Senate hearing probes Wooldridge graft and Fifth Amendment
At a Senate hearing, Wooldridge invoked the Fifth Amendment amid questions on complex financial dealings and possible payoffs. Prosecutors described checks totaling hundreds of thousands linked to a Geneva account code named Fish Head. Lawmakers pressed about a Vietnam era firm and a fictitious alias used during a 1989 meeting.
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Jerre Wriedheim
Senate
Wooldridge
Charles H. Percy
Percy
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Army
Fish Head
International Credit Bank of
Geneva
Woaldridge
Vietnam
Ribicoff
American Service Sales, Inc
American Industrial ‘Sales Co
W. C. Patty
Grand Hotel
Anaheim
Calif
Maradem Corp
Judge Advocate General's Corps
Zodiac killer begs help on TV as two meetings fail
A man claiming to be the Zodiac, confessing headaches and crying out for mercy, pleaded for help during a two hour TV talk show. He missed two surrender appointments with attorney Melvin Belli and did not appear for a planned Daly City meeting. A second secret meeting was also missed as the man did not show.
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San Francisco
UPI
Melvin Belli
Belli
Daly City
Zodiac
Nixon Urges 300 Ship Construction to Rebuild Fleet
President Nixon outlined a plan to build 300 new merchant ships to revitalize the U S fleet. Congress already authorized 140 million for subsidies as obsolescence grows and crews face high costs and labor disputes. A commission would review policy within three years while industry could invest about 1 billion in the program. Rep Edward G Garmatz pressed for hearings and rapid action.
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Priel
Subcommittee
Nixon
U.S
Congress
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Liberia
Norway
Edward 4. Garemalz
D-Md
House Merchant Marine Committee
Eyeglasses Clue in Tate Killer Case
Kelder the chief investigator notes that if evidence exists it will point toward the Tate murder killers. Police suspect a single homicidal maniac, with glasses left at the crime scenes and later possibly replaced. Optometrists nationwide were notified to assist in tracing prescriptions matching a distinctive lens and frame combination.
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Kelder
Houghton
THE
Star-News
Los Angeles
Pie Throwing Marks Opening of S F Film Festival
The 13th San Franchisto Film Festival opened with a pie throwing protest by young Sausalito filmmakers calling themselves Grand Central Station. Carloads of youths hurled multicolored pies at spectators and police, arresting 13. Anthony Quinn attended and joked about pie throwing before a film. Mayor Alioto entered discreetly as police removed the attackers. Firefighters cleaned the area after debris littered the Masonic Auditorium streetfront.
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Grand Central Station
Sausalito
San Francisco
Donald Scott
UPI
Masonic Auditorium
Central Station
Anthony Quinn
Santa Victoria
Tye
Joseph L. Alioto
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Mixon
United States Merchant Marine
Garmata
Tate Killer
Manhattan
Phere
Pasadena
San Gabriel Valley
Metic Society
California Optometric Association
Das
Hests
Walker's
Ibé
Atora
Larg Beach
Viet Hero
FT. Bragg
N.C
Lawrence Joel
Joel
Winston-Salem
S2nd Air Bome
Alfred
Bouissiere and
Bardet
Atlantic
Staeey
Banker's
Tor
Walker
Victoria
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