Drafting Committee To Meet Next Month In Washington
Atlanta AP report: a Democratic charter drafting committee will meet in December in Washington. Terry Sanford led about 120 of 160 charter members through straw votes on charter proposals. Debate centered on how to formalize policy discussions, with opinions split on a biennial or discretionary national policy conference and timing linked to elections.
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Democratic Party
Washington
Democratic Party Charter Commission
Commission
Terry Sanford
North Carolina
Democratic National Committee
Joseph Crangle
New York City
DNC
Neil Staebler
Ann Arbor
Mich
Former prisoner details torture in South Vietnam
Jean Pierre Debris, a French ex-prisoner who spent two and a half years in South Vietnamese jails, told a Georgia Tech audience that torture continues. He cited a 4 year old boy burned with cigarettes and claimed a Houston firm profited from tiger cage construction under a $400,000 Food for Peace grant.
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Atlanta
U.S
Jean Pierre Debris
South Vietnam
Georgia Tech
Houston
Nunn to Address Georgia Farm Bureau Convention
Sen. Sam Nunn is set to speak at the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation's 35th annual convention in Jekyll Island. The event centers on the federal peanut program with the peanut and tobacco division explaining the department's stance. Georgia leads the nation in peanut production with last year's crop grossing over $228 million.
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Jekyll Island
Sam Nunn
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
William L. Lanier
Agriculture Department
Peanuts and Tobacco Division
Georgia
Brinkley to Tour Mideast on Armed Services Fact-Finding
Georgia Representative Jack Brinkley will tour the Middle East from November 16 to 21 on a House Armed Services subcommittee fact-finding mission. He warned that Spain and other Europeans’ hesitation to back the U.S. airlift to Israel raises NATO questions and urged re-evaluating U.S. NATO involvement.
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Warner Robins
Georgia
Jack Brinkley
Mideast
House
Armed Services Subcommittee
Columbus
Spain
Israel
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Brinkley
United States
Reserve Officers Association
Gallup poll shows GOP support at 38 year low
In Princeton New Jersey a Gallup Poll finds 58 percent favor Democrats 30 percent Republicans and 12 percent undecided. The survey suggests a Democratic edge in potential House seats though no races occurred last Tuesday. In Gainesville Georgia a homicide investigation centers on the shootings of J C Moon 54 and Ollie Taylor 73 found in their Murrayville home.
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Princeton
N.J
House of Representatives
Gallup
Lyndon B. Johnson
GOP
Gainesville
Macon
Jinxed Opry toll grows as Stringbean shot dead
Violent deaths have claimed 11 Opry troupe members since 1962 with Stringbean the first murdered. The string of accidents included plane crashes and auto wrecks that killed Patsy Cline Hawkshaw Hawkins Cowboy Copas and others. Stringbean and his wife Estelle were found shot after burglars ransacked their home. Police suspect a break in ended in murder.
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Grand Old Opry
David
Akeman
Opry
Patsy Cline
Hawkshaw Hawkins
Cowboy Copas
Randy Hughes
Camden
Tenn
Jack Anglin
Johnny and
Jack
Jim Reeves
Dean Manuel
Reeves
Brentwood
Texas Ruby
Ira Louvin
Louvin Brothers
Johnny Horton
New Orleans
Stringbean
Estelle
Akemans
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The
Tex Ritter
Roy Acuff
Grandpa Jones
Weekend Accidents Claim 16 Lives in Georgia
The Associated Press reports at least 16 deaths from weekend accidents across Georgia. Drowned victims include Ernest Wright 67 Rosa Merritt 38 Herbert Gover 27 Willie Freeman 22 and Eunice Middleton 10. Other fatalities involve Carrie Porch 73 Juanita and Sandra Mitchell 51 and 12 Bobbie Prather 28 James Hemphill 22 Richard Liles 33 Warren Golar 36 Donald Rainey 28 Lucille Powell 49 and Harry Lane Jackson 28. Authorities cite crashes on multiple state roads and a fire at an American Legion club near Gray.
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Associated Press
Georgia
State Patrol
Ernest Wright
Americus
Rosa L. Merritt
Herbert Gover
Plains
McMath Mill Road
Willie R. Freeman
Covington
Eunice D. Middleton
Augusta
Waynesboro
Carrie S. Porch
Montezuma
Bainbridge
Donalsonville
Juanita Mitchell
Sandra Mitchell
Seminole County
Bobbie J. Prather
Dallas
James T. Hemphill
Columbus
Richard Robinson
Fayetteville
Morrow
Sandersville
Warren Golar
Georgia 88
Golar
Lindsay Creek
Donald Rainey
Lucille G. Powell
Hazlehurst
Lumber City
Jones County
American Legion Club
Gray
Penelope and Tut Gorillas Expect Fourth Offspring
Penelope the 19 year old lowland gorilla and King Tut the 24 year old mate at Cincinnati Zoo are expecting their fourth offspring next May. Cincinnati and Basel, Switzerland, share the world record for viable lowland gorilla births with six each.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Penelope
King Tut
Cincinnati Zoo
Zoo
Cincinnati
Basel
Switzerland
Hatari
Mahari
Mrs Ford Opens Up On Life At Her Husband S House
Elizabeth Ford, wife of House Republican leader Gerald Ford, describes life under heightened security as the Ford home in Alexandria, Virginia braces for continued public attention during Nixon era turmoil. She says she hopes Nixon won t be impeached or resign and reflects on Watergate s impact.
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Gerald R. Ford
Secret Service
Fords
Elizabeth Ford
Crown View Drive
Alexandria
Ford
Nixon
Elizabeth Bloomer Ford
Big Ten
Michigan
Grand Rapids
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