Budapest inventor to stand trial for foreign currency violations
An octogenarian Budapest inventor, Mar Marcell Benedikt, age 66, faces criminal proceedings in Hungary for allegedly sending about $30,000 to his stepson in the United States over three years, using Hungarian currency mailed abroad and soliciting dollar equivalents from visitors. The case highlights strict foreign currency penalties in East bloc states, with potential five year terms.
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Budapest
United States
Hungary
Nepszava
Mar Marcell Benedikt
Tamas Homonnai
Tsomonnai
Miss Southern California winner tops 40 in Oceanside pageant
Miss Southern California Lott Spiller, a 1 1/2 year old dentist's aide from Simi Valley, captured the title in Oceanside after 40 contestants were judged Sunday. A crowd of about 3,000 attended, including Marines from Camp Pendleton.
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News Sunday
Lori Spiller
Simi Valley
Lott Spiller
Ventura County
Nixon at Rapid City flood victims memorial service
Mrs. Richard Nixon attended a Rapid City memorial service for more than 200 who died in the June flash floods. The service, held at Stevens High School, drew about 2,000 mourners as two more lives were lost in a second flood. Nixon quietly thanked 17 relief workers and praised their work.
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Rapid City
UPI
Richard Nixon
Stevens High School
Nixon
Devlin urges Irish cease-fire amid Northern Ireland unrest
British Parliament member Miss Devlin urged a seven-day nonretaliatory period for the provisional IRA to reiterate demands to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In Belfast, gunmen ambushed troops in Ardoyne, wounding six soldiers as violence claimed two more lives.
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Miss Devin
Stats For North
Dublin
UPI
Bernadette Devlin
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Ardoyne
Five killed in separate Long Beach area crashes
Five persons died and five were injured in separate Sunday traffic crashes across Long Beach Compton Pacific Palisades area and Orange County. Victims include Frederick Reiss 22 of Vista who died after his car rolled trapping him, Caesar Mata 21 of Compton killed after a hit and run, Chris Panas 46 and Elizabeth 49 of Culver City in a head on collision with a minor driver, and David Sadler 17 of Santa Ana who died after a two car crash on Orangewood Avenue. Dale Kirkbride 710 Fomena Santa Ana was hospitalized in good condition.
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Long Beach
Compton
Pacific Palisades Area
Orange County
Frederick Reiss
Vista
Steven Michael Martin
Larwin Ave
Cypress
Martin
Spring Street
Redondo Avenue
Reiss
Long Beach Community Hospital
Caesar L. Mata
Willowbrook Ave
Harbor General Hospital
Willowbrook Avenue
Chris Panas
Elizabeth
Cudahy
David Sadler
S. Doreen Way
Santa Ana
Panas
Pacific Palisades
Susan Brophy
Los Angeles
Bill Brophy
Ucla Medical Center
West Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Santa Monica Receiving Hospital
Sadler
Orangewood Avenue
Eckeff Street
Grange
Australians and New Zealanders oppose French atom test
Opposition grows across Australia and New Zealand to France testing nuclear devices at Mururoa Atoll beginning at midnight GMT. Protesters rally outside French offices as unions boycott French ships and mail. Notable figures condemn the tests and call for action, including a royal protest from diplomats and politicians.
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Sydney
Australia
New Zealand
France
Mururoa Atoll
Pacific
Melbourne
Alfred Zion
Herb Elliott
French Academy of Sport
Bill Hayden
Labor Party
Frank Buttfield
Adelaide
Auckland
Roy McElroy
Keith Holyoake
Sydney Sun
The
Daily Mirror
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Baroness van Pallandt
Mexico
Hughes
MISS
California
Miss Southern
Kansas
Wasp
George Watson Marble Jr
Fort Scott
Kan
Tribune
Marble
Kansas City
Presa
Mnammer Kadafi
Middle East
Tripoli
Arab Socialist Union
Libya
Pat Nixon
S.D. Flood
Big Coppitt Key
Florida Keys
Devlin
Ireland
William Whitelaw
Selon
Aussies
N.Z
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