Defense Dept rejects Florida prison inmates for POW exchange
The Defense Department refused a request by ten Florida State Prison inmates to swap places with American POWs in Southeast Asia. Maj. Gen. Leo E. Benade said prisoners, jailed for forgery to murder, cannot enlist due to prior convictions and a policy restricting such enlistments.
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U.S. Defense Department
Florida
Southeast Asia
Leo E. Benade
Michael
Stoudt
Atanta
Oscar Jefferson
Waycross
Gilly in Pennsylvania Home Care Costs Ignite Debate
Annette Gilly, who confessed in the Yablonski murders case, reportedly lives on a rented Pennsylvania farm with state costs around 1000 dollars a month. A source says she gets a 10 dollar weekly allowance and is guarded 24 hours, totaling possibly 200000 dollars annually funded by the state. The confession also spurred related admissions by her father. Meanwhile former President Truman, hospitalized for routine tests, walked the hospital corridors with a nurse and Secret Service, joking about a shave and a haircut
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Annette Gilly
Yablonski
Pennsylvania
Silcus Huddleston
Harry $. Truman
Research Medical Center
Kansas City
Truman
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Times
Secret Service
Library blaze set by arsonists, LB police say
Long Beach police report the Main Library blaze was arson. Detectives say a northwest basement window was breached, books piled and ignited under a north stairwell. Fire officials note the fire burned for hours before a bus driver sighted it at 7:06 a.m. About 5,000 books were destroyed and another 5,000 charred, including rare California history volumes.
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Long Beach
Maina Library
Paul A. Chaistain
Ocean Boulevard
Pacific Avenue
Chastain
Charles A. Jones
California
Corona to be moved for medical care this week
Juan Corona, held since May 26, 1971, in Sutter County Jail for the Weather River killings, will be transferred to Vacaville State Prison this week for medical treatment. Sheriff officials say his heart ailment requires hospital care at Vacaville. Trial location set in Solano County with court date September 5.
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Sacramento II
Juan Corona
Sutter County
Vacaville
Corona
Thomas Laney
Solano County
Roy Whiteaker
Loney
Las Week
Richard Patton
Sitter County
Solana County
Sacramento
Inmate Slain by Knife at Tracy Detention Center
A 21-year-old inmate, Jesse Castro of San Diego, was stabbed to death during dinner at the Denel Vocalintial Institution in Tracy. A prison-made knife was found near the body. The killing follows a prior stabbing of Gonzalo Trapez, 19, during a TV viewing room altercation. Authorities link the deaths to infighting among Mexican-American inmates. no suspects yet. Castro had been sentenced last year for second-degree burglary.
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Tracy Tt
Te Denel Vocalintial Institution
Jesse Castro
Gonzalo Trapez
Bruce Dyer
Castro
Tracy
San Diego
Bremer Moved for Mental Examination in Baltimore Case
Arthur H. Bremer, accused of shooting Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, was moved from Baltimore County Jail to Curzon T. Perkins State Hospital for a court ordered mental examination.
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Jessup
Arthur H. Bremer
Alabama
George C. Walelace
Baltimore County
Curzon T. Perkins State Hospital
France conducts second Pacific nuke test offset by silence
Reports from Tahiti indicate France detonated a second nuclear device in the Pacific last Friday at Mururoa Atoll and plans another test despite global outcry. French authorities offered no comment and had not confirmed the first blast on June 25.
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Tahiti
UPT
France
Pacific
Mururoa Atoll
Secret talks push toward Korean peninsula unification
In undisclosed meetings both North and South Korea pledged to pursue unification of the long-divided peninsula. The agreement signals a rare, high level commitment balancing potential reconciliation with regional tensions.
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Koreas
Peninsula
Arnel
Jersey
Sherwyn
la Pasada
Coed Awarded 170000 in Psychologist Torture Case
Paula Abraham, 22, a former San Jose State student, received a 170000 verdict from a Superior Court jury after a 13 hour therapy session with Los Gatos psychologist Robert W. Zaslow. Testimony described torture including choking, beating, binding, and finger insertion, while Zaslow defended the method as rage reduction.
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San Francisco
Superior Court
San Jose
Paula Abraham
Los Gatos
Robert W. Zaslow
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China
Rutland
Newsman
Hawai
Buller
Butler
Robert Butler
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Denel
Bremer
Ching Hee Park
Park Sun-Chul
Seoul
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Zaslow
Sale Island Hopper
Coro
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CFE
Aee
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Lakewood
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