S&L official kidnaped in $52,000 robbery
Torrance police and Inglewood and FRY police investigate the kidnapping and robbery of Betty Russell 28 manager of Beverly Hills Federal Savings and Loan at Crenshaw Boulevard. Two men abducted her at her home and forced her to drive to the office to open the vault and take $52,000 before dumping her in a Los Angeles area location.
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Torrance
Torrance Savings and Loan
Betty Russell
Beverly Hills
Savings and Loan Office
Crenshaw Blvd
Los Angeles
Fry
Inglewood
Americans Win Three Nobel Prizes in 1976
The Swedish Royal Academy named three Americans for Nobel prizes in medicine and economics. Baruch Blumberg and D Carleton Gajdusek won medicine prizes for infectious disease discoveries, while Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago received the economics prize for consumption analysis and monetary theory. Each prize carries 681,000 kronor.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Sobel
Royal Academy of Science
Miliin Friedman
University of Chicago
Brooklyn
Newsweek Magazine
Royal Caroline Institute
Baruch
Alfred Nobel
Friedman
Swedish
Royal Academy
Mystery illness hits electronics plants in Pennsylvania and beyond
About 350 workers furloughed at Essex International in Kittanning Pa after a mysterious illness strikes an electronics plant. Reports of dizziness stomach pains and other symptoms surface among workers at four other plants in Pennsylvania Ohio and Oregon. Union leader says contracts should secure benefits and safety protections as investigations continue.
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Punxsutawney. Pa
Western Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Oreson
Rolla Jensen Co
Punxsutawney
Robertshaw Controls Co
Walter Bleil
United Steelworkers District 19
Nies
Rola-Jensen
Essex
Rola- Jensen
DuBois
Weather Summary for LB Area Mountains and Deserts
Forecast calls for tonight and Friday morning fog in the LB area with a low around 62 and a high near 9. Mountains remain fair with a low about 45 and a high around 75. Deserts stay fair with a low near 418 and a high at percent.
Ford cleared in fund case as Carter hits the road
President Ford received a clean bill of health from Watergate special prosecutor Charles Rufh on allegations of misused campaign funds while in Congress. The White House announced a 4:30 p.m. news conference to discuss the inquiry and other topics as Ford signs a veterans bill in Rose Garden ceremony. Carter heads to New York for three days of campaign stops while Mondale and Dole prep for a Houston debate.
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Pard
Watergate
Ford
Congress
White House
France
Great Britain
United States
U.S
Rose Garden Hill
Jimmy Carter
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
Ohio
New Jersey
Walter F. Mondale
Bob Dole
Houston
Tex
Ruff
Doctor defies IRS over tax on charity care
Dr. R. Jagggard, who treats the indigent in a northeast farm community for 25 years, refuses Social Security taxes for himself and wife, donating the money to charity. He calls Social Security a fraud and plans court confrontation next spring as IRS pursues 82.30% on about 32,000 in unpaid taxes.
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Qelweln
Lawa
RS. Jagard
Jaggard
Internal Revenue Service
Libertarian Party
IRS
Woman charged dropped after unregistered gun firing incident
A woman faced charges after firing an unregistered gun at a rapist who allegedly threw her girlfriend from a 15th floor window. Details come from Page 42. The report notes the case and surrounding city crime context.
President Ford Receives Swine Flu Vaccine at White House
President Ford is vaccinated by White House physician amid a national swine flu scare. Officials report no link between deaths of elderly patients and the vaccine, though inoculation numbers drop and some clinics suspend operations. Ford, 63, urged reporters to get shots. White House photographer and several family members followed. The program began Oct. 1 and faces ongoing investigations in Allegheny County after three deaths tied to a vaccine batch.
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Ford
White House
William Lukash
Arwireonam
William Lakash
Victoria
David Kennerly
Susan
Jack
Pittsburgh Area
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
Woman in coma marries then dies in San Diego
Dawn De Freitas, 33, lay in a coma at Sharp Memorial Hospital when attorney Gary Arnold married her after a planned wedding. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Glen Anderson in the hospital. She showed some response but never regained consciousness and died twelve hours later. Hospital officials confirmed the marriage was legal.
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San Diego
Dawn de Freitas
Glen Anderson
Sharp Memorial Hospital
Jay Johnson
Ford inches past Carter in Calif poll
In California a statewide telephone poll of 1,230 voters shows Ford leading Carter 44 to 43 with 9 percent undecided and 4 percent for other candidates. McCarthy, a write in, draws 2 percent, mostly from Democrats, potentially trimming Carter’s edge in a tight race.
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Ford
Carter
Calif
San Francisco
Jimmy Carter
California
Mervin Field
Sai Field
U.S. will not ship Alaska oil to Japan
Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb says the Ford administration ruled out exchanging Alaskan oil with Japan to solve the U S transport crisis. The Sohio Long Beach to Midland pipeline plan faces opposition from environmentalists and state officials. A study on oil routes will be released after the November 2 election, with hearings to follow.
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Combined News Services
Federal Energy
Frank Zarb
Ford Administration
Japan
Washington Star
U.S
Standard Oil of Ohio
Sohio
Long Beach
Midland
Tex
Zarb
Energy Resources Council
White House
Midwest
East Coast
West Coast
Independent, Press-Telegram
FEA
Ofl
mid-America
Gene Carella
State Air Resources Board
Arizona
Curella
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Blumberg
Genetics
Penn
Ford Clear
Charles Rufh
Iis
Veterans Administration
Agai
Press-Telegram
Arthur Taylor
CBS
William Paley
Federal Election Commission
L.A
Economy and Efficiency Commission
Carmine Bellino
Cais
ABC LifeStyle Ams
Cn Sports
Bel Thomey
Jean-Claude Bouis
Associated Press
Gary Arnold
Alaska
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