Vietnamese refugees threaten self immolation to force Guam airlift
Twenty Vietnamese refugees at Camp Pendleton threaten to burn themselves to death unless the United States flies them to Guam. They join 1,600 others waiting to return to South Vietnam. Nick Thorne of the Interagency Refugee Task Force said the threat is real and a Guam flight will be sought. He has worked 10 days to arrange the trip.
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Camp Pendleton
Calif
United States
Guam
Guan
South Vietnam
Nick Thorne
Interagency
Democrats reject Ford energy price plan again
Senate Democrats rejected President Ford's latest energy price compromise offered by phone from New Hampshire. Senator Muskie accused the President of pressuring Congress to knuckle under as Republicans urged passage of a House approved bill extending oil price controls through October 31.
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Washington
Senate
Ford
New Hampshire
Congress
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
House
U.S
Banker testifies in Carrillo case
San Diego banker Karl Williams testified as the third witness in the income tax trial of suspended District Court Judge O P Carrillo and his brother Ramiro Carrillo. The government alleges Zertuche’s General Store hid illegal sales to Duval County agencies and filed false returns for 1967 to 1970. Oscar Kirkland said he prepared returns based on a paper sheet, not bank records, and did not know Zertuche’s location in 1969 1970.
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Corpus Christi, Tex
San Diego
O.P. Carillo
Duval County
Ramiro Carrillo
Karl Williams
First State Bank of
U.S. Atty
George Kelt
Carrillo Brothers
Arturo Zuertuche
Carrillos
Zertuche
Benavides
Oscar Kirkland
Alice
Kirkland
Kelt
Denton
Tex
Missing Chappaquiddick police files still unaccounted for
Edgartown Massachusetts police say original Chappaquiddick accident records and Kennedy first statement are missing despite former chiefs claiming they were returned last April. Officials cite confusion about copies and ownership as historians, and book author Carl Gottlieb, echoing a past dispute over the 1969 auto crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
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Washington
Chappaquiddick
Edward M. Kennedy
Edgartown
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
Patricia McLeod
Police Oficer
Carl Gottlieb
Martha's Vineyard
Gottlieb
Jesse Oliver II
Mary Jo Kopechne
Oliver
Kennedy
Dominick J. Arena
Universal Studios
Arena
Integration progress boosts Boston school attendance amid protests
Boston sees attendance rise to 69.1 percent as schools reopen, with white attendance at 63 percent and black attendance at 75 percent. Police patrols with dogs sweep Charlestown housing project after white youths attacked trees and rocks were thrown, with 22 firebombs found since opening day.
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Boston
Charlestown
Charlestown High School
Robert J. DiGrazia
Ford wears protective vest amid security tightening during New Hampshire tour
Security agents around President Ford tightened precautions in a southern New Hampshire swing for Louis C. Wyman's Senate bid after a woman fired at Ford from close range in Sacramento. A vest outline was visible but officials would not confirm its use while helicopters monitored the motorcade and sections of towns were blocked.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Ford
New Hampshire
Louis C. Wyman
White House
Secret Service
Sacramento
Calif
Lynette A. Fromme
Charles Manson
William S. Greener
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