Kansas to host Republican governors conference in Wichita
Gov. Robert F. Bennett announced Kansas will host the nation’s 13 Republican governors in Wichita in November 1972. Invitations would go to President Ford and Vice President Rockefeller. funds would come from donations and state gifts only. Attending: governors of Iowa Michigan Indiana Ohio New Hampshire Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Washington and Alaska.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Wichita
Robert F. Bennett
Bennett
Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
St. Louis
GOP
Republican Party
Bond
Iowa
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
New
Hampshire
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Washington
Alaska
Holiday Inn Plaza
Century II
Sirhan to get parole in 1986
Sirhan B. Sirhan, who was sentenced to death for the Kennedy assassination, will be paroled on February 23, 1986 after 16 years and 9 months in prison. He was moved to life imprisonment by the state Supreme Court and is serving at San Quentin.
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San Quentin
Calif
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan
Kennedy
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
State Supreme Court
Philip Guthrie
Department of Corrections
Ford half-brother pledges funds to Democratic candidates
Tom Ford, President Ford's half brother and a 56 year old audit coordinator for Michigan's legislature, pledged 50 dollars to Democratic State House candidates for the 1976 elections. He said he remains in the Republican party and supports a nonpartisan approach, noting he previously split more than 400 dollars evenly between parties.
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Lansing
Mich
Tom Ford
Ford
Michigan
Cambodian officers seek asylum in United States
Twenty Cambodian naval officers who trained in Newport have sought political asylum after graduation. Officials say they cannot return home due to the fall of their government. Immigration officials favor granting asylum and will coordinate with the State Department for approval.
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Newport
R.I
United States
Naval Education and Training Center
Navy
Frank Pritchard
Naval War College
Frank P. Castelnovo
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Office
Providence
Castelnovo
U.S. State Department
State Department
Navy Training Center
Mrs Graham snatches protest sign at Bicentennial event
In Charlotte Freedom Park Mrs Billy Graham leaped from her seat and grabbed a protest sign reading Dont Tread on Me as a Red Hornets Mayday Tribe marcher moved by. The incident occurred during a Ford Grahams Bicentennial celebration with the audience near the front.
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Charlotte
N.C
Billy Graham
Freedom Park
Ford
Grahams
Graham
Red Hornets
Roswell Child Confesses Price Tag Switch
A Roswell boy confessed in a pencil letter to H and J Farmers Market that about a year or two ago he swapped a 19 cent price tag for a 10 cent tag on a ball and kept the 9 cent difference. The boy sent a dime with the letter and asked for forgiveness. Harold Renfro, the store manager, said the note shows there are good children.
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Roswell, N.M
Roswell
H & J Farmers’ Market
Harold Renfro
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Newton Canine Country Club
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Harvey County
Athletic Park
Newton Garden Club
Harvey Co
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