GOP leaders seek unity at national strategy conference
UPI reports Republican National Committee Chair Mary Louise Smith mobilizes 1,500 plus GOP leaders for a March 6-8 strategy conference in Washington. Key figures include Nelson Rockefeller Jacob Javits Charles Percy Ronald Reagan and hopeful Ford likely to speak.
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UPI
Republican National Committee
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Jack Kemp
New York
Indians Hold Navajo Plant Amidst Sit In Standstill
Armed Indians occupying Fairchild Corp electronics plant on the Navajo Reservation refuse to leave citing job rehiring for 140 workers. Company threat to close the plant if intruders stay past 6 P.M. EDT Sunday prompts tribal officials to seek a nonviolent resolution and preserve remaining jobs.
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Shiprock, N.M
UPI
Navajo Reservation
Lorenzo Lovaldo
Shiprock
American Indian Movement
Fairchild Corp
Fairchild
Frederick Hoar
Window Rock
Ariz
Peter MacDonald
MacDonald
Fred Johnson
Police Find Another Body in Skid Row Slasher Case
A man with his throat cut from ear to ear was found in the Blaine Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Police, including the Slasher Squad, investigate if this victim is the tenth in the ongoing Skid Row slasher series begun December 1 with Charles Jackson. Clyde C. Hay was the previous victim, found January 31 in Hollywood.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Blaine
Los Angeles Police Department
Clyde C. Hay
Hollywood
Charles Jackson
Doiron killed after New Orleans gunbattle in French Quarter
Doiron, a 27 year old burglary suspect described as a career criminal, fled into a teargas filled apartment after a 90 minute gunfight with police near Bourbon Street. A police officer and a bystander were killed and two detectives were wounded as officers closed in and Doiron was fatally shot.
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New Orleans
UPI
Darrell Edwin Doiron
Doiron
Clarence Giarrusso
Joseph R. Tardiff Jr
French Quarter
Bourbon Street
Giarrusso
Henry Morris
Peter T. Menkiewicz Jr
Patty Hoffman
Cardiff
John H. Kastner
Agriculture Dept questions stamp procedure and errors
A UPI report says about a quarter of working poor stamp recipients may have obtained food stamps improperly in 1974. The Agriculture Department notes the sample is not statistically reliable for total waste and cites errors by recipients and local admins, with some cases of fraud.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
George S. McGovern
D-S.d
McGovern
Senate Nutrition Committee
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Agriculture Press
Joseph McDavid
Agency
Legislative Liaison
House
Senate
Royal Shipp
Shipp
Congress
Four Joggers Killed In Charity Marathon Crash
A predawn tanker crash in Perry Florida killed four fraternity runners and injured eleven during a Sigma Phi Epsilon Heart Fund marathon from Gainesville to Tallahassee. The tanker driver was charged with careless driving. Names include Jerry Engram and Larry Burlew among the deceased.
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Jerry Engram
Clarksburg
Larry Burlew
Homestead
Fla
Florida Highway Patrol
Florida
William Leo Parker
Perry
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Gainesville
University of Florida
Tallahassee
Heart Fund
Conservatives Hold Two Day Strategy Meeting on Chesapeake Bay
In St Michaels Maryland 28 conservative leaders from around the country gathered for a two day strategy retreat. Participants included Sen James Buckley Sen James McClure Gov Meldrim Thomson and Rep Philip Crane as they discuss ways to press Ford administration policies and GOP goals. The group rejected third party plans though some attendees urged a new conservative force inside the party. Buckley said the gathering aimed to act more effectively within the Republican framework.
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St. Michaels
UPI
Nelson Rockefeller
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