Rural development policy backed for long range review
Agriculture Secretary Bergland says a 90-expert conference found most federal rural development efforts have failed. While noting exceptions like homesteading and rural electrification, he urged a national growth policy and a possible Rural Development Bank to channel funds via regional lenders.
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Bernard Brenner
UPI
Washington
Bob Bergland
America
Bergland
Agriculture
Agriculture Secretary
Congress
Carter
Witness Recounts Killing of Prisoner by Houston Officer
Former Houston police officer Louis Kinney testified he saw Terry Denson push Joe Campos Torres into Buffalo Bayou where the prisoner drowned. Kinney admitted helping beat the bound man and said other officers restrained him from diving in.
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Huntsville
Tex
UPI
Houston
Louis Kinney
Terry Denson
Joe Campos Torres
Buffalo Bayou
Denson
Stephen Orlando
Torres
Kinney
Glenn L. Brinkmeyer
Orlando
Eleanor Roosevelt wanted wrists opened after death
New excerpts from Elliott Roosevelt's forthcoming book reveal his mother Eleanor Roosevelt asked that her wrists be opened after death to avoid burial alive. He describes her battle with tuberculosis, her desire to die, and funeral plans including an oak coffin and evergreen branches from Val Kill woods. Her coffin reportedly rested in state at Val Kill Cottage.
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New York
UPI
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elliott
Roosevelt
McCall's
Miami Beach
Franklin
Old Man
CIA mind bender flops: LSD by aerosol idea fails
Former CIA psychologist David Rhodes testified about a San Francisco house used for a party with drug experiments in the late 1950s. He recalled attempting to deliver LSD via aerosol, finding the method ineffective and the operation abandoned after the party proved unworkable.
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Washington
UPI
CIA
San Francisco
David Rhodes
Edward Kennedy
Pasternak
Rhodes
Kennedy
Uganda leader Amin buys armed cabin cruiser on Lake Victoria
United Press International reports in Nairobi that Uganda President Idi Amin bought a heavily armed cabin cruiser with ground to air and antitank missiles. The vessel on Lake Victoria trial runs features radar and telecom systems and can strike targets day or night. Amin aims to develop international standard tourist resorts along the lake.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Idi Amin
Uganda
Voice of Uganda
Amin
Lake Victoria
Walker defies cancer with Laetrile trial progress
Harry Walker 43 of Rossville Kan walked unaided to the hospital corridor after five days of Laetrile shots. Doctors note surprising improvement in his terminal lung cancer and tumor, though they remain skeptical about Laetrile’s efficacy. The patient hopes to slow decline, not achieve full cure, and the physician revises a prior two week prognosis.
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John C. Braden
Topeka
Kan
UPI
Harry Walker
Walker
Sidney Cohen
Cohen
Food and Drug Administration
Rossville
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