Askew Names Panel On Prison Reform
Florida Governor Askew created a nine member blue ribbon Task Force on Corrections consisting of executive judicial and legislative officers to study arrest to parole. The panel will focus on overcrowding trial length sentencing and parole programs with a report due before the 1976 session. Members include Supreme Court Justice Hen Overton Sheriff Milcollin Beard and Florida Public Defender Phillipo Hubbart among others.
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Fla
Mpl
Routh
Florida
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Forte
Dim Wiliams
Don Thicker
Askew
Dutch Train Hijacking Shocks The Netherlands
Five masked gunmen seized a passenger train near Amsterdam forcing a plane escape demand. A engineer Johan Hendrik Braams, 30, and a hostage were killed, with several hostages released as Dutch troops sealed the scene. Negotiators worked to end the crisis amid reports the assailants were South Moluccan independence supporters.
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Brilen
Netherlands
UPD
Helcopter
Johan Hendrik Braams
Grofingan-to- Amsterdam
Kah
Jatin
Pot Smoking Dangerous To Health
A review by Dr. Milos Novotny of Indiana University finds marijuana cigarettes yield higher concentrations of certain carcinogens than tobacco. The study, presented at the First Chemical Congress of the Nazi American continent, used a smoking machine to compare emissions from Mexican marijuana cigarettes and tobacco, suggesting cannabis constituents may enhance carcinogen formation.
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Menlocity
U.S
Milos Navotny
Indiana University
Bloomington
Ind
Novotny
Aental Health
Novotiy
Mit
Britain shifts energy talks stance at Rome summit
Britain abandoned a separate seal for the Paris Rome energy conference, in exchange for a seven dollar per barrel oil floor and speaking rights at the December 16 meeting. Also reports on a new Naval Reserve command in Florida Georgia and Tennessee to coordinate 100 Ready Reserve units and 1,000 reservists with commissioning December 6 at Jacksonville NAS.
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Rome
Britain
Jacksonville
KKK Spy Describes Duties During Informer Years
Ex informer Gary Rowe testifies before the Senate subcommittee claiming FBI used him to disrupt the Klan from 1965 to 1966 or 1965 era. He says Birmingham planned beatings by Klan members and that he aimed to uncover intimatedetails to break up homes for the bureau.
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UPL
FBI
Birmingham
Ala
KKK
Sendle
Ford Signs Aging Discrimination Bill
President Ford signed legislation prohibiting age based discrimination in federal programs and authorizing public service employment for older unemployed persons. The 1878 Older Americans Act amendments expand food services foster grandparents ombudspersons and rural minority programs while directing priority for transport care legal counseling home repair in states receiving federal funds. Total spending could exceed 1.7 billion over three years, though funding requires separate appropriation. Ford criticized the level and warned regulations may blur lines of reasonable age discrimination.
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Ford
White House
Congress
Mother Convicted Over Withholding Daughters From School
In Tampa Florida a six member county court jury deliberated 15 minutes to convict Marion Ryan of Daytona Beach of a misdemeanor for keeping her two teenage daughters out of school during 1974 fall term. She was fined 1000 dollars and placed on two years probation with a state approved schooling requirement. Ryan defended the action citing concerns over sex violence and anti American teaching in textbooks. The judge ruled the contents could not be used as a defense.
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Tampa
Fla
UPI
Marion Ryan
Daytona Beach
Ryan
Seliors
Morton Henlon
Volusia County American Party
Civil Liberties Union
Soviet Plan Shrinks 1976 Production Amid Weather Woes
Soviet planning chief Nikolai Baiba kay cites agriculture and management problems as the cause for heavily reduced targets in 1976 with defense spending steady at 2 billion. Finance minister Vasily Garbuzee projects a 4.3 percent rise in industrial output, while light industry grows 2.7 percent and heavy industry 4.9 percent, tied to poor 1975 harvests and delays in new plants.
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Raibakov
Supreme Soviet
Vasily Garbuzee
Riihekow
Skirmish on River Colonials, Tories Intensify Near Great Bridge
In Virginia at GREAT BRIDGE on December 3 skirmishing between colonial and loyalist forces along the Elixahath River escalated. During the night a party of slaves crossed the river and set fire to houses used by rebel snipers.
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Great Bridge
Elixahath
Senate panel flags unused school construction funds in Florida
Senate Ways and Means subcommittee reports 384 million for new school construction and 575 million for public schools and higher ed remains unspent. Officials cite conservative budgets and delays, urge a management consultant, improved cash flow, and targeted disbursement to match needs.
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Gene Chick
Department of Education
Arnold Greenfield
State Division of Land Finance
Greenfield
New York
Chick
Division of Public Schools
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