Lawmakers Admit Sex with Pages in Scandal Revelations
The public figures Gerry Studds and Dan Crane acknowledge sexual encounters with male pages in the 1970s. The House committee reports Studds admitted advances to two pages in 1973, while Crane states he made mistakes after a relationship with a younger page in Virginia and Washington. Both pages have since left Congress and were kept unnamed to protect privacy.
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Crane
Washington
Virginia
Europe
Congress
UPI
Kidnapping Victim Rescued After Washington Standoff
The FBI and Quinonez discussed storming a Washington apartment where Mrs. Quinonez had been held for at least four days. She was bound and blindfolded for much of the time. Journalists were praised for aiding the safe rescue by withholding details per FBI guidance.
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Quinonez
Washington
FBI
Joseph Corless
Miami
Farmers win daylight saving fight in House defeat
Rural congressmen rallied the House to defeat a proposal to extend daylight saving time by two months. The vote was 211 to 199 as farm state representatives argued rural citizens would be inconvenienced just to provide more evening playtime for urban families.
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Washington
House
Wholesale prices rise 0.5 percent in June
U S government data show wholesale prices up 0.5 percent driven by energy costs. Gasoline and heating oil led gains, while food costs fell 0.6 percent. Energy rose 3.2 percent with natural gas up 0.2 percent. Beef and veal rose, eggs and fish fell sharply, pork declined, and coffee dropped.
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Washington
Labor Department
Kidnap suspect moved after hospital transfer in Stamford case
Phillip Constable 28, the man who held a hostage in the Stamford Town Hall bell tower and was shot by state police after threatening to kill the hostage, has been moved from Oneonta to Bassett Hospital Cooperstown for surgery. He remained in serious condition with wrist and chest injuries. details of surgery were not released. The incident followed heavy drinking as Constable shouted for officers to shoot if they would not let him die, while a local minister described offering him shelter.
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Cooperstown
Phillip Constable
Bassett Hospital
A.O. Fox Memorial
Daily Star
Oneonta
Harriet Shipman
Stamford Town Hall
John Curry
Troop C
Gary Dunne
Shipman
Dunne
Waylon Bray
Constable
Cagnazzo
Two 'professionals' sought in Rome Vatican kidnapping
Italian police seeking two male professional kidnappers in the abduction of Vatican employee Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 year old girl who disappeared after a music lesson in June. Investigators provided descriptions of the suspects and said ransom demands tied to Mehmet Ali Agca's release have been made.
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Vatican
John Paul II
Emanuela Orlandi
Carabinieri
Domenica Cagnazzo
Italy
Emanuela
Agca
Mehmet Ali Agca
Agea
St. Peter’s Square
Ercole Orlandi
Samantha Smith's Limousine Breaks Down in Leningrad
American girl Samantha Smith and her parents travel in a Soviet made Chaika that stalls for about ten minutes in Leningrad before a Volga replaces it. They are taken to a sanitorium near the Gulf of Finland after visiting a Young Pioneers center. Samantha spends her first full day in the city greeting Russians and speaking by phone with spaceflight pioneer Valentina Tereshkova while touring the House of Peace and Friendship.
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U.S.S.R
Samantha Smith
Samantha
Arthur
Jane
Manchester
Maine
Young Pioneers’ Center
Gulf of Finland
Valentina 'I'ereshkava
House of Peace & Friendship
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Jimmy Starr Orchestra
Air Supply Spim
Darien
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