Milk money rivals labor in 1972 politics
A dairy industry political fund, the Trust for Agricultural Political Education TAPE, nears one million dollars and signals bipartisan giving to both major parties. AMPI links to TAPE but denies a formal political arm, while its controller Isham confirms donations from milk checks and a tentative $97,000 yet to be spent.
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San Antonio
Texas
Ralph Yarborough
Lloyd Bentsen
George Bush
Bentsen
Bush
Associated Milk Producers Inc
AMPI
TAPE
Robert Isham
Isham
Afl-Cio
COPE
Washington
Wash
Dmont
Page Belcher
R-Okla
Graham Purcell
Dtex
Jack Miller
Iowa
Nixon
Wall Street Journal
Journal
GOP
Congressional
Trust
Midwest
Gulf Coast
Pecos Enterprise readers urged to send feedback and comments
Good evening from Pecos. Four restaurants open on Sundays share details with the Enterprise after readers raised questions. The column notes junior high girls won 6-0 with Kathy McAnally scoring 85 yards. The paper clarifies it does not charge for publishing news stories or pictures and invites letters from readers.
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Pecos High School
Kathy McAnally
Enterprise
Air cover threats rise as North Vietnam defends supply routes
North Vietnam steps up anti air defenses along four passes on the Vietnam Laos border as U S bombers intensify raids. MIG interceptors and Soviet SAMs push back American aircraft with 23 37 and 100mm guns and mobile tactics raising the danger to pilots and crews. The U S reports nearly 100 protective reaction air attacks inside North Vietnam this year while Hanoi vows to defend airspace and pursue any intruding aircraft.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
U. S
Lyndon B. Johnson
Laos
Barthelemy Pass
Mu Gia
Ban Karai
Ban Raving
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Air Force
Johnson
Hanoi
Fort Stockton boy seeks new trial in double slaying
John Russell Kincaid of Fort Stockton pled guilty to the shotgun slayings of his parents and seeks a new trial while free on bond. In Odessa, Sandra Blackstock and a large narcotics crackdown lead to multiple indictments for illegal drug sales. Judges denied probation and set terms as the case moves forward.
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San Antonio, Tex
John Russell Kincaid
Fort Stockton
Tex
Sandra Goode Blackstock
Barstow
Ector County
Odessa
John Green
Blackstock
Hijacking attempt off Texas coast ends with deaths
A 61 foot shrimp trawler the Mr. Tucker from Freeport was involved. Two men were killed and a woman wounded during an attempted hijacking off the Texas coast. The Coast Guard evacuated the injured woman to Corpus Christi Naval Hospital. The captain remained in command and two children aboard were under six years old.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Coast Guard
Texas
Florida
Port Isabel
Tucker
Freeport
Naval Hospital
Dollar edges down after devalue and markets reopen
The dollar endured its first test after the 7.9 percent devaluation, trading range from small to normal as markets reopened. The Italian state bank briefly sold dollars to curb its value while Tokyo saw a brief ceiling hit. West Germany anchored the mark to 3.2225 per dollar as foreign exchange rates adjusted. Continued on Page 2. Five law enforcement officers and four witnesses testified in Odessa's 143rd District Court about the Raul Forez shooting of Raymundo Carrasco following a race track fracas, with depositions sought to support a civil suit. The petition, filed by Carrasco and relatives, names deputies and state officers as potential defendants. Continued on Page 2.
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London
Tokyo
Raymundo Carrasco
Odessa
Reeves County
Raul Forez
Carrasco
Ramon Urquidez
Pecos
Arizona
Mario Diaz
Diaz
Urquidez
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Nam
State District Court
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Kincaid
Warren Burnett
Dollar Weathers
Zurich
F.H. Ryan
Ryan
Ismeal Carrasco
Cecil Cothrun
Wendell Faulkner
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