Global and domestic turmoil and disasters headline today
Reports say Israeli troops crossed into Lebanon hunting terrorists with Arab gunfire wounded seven Israelis and a Lebanese woman and child. In New York a teen was decapitated on a Coney Island ferris wheel. A French excursion boat explosion killed 12 and injured 50 near Toulon. Idi Amin floated plans for a southern Africa invasion, top secrets and tension cited. In Texas, bars and a restaurant closed for unpaid taxes. Vancouver talks aim to settle a pulp strike. San Antonio court appeals over Parr removal. Dallas drug trial venue changes for Carr Collins III. New York warns on municipal bankruptcy risks. Mexico plans to curb imports to ease balance of payments. Tyler civil suit seeks asbestosis damages from OCAW and others.
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Lebanon
Israel
Yigal Allon
Jerusalem
U.N
Sinai
Toulon
France
Venus Des Iles
Porquerolles Island
Hunts claim CIA retaliation in Hunt Oil case
Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt and five others were indicted on conspiracy and obstruction charges tied to a wiretapping scheme starting in 1969. The brothers accuse the CIA and Justice Department of retaliation after they refused CIA placement in Hunt Oil Co. and allege a vast embezzlement coverup by federal agents.
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Dallas
H.L. Hunt
Central Intelligence Agency
Hunt Oil Co
Nelson Bunker Hunt
W. Herbert Hunt
Ges
CIA
Hunt
Hunt Brothers
Lubbock
FBI
Internal Revenue Service
Department of Justice
Serious crimes climb in six Texas cities above national average
FBI figures show Beaumont leading a sharp rise in serious crimes in Texas cities over 100,000 people. Other cities with jumps above the national 18 percent include Irving Amarillo Lubbock El Paso Dallas Fort Worth Corpus Christi Austin and Arlington with varied percentage increases and crime totals cited for 1974 and 1975.
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Associated Press
Texas
Beaumont
FBI
Houston
San Antonio
Irving
Amarillo
Lubbock
el Paso
Dallas
FBI Uniform
Fort Worth
Corpus Christi
Austin
Arlington
Ky Cao Ky to lecture for 2500 dollars per appearance
Former South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky announces a paid lecture tour priced at 2500 dollars per engagement. He plans two or more talks weekly, hopes to publish a book, and describes his tour as a personal affair while noting prior statements about possible other jobs. He discusses war losses, political errors, and a 12000-strong guerrilla force he would command if allowed to return.
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John T. Wheeler
Associated Press
Anaheim
Calif
Nguyen Cao Ky
Chamber of Commerce
Saigon
South Vietnam
California State University At
Fullerton
South
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Mekong
Lost continent proof revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Miami scientists report the first solid evidence of a sunken continent between Africa and the Americas about 70 million years ago. Fossils of crab excrement and limestone dredged 1,700 to 3,000 feet deep support a land mass once bridged the continents, long since submerged.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Red Sea
Jose Honnorez
University of Miami
Honnorez
Central
Africa
South America
Atlantis
Cesare Emiliani
UM Geology Department
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Globe
Refugee orphan pursues chance at American education
Fifteen year old Trich Thai, among 50 unattended refugee children at Ft Chaffee Arkansas, planned years to reach the United States by posing as a war refugee. He arrived early, staying in the unattended children’s barracks as camp officials revised counts at Pendleton Indiantown Gap and Ft Chaffee. Thai said his family once owned an icehouse in Saigon suburb, and his father with a Vietnamese friend sought to send him for college in America.
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FT. Chaffee, Ark
Trich Thai
United States
Thai
Ft. Chaffee
Camp Pendelton
Calif
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Indiantown Gap
Penn
Pendleton
Guam
Huynh Hai Phan
Siagon
Vietnam
America
Shortages producing new crisis
The Ford administration pledges readiness to handle natural gas shortages next winter while a House report warns of emergency-level curtailments. The Government Operations Committee says federal agencies lack advance plans to mitigate employment and industrial impacts, though the FEA says it is coordinating a full response with the president. The report warns shortages could reach 45 percent higher than prior years and that alternate fuels may be unavailable.
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Washington
Ford Administration
House
House Government Operations Committee
Federal Energy Administration
Ford
Bruce Pasternack
FEA
Staplepuncture hokum blamed by AMA critic
EAST PEORIA ILL AP The American Medical Association calls staple puncture hokum yet Jeneane Zimmermann 27 says staples in both ears helped her shed 100 pounds in under a year She weighed 330 pounds at start and now weighs about 230 She moved to Miami where she works and plans to reach 130 her goal She credits the procedure for reducing hunger though critics say there is no such nerve in the ear and psychology may not explain her loss The tale highlights her father Karl Zimmermann and her relief at able to shop for regular clothes
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East Peoria, Ill
American Medical Association
Jeneane Zimmermann
Miss Zimmermann
East Peoria
AMA
Frank Cappell
Chappell
Karl Zimmermann
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Parr
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Carr P. Collins III
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Municipal Assistance Corp
Big Mac
Mexico
Mexico City
Industry and Commerce
Antonio Calderon Martinez
Tyler
Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers
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PPG Industries Inc
Pittsburgh Corning Corp
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U.S
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Percy Foreman
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B.H. Timmons Jr
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