Monkeys Lose Constitutional Appeal in NASA Case
A federal judge in Raleigh ruled prisoners lack standing to bar NASA from sending more monkeys into space. Judge Algernon Buller called the suit frivolous and said no court recognizes monkeys as guaranteed by the Constitution.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Algernon Buller
U.S. District Court
Raleigh
N.C
Benny
NASA
Butler
Austin T. Flett
Chicago
Fiett
Flett
Secretary of the Treasury
David M. Kennedy
United States
Kennedy
Threats in Mine Murders Probe Expands Across PA WV
FBI and state police increase manpower in the Clarksville murder case of Joseph Yablonski and family. About 50 investigators from federal, state, and local agencies work the area with 15 agents in Clarksville aided by others statewide. Threats to allies of Yablonski are under scrutiny as officials seek to identify callers.
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Clarksville
Joseph
Jock” Yablonski
FBI
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Joseph Snyder
Synder
Yablonski
United Mine Workers
Marion Pellegrini
UMW District 5
Canonsburg
Elmer Brown
Delbarton
W. Va
Pellegrini
Indian Girl Dies After Alcatraz Fall
Yvonne Oakes a 12 year old Indian girl died from brain injuries after a three story fall on Alcatraz. Daughter of Richard Oakes she was among island children when she fell in a former guard building. Coast Guard evacuated her to San Francisco where she died at the Public Health Service Hospital.
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San Francisco
Yvonne Oakes
Alcatraz
U.S. Public Health Service Hospital
Yvonne
Richard Oakes
the Rock
San Francisco Bay
John Hart
Coast Guard
Great Imposter Becomes Village Pastor in Friday Harbor
FRIDAY HARBOR Wasti Ferdinand Waldo Demara famed as the Great Imposter has taken the pulpit at San Juan Baptist Church in a town of 780 in the San Juan archipelago north of Seattle. Now 47, the former hospital orderly who once posed as a surgeon and held many roles, arrived about four months ago and has stirred curiosity about his past and future as pastor of the Conservative Baptist church.
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Friday Harbor
Demara
San Juan
Seattle
Royal Canadian Navy
United States
Joseph Cyr
Cyr
Edmundson
N.B
Navy
Tony Curtis
Huntsville
Tex
Benjamin W. Jones
Cherry Grove
Ore
Vietnam War Toll Passes 40,000 Amid Record Week Losses
U S military officials report 65 American deaths and 477 wounded last week, bringing total U S fatalities in Vietnam to 40,044 with 263,003 wounded and 1,358 missing or captured. South Vietnamese losses 104 killed, 796 wounded. Communist deaths 1,999. Battles near Da Nang, Me Kong delta actions cited.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
da Nang
Mekong
VA Hospital Cuts Spark Congressional Hearing on Care
Washington reports say veterans affairs spending for medical care is at the budget limit, with a congressional committee planning hearings to blast the Nixon administration for not seeking adequate funds. Officials claim VA hospitals face ward closures, personnel cuts, and deferred treatment as demand grows among wounded and Vietnam veterans.
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Washington
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Nixon
Donald E. Johnson
UPI
Congress
Johnson
Budget Bureau
Vietnam
Color TV owners sue over welfare payment cancellations
Three Forsyth County residents filed a federal suit challenging the North Carolina Department of Social Services authority to cancel old age assistance payments for owners of color television sets. Plaintiffs, including Mr. and Mrs. James Merritt of Rural Hall and Leticia Sams, said letters informed them their payments were canceled because they owned color TVs.
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Greensboro
N.C
Forsyth County
North Carolina
Left in bag six live pythons found in San Francisco
A sack dropped at the intersection of 21st Avenue and Vincent Street contained six live Regis pythons about four feet long and some Christmas wrapping paper. Police seek to return the sack to its owner.
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San Francisco
UPI
21St Avenue
Vincent Street
TV Sets Seized in Los Angeles Home Raid
Polite detectives raided a Los Angeles residence and recovered more than 400 television sets owned by Packard Bell Co valued over 200000 dollars. Five men were booked on suspicion of grand theft and additional people were arrested with a TV set found in their car.
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L.A
Los Angeles
UPX
Packard Bell Co
Daniel Bowser
In & Garage
Andra Poster
James & Timmons
Roy L. Paige
Ronald C. Johnson
Peter A. Reese
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Fla
Britannia
Sylvia
Thomas Stafford
Donald
Deke) Slayton
Stafford
Malaysia
Spiro T. Agnew
Slayton
Alan Bean
Bean
Ellington Air Force Base
Houston
Walter Gurmingham
Joseph Kerwin
Ellington
Darling
Dune Alexander
England
Richmond
Alesander
John
Gale Walrod
Ferdinand Demara
Gene Bernhardt
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