Solons override tax veto in West Virginia
West Virginia lawmakers overrode Governor Arch Moore's veto to enact a coal tax raise raising the B and O tax on coal from 3.50 to 3.85 per 100. The measure allocates 75 percent of the new revenue to the 28 coal counties and 25 percent to statewide programs. Enacted funds include 5.8 million to the Public Employer Retirement Fund and 2 million to the WV University Medical School.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
West Virginia
Arch Moore
West Virginia University Medical School
Public Service Commission
Measure approved for Hall of Fame in West Virginia
Charleston West Virginia senators approved an 852 500 appropriation to the U S Track and Field Hall of Fame despite objections from Senate Finance Chairman John Pat Fanning who charged funds were misused. The bill, passed 2012, goes to Gov Arch Moore for signing after House of Delegates approval.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Senate Finance
John Pat Fanning
U. S
The
Chamber
Arch Moore
House of Delegates
Woman says she was paid FBI informer in Attica case
Mary Jo Cook, 26, testified that from summer 1973 to fall 1974 she infiltrated radical groups including the Attica riot defense as a paid FBI informer under code name Jo LeRoy. She was paid about 300 dollars monthly plus expenses and spoke at a Buffalo news conference with attorneys Handschu and Klaif.
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Buffalo
N.Y
UPI
Attica Prison Riot Legal Defense
FBI
Mary Jo Cook
Jo LeRoy
Miss Cook
Nazareth College
Rochester
America
Attica
Barbara Handschu
Leonard J. Klaif
Miss Handschu
Flood Swamps Florida Panhandle Evacuations Hit 1400
In a severe river flood, Choctawhatchee swelled to two miles wide and 172 feet deep along Washington Holmes counties border, prompting the evacuation of at least 1,400 residents. Eighty guardsmen, reservists, deputies and Red Cross volunteers aided civilian moves as U S 90 and two state highways were closed and traffic rerouted.
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Bonifay, Fla
UPI
Choctawhatchee
Geneva
Ala
Florida Panhandle
Washington
Holmes Counties
Florida
National Guardsmen
Red Cross and
Civil Defense
Lous Gandy
Holmes County Civil Defense
Caryville
Westville
Pensacola
Tallahassee
Defuniak Springs
Bonifay
Tink Brown
Holmes County
Americans Evacuate Cambodia as Capital Falls to Khmer Rouge
United Press International reports the United States abandoned Cambodia with Marines evacuating Americans, Cambodians, and other nationals from Phnom Penh. Operation Eagle Pull carried out by 70 minute airlift to Okinawa amid rockets and a collapsing defense. Ambassador John Gunther Dean among evacuees. Long Boret forms revolutionary committee seeking peace, while Sihanouk in Peking rejects return offer.
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United Press International
United States
Cambodia
U.S
Stars and Stripes
Phnom Penh
Okinawa
John Gunther Dean
Saukham Khoy
Khmer Rouge
Henry Kissinger
Washington
Pentagon
Bangkok
UPI
Peking
Norodom Sihanouk
Sihanouk
Pub blast in East Belfast kills at least four
A bomb exploded with no warning in the Strand Bar, a crowded pub in East Belfast's Catholic enclave. Four people died instantly, with more than 40 injured as walls collapsed and rescuers faced a dangerous scene. A second IRA-related killing occurred earlier in the day as the feud with the IRSP continued.
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Belfast
UPI
Royal Victoria Hospital
Strand
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Irish Republican Socialist Party
Ford orders mercy airlift to Phnom Penh amid siege
President Ford, moved by Cambodia's leaders choosing to stay, orders U S aircraft to parachute food ammunition and medicine into besieged Phnom Penh in a last ditch effort to aid the abandoned ally. Pentagon says airdrops could begin by daylight Sunday in Cambodia.
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Washington
UPI
Cambodia
Ford
U.S
Phnom Penh
Congress
Pentagon
Air Force
Roosevelt Anniversary Observed At Hyde Park Estate
Wreaths marked the 30th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's death at his Hyde Park estate. Family graves in the rose garden and visits by Roosevelt Jr. were noted as federal workers maintain the 33 acre site along the Hudson River. The piece also mentions winter conditions and a Pentagon comment on embassy airlift safety for potential aircraft landings.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
UPI
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Hudson River
Communists pin down two relief forces near Xuan Loc
Communist troops pinned down two government relief forces outside Xuan Loc as street fighting raged in the Saigon defense perimeter. Long range 85mm artillery battered the town while paratroopers were reportedly airdropped behind enemy lines. Can Tho and Xuan Loc figures underscore the widening Mekong Delta threat as U S evacuation talk circled and Viet Cong rhetoric urged uprisings.
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Saigon
UPI
Xuan Loc
Dien Bien Phu
Bassac River
Can Tho
Mekong
South Vietnam
Forces move armored vehicles toward Xuan Loc area
Government spokesmen report more than 1,000 Communist troops slain in Xuan Loc region over recent days. Militia say 36 T54 tanks and 24 Molotova trucks destroyed as Communist forces attack from the north and overrun government positions. South Vietnamese units retreat and destroy the La Nga bridge on the highway.
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Saigon
Mekong
Rice Road
Can Tho
Xuan Loc
Tay Ninh
la Nga
Congress weighs near Ford budget targets in 1976 plan
Congress mulls budget targets close to President Ford's amid looming 1976 deficit. House and Senate Budget committees propose modest trims with the House at 368.2 billion and the Senate at 365 billion, signaling a cautious path as lawmakers confront recession concerns and possible deficit enlargement.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Ford
House
Senate
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
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Purchasing Practices and Procedures Commission
Long Boret
Pochentong
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White House
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Long Khanh
Vo Dong Giang
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