AWOL Soldier Linked to Bank Bombs Sought by FBI
The FBI issued a warrant for Ronald Kaufman 33 a Stanford PhD psychologist and AWOL soldier identified as Christopher Charles Mohr and two other aliases. He is linked to time bombs found Jan seven in bank boxes across San Francisco Chicago and New York.
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UPI
FBI
Stanford University
Christopher Charles Mohr
Ronald Kaufman
Chicago
New York
Kaufman
Stanford
Hoffman
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Berkeley
Calif
James Jensen
Fort Polk
Fort Jackson
S.C
Florida and national briefs merge in scattered incidents
A Florida Pollution Control Department suit targets a Winter Haven citrus plant and Punta Gorda faces a 30 day deadline to curb untreated sewage into the Peace River. Other items report city turmoil in Alabama and Chicago and a Chilean quake spurring street scenes with no casualties reported.
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Tallahassee
UPI
State Pollution Control ‘Department
Winter Haven
Punta Gorda
Peace River
Redistricting Threatens Northwest Florida Precincts
State Rep. Ed Fortune warned at a Crestview hearing that redrawing legislative districts could wreck precinct lines and force revamps of county commissions and school boards. He cited zero variance rules and possible court involvement, with plans for multi member districts and hearings across Orlando Miami and Jacksonville. Northwest Florida faces likely impact regardless of final house size.
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Guy Middleton
Crestview
Ed Fortune
D-Pace
Fortune
Jerry Melvin
Fort Walton Beach
Richard Pelligrew
H.D. Elmore
Orlando
Miami
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Pettigrew
Merrill Pushes Destin Airport Toward HUD Clearance
Atlanta county commissioner Dan Merrill, in town for a hospital conference, meets HUD officials to resolve a late hitch in Destin Airport improvements. A 37 page ecology report is key to clearance. construction could begin and finish in five months if HUD approves.
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Atlanta—County
Dan Merrill
Destin Airport
Commission
Laure
Hill
HUD
Federal Aviation Agency
Miami
Merrill
Destin
Uuhen
Eight cities share 160 million for crime fight program
The U S administration announced a high impact anticrime program with 160 million dollars for eight cities including Atlanta Cleveland Newark Portland Baltimore Dallas Denver and St. Louis The aim is to cut street crimes and burglaries by five percent in two years and up to twenty percent in five years per city with officials Spiro Agnew and John Mitchell presenting the plan.
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Atlanta
Cleveland
Newark
Portland
Ore
Baltimore
Dallas
Denver
St. Louis
FBI
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
John N. Mitchell
Militant Priest Groppi Wins SC Reversal Again
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling by Chief Justice Burger, overturned a contempt sentence against Father James E. Groppi for leading a welfare protest onto the Wisconsin legislature floor. The court held the legislature failed to provide charges or a response opportunity.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
James E. Groppi
Wisconsin
Warren E. Burger
Father Groppi
Milwaukee
Groppi
Dane County
U.S
James E. Doyle
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Aerospace Labor Gets 8.3 Percent Increment Approval
The Pay Board voted to retroactively pay wage increases frozen by Nixon up to 7 percent, granting aerospace workers 8.3 percent instead of 12.2 percent. The ruling implements new law, with possible flexibility if individual cases align with the act, affecting over 100,000 aerospace workers at an average of about 353 dollars each.
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Washington
API
Nixon
Congress
Student Convinces U S He Wants to Go Home
Merab Kurashvili, a Russian exchange student at Berkeley, left Kennedy Airport after convincing U S officials he wished to return to the Soviet Union. He had slit his throat and wrists en route to the airport, survived, and was taken to the Soviet U N mission to recuperate. Immigration officers pressed for an interview to assess his wish, which the Russians refused.
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New York
UPI
Merab Kurashivili
University of California At Berkley
Kennedy
U.S
Russia
Kurashvili
Washington
U.N
Berkeley
United States
Aeroflot
Soviet Union
Samuel Zutty
Immigration Service
Island Authority reelects Hollingsworth Tyner and Stack to terms
Okaloosa Island Authority renewed Dr. Gerald Hollingsworth as chairman Miss Pearl Tyner as vice chair and H Wes Stack as secretary treasurer for another one year term In a related move the board tentatively approved a 264600 upgrade to the sewerage plant with bids from Rast Gregory and Dean Inc Environ mental Engineers Inc King and Kifner Inc FE and Walker Inc Ralph S Green and Co Inc and Guin and Hunt Inc The project requires EPA approval before final go ahead and aims for completion before summer tourism influx Other actions include approvals for apartment projects a boat house renovation a Gulf front three story 15 unit building and amusement park lease discussions plus assurances for certified financial statements from proposed lessees
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Gerald Hollingsworth
Miss Tyner
Stack
Rast, Gregory and Dean, Inc
Patterson Associates
Gulf Breeze
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Engineers Inc
King and Kifner Inc
FE. & Walker Inc
Ralph S. Green
al Qualls
Fort Walton Beach
Hollingsworth
Victor Deal
Thfe Board
Sikes Opens NCO Club at Eglin AFB
Rep Bob Sikes attends dedication of the new Eglin AFB NCO Club replacing the Danner Service Club built after WWII. Wartime crowding prompted shifts. ceremony includes Lewis E Turner Maj Gen Jewel Maxwell Col William Morton. A dinner follows hosted by the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce.
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Bob Sikes
Eglin Afb
Danner Service Club
Lewis E. Turner
Air Force
Jewel Maxwell
Armament Development and Test Center
Col
William Morton
Sikes
Military Affairs Committee
Greater Fort Walton Beach
Miami Parents Boycott School Over Bus Plan
About 2,700 elementary students were kept home as Miami area parents protest a plan to bus 8,000 next fall and 33,500 over five years. Five schools saw low attendance. organizers of Joint Venture for Better Education led the boycott while the school board shelved the proposal.
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Miami
UPS
Dade
Carole Burger
Joint Venture For Better Education
Sabet Palm Elementary
Berger
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