Death penalty for rape outlawed by Supreme Court opinion
Justice Byron White delivered the majority ruling on the last court session day declaring the death penalty for rape disproportionate despite aggravating factors. Chief Justice Burger dissented, urging state legislatures, not the court, to decide. Since 1930, 455 men, 90 percent black, were executed for rape in America before 1972 rulings changed capital punishment.
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Byron White
Warren Burger
William Rehnquist
High Court
Burger
Supreme Court
America
Rane
OPEC cancels plans for 5 percent price hike
In Vienna, a majority of OPEC members voted to cancel the planned 5 per cent crude price increase set for July 1 1977. Algeria Ecuador Gabon Indonesia Iran Kuwait Nigeria Qatar Venezuela forego the addition while Saudi Arabia and UAE favored the full yearly rise. Libya and Iraq opposed or undecided.
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Vienna
Austria
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Ali M. Jaidab
Utiity
Organization
Algeria
Ecuador
Gabon
Indonesia
Iran
Kuwait
Nigeria
Qatar
Venezuela
Libya
Iraq
Remains Believed To Be Michael Todd Found In Forest Park
A private eye’s tip led police to remains believed to be Michael Todd’s in Forest Park. The remains were stolen last weekend and will be examined by a dental pathologist. If identified, the family will rebury them in a secret location. Details on Page A.
Saigon under strain as refugees report city exodus
Vietnamese refugees in Israel say Saigon is being emptied by Communist authorities. Dr. Tran Quang Hoa, among 66 survivors rescued from a sinking boat, claims 700,000 residents have been moved to rural zones and most of the city’s remaining 2 million people will be evacuated by 1978. He cites loss of modern equipment, reduced rations, and hospitals stripped of resources as evidence of Hanoi’s plan to make the capital die rather than develop it.
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Ofakim
Israel
UPI
Saigon
Tran Quang Hoa
Siagon
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
Hoa
South China Sea
Beersheba
Negev Desert
Soviet Union
Hanoi
Gas well prospect at Lorain County Community College
Lorain County Community College officials set aside funds from a 1978 budget to hire a geologist or petroleum engineer and study turning educators into energy czars. The idea aims to reduce rising energy costs and could involve prospecting on the college's 250 acre campus as officials noted last year’s utility and fuel spending and a projected hike.
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Lorain County Community College
Tom Bowen
LCCC
Bowen
Offi
Major split looms as anti modernist bishop defies Pope
ECONE Switzerland UP I reports rebel Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre defied Pope Paul VI and ordained 14 priests and 22 subdeacons, claiming the church is corrupted by Communists and freemasons. He warned against cooperation in the church’s destruction, signaling a potential schism unseen since 1870.
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Pope
Econe
Switzerland
UPI
Marcel Lefebvre
Paul VI
Tad Lefebvre
Swiss Alps
Lefebvre
Dakar
Senegal
Tulles
France
Vatican
Weather forecast: partly cloudy with mild temps
Partly cloudy with clear tonight and low temperatures in the upper teens to low twenties. Tomorrow partly cloudy with highs in the low to mid twenties. Very low rain chance tonight and tomorrow. Winds tonight west to northwest 5 to 18 mph, diminishing. Sunrise 5:36 a.m., sunset 9:65 p.m.
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Middie
Rt 2 environmental study aims for Oct 1 completion
In Washington a meeting of local, state, and federal agencies led by U S Rep Don Pease discussed accelerating the Rt 2 bypass around Huron. An environmental impact statement is due by Oct 1 as a first step, with wetlands review and potential Fish and Wildlife objections likely delaying construction. Col Dame Ludwig will contact Sandusky officials about a delayed pier.
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Boren
W.reeting
Auton
Washington, D.C
U.S
Don J. Pease
Dybertin
ODOT
Pease
Fish and Wildlife
Corps
Army Corps of Engineers
Col
Dame Ludwig
Sandusky
Jackson Street Pier
Jury deadlocks in Gold slaying
Lee A. Gold was found guilty of grand theft but the jury could not reach a verdict on the murder charge in Lorain County Common Pleas Court. Judge Mikus sentenced Gold to 2 to 5 years at the Mansfield reformatory. jurors were dismissed after a 10- to 12-hour deliberation.
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Lee A. Golt
Paul J. Mikus
Gold
Ohio Reformatory
Mansfield
Richard Leonard
Lorain County
David Basinski
Elio Zerbini
Mikus
Lee A. Gold
Common Pleas Court
Stacey
James Hose
George Hudcutt
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Datebask
DS Entertainment DS Finance
Anthony Cekada
Milwaukee
Terence Finnecan
Rapid City, &C
Italy
England
Germany
IP Lefebvre
Monica
Williams
Beiter
Huron
George Sheard
Ohio
Department Sacr
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
RT. 2
Cleveland
Harold Reader
Ohio Department of Transportation
Ashland
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Bulletin
Chris Evert
Virginia Wade
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