Florida to Execute Speakelink and Darden in Electric Chair
Florida set 7 am Wednesday for the executions of John Speakelink and Willie Jasper Darden, the first in 15 years in the state. Lawyers sought stays, Speakelink appealing to the state Supreme Court after appeals through federal courts failed. Darden’s attorneys asked for a Bartow court stay. Both prisoners accepted the news calmly, as Governor Graham signed the warrants to proceed.
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Fla
John Speakelink
Willie Jasper Darden
Bob Graham
Florida Electric Chair
Speakelink
State Supreme Court
Nebraska
U.S. Supreme Court
Darden
Lakeland
Florida
U.S
Bartow
Graham
Tearful ex model testifies in Thorpe trial
Norman Scott testified at the Jeremy Thorpe trial that Thorpe forced him into homosexual relations during a weekend at Thorpe's mother's home. Scott described fear and coercion, with Thorpe visiting and repeating the acts over five years, while expressing conflicted feelings and eventual affection.
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Thorpe
London
UPA
Norman Scott
Jeremy Thorpe
Liberal Party
Scott
Mineworker singer opens fund with coal songs
Sam Church Jr, 42, United Mine Workers vice president, unveiled a country style record at the union headquarters to raise money for a strike fund. The $3 record features Black Gold and There is No Better Way, urging coal use and opposing nuclear power. Proceeds go to support miners on strike during organizing campaigns.
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UMW
Union
Castro and Portillo urge end to US Cuba trade ban
In Cozumel, Fidel Castro and Mexican President Lopez Portillo call for an end to the US economic blockade of Cuba. They promote tech exchange on sugar and a stronger bilateral alliance, noting improved but still strained relations with Washington. A sugar tech accord was the main concrete outcome.
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Cuba
Victor Segovia
Cozumel
Mexico
UPI
Lopez Portillo
U.S
Castro
Havana
Guantanamo Bay
United States
Fulgencio Batista
Washington
Carter
White House
U.S. collector wins Hitler's silverware
In Shreveport Louisiana a U.S. collector, John Moore, defeated a suit by Freistaat Bayern to recover 37 silver items engraved A A and four Nazi artifacts claimed to have belonged to Adolf Hitler. The court ruled insufficient federal jurisdiction since the property valued under ten thousand dollars.
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Shreveport
UPI
Adolf Hitler
Louisiana
Freistaat Bayern
John Moore
U.S
Tom Stagg
A.A
Moore
Texas
West Germany
Crane denies love life charge in New Hampshire
Rep. Philip Crane denied claims published by the Manchester Union Leader that he made off-color remarks and drank heavily. He said he never stated he was committed to “shedding down 1,000 women” and challenged proof of such remarks. A Crane aide called the reports book journalism.
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Thorpe
Bunny
Scott
Atlantic
Cedar Point
Rotary
Elyria
New Jersey
Apon
Cuyahoga
New England
Bob Choate
Illinois
The
Manchester Union Leader
Crane
New Hampshire
Im Washington
William) Loeb
Phil
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Temple CT
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the Chronicle Telegram
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Ohio
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Hitler
Germany
Center For
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United Way Agency
Manchester
N.H
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Golnios
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