U S Ambassador Francis E Meloy Jr Killed In Beirut Route
An AP map shows Ambassador Francis E Meloy Jr economic attache and driver killed after their car halted while traveling through Beirut on a route toward Hazmieh for a meeting with President elect Eliah Sarkis. The path followed Avenue de Paris along the coast past the Moslem checkpoint into no man’s land near the race track.
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U.S
Francis E. Meloy, Jr
Beirut
Lebanon
Eliah Sarkis
Hazmieh
Avenue de Paris
Mediterranean Sea
Cross
No-Man’s Land
Elias Sarkis
Meloy
Sarkis
No Man’s Land
Robert O. Waring
Zohair Moghrabi
U.S. Foreign Service
American University
Yale
Saigon
Vietnam
Diplomat Meloy Dead in Beirut Ambush After Brief Posting
Francis E. Meloy Jr. had been U.S. ambassador to Lebanon for five weeks when he was shot. He previously led missions in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, both high risk posts, and played a key role in relief after Guatemala earthquakes. Also killed were the embassy economic counselor and a chauffeur.
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Barton Reppert
Associated Press
Washington
Francis E. Meloy Jr
U.S
Lebanon
Meloy
Beirut
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Caribbean
Santo Domingo
John Gordon Mein
Sunset Law Approved in Louisiana Senate
In Baton Rouge the State Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 28, a sunset law proposed by Sen. Tommy Hudson. The plan would terminate all state agencies after a four year cycle and require re creation after thorough review. It also adopts zero based budgeting requiring agencies to justify budgets from the start. Two years before termination, agencies would face substantive committee review guiding restructuring and funding. The following year budget committees would act on these recommendations.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Tommy Hudson
House
Hudson
State Department of Education
Joint Legislative Committee On Education
School Post Qualifiers Listed in Monro e Ouachita Races
Mrs. Henrietta George is unopposed for the Monroe City School Board seat with a Wednesday 5 p.m. deadline. A three way race exists for the other Monroe seat, while Ouachita Parish School Board races expand to eight candidates for two seats, all Democrats. Dr. Wallace L. Jones Jr. joins Dr. Gene Southern and Kermit L. Youngblood in District 2, and J R Rutledge joins Demoss Boyd Frost in District B with Tolson Robinette challenging York and Lee for District E.
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Henrietta George
Monroe City
Ouachita Parish
Wallace L. Jones Jr
Gene Southern
Kermit L. Youngblood
J. R. Rutledge
West Monroe
Bill Demoss
Charles H. Boyd
Choudrant
Benton Frost
H “Buddy” Tolson
Monroe
Charles C. Robinette
Gerald R. York
Fairbanks
Parish
James T. Lee
Monroe Utilities Commission under council control approved
The House Municipal and Parochial Affairs Committee approved a bill to place the Monroe Utilities Commission under the city council. Monroe officials supported the measure, saying it would make the Utilities Commission responsive to the council and help lower high utility charges. The meeting noted attorney general opinion backing bonds and had backing from the Ouachita delegation. The committee also advanced bills on official journals for legal notices and reducing the time for new newspapers to qualify.
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Baton Rouge
House Municipal and Parochial Affairs Committee
Monroe
Committee
Ralph Miller
Norco
Wall
The
Utilities Commission
Attorney General’s
Ouachita
Harlan Prestridge
Group Puts Off Action On Teacher Work Bills
In Baton Rouge the Senate Education Committee deferred action on a three bill package aimed at right to work for teachers only. The move follows lobbying from the Louisiana Teachers Association and comments by Sen Anthony Guarisco, with four other senators voting to defer.
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Baton Rouge
Senate Education Committee
Armand Brinkhaus
Don Williamson
Morgan City
Anthony Guarisco
Horace Robinson
Louisiana Teachers Association
Robinson
LTA
Louisiana
Bill Baker
Caddo Parish
Baker
Marveen Dearman
East Baton Rouge
Williamson
Afl-Cio
Victor Bussie
Aflcio
Gordon Flory
Cheryl Epling
Bussie
Guarisco
Brinkhaus
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
Sidney Barthelemy
New Orleans
Gaston Gerald
Greenwell Springs
John Saunders
Ville Platte
Attorney in $2.4 Million Theft Trial Found Guilty
Schmitt, self-represented counsel in a $2.4 million theft case, was deemed inadequately represented by his own defense. A motion for a new trial cites repeated failures and emotional strain as reasons for poor defense, filed by new attorney Robert Zibilich.
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Schmitt
Robert Zibilich
Austria Loses Land and Population Under St Germain Treaty
Under the 1919 St Germain settlement Austria ceded about 84 000 square miles of territory and 19 million people. The nation was deprived of a coast and barred from uniting with Germany.
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St. Germain
Austria
Germany
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