Global briefs mix politics markets and crime findings
A string of short items covers Italy reopening forex markets and Moro's fragile government, a Wallace rally amid Massachusetts busing debate, a Lockheed payoffs claim in Arizona, Nixon's return to San Clemente, February supermarket price trends, Texas traffic deaths and Mardi Gras in New Orleans, AP journalism awards, a Houston grain elevator explosion, Red Dye 40 safety questions, and a U.N. Mars return debate.
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Galena Park
Tex
Goodpasture
Houston Ship Channel
Coast Guard
Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FBI double agent found dead in Connecticut
Norman John Rees a 69 year old Mobil Oil engineer, allegedly spied for the Russians and acted as an FBI double agent. He was found shot in his study in Southbury, believed to be an apparent suicide after a Calais Times Herald report on his case.
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Southbury, Conn
Norman John Rees
FBI
John Warren Rees
Rees
Calais Times Herald
Mobil Oil Co
Soviet Union
Marcus Cox
Cox
Ann
Sheriff clears Trice in Joplin slayings family tragedy
The sheriff states Terry Trice did not kill the Joplin family members and the investigation faces a setback as Gregg Joplin refuses a lie detector test. Joplin told officers an intruder was shot by his own rifle, with the shooter identified as Trice, a neighborhood youth. The Trice family bears multiple recent losses and a history of tragedy.
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Blue Mound
Gladys Trice
Wayne Joplin
Gregg Joplin
Evans
Joplin
George Thompson
Thompson
Trice
Sherry
Economy Cars Strain Texas Highway Funding
The Texas highway program faces layoffs and delays as fuel saving cars reduce gasoline tax revenue. The Department of Highway Public Transportation laid off 1,900 workers since September and foresees more cuts. A gasoline tax hike and other revenue options are being considered to fund an $11 billion program through 1995.
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Dallas
Texas
Highway Department
Wade Lorenz
Texas Good Roads Association
State Department of Highway Public Transportation
Marcus Yancey
Dards
Austin
Department of Public Safety
Dolph Briscoe
Hearst Defense Challenges taped vow in SLA case
Patty Hearst defense aims to negate her taped allegiance to the Symbionese Liberation Army arguing the recordings were scripted. Dr. Margaret Singer testifies Hearst read lines, while prosecutors prepare rebuttal and a possible surprise witness as the trial heads to a potential verdict.
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Patty
Tony Ledwell
Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Miss Hearst
F. Lee Bailey
Bailey
Margaret Singer
Albert Johnson
Johnson
U.S
Fencing sting nets 100 arrests at warehouse party
A police and FBI operation posing as a fencing outfit generated 2.4 million in five months, arresting more than 100 people including assistant U.S. Attorney Donald E. Robinson Jr. at a warehouse party. Loot recovered included 1500 credit cards 460 HUD checks 225 typewriters and more.
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Washington
FBI
U.S. Atty
Donald E. Robinson Jr
HUD
Silbert
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Italy
Rome
Aldo Moro
Christian Democrat
Central Intelligence Agency
Lockheed
Boston
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Massachusetts
Phoenix, Ariz
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
U.S. Air Force
Ernest F. Hauser
Nixon
China
Los Angeles
Richard Nixon
San Clemente
Henry Kissinger
Palm Springs
Kirk Douglas
New Orleans
Louisiana Superdome
Gordon Novel
Defense Department
Novel
Gallagher
Columbia
Wes Gallagher
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Roy L. Fisher
United Nations
N.Y
Mars
U.N
Cide
Ash
Field
Mass
Murray Stauffer
Christan
Midlothian
Stauffers
Stauffer
Fort Worth
Terry Trice
Tarrant County
Lon Evans
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
State Highway Department
Gence
DR. Singer
SLA
Metropolitan Police
Robert Arscott
P.F.F. Inc
District of Columbia
Police
FBI Fencing Inc
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