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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1976
Page
2
The American Bicentennial exhibit in Moscow was evacuated and closed for the day after a telephoned bomb threat, with no bomb found. It was the second such incident in three weeks, and US officials said Soviets hinted the threat was a hoax. The threat arrived around 4:40 pm, about 14 hours before closing.
The Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Wisconsin ruling, ruling that a public school board may not curb a teacher's free speech at a board meeting. Albert Holmquist, a non union teacher, spoke during a discussion on collective bargaining, and the court found the forum open to teachers concerns.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader criticizes President-elect Carter’s early appointments, saying the potential treasury picks and other high posts mirror old establishment who favor traditional moneyed interests. He contrasted these with prior Republican-era integrity and noted he had backed Carter on consumer issues.
The Capitol Hill sex scandal probe into Rep. Wayne Hays and Elizabeth Ray ended without finding wrongdoing. Investigators said the grand jury was terminated for insufficient evidence and prosecutors prepared a memorandum to Attorney General Edward Levi outlining why no charges would be filed.
William and Emily Harris, charged in the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, caused a courtroom brawl as deputies wrestled them to the floor and Judge Alan Lindsay paused proceedings with a 10 minute recess during their arraignment in Alameda County.
President elect Carter met five additional candidates for cabinet posts at the governor’s mansion including Harold Brown and Rep. Andrew Young. Others in the lineup were June Cahill Pfeiffer Rep. Brock Adams Michael Blumenthal and Rex Gram using a list kept private before sessions. James Schlesinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski also visited as possible national security aides.
Present lawmaker Rep. Thomas Hanahan and former reps Robert Craig and Louis Markert face an extortion trial over a 1972 car rental industry payoff of 1300 dollars. The U S Supreme Court let stand a ruling allowing speeches and debate as evidence, potentially setting a trial date this week.
Don Foster a 36 year old president of the First National Bank of Ville Grave vanished Monday. His car was located in a downtown Champaign municipal lot. FBI state police and local agencies are conducting a joint investigation with no indications of a federal crime.
About 50 students from Seoul National University law school protested in Seoul demanding the full story of the Korean bribery scandal in Washington. Plainclothes police dispersed the rally, with some arrests reported, as the group urged democratic reforms and opposed Park Chung-hee’s 1972 constitution granting him extraordinary powers. An official charged the U.S. government with blocking embassy officials interviews in Washington while the FBI identified an asylum-seeking Korean embassy employee, Im Sang-keum, 43, linked to the investigation.
West Germany halted a 2.5 billion dollar sale of airborne early warning radar planes to NATO. U S Defense Secretary Rumsfeld pressed for quick agreement, saying an AWACS system is essential, with final decisions pending new German government formation and parliamentary committee reviews.
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