Hefner says Playboy mansion will be reduced not closed
Hugh Hefner refutes Victor Lownes and says the Chicago Playboy Mansion will remain a base of operations with a skeleton staff, contradicting plans to close the mansion and sell his DC9 jet. The item lists other regional updates across Detroit Houston Dallas Richmond Las Vegas Port Arthur Rochester and Arlington.
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Chicago
Hugh Hefner
Playboy
Playboy Enterprises, Inc
Victor Lownes
Hefner
Los Angeles
Richmond
General Accounting Office
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Dallas
Tex
Harry F. Byrd Jr
I-Va
GAO
INS
Byrd
Leonard F. Chapman Jr
Las Vegas
Nev
Engelbert Humperdinck
Howard Babcock
Diane Marie Vincent
Humperdinck
Rochester
Minn
Erskine Caldwell
God’s Little Acre
Methodist Hospital
Caldwell
Mayo Clinic
Dunedin
Fla
British Airways
Helsinki summit opens major Europe peace gathering
Thirty five leaders from Europe the United States and Canada gather in Helsinki to endorse a 30 000 word nonbinding charter guiding European conduct. Presidents Ford and Brezhnev convene for talks on nuclear restraint as UN Secretary General Waldheim opens the conference. A Friday signing ceremony is planned amid hopes for real policy action.
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Helsinki
Finland
Europe
United States
Canada
United Nations
Kurt Waldheim
Finlandia Hall
Ford
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Ito
Soviet Union
Ussr
Violence erupts in Detroit as riot clashes resume
In Detroit two nights of violence left hundreds marching through a bar district linked to a white bar owner charged with murder. Police ar rested 36 more, bringing two day total to 99 amid tear gas and bottle volleys as residents debate charges, unemployment and civil unrest.
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Detroit
Livernois- Fenkell
Andrew Chinarian
Obie Wynn
Coleman Young
Chinaman
Levi condemns FBI burglaries as dangerous practice
Attorney General Edward H. Levi denounces FBI burglaries as dangerous for the country and says they should only be allowed in the most extreme emergencies with explicit written presidential and attorney general authorization. He mentions possible antitrust action against the oil cartel and criticizes government quotas on minority hiring.
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Washington
Edward H. Levi
FBI
Levi
Ford
Department
Louisiana grain inspection probe widens in corruption case
Federal officials probe irregularities in Louisiana state operated grain inspection at Port Allen near Baton Rouge as part of a broader grain export corruption inquiry. Since the start, 33 people have been indicted, including 13 Bunge executives, with federal prosecutors coordinating in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
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Washington
Louisiana
State Department of Agriculture
Port Allen
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
U.S. Atty
Douglas M. Gonzales
New Orleans
Gerald J. Gallinghouse
FBI
Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Bunge Corp
Boards of Trade
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
U.S
Governors unite views on energy
Eight Western governors met in Santa Fe at the Western Governor's Energy Conference to forge a regional energy platform. They approved a resolution urging gradual decontrol of old oil prices and called for state input in federal energy policy while stressing no confrontation with Washington.
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Santa FE
N.M
West
New Mexico
Jerry Apodaca
Ford Administration
Apodaca
Wyoming
ED Herschel
Raul Castro
Arizona
Colorado
Richard Lamm
Lamm
Nigerian upheaval and Texas ethics law updates
Nigerian broadcasts report Brig. Muritala Rufai Mohammed leading the new Nigerian government after a bloodless coup ousted Gen. Gowon. London papers note little policy difference with Gowon, U.S. investment in Nigeria stands near $1 billion in oil. In Texas a new law requires all officeholders to report non reimbursable contributions and expenses annually starting Jan. 15, with potential bans on free travel and meals. Lagos imposes a dusk to dawn curfew as Kampala diplomats call Lagos calm amid the crisis.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
House
Common Cause Inc
Citizens Lobby
Lagos
Nigeria
Black Africa
Muritala Rufai Mohammed
Yakubu Gowon
London
Gowon
United States
Canada
Venezuela
U.S
Kampala
Uganda
Organization of African Unity
Col
Joseph Garba
Coffee frost shifts global market power to Brazil
Frost in Parana Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul killed about half of Brazil 1976 77 coffee crop boosting world prices. Brazil inventory including 15 million bags untouchable stock and an estimated 7 million bags privately stockpiled gives Brazil leverage to curb exports and press for higher prices.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
York
Brazilian Coffee Institute
Cruzeiros
Parana
Sao Paulo
Rio Grande Do Sul
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General Motors
Chrysler Corp
Houston
Harris County Grand Jury
Phillip Hackney
Hackney
Douglas Cellini
Italian Trade Commission
Cellini
Shell Disputes
Shell Oil Co
National Transportation Safety Board
Shell
Southern Pacific Transportation Co
Southern Pacific
Englewood
Trey Perry
Universal Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Churches
Port Arthur
Robert Greenwald
Arlington
Dallas-Fort Worth
Bob Bolton
General Foods Corp
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