Politician Seeks Honest Work Amid Watergate Fallout
Seymour Posner a 48 year old Bronx assemblyman says he may resign before December 1974 if offered a public affairs or social welfare role. He cites Watergate hostility and public distrust of politicians as his main reason while noting a strong legislative record and desire to stay near family and work in community relations. He plans to avoid using political connections and is exploring positions with community labor and social welfare groups.
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New York Times
Seymour Posner
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New York State
Posner
Libya to Try Hijackers Who Blew Up Jumbo Jet
Libya announced in Tripoli that four hijackers who blew up a Japan Airlines 747 at Benghazi airport will be tried under Islamic law. The men, three Arabs and a Japanese, hijacked the plane over Amsterdam ten days earlier and faced public punishment in the Arab world for the first time.
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Libya
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Unfit Recruits Cost 73 Million for Army Discharges
A Pentagon audit shows 29 217 recruits, 16 percent of those enlisted, were discharged for mental physical or moral unfitness in the year ending June 30 1972. The report cites improper recruiting fraudulent enlistments and inadequate medical exams as causes and notes a 73 million cost.
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UPI
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Army Audit Agency
Les Aspin
D-Wis
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Aspin
Audit Agency
Armed Forces
Perk Pleads Innocent in Assault Charge Trial Set
Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk pleaded not guilty in municipal court to a police officer's assault and battery charge. Judge Lillian Burke set August 28 for trial to allow time for film subpoenas. Patrolman Arnold Hovan alleged Perk grabbed him after remarks on vetoed police hospital bills.
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Ralph Perk
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