Ford Wins Michigan and Maryland Pre-Election Leaders
Ford dominates Michigan with 64 percent and leads in Maryland at 58 percent as 57 to 72 percent of precincts report. Carter battles Udall for Democratic delegates while Reagan gains in the GOP count, with Brown yielding a Maryland margin and unresolved delegate splits across states.
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Ford
Michigan
Ronald Reagan
Maryland
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Morris K. Udall
Arizona
Reagan
Washington
Stuart Spencer
Grand Rapids
Detroit
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Spencer
Brown
Udall
Wallace
Jackson
McCormack
Harris
Georgia
Sen
Henry M. Jackson
Fred Harris
Sargent Shriver
Ellen McCormack
Witness tells Bretz jury how hitman story started
A defense witness described telling convict Jack LaMere of a Washington hitman plot that allegedly involved a killer-for-hire traveling to Montana for an assassination conspiracy. The testimony covered interrogations, prior statements, and court warnings amid ongoing Bretz case proceedings.
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Bretz
Crash kills Butteman on Interstate 90 over Sheridan Street
A vehicle veered out of control near the Sheridan Street overpass on I 90, killing Butteman and injuring John Beavis who was treated for minor injuries. The crash halted traffic about 40 minutes as firefighters cleared debris. The dead man's identity was withheld pending kin notification. It was the second traffic fatality in Butte for the year and increased the state toll to 80.
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Sheridan Street
John Beavis
Oneil Walkerville
Silver Bow General Hospital
Beavis
Butte
Atherton
Floral Park
Defense names lawyers as money men in Woodahl case
In Deer Lodge district court Lavon Bretz and Merrel Cline face charges of conspiring to assassinate Atty. Gen. Robert Woodahl and ex state prosecutor Dick Ozivi. Justice Department investigator William Ware testified that several attorneys were investigated for involvement with workers compensation and named Bretz Goldman Dawood Harris Hoyt McChesney Kelly Burgess Ines and others. The defense indicated these attorneys may testify Wednesday morning.
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Deer Lodge
Atty
Robert Woodahl
Lavon Bretz
Merrel Cline
Conto
Woodahl
Dick Ozivi
Justice Department
William Ware
Ware
Bretz
Joseph Goldman
Harold McChesney
Milton Datsopoulos
Wade Dahood
New Keefer
William Kelly
Francis Burgess
John Hoyt
R.V. Bottomly
LaVerne Harris
McChesney
Missoula
Kelly
Billings
Hoyt
Great Falls
Frank Morrison
Terry Trieweiler
Whitefish
Workers Compensation
Goldman
Dawood
Harris
Butte
Neil J. Ines
Burgess
Lynch
Butte boy survives brush with live wire on 40 foot pole
Tim Arginis thirteen of the Denny Driscoll Boys Home was burned on his left leg hand and face after climbing a metal pole at the top of a 40 foot utility pole and stepping on live wires. He was pulled to safety and taken to St. James Community Hospital in satisfactory condition as home director Rev. J F Finnegan noted the accident could have been fatal.
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Butte
Tim Arginis
Denny Driscoll
St. James Community Hospital
J. F. Finnegan
Bloodworm diggers strike widens across Maine coast
WISCASSET Maine AP bloodworm diggers protest gains support from sandworm diggers with 100 to 200 workers meeting to back a price rise. They seek five to seven cents per worm while sandworms demand four cents. Seasonal work yields 6000 to 8000 dollars annually for full timers.
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Wiscasset, Maine
Maine
Gordon James
Wiscasset
James
Variable clouds with showers through Thursday
The forecast notes variable cloudiness and a chance of showers into Thursday. Today's high near 70 and low around 35 with more weather details on Page 2.
French leader defends detente during Congress address
President Valery Giscard d Estaing urged continued U S Soviet detente as an open and sincere approach that does not threaten Western values. He spoke to a near full House and met with President Ford to discuss nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation.
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Washington
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
France
Congress
Giscard d'Estaing
United States
Soviet Union
Giscard d’Estaing
Georges
Ford
White House
CIA Chaos operations reveal pressure from Johnson and Nixon
Senate staff report finds Johnson and Nixon pressured the CIA to run a domestic spy program named Chaos from 1967 to 1974. Helms warned this violated the agency charter as Chaos compiled files on about 7,500 citizens and 300,000 in a Hydra index.
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Washington
Johnson
Nixon
CIA
Richard Helms
Senate Intelligence Committee
Hydra
FBI
National Security Agency
Helms
Henry Kissinger
Merrimack
Resistance
Women’s Strike For Peace
Washington Peace Center
Congress of Racial Equality
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Lavon Brets
Jack LaMere
Montana
Armstrong
Cecil Thornell
Vancouver
Wash
Yellowstone County
Yhornell
LaMere
Thornell
Brett
Cline
Howard Gilbert
Jack Green
Morrison
Green
Gilbert
Don Bentley
Bentley
Ary
Hardin
Radi
Bretz Bretz
Butteman
Finnegan
John Justice
Paul Eno
Fluf
Walter Hinick
Carl Albert
Henry A. Kissinger
Washington Diplomatic Corps
Jerry Brown
Newark
N.J
New Jersey
Unifax
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