Hearst Trial Date Set as Mental Health Battle Rages
Patricia Hearst, silent and pale, is ordered to stand trial December 15 on bank robbery and firearms charges stemming from the 1974 Hibernia bank holdup. Her lawyers press to delay and present psychiatric evidence arguing brainwashing by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
Miss Hearst
Albert
Johnson
Hearst
Carter
Hibernia Bank
SLA
Free Bailey
Atty James L. Browning Jr
Gulf Accused of Slush Fund in Campaign Financing Suit
A federal suit filed in Houston alleges Gulf Oil Corp diverted about 10 million dollars from 1960 to 1973 to a former subsidiary Bahamas Exploration No. Ltd and converted over half into cash to fund illegal political contributions. The action seeks 21 million dollars plus an accounting of improper expenditures. Gulf officials and Price Waterhouse declined comment.
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Houston AP
Gulf of Corp
Houston
Gulf Board
Price Waterhouse & Co
Leonard Benckenstein
Jerome Howard Tarnopol
Marcia Renne Tarnopol
WS Tarnopol
Guilf
Bahamas Exploration No. Ltd
Gulf and
Price Waterhouse
Good Yarn But Not True Upsets DPS In Texas
NBC film Sugarland Express draws DPS ire for fictionalizing a 1969 Kiddnaping case. DPS director Col Wilson Speir says the movie misleads the public and law enforcement. Dent and Crane pursued from Port Arthur to Wheelock ending with Dent’s death. Crone’s abduction details and prison escape claims are disputed.
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Austin
Tex AP
Sugarland Express
NBC
Texas Department of Public Safety
Wilson Speir
DPS
Speir
J. Kenneth Crone
East Texas
Jerry Miller
Beaumont
Tanner
Dent
Crone
Wheelock
Bryan
Dents
Crane
Houston
Daytor Cleveland
Conroe
Navasota
Huntsville State
Miller
Highway Patrol
Houston Crawe
Winnie
Housing Hope Fades as Homeowners Seek Single Family Units
Savings and loan chiefs report rising land and building costs keep housing expensive. They failed to push young families toward townhouses, noting demand for traditional single family homes on private plots remains high. Federal guarantees on blighted area investments are proposed to spur financing. Local City Recreation Board to discuss traffic at Fishing Pier Park and a Brookholtow lot park plan at Tuesday meeting.
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Jim Wilson
Fishing Pier Park
Brookholtow
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