Global shifts and local tensions drive 1970s news mix
The report covers Cambodia's radical social changes noted by Sweden's ambassador Kaj Bjork, a capital murder trial in Corpus Christi with a death penalty decision looming, a secret Saudi Aramco takeover talk in Panama City, Reagan's Florida primary push, and the pound's slump in London. It also mentions a Phoenix drug bust, Lebanon military mutiny, Texas crop losses from drought, a fatal high school dance accident in Maria Stein, Morocco severing ties with Algeria, and rubber workers threatening strikes.
Congress Defies USDA Plan For One Stop Service Centers
Legislators grow uneasy as Alaska to Alabama farm groups oppose USDA efforts to consolidate about 7,800 local offices of ASCS FMHA SCS and FCIC into one stop centers. Rep Baldus calls for moratorium and public hearings amid criticism of process.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
USDA
Ago
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Farmers Home Administration
FMHA
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FCIC
Alvin J. Baldus
D-Wis
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Baldus
Butz
Sears wishbook replaces McGuffy's Reader at Tacoma college
The Sears Roebuck mail order catalog is used as a textbook in Tacoma Community College for a survival English course for Vietnamese refugees and other newcomers. Karen Ballard teaches a 5% month class among 90 federally funded adult English programs in the state, aimed at heads of households seeking jobs.
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Sears
McGuffy
Mary Marzano
Associated Press
Tacoma, Wash
Sears, Roebuck
Tacoma Community College
United States
Karen Ballard
Wright Patman Dies After Long House Career
Former congressman Wright Patman 82 died in Washington of pneumonia and was returned to Texas for burial in Texarkana. He spent 48 years in Congress as a populist defender of working people praised by Gov. Briscoe and Sen. Bentsen as a steadfast foe of big banks and special interests.
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Associated Press
Wright Patman
Texas
House of Representatives
House
Washington
Texarkana
Patman
Jim Wright
Fort Worth
Congress
Wright
America
Dolph Briscoe
Briscoe
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Bentsen
Workers Strike Over Basque Police Killings in Spain
Tens of thousands walk out across northern Spain to protest police killings in Victoria last week. Clashes erupt in Bilbao and Santurce as civil guards fire on protesters. a worker is seriously wounded. Madrid trials officers for rebellion deepen political tensions amid a looming transition.
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Madrid
Spain
Bilbao
Santurce
Victoria
Guipuzcoa
San Sebastian
Juan Carlos
Vitoria
Democratic Military Union
UMD
Francisco Franco
Chemical plant fire evacuates Ennis residents
In Ennis Texas a FMC Corp chemical plant blaze forced about 500 residents from their homes. By Sunday most had returned as air samples showed no danger. The fire damaged drums and chemicals, with losses estimated around 325000 dollars and no serious injuries reported.
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Ennis
Texas
FMC Corporation
Ennis, Tex
FMC Corp
North
European Canals Opened a Network Linking Seas
The Gota Canal in Sweden, 115 miles, connects the Baltic Sea at Stockholm with the Danish Straits. Other major European canals include Kiel, 61 miles, Elbe, 41 miles in Germany, Amsterdam, 16 miles in the Netherlands, and the Manchester Ship Canal, 35.5 miles in England.
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Europe
Sweden
Baltic Sea
Stockholm
Baltic
North Seas
Kiel
Elbe
Germany
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Manchester Ship Canal
England
Congress Faces Varied Agenda This Week
Congress tackles Social Security taxes, Federal Election Commission reform, and leak of the House intelligence report. House and Senate committees plan action on agency reforms while debate centers on employee solicitation limits and a public works veto.
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Edmond le Breton
Associated Press
Washington
Federal Election Commission
House
Administration Committee
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Supreme Court
Commission
Congress
Senate
Senate Public Works Committee
Ford
House Ways and Means
Expert clashes over Hearst mental state in bank robbery case
Psychiatric expert Dr. Joel Fort testified for the government disputing Patricia Hearst’s claim she joined the April 1974 holdup under threat. Bailey and Browning clashed over Fort’s qualifications and statements about Hearst’s voluntary participation, with Judge Carter delaying a ruling on admissibility. Fort stated Hearst was not mentally ill or coerced on the day of the crime.
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Tony Ledwell
Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Joel Fort
U.S. Atty
James L. Browning Jr
F. Lee Bailey
Bailey
Browning
U.S. District Court
Oliver
J. Carter
Fort
Carter
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
SLA
Randolph
Catherine Hearst
Hearsts
Dr. Fort
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