Suit over airplane funds tests governor, comptroller control
Des Moines Iowa attorney general Richard Turner sues Governor Robert Ray and State Comptroller Marvin Selden to use 145000 in leftover funds for a new twin engine plane. Turner argues budget power includes salaries and raises while staff keep working on an old seized plane nicknamed The Bamboo Canoe.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Richard Turner
Robert Ray
Turner
Ray
Marvin Selden
Unidentified cat man removed from Lincoln Memorial
Police in Washington DC hauled a man from the Lincoln Memorial after he climbed onto the Abraham Lincoln statue. It took six officers over an hour to coax him down. three officers were injured in a fight that followed. Other items note a 93-year-old California doctor quitting due to costs and a Peruvian expulsion of Edith Lederer.
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Calif
San Francisco
Franklin Cookingham
Cookingham
California
Chicago
Ford picks Hoffmann for Army secretary post
President Ford nominates Martin R. Hoffmann to be secretary of the Army. Hoffmann, 43, is a career government lawyer and current general counsel of the Defense Department, to succeed Howard Callaway who resigned to join Gerald Ford's campaign.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
R-T
Sam Wylie
Dallas
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
James R. Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Defense
Hoffmann
Stockbridge
Mass
Princeton University
White House
Donald Rumsfeld
University of Virginia Law School
U.S. Attorney
Honeymoon delayed as Christina Onassis weds Alexandros Andreadis
Christina Onassis, heiress and widow of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, married Alexandros Andreadis in Athens. The groom, a Greek army private, cannot obtain leave, so the couple will not have a honeymoon and will decide later where to live. Christina’s fortune includes villas in Athens and Paris, property on Skorpios, and an ocean liner yacht. The wedding drew tribute from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and marked her second marriage after a prior 1968 union.
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UPI
Christina Gnassis Andreadis
Alexandros Andreadis
Hice Gm
Aristotle Onaseiz
Andreadis
Christina
Paris
Monte Carlo
Skorpios
Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis
Semae
Glyphaa
Stratis
Iste
Joseph Bolker
Los Angeles
Chutist leaps from 87th floor at World Trade Center
Owen J. Quinn, a unemployed Queens construction worker and skydiving instructor, parachuted from the 78th floor of the World Trade Center North Tower during rush hour. He landed safely 1,350 feet below amid a crowd after his parachute opened late, received minor injuries, and was charged with trespass and related offenses. He claimed the stunt was to dramatize aid for starving people and criticized oversight at the towers.
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New York
Owen J.’ Quinn
Financial District
Quinn
World Trade Center
Queens
Wee
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