Wednesday Weather And Nearby World Wide News Digest
Partly cloudy today through Thursday with a daytime shower risk and highs in the low 90s. Rain chances 40 percent today, 20 tonight, 30 Thursday. Nearby items note Monroe ground split, Tallulah official indictment, theater preferences in New Orleans, and the Pennsylvania American Legion convention amid Legionnaires Disease legacy. International names and political developments populate the rest of the digest.
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Pennsylvania American Legion
Pittsburgh
Chuckle Freeway Traffic Runs Two Opposing Speeds
The joke notes freeway travel now moves at two speeds, leaving drivers unable to enter when fast and unable to exit when slow.
Flooding hits Johnstown area with three dead three missing
Rain swollen creeks flooded Johnstown and surrounding areas in southwestern Pennsylvania. Civil Defense confirms three deaths and five missing. Mayor Herbert Pfuhl Jr reportedly ordered police to shoot looters if needed in the Solomon Homes housing project, a claim Civil Defense officials say lacks a direct quote.
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Johnstown
Ebensburg
Johnsown
Pennsylvania
Herbert Pfuhl Jr
Civil Defense
Solomon Homes
Bill Dixon
Pfuhl
Milton Shapp
Windser
Conrail
Conemaugh River
Pfahl
Watergate Vet Jaworski Asked To Join Probe
Speaker Thomas O Neill said he hopes former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski will lead the House inquiry into alleged Korean influence buying in Congress. O Neill and Jim Wright spoke with Jaworski by telephone and awaited his reply.
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Washington
Thomas P. O’neill
Special Watergate
Leon Jaworski
House
Congress
O’neill
Jim Wright
Dtex
Jaworski
Texas
Philip A. Lacovara
Watergate
John J. Flynt
D-Ga
O'Neill
Lacovara
Flynt
John Nields
Houston
CIA Documents on MK Ultra Reveal Mind Control Research
CIA released 1000 pages under FOIA detailing 1950s experiments to influence behavior and covert killing methods. The files cover 1949 to 1963, with 5000 more pages promised later this month. John Marks labeled Turner mischaracterizations of the programs and emphasized research into chemical biological and radiological agents for clandestine use.
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Washington
UPI
CIA
John Marks
State Department
Marks
Stansfield Turner
Turner
White House
Senate Intelligence Committee
First Birthday for Chad Bower in West Monroe
Chad Bower, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bower Jr., celebrated his first birthday with a family party in West Monroe Tuesday. Friends and relatives joined the evening celebration, part of the Twin Cities Chit Chat notes.
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Chad Bower
L. E. Bower Jr
West Monroe
Geneva Conference Talks Move Toward Peace Process
President Carter and Prime Minister Begin conclude a constructive White House session and plot groundwork for new Geneva peace talks. Cyrus Vance to visit Jerusalem and Arab capitals August 1 to advance negotiations. Begin seeks regional subcommittees while excluding the PLO, drawing mixed reactions from Beirut.
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Carter
Menahem Begin
White House
Washington
Middle East
Begin
Anwar Sadat
Cyrus R. Vance
Jerusalem
Oval Office
Zbigniew Brzezinski
National Security Council
Brzezinski
Egypt
Syria
Jordan
Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
Sinai Desert
Golan
West Bank
Solons Offer Carter Public Works Pact
Washington AP Senate and House conferees agreed to fund a limited set of water projects and drop Clinch River reactor funds to support a public works appropriation bill acceptable to President Carter. Stennis said Carter pressed for fewer projects and no Clinch River money, signaling a new coordinating approach.
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Washington
Senate
House
Clinch River
Carter
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Thomas P. O'Neill
Tennessee
Stennis
Congress
White House
Local Farmer Named to State Agricultural Committee
Monroe farmer Fred Huenefeld named to the State Governing Committee for Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation by the U S Department of Agriculture. The panel oversees allotments and pastureland development with traditionally partisan seating.
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Monroe
Fred Huenefeld
Agriculturaltabilization and Conservation Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Huenefeld
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