Congress to create record 152 federal judgeships in one batch
The conference report would add 117 district court seats and 35 circuit court judges. A dozen agencies would gain inspectors general to root out waste, with Senate consideration after a 388 to 6 House vote. Also, a banking card bill would limit personal liability to 50 dollars and bar unsolicited debit card mailings. An intelligence surveillance panel may screen warrants, while six European lawmakers accuse Israel of intransigence in the Middle East. James Earl Ray case ties to investigations into funding of his travel by associates.
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Man 19 to face court over Elvis Graceland killings
In Memphis Tennessee Treatise Wheeler 19 charged with two counts of second degree murder in deaths of Alice Hovatar and Juanita Johnson both 19 from Monroe Louisiana outside Graceland Aug 18. Also charged with driving while intoxicated leaving scene. Wheeler held without bond.
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Tenn
Elvis Presley
William Williams
Treatise Wheeler
Wheeler
University of Tennessee
Alice Marie Hovatar
Juanita Joanne Johnson
Monroe
Tammy Bauer
St. Clair
Presley
Graceland Mansion
Shelby County
Panamanians celebrate ratification of canal treaty
Panamanians danced in Panama City after the U.S. Senate approved the treaty giving them control of the canal in 22 years. Thousands jammed Cinco de Mayo Plaza, singing and swaying to drums under Christmas lights. Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos declared a national holiday and warned the U.S. against intervention while promising exiles can return.
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U.S. Senate
Panama Canal
Cinco de Mayo Plaza
Senate
Omar Torrijos
University of Pan
Iranian Students Convicted of Trespass in Beeville Gym
A Bee County District Court found 72 Iranian students guilty of criminal trespass for remaining in Beeville College gym after a meeting with college president Grady Hogue. Judge Kinkler Handley set fines of 28.50 each after pleas shifted from innocent to no contest. The college houses about 220 Iranian students, about a tenth of enrollment.
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Beeville
Texas
Bee County College
Kinkler Handley
Grady Hogue
Hogue
Search continues for Moro's body
In a frozen landscape near Lake Duchessa, divers and search teams faced up to 12 feet of snow as they probed the quarry and surrounding lakes for former Premier Aldo Moro. Despite a red brigades message and altered insignia, no trace of Moro or his bodyguards was found. Authorities doubted the communiqué, while helicopters shuttled crews to remote sites and investigators inspected tire tracks and a cut fence along a highway.
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Moro
Ed Stone
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Corriere Della Sera
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Giannino Guiso
Renato Curcio
Alberto Franceschini
Corvaro
Federico Marzella
Senators' Positions Unchanged On Panama Canal Treaty
Washington AP Texas Senators kept their stand on the Panama Canal Treaty with Tower voting nay as Bentz en voting aye. The treaty passed 68 to 32 after Byrd’s decisive 67th vote granting control of the canal to Panama.
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Texas
U.S
John Tower
Lloyd Bentsen
Senate
Robert Byrd
Warsaw marks ghetto uprising 35 years after demise
Germans built a Warsaw Ghetto sealing 300000 Jews to Treblinka. 1943 uprising led by Mordechai Anielewicz. last bunker fell May 8. few fighters escaped via sewers. Memorials rise as Yad Vashem to decorate Poles who aided Jews. Nahum Goldmann attends Auschwitz exhibit dedication.
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