Guards at Menard Penitentiary seek pay raise and more staff
About 100 to 150 of Menard Penitentiary guards in Chester attended a union meeting and voted unanimously to trigger a work slowdown within a week unless their demands for 35 more guards and equal pay to Stateville Prison are met. The plan follows a prisoner disturbance that left one guard injured.
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DeMaris Berry
Southern Illinoisan
Menard Penitentiary
Chester
Illinois State
Chester Council
Rednour
Statesville
Paul Sympson
Sympson
Springfield
Rendour
Union
Lebanon charges sabotage amid cease fire tensions
The Lebanese army accuses Palestinian guerrillas of pure sabotage and vows intensive retaliation. Cairo Radio later reports two Lebanese air force planes attacked guerrilla positions in eastern Lebanon, marking the first air action since the cease fire was renewed Tuesday night.
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Cairo
Lebanon
Tennessee fugitive escapes police car in Illinois chase
A 29 year old Tennessee man, Billy Gene Swafford, escaped from a police car on Interstate 57 near Union County while being transported to face two forgery charges. Police and deputies searched nearby farms and a state police plane joined the hunt as authorities believed he headed north. He is described as 5 8, 150 pounds with brown hair blue eyes wearing blue jacket and pants. The escape occurred about 7 40 a m and details on his destination or custody plan were unclear.
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Illinois
Union County
Tennessee
Billy Gene Swafford
Rt. 146
Swafford
Chicago
Vienna Correctional Center
Lottery vote pool mystery grips Illinois House
Lawmakers hint at a pool on the lottery bill vote with Rep. Rolland Tipsword denying any winning number. Sponsor Rep. Giorgi says he was too busy to check, while Rep. Hirschfeld notes those backing the bill may have hidden their actions. The bill needed 107 votes and could generate about 1 million dollars weekly for the state. final tally edits and any winnings remain unconfirmed as it heads to the Senate.
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Michael A. Smith
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois
Rolland Tipsword
Taylorville
Tipsword
Giorgi
House
Illinois Senate
Dog Island Dam Worker's Fatal Electrocution Near Hamletsburg
Robert A. Bud Worthen 43 of New Liberty died at the Dog Island Dam site on the Ohio River when an electric drill he was using to prepare rock for concrete fill was apparently struck by electricity. Hamletsburg lies near Metropolis in Pope County.
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Robert A
Bud’’ Worthen
New Liberty
Dog Island
Ohio River
Worhen
Hamletsburg
Metropolis
Pope County
River Crest May Change as Mississippi Rises at Chester
The Mississippi River is described as still rising with a projected crest of 39 feet on Sunday at Chester. Levees remain soggy after multiple earlier falls, and Kaskaskia Island levees broke on April 27. A record crest of 43.3 feet was reached at Chester on April 29, with stages at 37.6 feet last Sunday and 38.1 feet today.
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Mississippi
Chester
Kaskaskia Island
Weekend Weather Outlook for Cooler Temperatures
Partly cloudy forecast with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight. Lows mid to upper 50s. Thursday through Friday will be cooler with highs around 70 to 75. Saturday cloudy with more chances of rain and Sunday partly cloudy again.
Viet Cong proposes cease-fire plan rejected by Saigon
Viet Cong minister Nguyen Van Hieu proposed a three point cease-fire plan at talks with Saigon. Deputy premier Nguyen Luu Vien rejected it saying a general cease fire cannot be established now due to mutual lack of confidence. The talks were the 10th meeting in seven weeks under the Jan 27 peace accord.
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Paris
Viet Cong
South Vietnam
Saigon
Nguyen van Hieu
Provisional Revolutionary
Nguyen Luu Vien
Hieu
Vien
Food price jump eyed as 1973 peak may pass
Agriculture officials warn supermarket prices may rise about 10 percent this year, the largest jump since 1951, with overall food costs up about 9 percent and restaurant prices up 5.5 percent. Flooding and wet fields could affect production, possibly easing prices later in the year.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Krogh resigns accepts full responsibility for Watergate actions
Egil Bud Krogh Jr., former under secretary of transportation and head of the White House plumbers, quits and admits role in the Ellsberg break in. He cites taking full responsibility and seeks truth to aid fair judgment. The White House seeks return of classified documents tied to the Watergate case.
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Washington
Egil “Bud’’ Krogh Jr
Daniel Ellisberg
John D. Ehrlichman
Nixon
Krogh
Elisberg
White House
John W. Dean III
Dean
U. S. Dist
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Watergate
New York Daily News
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Mattbyrne
Pentagon Papers
Los Angeles
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
Lewis Fielding
Hunt
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Ellsberg
Robert Cushman
Cushman
Netherlands
Richardson vows to pursue truth in Watergate probe
Senator hearing opens with Elliot Richardson promising to pursue the truth wherever it leads if confirmed as attorney general. He says he has assembled many potential candidates to lead the Watergate investigation and will seek an outside prosecutor of probity and ability. No opposition has emerged to his nomination.
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Elliot L. Richardson
Senate
Richardson
Senate Judiciary Committee
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Eastland
Secretary of Defense
Nixon
Richard G. Kleindienst
Justice Department
McCord says White House behind Watergate ruthless plan
James McCord Jr. testified in a memo that he was pressured to blame the CIA for the Watergate break in and that he believed the White House was behind the scheme. He refused to identify the pressure source and stated the White House would act ruthlessly to achieve its ends.
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White House
McCord
CIA
New York Times News Service
Associated Press
Washington
James McCord Jr
Senate
Central Intelligence Agency
New York Times
Capitol Hill
Alch
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Wounded Knee, M. D
Ment
AIM
Menard
Beirut
Nessee State Police
Nashville
Hirschfeld
Daniel Ellsberg
Department
Gerald Alch
Pentagon
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