Southern Illinois teachers seek federal unemployment benefits
About 900 area teachers from seven Southern Illinois counties filed for federal unemployment compensation, triggered by a 1974 amendment and a pending correction in Congress. Local offices report 350 to 500 claims in Herrin Murphysboro and West Frankfort, with total Southern Illinois claims near 3,000.
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Illinois
Congress
U.S
Paul Simon
Simon
Terry Michael
House
Senate
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Chicago
Herrin
Williamson
Johnson
Murphysboro
Jackson
Union
Randolph
Perry
West Frankfort
Franklin County
East St. Louis
Earl Koelling
Koelling
Ben Brinkley
Illinois Education Association
Marion
Judge limits coverage of Benton murder trial
A circuit court judge in Benton imposes tight security and limits press coverage in the murder trial of Michael Clark and Reuben Taylor, two Chicago men accused in the May 1972 killing of Michael Gerchenson of Highland Park. The order requires sheriff scrutiny of courtroom entrants and bans cameras and related devices, plus prohibits statements to the press about the proceedings.
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Benton
Chicago
Southern Ilinois University-Carbondale
Frank P. Hanagan
Michael Clark
Reuben Taylor
Hanagan
Sheriff’s Office
Clark
Taylor
Michael Gerchenson
Highland Park
Trains Crash Head On In Munich Suburb Toll 36 Dead
A police spokesman said 36 killed and 86 injured in a head on collision of two passenger trains south of Munich on the Munich to Bad Toelz line. The wreck, West Germany's worst in four years, occurred near Warngau and Schaftlach as trains attempted to pass on a single track. The dead include one engineer, with another missing and believed dead. The Green Berets are based at Bad Toelz. No immediate IDs available.
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Munich
West Germany
Alpine
a _ police
Bad Toelz
Warngau
Schaftlach
U.S. Army
Green Berets
Roselli
Castro
Maheu
Hughes
Nevada
CIA
Time Magazine
Giancana
Chicago
Richard Cain
West Side
Miami
Central America
Time
Ford to release Rockefeller Commission report on CIA
President Ford plans to publish the Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA while keeping secret the document's assassination plot information. Senate Intelligence Committee will be shown the assassination material. The White House holds a 6 30 p m CDT news conference to announce the decision.
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Ford
Washington
Rockefeller Commission
Central Intelligence Agency
Commission
White House
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
Ron Nelsen
Senate Committee
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Robert Maheu
Howard Hughes
Richard Bissell
Department
Lucien Nedzi
Dmich
Special House
Nedzi
Levi
ABC
Maheu
Church
Fidel Castro
U.S
John A. McCone
Castro
Bissell
Sam Giancana
John
Illinois General Assembly faces end of session deadlines
Springfield AP Illinois lawmakers enter the third to last full week of the spring session with Friday set as the deadline for non-appropriations bills. Key items include a Daley backed plan to reapportion congressional districts a malpractice damages cap a no fault auto insurance push worker and unemployment benefit boosts and Gov Walker s 10.8 billion 1976 budget proposal. The House will hold night sessions to allow committee work as leaders aim to adjourn by June 30.
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Springfield
Illinois General Assembly
House
Senate
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Illinois
Daniel Walker
Shapp to Seek 1976 Democratic Presidential Nomination
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp announced plans to seek the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and enter several primaries. He told reporters at the National Governors Conference in New Orleans that the economy is the major issue he would address.
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New Orleans
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Shapp
Shapp
Weather outlook with showers and thunderstorms ahead
Tonight offers showers and possible thunderstorms with lows in the 60s. Tuesday remains mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms and highs in the 80s. Wednesday and Thursday turn cloudy with a chance of rain.
OPEC meeting opens with call for global talks on raw materials
Gabon confronts oil exporters as President Bongo urges simultaneous talks on all raw materials. Algeria’s Abdessalam blames Kissinger for failed Paris talks and pushes for price indexing and monetary reform before resuming negotiations.
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Libreville
Gabon
Albert Bernard Bongo
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Belaid Abdessalam
Henry A. Kissinger
Bongo
OPEC
Paris
Abdessalam
United States
Algeria
Kissinger
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Marge Harmon
Lincoln School
Norris
Cathy Eggemeyer
Jan Kahre
Steeleville
Steeleville High School
Future Business Leaders of America Club
Darlene Shannon
Carbondale
Emily Roehrkasse
Tom Porter
West
Germany
Atty
Edward H. Levi
Justice Department
Rockefeller
Petroleum Exporters Meeting
Jamshid Amouzzegar
Iran
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Saudi Arabia
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