Secrecy vs Prosecution Shapes CIA Employee Case
Across multiple dispatches the AP reports on a CIA legal chief saying no prosecution would be recommended even for murder if it risked exposing secret operations. Other items cover a Raleigh jury selection in the Joan Little trial. Brazil frost cutting coffee crop. Peron ministers firing. Ford’s Europe trip. speed limit enforcement drop in deaths. a San Francisco bomb incident. Indira Gandhi on order and liberties. Caspar Weinberger on federal programs. a UPS blast in Manhattan. Solzhenitsyn on Ford. Thai border fuel trade with Khmer Rouge. and postal union contract talks with raises and no layoffs.
Citizens to help FBI fight crime
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley and Patrick Murphy of the Police Foundation announce a citizen crime-fighting program after the Uniform Crime Report shows an 18 percent rise in serious crime in the first quarter. The plan aims to involve citizens more in combating crime and includes community efforts to protect the elderly from predators.
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Washington
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
Kelley
Patrick Murphy
The
Police Foundation
House votes to end fair trade laws across states
The House approved 380 to 11 a measure backed by the Ford administration and consumer groups to repeal 1937 and 1959 antitrust provisions allowing states to set minimum retail prices. Twenty four states currently have such laws, with 46 historically. Rep. Barbara Jordan said consumers face at least 2 billion dollars in extra annual costs. Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin cited aspirin price disparities between DC and Maryland suburbs. A separate FBI crime report notes broad increases in crime across rural areas suburbs and cities, with final 1974 figures due in September.
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Washington
House
Ford Administration
Senate
Barbara Jordan
Dtex
Lionel van Deerlin
D-Calif
Maryland
District of Columbia
Policemen Return to Work in Albuquerque After Contract Vote
In Albuquerque, more than 300 officers ended a 10 day strike by accepting an 11 percent raise package. The AP0A voted 303 to 125 to approve the deal, ending the walkout and reinstating all striking officers amid a two year contract with boosts to uniform allowances and fringe benefits.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Albuquerque Police Officers Association
APOA
Jim Baca
James A. Maloney
Space rivalry marked by tests and splashdown parties
American Apollo astronauts conduct experiments as Soviet cosmonauts return from a six day mission. Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton stay aboard three extra days for data. Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov recover in Kazakhstan after a televised touchdown. News conferences planned for both crews in Moscow and Houston.
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Alexei Leonov
Valeri Kubasov
Soyuz
Soviet
Kazakhstan
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kubasov
Leonov
Earth
Moscow
Houston
Mission Control
Quintuplets born to Debbie Davis in Lewisville area
Debbie Davis, newly revealed as mother of five after a fertility-drug prompted pregnancy, spoke with reporters alongside Dr. Jack Pritchard. The family, including husband Jerry, plans a rough transition back home to Lewisville with two existing beds expanded to accommodate the quintuplets and a potential nurse.
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Dallas
Debbie Davis
Jack Pritchard
Jerry
Davis
Davises
Lewisville
Unflown astronauts eye future after Apollo era ends
The Apollo program ends with 16 American astronauts who never flew yet waited on the ground while peers walked on the Moon and joined Skylab crews. A four year wait remains for the unflown to gain space veteran status as the space shuttle prepares to fly in 1979.
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Robert L. Crippen
Busing criticizes busing as misfired in integration effort
Vanderbilt sociology professor Ernest Campbell says the Coleman Report showed black students benefit somewhat from integration but busing backfired by provoking white flight and greater segregation. He stresses home environment drives most achievement differences and gains from busing would be small. Space shuttle work remains pivotal, Crippen notes.
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Nashville, Tenn
Vanderbilt University
Ernest Q. Campbell
Vanderbilt
Campbell
James S. Coleman
Nashville Banner
Lee to regain citizenship a century after death
Congress moves to restore full citizenship to Confederate General Robert E. Lee posthumously. The Senate approved the measure in April and the House planned a floor vote aided by the Virginia delegation led by Rep. Herbert Harris. A liberal bloc may seek a broader amnesty amendment for others who renounced citizenship over protests.
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Washington
Congress
Robert E. Lee
Lee
Appomattox Court House
Andrew Johnson
House
Senate
Virginia
Herbert E. Harris
D-Va
Johnson
National Archives
U.S
Indochina
Elizabeth Holtzman
N.Y
Judiciary Committee
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Cora Judkins
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Peron
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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General Labor Confederation
CGT
Peronist
Ford
Europe
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Finland
White House
West Germany
Poland
Romania
Yugoslavia
Department of Transportation
San Francisco
Mario Lopez
Financial District
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Lopez
Tishman
Market Street
New Delhi
Indira Gandhi
India
Health, Education and Welfare
Caspar Weinberger
Weinberger
HEW
New York
mid-Manhattan
United Parcel Service
Polyclinic Hospital
William Mulholland
Brooklyn
Solzhenitsyn
Valley Cottage
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandra Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Aranyaprathet
Thailand
Khmer Rouge
Letter Carriers’ Union
Edward M. Levi
Stafford
Robert Crippen
Tass
Baikonur Cosmondrome
Quints
Lewisville State Bank
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