Hughes used Valium and codeine in final years
The report cites an assistant attorney general stating Howard Hughes received regular Valium and codeine based pain killers in later years. An aide testified that Hughes moved from the Bahamas to Acapulco amid a power struggle within his financial empire. Coffee prices edge down as shoppers hesitate to buy.
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Texas
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Bahamas
Acapulco
Atty
Rich Harrison
Carter Keeps Camp David Retreat After Maryland Visit
Carter returns to the White House after his seventh Camp David stay in Maryland's Catoctin mountains. The retreat, a private haven with a tennis court and pool, serves as privacy from the White House schedule, guarded by Marines and fenced perimeters within Catoctin Mountain Park.
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Jimmy Carter
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Carter
White House
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Catoctin Mountains
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Tim Kraft
Catoctin Mountain Park
National Park Service
Franklin Roosevelt
FDR
Shangri-La
Dwight Eisenhower
David Eisenhower
Eisenhower Farm
Gettysburg
Hijacking Pilot Chooses Salt Lake as Destination
On Western Airlines Flight 550 from San Diego to Denver a hijacker demanded Salt Lake City or other cities including Mexico Kansas City and Milwaukee. Pilot Dave Bender, with 22 years’ experience, steered the Boeing 707 to Salt Lake where the hijacker Jerry Richard Mills surrendered to FBI and police. No one was hurt and no explosives were found. Mills, arraigned on air piracy charges in Denver, had been described by colleagues as dedicated but previously quiet and acting strangely.
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William R. Ritz
Associated Press
Denver
Western Airlines
Dave Bender
Las Vegas
Salt Lake
San Diego
Bender
Mexico
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Kansas
Calif
FBI
Mills
U.S
Chicago
Honolulu
Salt Lake City
Brian Chaffey
Roberts Irrigation Co
Michael
Jerry
Schlesinger says oilmen are greedy
Energy Secretary James Schlesinger argues petroleum firms always want more profit yet will likely accept the House energy bill with price controls. He defends greed as a driver of free enterprise while noting focus on world uranium price hikes and potential U.S. company involvement.
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Washington
James Schlesinger
Schlesinger
House
Senate
U.S
World Almanac quiz on water bodies and capitals
A brief quiz item asks where the Danube drains into and identifies Reykjavik as Iceland’s capital. It includes multiple choice options for Ursa Minor and related topics, plus stray characters and an answer key fragment.
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Michael Crichton
Dnieper
Black Sea
Danube
Reykjavik
Sweden
Iceland
Vance and Hua Dialogue on Diplomacy in Peking
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in Peking to seek closer U S relations but Hua Kuo Feng demanded the United States sever diplomatic and military ties with the Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan and abrogate the mutual defense treaty. The Carter administration rejects abandoning Taiwan though looks for a flexible framework to safeguard Taiwan's security if ties with Taipei are disrupted.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Peking
Cyrus Vance
China
United States
Hua Kuofeng
Taiwan
Hua
Communist Party Congress
Hsinhua
Vance
Tokyo
Taiwan Straits
Chiang
Carter
Communist Party
U.S
New Chinese leadership favors pragmatism at party congress
Hua Kuo-feng was chosen as party chair at the 11th CPC Congress in Peking, with four vice-chairmen named Yeh Chien-ying Teng Hsiao-ping Li Hsien-nien and Wang Tung-hsing. The 26 member Politburo headed by Hua signals a shift from Maoist revolution toward economic and political pragmatism.
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John Roderick
Associated Press
Tokyo
Chinese Communist Party
Mao Tsetung
Chou En-lai
Chinese Communist Party Congress
Peking
Hua Kuo-feng
Yeh Chien-ying
Teng Hsiao-ping
Eco
Li Hsien-nien
Wang Tung-hsing
Mao
Hsinhua
Party
Hua
Wang
Chiang Ching
Gang of Four
Marcos to ease martial law in Philippines promise
President Ferdinand Marcos told lawyers and judges at a Manila conference he will ease martial law by granting amnesty for subversives lifting the nationwide curfew and ending the foreign travel ban. He pledged local elections next year and an election date in 1978 for other government posts. Since martial law began September 23, 1972 no elections have occurred.
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Manila
the Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Conference On
Marcos
National Assembly
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