Kennedy brothers not proven to know CIA assassination plots
Rockefeller suggested John and Robert Kennedy may have known of CIA plots to kill foreign leaders. He defended the commission’s lack of details in its report, saying no proof linked the Kennedys to assassination attempts, but noting amnesia among officials hindering conclusions. The Church panel found no direct presidential links.
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Robert
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Rockefeller Commission
White House
John
Robert Kennedy
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Senate Intelligence Committee
Adam Walinsky
Frank Mankiewicz
Sen. Church
Ford
Rockefeller Commission Finds Some CIA Spy Tactics Legally Justified
The Rockefeller Commission concludes that certain CIA domestic spying methods could be legal if tightly regulated. It cites mail cover operations under postal rules and suggests limited domestic mail openings may be allowed in wartime, while condemning unapproved surveillance of journalists and LSD experiments.
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Rockefeller Commission
CIA
Nelson A. Rockefeller
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United States
FBI
U.S
Committee Upholds Harrington CIA Secrets Denial
The House Armed Services Committee voted 16 to 13 to reaffirm Rep. Michael Harrington's denial of access to secret CIA materials, citing alleged disclosures about Chilean operations under Allende. Harrington criticized the move as punishment and urged focus on policy questions. The panel also asked the ethics committee to set secrecy guidelines, while Senate and House wrestle with other personnel issues and an energy tax bill.
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Central Intelligence Agency
Chile
Harrington
Massachusetts
CIA
Salvador Allende
Allende
Richard Bolling
D-Mo
Samuel S. Stratton
D-N.y
Lucien N. Nedzi
U.S
Robert B. Morgan
Dn.c
Senate
Morgan
Nedzi
Stratton
James V. Stanton
Dohio
James C. Wright Jr
Dtex
Congressional
Fords Welcome West German President Scheel in US
President Ford hosts West German President Scheel in a display of postwar friendship. The two leaders plan two rounds of talks and a state dinner in Scheel's honor as the visit proceeds with Scheel leaving the United States on Friday.
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U.S
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Scheel
Walter Scheel
Gerald Ford
White House
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United States
Israeli troops kill terrorists who took lives of three
Israeli forces killed four Arab guerrillas who seized a farmhouse in Kfar Yuval near the Lebanese border. A 23 year old Israeli housewife died of wounds from the attack that also claimed her husband and brother and wounded her seven month old son and father. The raid prompted air strikes on Kfar Chuba in southern Lebanon and clashes along the frontier. The episode drew reactions at the United Nations and fresh diplomacy in New York with Rabin and Kissinger discussing a path toward resuming negotiations.
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Kfar Chuba
Lebanon
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Palestine Liberation Organiza
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U.N. General Assembly
PLO
New York
Yitzhak Rabin
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Rabin
Ford
Anwar Sadat
Austria
Blast rocks Rockefeller Center in mid Manhattan
A thunderous blast shattered windows at the Banco de Ponce offices in Rockefeller Center. A Weather Underground claimant said the attack supported Puerto Rican cement workers. One bakery truck driver was injured by flying glass. about 450 cement workers were on strike in Ponce. Separate blasts hit a San Juan suburb targeting a telephone lines firm.
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San Juan
Supreme Court bans minimum real estate legal fees
The court 8 to 0 strike down fixed minimum fee schedules by bar associations for real estate work, ruling they violate federal antitrust law when affecting interstate commerce. The decision favors Virginia couple Lewis H. and Ruth Goldfarb who challenged Fairfax County Bar Association fees, and the Justice Department, which supported the suit.
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Virginia
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Department
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Unclear Entry About Richard Luns Guest Case
Fragmentary note references a house guest and a person named Richard Luns with an unclear or garbled context. No further readable details on date location or outcome are available.
Marion man drowns after boat sinks in rainstorm lake
A 19 year old Marion man Marshall Luke Smith drowned when a small 10 foot flat bottom boat swamped during a rainstorm at the city lake. Four people aboard swam to the east shore. Smith disappeared and was found later by divers. He was a SIU Tech Careers graduate and employee of Downstate Communications.
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Midway Court
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Williamson County
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Smith
Richard Lunsford
Gary Mack
Debra Gearhart
Wilson
Ron Robinson
Andre McWilliams
Mt. Vernon
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West Shore
Southern Illinois University School of Technical
Orcill
Downstate Communications Inc
Carbondale
Dick E. Smith
Weather brief: warm with showers and storms likely
Tonight partly cloudy and warmer with showers and thunderstorm chances. Lows in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Tuesday partly sunny hot and humid with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, highs in the lower to middle 90s.
Budget befuddlement adds to legislature's confusion
Springfield AP Illinois General Assembly enters final two weeks amid budget chaos as lawmakers wrestle with Gov Walker 6 percent cuts and a 10.8 billion proposal. Leaders seek clearer guidance while debates on malpractice reform no fault auto insurance and reapportionment continue.
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Walker
General Assembly
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