World Briefs: Bormann Extradition Dropped and Castro Meeting
Brazil's attorney general said no evidence Bormann is in the country and West Germany had closed the case years ago. In Havana, Fidel Castro greeted a Minnesota trade delegation, drawing praise for his charisma. In Kinshasa, rebels claim Cuban advisers accompanied them to the border six months earlier. In Karachi, a curfew followed a general strike with clashes and 11 deaths reported. In Reynosa, Tamaulipas police arrested a officer tied to a $5,000 robbery of a U.S. truck driver with another supervisor implicated.
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Bonn
West Germany
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Brazil
Supreme Court
Bormann
Havana
Cuba
Minnesota
Fidel Castro
Jac de Hoog
Schouten International
Kinshasa
Zaire
Mobutu Sese Seko
Angola
Yaya Pierre Kapenda
National Stadium
Islamabad
Pakistan
Karachi
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Pakistan National Alliance
Bhutto
Reynosa
Mexico
Tamaulipas
U.S
Antonio Chavez
Avelardo Tijerina
Edinburg
Murder Link Shadowed Right to Work Bill Timing
In Baton Rouge the killing of ad executive Jim Leslie is linked to a right to work bill, with sheriff Al Amiss noting the timing aimed to cast unions in a bad light. The bill passed the night of the murder amid speculation of a connection to Leslie’s firm. Mayor John Snyder suspended Police Chief A J Rodgers after a narcotics agent was slain in Texas. The agent’s death involved a suspected unauthorized drug purchase by a narcotics squad. Benton D Bordelon Jr aged 25 was found shot six times on a rural road near Richmond Texas on Saturday.
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Baton Rouge
Jim Leslie
al Amiss
Leslie
Shreveport
Alexandria
John Snyder
A.J. Rodgers
Texas
Snyder
Benton D. Bordelon Jr
Richmond
Tex
Texas stocks show growth as local listings rise
American Stock Exchange chairman Paul Kolton said Texas business is expanding with about 40 new listings last year and 25 percent of them based in Texas, up from nine percent a year earlier. In Graham, an oil well fire was capped after three days burning 30 million cubic feet of natural gas. In Brownsville, one escapee from Cameron County Jail was captured in Matamoros as authorities search for the other’s body in the Rio Grande.
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Dallas
American Stock Exchange
Texas
Paul Kolton
American Stock Exchange Board of Directors
Kolton
Graham
Tex
Luke Grace Drilling Co
Wichita Falls
Brownsville
Cameron County
Matamoros
Mexico
Rio Grande
McClure family sues for 14 million damages
A Texas Marine recruit died after pugil stick training injuries prompting a $14 million lawsuit by his parents. The U.S. Attorney in San Diego seeks dismissal under a Supreme Court doctrine shielding injuries tied to military service. The suit also targets Gerald Ford and other officials, alleging lack of knowledge about the events.
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San Diego
U.S. Attorney's Office
Asst
U.S. Atty
Donald Shanahan
U.S. Supreme Court
Pvt
Lynn BE. McClure
Lufkin
Tex
Marine Corps
Shanahan
Gerald Ford
McClure
Price rise slows as March inflation cools
Consumer prices rose six tenths of a per cent in March 1977, down from February and January peaks. The Labor Department cites smaller price gains for food and other commodities, with annualized March inflation around 10 percent for the first quarter.
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Washington
Labor Department
Starr County Drug Crackdown Nets Major Traffickers
Federal and state agents arrested 38 people in Starr County during a major operation against marijuana and heroin smuggling from Mexico. The effort, named Operation Wishbone, included 62 indictments totaling 22 million in bonds, with 22 major violators.
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Mcallen
Tex
Starr County
Rio Grande
Mexico
United States
U.S. Atty
John Smith
Drug Enforcement Adminstration
DEA
U.S. Attorney's Office
Texas
Rain delays search for victims of Central Hotel fire
Firefighters resumed grim debris hunts in Galveston as rain and winds slowed efforts to recover charred remains from the Central Hotel inferno. Five children were confirmed dead, with twenty still missing and arson suspected by Fire Marshal Carroll. Witnesses described stairwell fires and people leaping from windows as the blaze raged early Tuesday.
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Galveston
Tex
Central Hotel
Paul Stanford
Stanford
A.D. Carroll
Carroll
Ernest Galvan
Lucy Moore
Houston
Moore
Willy Cockerham
AUSTIN DA Billy Ray Green to appeal conviction
Palestine District Attorney Billy Ray Green says he will appeal and win reversal of his public lewdness conviction. A three-man, three-woman jury found him guilty after 1 hour 45 minutes of deliberation. County Court at Law Judge Brock Jones set sentencing for May 25.
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Austin
Tex
Palestine Dist
Billy Ray Green
Green
County Court At Law
Brock Jones
Ocean burial grounds eyed for nuclear waste storage
Diplomatic sources say the Carter administration is weighing seabed burial with allied nations as a central plan to curb nuclear weapon spread. Other options include land formations, deep holes, or space disposal, while a world uranium stockpile and non nuclear participation in nuclear industries are also debated.
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Washington
Carter
U.S
Ocean
United States
U S
Birth Prevention Fails Speck Child Sues Doctors
In Pittsburgh, Francine Speck, born after a vasectomy followed by an attempted abortion, suffers cerebral palsy and neurofibromatosis. Her parents sue Dr. Feingold and Dr. Schwartz for damages, seeking relief for themselves and their child as a court weighs the case.
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Pittsburgh
Francine Speck
Dorothy Speck
Lee Ann
Richard A. Feingold
Francine
Alleghey Court Common Pleas
State Superior Court
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Camargo
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San Antonio
California
Tennessee
Edward A. Heath
Cockerham
Frank Speck
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