Five Castro assassination plots reveal CIA role says Rosselli
AP reports columnist Jack Anderson says underworld figure John Rosselli described five CIA backed attempts to kill Fidel Castro in the early 1960s. He detailed poison pellets, cash payments, rifles and speedboat trips, with Rossilli stating illnesses followed one poisoning attempt, uncertain if virus or poison caused it.
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Washington
John Rosselli
CIA
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Jack Anderson
Rosselli
Castro
AM America
Anderson
Senate Intelligence Committee
William K. Harvey
Central Intelligence Agency
Los Angeles
Robert Maheu
Howard Hughes
CIA Project
Big Jim” O'Connell
Maheu
O'Connell
New York City
Miami
Harvey
National Defense
Colby
Nashville Sound Him career not coaching
Jim Weatherly, former Ole Miss quarterback turned songwriter, settled in Los Angeles after giving up a potential football coaching path. Under contract with Jim Nabors for 20 years, he wrote about 60 songs, including Midnight Train to Georgia, Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye, and You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me. Weatherly, from Pontotoc, Mississippi, explains how a phone call inspired Midnight Train to Georgia and notes his songs span country and easy listening, yet suit rhythm and blues performers.
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Nashville, Tenn
Jim Weatherly
Los Angeles
Ole Miss
Jim Nabors
Weatherly
Houston
Gladys Knight
Georgia
Gladys Knight and the
Pips
Ray Price
L.A
Pontotoc
Miss
Universal
Price
Bill Anderson
Bob Luman
Andy Williams
Jose Feliciano
Ferrante & Teicher
Payola indictments hit major record executives across nation
Federal grand juries in Newark New York City Los Angeles and Philadelphia indicted three record company presidents and sixteen other executives on payola and tax evasion charges. Promoters allegedly slipped cash merchandise plane tickets and clothing to radio staff to boost songs. The probe began in 1973 after wiretaps tied CBS Records to promoter activity linked to Pasquale Falconio, now serving a ten year heroin sentence.
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Newark
N.J
New York City
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
U.S
Pasquale Falconio
CBS Records
Falconio
Fort Lee
United States
Canada
Missing Pismo Beach man linked to freeway murder claim
Police in Pismo Beach, California, face embarrassment after a May 19 tip about a Route 101 murder was reportedly misfiled. Howard M. O'Daniels, 37, disappeared May 11, his body later found June 7 in weeds inside city limits. investigators seek the call’s origin to resolve the case.
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Pismo Beach
Calif
Los Angeles
Howard M. O'Daniels
Long Beach
U.S. Highway 101
Route 101
O’daniels
GOP to drop suit over district maps in Texas
State Republican Chairman Jack Warren said the GOP will withdraw from a suit challenging multi member districts. The party asked the Supreme Court to remand to federal district court to assess mootness after Gov. Dolph Briscoe signed a bill creating single member House districts in counties with at large representatives. The GOP argues multi member at large districts dilute minority voting power, including Republicans.
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Austin
Tex
Jack Warren
GOP
US Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Warren
Dolph Briscoe
Neopayte lobbyists plead for programs
Alyce Meeks a 16 year old from Westbury New York joined youth groups touring Washington to press Congress for antipoverty funding. They targeted lawmakers and met aides as they urged full financing for community action programs and the successor agency CSA while noting the veto and a House funding cut.
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Washington
Alyce Meeks
Westbury
N.Y
Alyce
House
Senate
Capitol
John Kearse
New York State Alliance of Community Action Agencies
Community Services Administration
Office of Economic Opportunity
Kearse
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Omar Burleson
Texas
Judith Curtis
Burleson
Curtis
Rendon Memorials Highway 35 at Port Lavaca Funeral Home
Funeral home notices indicate Rendon Memorials arranging services on Highway 35 in Port Lavaca for a recent deceased individual. Details of the service and burial location are expected to be provided by the Port Lavaca funeral home.
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Buddy Means
Department of Public Safety
Victoria
Salem Lutheran Church
Port Lavaca Funeral Home
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Western Auto
Urnetse
Rendon
DIAL
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