Bomb blast at Gulf Oil office rocks Pittsburgh area
Police and FBI scour Pittsburgh for evidence after a bomb wrecked the Gulf Oil corporate lobby on the 2nd floor. The Weather Underground claimed responsibility while threats flood city stations and evacuations occur.
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Gulf Oil Office
Pittsblagh
Mecal
FBI
Pittsburgh
Robert Culville
Fredas de Cacok
Gulls
Weather Underground
Portugal
Angola
Colville
Gulf
Pitusburgh
Ubch
Nowt
Willer
Uur
Ponce
Leonard Puciusta
Paul Sheldon
Corporation
Sheldon
Maryland Briefs Roundup Keeps Maryland Officials Busy
The Department of Health sues Delmarva Fiberglass Co. of Hebron for emissions violations. The suit seeks court-ordered controls and a 10 000 per day fine. Also covered: Max Nunn ordered to refund 35 000 to 18 investors in a non existent paramedical school. A federal judge halts a taxicab drivers protest over gas price. State tax revenues rise sharply. Julius Fleishman charged with illegal long distance calls. Fourteen juveniles charged in Prince Georges County arson and false alarms.
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Baltimore
State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Wicomico County
Delmarva Fiberglass Co
Hebron
Bureau of Air Quality Control
Salisbury
Maryland
Tennessee
Ronald Shapiro
Securities
Attorney General’s Office
Max Nunn
Strawberry Plains
Tenn
Nunn
American Paramedical Academy of
Shapiro
Military Medicine Magazine
Silver Spring, Md
Julius Fleishman
Maryland Hotel and Motor Inn Association
Fleischman
Howard Johnson Motor Lodge
Silver Hill
Upper -Marlboro, Md
Prince Georges County
Congressman Hungate Seeks Answers Over Franked Envelope Robbery
Rep. William Hungate of the House Judiciary Committee asks the Postal Service and FBI to resolve a dirty trick involving stolen franked envelopes from his office. The issue concerns invitations mailed from Columbus and could damage reputations if not cleared.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
William Hungate
Postal Service
FBI
Hungate
Columbus
Missouri Democrat
Wholesale Prices Up 16.4 Percent From 73
New York AP reports ongoing price pressures as May wholesale prices rise 16.4 percent year over year while farm and fed costs fall. Labor Department notes overall inflation. major sectors like steel and autos announce increases. GM argues new pricing is value, not a rise.
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New York
Cagalais Vite Later Department
Herbert Stein
Presdent Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
Stein
U.S. Reel
General Motors
Maryland Has No Organized Crime Says U S Attorney
U S Attorney George Beall told Maryland lawyers at a State Bar convention there is no evidence of an organized crime syndicate in the state after four years of such probes. The Organized Strike Force, one of 18 nationwide, may be moved to Texas. Beall noted the 1970 pursuit of Julius Salisbury, a Baltimore numbers kingpin, as context for pending mail fraud cases targeting Maryland lawyers.
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Ocean City
U.S. Atty
George Beall
Maryland State Bar Association
Maryland
Beall
U.S. Justice Departent
Texas
Julius Salisbury
Baltimore
Faulty Pacemakers Cited By FDA
FDA warns doctors to replace surgically implanted GE Model 42073 pacemakers due to a circuitry malfunction. Letters identifying affected patients were hand-delivered, with 67 devices implanted outside the United States.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
General Electric Co
FDA
United States
Mother Reunited With Adopted Son
Frances Royalty, 75, met her son John Jacobs, 57, in Sioux City Iowa after ten years of searching. He was born Joseph Brun ing in 1931 and placed in a home before they found each other at Leeds Nursing Home.
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Sioux City, Iowa
Frances Royalty
John Tacobs
Jacobs
Trenton
N.J
Leeds
Royalty
Joseph Creighton Bruning
McLean businessman named in major securities fraud case
The SEC seeks an injunction in U S District Court against a McLean man accused of a multimillion dollar fraud tied to a non existent wine distribution scheme. Investigators say he raised about 26 million from 400 investors mainly in Virginia Maryland West Virginia and the District of Columbia while claiming only 4 million in assets.
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Alexandria. Va
Securities and Exchange Commission
McLean
U. S. District Court
SEC
Johnson
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
William RK. Schief
Washington
Schief
U. S
District of
U. S. Atty
Steve Pickard
Sen Mitchell Linked With Bribe Probe in Baltimore
Baltimore state senator Clarence Mitchell faces a bribery probe announced by State’s Attorney Milton B. Allen. The case involves Harrington, a gambling figure who paid to influence protections for a gambling operation and a related letter signed by Mitchell offering a prison work release job.
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Baltimore
Clarence Mitchell
Milton B. Allen
Allen
Donald B. Harrington
Harrington
Robert Gordon
Mitchell
Baltimore Democrat
Maryland
Woman Pickets Court Over Light Sentence
In Towson Maryland Charlisa Wooten’s mother in law Charlisa Wooten pickets the Baltimore County Court House to seek a life sentence for Marcianna Wooten who received eight years for first degree murder. Judge Raine said the eight year term lawful due to a suspended life sentence and cited mitigating factors including the disappearance of a child.
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Towson, Md
Charlisa Wooten
Baltimore County
John E. Raine Jr
Marcianna Wooten
State Court of Appeals
Raine
Charles Abrams
Wooten
Abrams
Wootens
Honest and capable sheriff candidate profile
A public note states the ideal sheriff should be honest and fair with courage to set an example. It calls for education and experience in business, policing, and law enforcement, plus military training and high school diploma with business police courses.
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City Police
U.S. Marines
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