Kerr resigns as Australia governor general after 18 months
Sir John Kerr, who triggered a constitutional crisis by ousting the Labor government in 1975, resigns as Australia’s governor general. The move, announced in London and Canberra, ends his five year term 18 months early amid ongoing controversy.
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Australia
John Kerr
Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
London
Malcom Fraser
Canberra
Kerr
U S nurses convicted of poisoning face appeal challenges
Defense lawyers for two Philippine born nurses, Narcisco and Perez, say there are few grounds for overturning their convictions for poisoning hospital patients at a Veterans hospital in 1975. The case involved more than 50 patients suffering breathing failures over two months.
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Detroit
Thomas O'Brien
Filipina Narcisco
Leonora Perez
Veterans Hospital
Texaco Port Arthur refinery kept open by FPC decision
The Federal Power Commission ruled to allow Texaco's Port Arthur refinery to stay open and receive natural gas. The agency said enforcing the earlier order would disrupt the East Texas economy and the national energy supply, noting the plant makes 453,000 barrels of gasoline daily, about 40 percent of Texaco's domestic refinery capacity.
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Federal Power Commission
Texaco
Port Arthur, Tex
FCP
East Texas
New York Suffers Looting After Citywide Blackout
Power failure shut New York City for hours after a lightning strike knocked out lines and plants. By afternoon about half of Don Edison’s 2.8 million area customers lacked power. Police arrested 2000 people during the night as looting rose, with worst incidents in Manhattan East Harlem and the upper West Side, Bronx and Brooklyn.
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Abraham D. Beams
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East Harlem
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Brooklyn
Police Department Jewelry
Utica Ave
Harlem
Briscoe May Be Asked to Decide Yarbrough Future
In Austin, the legislature meets as a committee of the whole to consider a resolution seeking Don Yarbrough's removal from the State Supreme Court for alleged perjury forgery and solicitation to murder. Secret taped conversations and defense rights arguments frame a politically charged proceeding as Yarbrough fights to present his case.
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Yarbrough
Austin, Tex
Supreme Court
Don Yarbrough
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
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Gee
Waggoner Carr
Carr
Bill Kemp
Victoria Banker
Bill Rothkopf
Star Chamber
Lee Clyburn
Clyburn
U.S. Supreme Court
Tom McCorker
Dallas
American Civil Liberties Union
McCorker
Boomerrang Billy Lifts Beach Fame On South Padre Island
John McMahon who moonlights as Boom erang Billy leaves New York for South Padre Island where he entertains tourists from a beach office. He claims nine boomerang records including a 113 yard longest throw and sells handmade boomerangs as part of his self styled act.
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Tex
John McMahon
McMahon
New York
South Texas
Mr. Muscle
John, the Baptist
Boomerang
Billy
Boomerang Billy
Guinness Book of Word Records
Two heavy crimes probe in Hillsdale and beyond
Police in Hillsdale Michigan investigate two major crimes theft of 700 used railroad ties weighing 122000 pounds worth about 7000 and the mysterious movement of a cement loading dock. A Greenville South Carolina trucking firm reported the loss.
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Hillsdale, Mich
Hanover Township
Greenville, S.C
Harlem Looting and Blackout Damage Across 125th Street
In Harlem the blackout spawned widespread looting on 125th Street with stores broken into for food shoes magazines and more as fires burned near an accountant’s office. Police flooded the area as youths fled with loot while bystanders shone headlights on damaged windows.
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Park
Lexington Avenues
18Th Precinct
Harlem
125Th Street
Exhumed body may reveal nursing home beating
In Amarillo Texas police exhumed the body of 85 year old Willie Homeyer after an autopsy showed cardiac arrest as the listed cause of death. Investigators say Homeyer was knocked from his wheelchair and beaten by a fellow patient on June 13 using a metal walker at High Plains Baptist Hospital.
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Tex
Justice of the Peace
Cliff Roberts
Willie Homeyer
Homeyer
High Plains Baptist Hospital
Nursing Home
No fault insurance momentum after Carter support
Senator Warren Magnuson said President Carter's backing could push no fault auto insurance legislation past Congress after years of defeats. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams will testify to the Senate Commerce Committee as administration support is announced. Supporters cite reduced lawsuits and lower premiums, while opponents fear legal and worker implications.
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Carter
Congress
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
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Senate Commerce Committee
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Brock Adams
Senate
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Transportation Department
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