Centralia youth admits extortion plan during park ransom
A 17 year old Centralia High School basketball star named Thomas L Gaither admitted to authorities that he tried to extort 10000 dollars from Centralia Cartage Co executive Forrest Sprehe. Gaither was held in the city jail pending arraignment after police nabbed him at a park with the ransom note and money.
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Centralia
Simon Franklin
Thomas L. Gaither
Charles Gaither
Gaither
Forrest Sprehe
Centralia Cartage Co
John Smith
Sprehe
Centralia Cartage
Bills
Greg
Hart accuses Kissinger of perjury in Chile inquiry
Senate intelligence panel tied covert Chile actions to possible perjury by Henry Kissinger and three other top officials. Hart cited a 1970 CIA memo and 1973 Kissinger remarks as evidence, saying the CIA spent about 1 million on efforts to undermine Allende and to block his presidency. Church moves toward 1976 bid as Ford taps Robert Ellsworth for deputy defense chief.
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Chile
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Gary Hart
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Edward Kerry
Charles Meyer
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Allende Gossens
Nixon
Allende
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Foreign Relations
Intelligence Committee
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Federal Election Commission
Ford
Pentagon
Robert Ellsworth
Defense
Ellsworth
Congress
Illinois board scraps plan to raise school aid payments
Illinois State Board of Education abandons a plan to increase monthly school aid by 2.5 million after Gov. Daniel Walker files suit to block the action. Board members debate legal and fiscal risks and consider countersuits as they vote to cover Witkowsky’s legal fees.
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Daniel Walker
Witkowsky
Carol N. Johnston
Walker
Illinois General Assembly
Garbage strike ends as unions seal new contract
A Teamsters Union local and private carting firms reached a new contract today ending a 1 day garbage strike that left thousands of tons of refuse on streets. Mayor Beame ordered city sanitation workers to assist with cleanup and kept landfill sites open through the weekend.
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New York
Teamsters Union
Abraham D. Beame
City Sanitation
Reagan leads Ford in GOP nomination polls, aide notes caution
A Reagan aide praises a Gallup poll showing Reagan ahead of Ford 40 to 32 percent among GOP voters with a preference. The strategist warns that key polls open early next year. The Nov 21 24 survey updates an October reading where Ford led 45 to 28 percent.
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Ronald Reagan
California
Ford
Reagan
FBI agent flushes Oswald letter after Kennedy case testimony
Former Dallas FBI official James P. Hosty Jr testified before a House subcommittee that he was ordered by J. Gordon Shanklin to destroy a threatening letter from Lee Harvey Oswald. He claimed he flushed the note down a drain after Oswald's death and did not relay it to the Warren Commission. Shanklin denied recalling or ordering destruction of the letter.
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Dallas
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James P. Hosty Jr
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Marina
Kennedy
Soviet Union
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Judiciary Subcommittee
Supreme Court to review gag order in Nebraska murder case
The Supreme Court agreed to review a Nebraska murder case gag order affecting press coverage. It refused emergency relief or delaying the order, so arguments will not occur before February at the earliest and the restrictions stay in place in the meantime.
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Washington
Nebraska
Nominee Kobelinski Under Scrutiny by Civic Group
Mitchell Kobelinski Ford's SBA nominee faced scrutiny as Better Government Association officials claim he served as a bank officer linked to improper transactions. J Terrence Brunner, executive director of the private watchdog, spoke Thursday.
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Mitchell Kobelinski
Ford
Small Business Administration
The
Better Government Association
J. Terrence Brunner
Digging Paused at Hoffa Site as Investigators Prepare
In Newark and Jersey City observers waited as federal investigators announced readiness to dig a 60 acre Moscato site rumored to hold the body of former Teamsters president James R. Hoffa and an underworld figure. No officers were present while crowds watched for bulldozers to begin work.
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Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
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