Briscoe names two to Texas Board of Health Resources
Gov. Dolph Briscoe appoints Dr. Francis Conley and Dr. Raymond G. Garrett to the expanded Texas Board of Health Resources, created to oversee health planning and hospital expansion certification. Other notices include state records openness, party stance on districting, a Supreme Court justice resignation, an ouster trial venue shift, housing bill veto impact, extradition hopes, a drug rehab group leasing a hotel, Gordon Cooper joining Disney, Kiwanis vote against women members, a Dallas credit union suspension, and Alice Cooper injury update.
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Austin
Tex
Dolph Briscoe
Francis Conley
Raymond G. Garrett
Taylor
Texas Board of Health Resources
State Board of Health
Ruel C. Walker
Texas Supreme Court
State District Court
Ross EB. Doughty
Uvalde
Doughty
High Court
Crash victims headlined by bishop nets player and New Orleans magnate
A jetliner crash near Kennedy Airport killed 110 with 14 survivors hospitalized. Among the victims and aboard were the Rt. Rev. Iveson B. Noland Episcopal bishop of Louisiana and Wendell Ladner Nets forward. Edgar G. Bright a New Orleans Cotton Exchange leader also died. Nineteen Norwegian seamen were aboard, two survived. The flight originated in New Orleans en route to New York for connections to Europe.
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New York
New York Nets
New Orleans
Kennedy International Airport
Louisiana
Iveson B. Noland
Ner
Necaise Crossing
Miss
Edgar G. Bright
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Jane Hickey
Hidaughter
Michelle
Europe
Kennedy
2000 Vietnamese refugees prepare to return home
More than 2,000 South Vietnamese refugees in the United States plan to go back to their homeland from camps in California. They fear possible harm under the new Communist rulers, though many focus on family left behind. One pilot, Dang Van Ngau, says he fears speaking of danger in Saigon and wants to reunite with relatives.
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Camp Pendleton
Calif
United States
Dang van Ngau
Gypsy beef sales soar in Dallas amid sympathy drive
A Dallas area meat market owner links slow beef sales to consumer sentiment while a group of Oklahoma and Texas ranchers sold a tractor trailer load of ungraded light grade beef in Garland under the banner Farmer's Fed Beef Buy Direct and Save. Shoppers respond to the story of farmers, says Wayne Burrows, noting the appeal of something different. Separately, 49 South Vietnamese refugees flew from Eglin AFB to join flights home sponsored by the United Nations as 131,399 refugees have reached the United States and 265 wish to return home, with the request considered voluntary and ongoing.
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Dallas
O.W. Wurdeman
Oklahoma
Texas
Garland
Wurdeman
Wayne Burrows
le Mih Tan
U.S
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Southeast Asia
United Nations
United States
Ft. Chaffee, Ark
Mohammed Gharib
U.N. High Commissioner On
Tent City on Guam Reaches Final Close Down
Tent City, the first refugee home for more than 90,000 Vietnames e refugees on American soil, is being dismantled after a tropical downpour drenched the camp. Last residents moved out, cots folded, tents dismantled as Seabees and Army troops depart for Hawaii. Remaining refugees are housed at Asan Point and Andersen Air Force Base.
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Agana
Guam
Pacific Island
Tent City
Seabees
Navy
Army
Hawaii
Navy Exchange
Asan Point
Andersen Air Force Base
Survivors listed in crash reveal diverse victims
The burned jet crash left survivors including Dr Theodore Drapanas Tulane Surgery head Ronald Derudder Texaco chief geologist Peter Walmsley Kalvar VP Saul Horowitz Jr HRH Construction chair and families from New Orleans Scarsdale and Baton Rouge Two crew members Mary Mooney and Robert Hoesler were rescued in fair condition from the tail section Several passengers died at Jamaica Hospital with burns and injuries. Tina DiSpenza and Egon Luftaas suffer severe burns.
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Theodore Drapanas
Department of Surgery
Tulane Medical School
New Orleans
Ronald Derudder
Texaco, Inc
Peter Walmsley
Kalvar Corp
Saul Horowitz Jr
Scarsdale
N.Y
HRH Construction Corp
New York
Los Angeles
Washington
San Juan
P.R
Egon Luftaas
Mary Mooney
Robert Hoesler
Manhattan
Ambulane
Jamaica Hospital
Plot to kill Castro ties CIA to mob links
Senate intelligence findings show a single collusion case between the CIA and organized crime in the 1960s tied to an aborted plot to poison Cuban leader Fidel Castro. John Rosselli testified about his role while Willaim Harvey, a former CIA official, was to testify as the committee continued hearings.
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Washington
Fidel Castro
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
Underworld
John G. Tower
Tower
Texas
John Rosselli
Castro
Willaim K. Harvey
Roselli
Church
San Giancana
Chicago
Giancana
Rosselli
Italy
Immigration Board of Appeals
Harvey
Indianapolis
Ind
FBI harassments in COINTELPRO revealed in 1960s notes
Newly disclosed FBI documents show COINTELPRO aimed to topple New Left activists by pressuring teachers, distributing fake newsletters on campuses, and sending anonymous letters to parents. The operation ran May 1968 to April 1971, with actions against Evelyn Rosewell and Maude Adams White among others.
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Washington
FBI
Cointelpro
Socialist Workers Party
Syd Stapleton
Political Rights Defense Fund
Socialist Workers Suit
Evelyn Rosewell
Austin
Tex
Socialist Workers
Michigan State School Board
Mrs. Sell
Sell
Detroit
Wayne State University
David Herreshoff
Robert J. Huber
Herreshoff
Demos plan veto battle over housing subsidy program
House Democrats prepare to seek a two thirds override of President Ford's veto on a mid income housing subsidy plan. The vote to override is set for today as Ford lines up mortgage authority and GNMA extension to July 1 1976. The bill aimed to spur home building amid 22 percent unemployment and includes down payment assistance and unemployment housing aid.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Ford
Chuck Talmadge
Texas Department of Community Affairs
Talmadge
Washington
House
Chamber
Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Hybrid bermuda grass draws crowds at MSU giveaway
Cattlemen from 19 states travel to Starkville Mississippi where MSU agronomy researchers distributed five acres of Callie hybrid bermuda. About 5 000 people lined up to receive 3 to 4 bushels each as organizers collect names for follow up. Grass claims faster growth and wide adoption beyond Mississippi though no formal performance data yet.
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Starkville
Mass
New Mexico
Mississippi
Vance Watson
Mississippi State University Agronomy
Asia
Africa
Watson
MSU
Bermuda
Virginia
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