Evel Knievel vows never to jump again after London crash
News briefs recount Evel Knievel's 100 mph leap over 13 London buses ending in painful injuries and a London Hospital update that he is in satisfactory condition with no paralysis signs. Other items cover political unrest in Portugal, California farm labor reforms, Betty Ford’s European trip, Memorial Day death tolls, and local incidents across Texas.
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London
Evel Knievel
London Hospital
Washington
Betty Ford
Europe
Shotgun Wielding Farmer Wounds 10 In Hidalgo
United Farm Workers organizers urged melon field workers to boycott work after a farmer wounded 10 union supporters in Hidalgo Texas. Union official Tony Orendain said 3,000 Mexican workers were involved in the response and planned actions today.
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Hidalgo, Tex
United Farm Workers Union
Tony Orendain
Can
South Texas
C.L. Miller Jr
Orendain
International Bridge
Rio Grande
Beekeeper Captures Wild Swarms In Arlington Sign
Arlington beekeeper Barney Self wrestles a several hundred strong wild swarm from a no parking sign near a service station. He nets the insects into a box, noting a hoped 10 gallons of honey annually and detailing his sting experiences. He uses honey and smoke to move bees into the hive.
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Arlington
Tex
Barney Self
Self
General Motors
Army and Air Force officers face involuntary separations
Army and Air Force plan substantial officer losses as they wind down from Vietnam era staffing. An Army personnel board will pick about 2,150 from 2,700 considered for involuntary separation in the new fiscal year. Air Force cuts target reservists with 1,200 to 2,000 separations, while Navy and Marine Corps make smaller adjustments.
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Jerry T. Baulch
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Army
Air Force
George W. Putnam
Oliver W. Lewis
Marine Corps
Navy
Medals and cap revive a veteran at memorial service
At a Miami Beach ceremony, 75 year old World War I and II veteran Jack Siegel pins seven medals and an old American Legion cap, feeling alive again as about 300 veterans andAuxiliary members honor the dead with flags, flowers, and a Taps performance by teen trumpeter Bruce Turkel. The event draws crowds along Washington Avenue near City Hall, with rifles firing and memories of service.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Jack Siegel
American Legion
Siegel
Seigel
Legion
Disabled American Veterans
VFW
Masonic War Veterans
Legion of Valor
Post 85
Legion Hall
Bruce Turkel
Washington Avenue
Turkel
Looters strip homes as Americans left in Laos
In Vientiane, Laos, looters cut holes in a sparsely guarded U.S. residential compound outside the city and carted off household possessions of evacuated Americans. About 80 people remain, including six American women secretaries, with four or five homes stripped due to two unarmed volunteer patrols. Guards limited departures to one suitcase per person. Two U.S. Marines and an American civilian stay inside the AID compound downtown, occupied by students since Wednesday.
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Vientiane
Laos
U.S
Vietiane
Furni
Kissinger proposes new commissions to ease world energy talks
Secretary Kissinger urged a set of producer consumer commissions on raw materials and third world concerns to revive the preparatory world energy conference. The plan signals a shift in US policy toward potential controls on price volatility, while denying any move toward price fixing or indexing crude oil to other industrial products.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Paris (Ap
Henry A. Kissinger
U.S
Kissinger
International Energy Association
Ford Administration
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
United States
Algeria
International Energy Agency
IEA
United Front
Ford to outline energy plan in nationwide address
President Ford will broadcast from the Oval Office at 8 30 p m EDT outlining his energy program. He signals a second one dollar tariff on imported oil and a three dollar per barrel tariff in phased steps to curb reliance on foreign petroleum by the 1980s.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ford
Oval Office
White House
United States
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Dallas Gunfire Attacks Probe for Link Across Texas
Investigators seek a possible connection between dark gunfire assaults nine days apart 70 miles apart. In Dallas three pedestrians were wounded by shots from a car, two in serious condition. two men aged 22 and 23 were arrested. In Sherman seven wounded in later attacks on charter buses and trucks. two drivers slightly hurt. Police found an M1 rifle and a shotgun in the car. Texas Rangers probing for motive and link between Dallas and Sherman incidents.
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Dallas
Sherman
Here
Texas
Fort Worth
U.S. 75
Texas Rangers
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