Sheik offers $3 million pledge to block Reagan vote
Midland Pennsylvania residents react to a Saudi sheik Mohammed al Fassi offering $3 million if all 2,200 registered voters pledge not to vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984. Officials note potential federal election law violations as locals weigh the unusual proposal amid Crible steel plant shutdown and 82 percent Democratic turnout.
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Midland
Reagan
Sheik
Mohammed al-Fassi
Frank Cohara
Fassi
Crucible Specialty Steel
Hirschfeld
Borough
Ed Cilli
Maryland professor indicted for $24,000 kickback scheme
Al Tony Gilmore, associate professor of Afro American studies at the University of Maryland College Park, was indicted by a Prince George's County grand jury on 10 counts including bribery theft and attempting to obstruct justice. He allegedly took more than $24,000 from three graduate assistants as stipends for work. He is expected to surrender and plead innocent.
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Upper Marlboro, Md
University of Maryland
al Tony Gilmore
University
College Park
Prince George’s County
Gilmore
Steven Jacoby
Jacoby
Joseph L. Evans
Kensington
Attorney General’s Office
Attorney General’s
Evans
Newc
Attorney General's Office
William E. Kirwin
Kellogg Firm Faces Battle Over Battle Creek Merger
Kellogg Co seeks a merger of Battle Creek and Battle Township to avoid costly expansion and potential relocation of 700 employees and a $28 million payroll. The vote hinges on annexation, with the company a major local employer and residents split along city township lines over the proposed merger and future services.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Kellogg Co
Battle Township
Kellogg
Gary Costley
Eo Ng
A O
Kelloggie
Kellogg Community College
Kellogg Center
Gordon Jaeser
Preston Kool
Promerger
Kool
William LaMothe
Terry Hill
Hill
Canfield
Aee Hill
Record auction sees rare 1870 three dollar gold piece sold
A rare 1870 three dollar gold coin sold at a New York auction for a world record price. Harvey Stack bought it for a client, with Bowers and Ruddy Galleries handling the sale for Gold Coin Corp. The coin is tied to Louis Eliasberg’s Baltimore collection, long regarded as the only complete U.S. gold coin set. The piece is asserted as the sole remaining specimen, tied to a San Francisco Mint legend about a missing cornerstone coin.
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New York
United States
U.S
Harvey Stack
The
Stack Coin Co
St. Moritz Hotel
Bowers and Ruddy Galleries Inc
Los Angeles
Gold Coin Corp
Louis Eliasberg
Baltimore
San Francisco
Eliasberg
Isco
U.S. Mint
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Jesse Torres
United Steelworkers
Fred Oberg
Richard Hirschfeld
Diet Toner
Poirette
Kappeli
Tony the Tiger
Oregon
Robert Heldfond
Chappell's
Yous. Chappell
Chappell’s
Syracuse
N.Y
Tae
Chappelli
Michael Mckesson
Associated Press
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