense Directors Association will convene in Monroe starting Sunday. U S Weather Service Shreveport director Donald Marrero will speak, with Capt. Max Sipe and Capt. David Mikles presenting on Salvation Army aid and Red Cross training events at the Ramada Inn.
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Louisiana Civil Defense Directors Association
Monroe
Ramada Inn
U. S. Weather Service
Shreveport
Donald Marrero
Louisiana Surplus Property Agency
Max Sipe
David Mikles
Jackson, Miss
Salvation Army
J. R. Howell Jr
Ouachita Parish
American Red Cross
Linn Claybrook
Louisiana Division of
Kyle Thompson
Revion Vo
Denton
Tex
F. L. Morrison
State Civil Defense Agency
William G. Robinson
United States
Citj Defense Council
Joe Winkle
Federal Disaster Assist
Dallas
Tex. At Noon the Group Will Hold A ‘McHeon
W. Pp. Dalrymple
America
Donald Thibodeaux
State Police
Charles Gaishell
Fort Polk
Bamboo
John Guidry
Rod Allen
Henry J. Freeman
The
Ouachita Civil de
Humphrey Will Not Enter New Jersey Primary
New Jersey Democratic chairman James P. Dugan said Senator Hubert H. Humphrey will not enter the state's June primary as an active presidential candidate. The decision was announced ahead of Humphrey’s news conference in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington.
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Trenton
Hubert H. Humphrey
New Jersey
James P. Dugan
Humphrey
Senate
Washington
California Firm Charged In Exports
A San Francisco federal indictment charges TT Industries Inc of Sunnyvale and three officers plus three West German nationals with conspiring to export $3 million in advanced electronics manufacturing equipment to the Soviet Union between 1975 and 1977. The devices, used to produce semiconductors, could aid guidance systems for missiles. The scheme allegedly routed goods through fictitious U S firms and intermediaries in the United States Canada Switzerland and West Germany.
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San Francisco
Bay Area
Soviet Union
TT. Industries Inc
Sunnyvale
Calif
Russia
United States
Canada
Switzerland
West Germany
McClure dies after pugil stick bout injury in training
Unconscious Navy man McClure is said to have been beaten into a vegetable after a padded pugil stick bout during a close combat exercise. He underwent emergency brain surgery in San Diego and died March 13 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston. A court martial was ordered for Capt. C Taylor over alleged neglect and poor oversight.
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San Diego
Veterans Administration Hospital
Houston
Navy
McClure
C. Taylor
Special Training Branch
Talor
Mercaanase on to West Germany or Switzerland
A fragment notes movement toward West Germany or Switzerland with limited context. No clear dates, people, or organizations are legible to confirm specifics.
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Mercaanase
West Germany
Switzerland
Moslem Groups In Lebanon Split Over Elections
In Beirut pro-Syrian Baath Party Moslems threaten force to stop delaying Lebanon’s presidential vote. Assem Kansou, Baath secretary-general in Lebanon, warns against Jumblatt’s leftist alliance alleging Damascus influence heightens the crisis.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Kamal Juimblatt
Assem Kansou
Baath Socialist Party
Syria
Jumblatt
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