Senate panel probes CIA dirty tricks and murder plots
The Senate Intelligence Committee headed by Frank Church weighs CIA involvement in covert operations including a Laos war a 1963 South Vietnam coup and Chilean interference with Castro. It cites Castro alleging over 100 death plots and reviews an alleged 1961 poison plot with Roselli Giancana and others including Trujillo Diem and Allende.
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Washington
UPI
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
CIA
Laos
South
Vietnam
John Roselli
Castro
Raul
Che Guevara
Eisenhower
Chicago
Sam Giancana
Roselli
Senate Committee
Giancana
John Tower
R-Tex
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnam
Salvador Allende
Congressional Deadlock Shapes Future Economic Legislation
Washington Star reports intensified partisan split in Congress as Democrats and Republicans clash over economy and energy policy. House GOP unity behind Ford vetoes signals obstructionist posture toward bills not White House approved, risking prolonged stalemate and lasting political scars.
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Walter Taylor
Washington Star
Washington
Congress
House
White House
Ford
Greenspan says unemployment will drop by fall not before
Washington reports Greenspan says recession has bottomed but unemployment will remain high through summer and decline slowly by fall. He forecasts May at 9.2 percent, 8.5 percent by January, 7.5 percent by end of 1976, with inflation risk from money supply.
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Greenspan
Washington
UPI
Ford
Alan Greenspan
Council of Economic Advisers
Friedrich von Hayek
United States
NBC
Meet the Press
von Hayek
Gurney defense outlines amid FHA corruption trial
Former Sen Edward Gurney faces trial on charges of conspiring to corrupt FHA offices and defrauding the government through an illegal political slush fund. Evidence spans 17 weeks with 69 witnesses as the defense prepares to counter key testimony and prior pleas by associates.
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Tampa
Fla
UPI
Edward Gurney
Gurney
Senate
U.S. District Court
Federal Housing Administration
Jacksonville
FHA
Ralph Koontz
K. Wayne Swiger
Joseph Bastien
Ben Krentzman
Larry Williams
Williams
Oberlin Priest faces defrocking over women priests
The Rev. L. Peter Beebe of Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin Ohio may be defrocked for permitting two irregularly ordained women priests to lead communion service on Sunday The women included Rev Alison Cheek pictured with Beebe during the event
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L. Peter Beebe
Christ Episcopal Church
Oberlin
Ohio
Alison Cheek
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Fidel Castro
Georges. McGovern
D-S.d
Havana
McGovern
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Carl L. Albert
D-Okla
House Committee
New Hampshire
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