Frame Bates Blasts Prosecutors In Pretrial Hearing
Houston AP State Dist. Judge Garth Bates is accused of taking a 59000 bribe to influence a robbery case. Bates says he was framed and has been unfairly tried by the district attorney. His attorney seeks depositions from key witnesses while others are denied. Trial date moved to early November due to judge's vacation.
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Nukie Fontenot
Fontenot
Bates
Ed Jay Riklin
District Attorney’s Office
Asst. Dist. Atty
Sam Robertson
Barron
Bryan
Binary Nerve Gas Development Sought
SAN FRANCISCO AP Scientists say the Pentagon seeks funds to develop a binary nerve gas weapon that forms toxic gas from two or more harmless chemicals. The plan, called an escalatory weapon par excellence, could make nerve gas more acceptable by easing storage risks.
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San Francisco
Pentagon
R.J. Rutman
University of Pennsylvania
American Chemical Society
G.R. Berdes
House Committee On International Relations
Congress
Defense Department
Chemical Society
Department
Army
Pinehurst Arsenal
Arkansas
Medicaid Abuses Reported In Senate Probe
Senate investigators say much Medicaid money funds landlords rather than care after an eight month study. Fee-splitting between physicians and landlords led to abuses with doctors earning 20 to 40 percent of fees while landlords pressed for more patients and tests. The panel warned most funds go to building owners, prompting moral and legal concerns. Prosecutions would occur if fraud is found.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Committee On Aging
Frank E. Moss
Utah
Val J. Halamandaris
Subcommittee
Congress
American Medical Association Judicial Council
Moss
Ranger Suspended After Brownsville Arrest
Texas Ranger Robert G. Elder of Houston is suspended with pay by the Department of Public Safety after a Brownsville arrest for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Elder spent about two hours in Cameron County Jail after being arrested at 1 a.m. Friday near a private residence, Brownsville Police Chief Andy Vega said.
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Austin
Tex
Department of Public Safety
Texas
Robert G. Elder
Houston
Brownsville
DPS
Elder
Cameron County
Andy Vega
Liability suits threaten product insurers and manufacturers
AP analysis warns that rising product liability claims could push insurers from the market and force higher prices, deterring new product development. The industry faced two back‑to‑back underwriting losses totaling about $7 billion in 1974–75, with small manufacturers at risk of noncompetitiveness or going uninsured while large firms face hundreds of federal cases and possible multi‑hundred million settlements.
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T. Lawrence Jones
American Insurance Association
Loeb, Rhoades & Co
Loeb, Rhoades
State GOP Leader Sets Press Talk
AUSTIN Texas AP Ray Barnhart Houston chairman of Texas 100 per cent Reagan delegation to Kansas City will hold a news conference to say if he wants the state GOP chairmanship Barnhart said he spent Monday in Washington talking with officials of the Ford campaign committee After the convention he supported the platform but was unsure about campaigning for Ford Dole Ray Hutchison Dallas current GOP chairman said he seeks re election and is totally dedicated to Ford Dole ticket
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Austin
Tex
Ray Barnhart
Houston
Texas
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Barnhart
Washington, D.C
Ford Campaign Committee
Reagan
Ray Hutchison
Dallas
GOP
Ford- Dole
UT Professor Alleges Phony Courses Tied to TA Workload
UT Austin to rebut claims that graduate teaching assistants are enrolled in phony courses under a nine hour weekly requirement. English professor James Sledd testified before a House Higher Education subcommittee, noting 398T and 389T courses may inflate credit hours for funding and workload.
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Austin, Tex
Lorene Rogers
University of Texas At Austin
James Sledd
Ut-Austin
House Committee On Higher Education
Sledd
Coordinating Board
Tas
Forty Acres
Don Rains
D-San Marcos
UT Dean Scheduled As Visiting Professor
The University of South Carolina College of Journalism announced that Dr. Wayne A Danielson, dean of the UT Austin School of Communications, will serve as visiting distinguished professor for the 1977 spring semester. A mass communications research specialist and former UNC Journalism dean, he has led RAND AEJ and AASDJ. He holds a bachelor’s from Iowa and master’s and Ph.D. from Stanford.
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Columbia, S.C
University of South Carolina College of Journalism
Wayne A Danielson
School of Communications
University of Texas At Austin
Journalism College
Danielson
University of North
The
State University of Iowa
Stanford University
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