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Volume 3, Number 43: August 2, 1974 - August 9, 1974

Updated: Mar 31

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from August 2, 1974 - August 9, 1974, had 12 pages, filled with independent local, regional, and national news. Six months for $5, one year for $8. Download the .pdf at the bottom of the page.


Screenshot of Volume 3, Number 43 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from August 2, 1974

Article Index


McCord: The spy who was kicked into the cold

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 4

keywords: James McCord, Jr.; "A Piece of Tape"; Democratic National Headquarters; Senate Watergate Committee; Judge John Sirica; impeachment; obstruction of justice; bribes; bombing of Cambodia; CIA; burglary; wiretapping; JFK assassination; John Dean; Jeb Magruder; Nixon


County welfare office shuffles black supervisor

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 9

keywords: Robert Brookin; Income Maintenance Manager; Intake Unit; petition; racism; Charles Allison; George Taylor; Norm Evans; Jacob Miller; Executive Director; Department of Public Welfare Compliance Office; Stephen Reed; Chairman of the Board


Human Relations Council investigates Hain Wolf

by Peter Kaplan

page 2, page 10

keywords: Bill Thompson; machine operator; Bob Krehling; Executive Vice President; racism; counter manufacturing firm


Buying votes in Congress

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; big business lobbyists; consumer protection agency; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; filibuster; Grocery Manufacturers Association; trade associations; inflation; price gouging; health and safety hazards; Senate; "White Collar Crime"


Montage

page 3, page 9

keywords: Quote; free enterprise system; Thomas R. Ottenstein; Gettysburg observation tower; Patriot-News; Col. Oran Henderson; My Lai massacre; Lt. William Calley; Ku Klux Klan rally; Pinchot State Park; Albert Lentz; Independent Klan of York; sicle cell anemia; interracial marriage; Jews; racial integration; Jerry Green; Grand Dragon; National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws; felony arrests; Committee To Re-elect the President; Allenwood Prison Farm; Jeb Stuart Magruder; Watergate; rape; Supreme Court; Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski; Rep. Lawrence Hogan; impeachment; Nixon; tapes; Henry Kissinger; Cyprus; Archbishop Makarios; Greek coup; Turkish invasion; Christian Science Monitor


House votes this week on 1975 aid to Thieu

page 4

keywords: military aid; South Vietnam; House of Representatives; John Flynt; Robert Giaimo; Nixon administration; black market; Rep. Les Aspin; House Armed Services Committee


Kentucky miners rally to protest police violence

by LNS

page 5

keywords: Harlan, Ky.; United Mine Workers of America; strikers; picketlines; Brookside Mine; Eastover Mining Company; Arnold Miller; Southern Labor Union; state troopers; violence; Mickey Messer; National Labor Relations Board; Duke Power; Governor Wendell Ford; company-owned homes; black lung disease; safety laws


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 5

keywords: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Sherlock Holmes; The Case of the Myopic Parsee; Masterpiece Theater; Nigel Davenport; George Edalji; Dreyfus Affair; animal mutilation; law student; court of criminal appeal; Pierre Nordon; Gaylord and Jim Perry; Cleveland Indians; 396 major league victories; Cy Young; brothers; State Library; Julian Symons; The Detective Story in Britain; Poe; C. Auguste Dupin; Dickens; Inspector Bucket in Bleak House; Willke Collins; The Moonstone; McDonnell Bodkin; Dora Myrl; detective history


White House chopper marauder goes on trial

by Jim Zimmerman

page 6

keywords: Bob Preston; United States Army; helicopter; White House; psychiatric evaluation; Article 32 investigation; Post Commander; military judge; Lt. Col. Kenneth Howard; general court martial; special court martial; Captain Herbert Monceir; maximum security; harassment


Asian women strike Litton Inc. subsidiary

by LNS

page 6

keywords: Leicester, England; Imperial Typewriter; walkout; sex discrimination; bonuses; Transport and General Workers' Union; picket lines; Litton Industries; East Africa; race; elections


Letters To the Editor

page 9

keywords: John Marshall Andrews; Governor Shapp; no-fault insurance; accident victims; trucking firms; "loss of use"; replacement vehicle



U.S. authorities extradite New York political activist

by LNS

page 9

keywords: Raul Estremera; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; immigration inquiry; deportation order; political asylum; FBI; New York Police Department; Black Liberation Party; cop killer; armed robbery; Bernard Mergler; Montreal; solitary confinement; Lower East Side; Community Action Against Narcotics for Youth; Puerto Rican youth; medical care; drug-treatment program; education; community work; Father Powis


FDA approves contraceptive despite threat

by LNS

page 10

keywords: Depo-Provera; Upjohn; prescription; infertility; breast tumors; FDA commissioner; Dr. Michael Popkin; advisory committees; Advisory Committee on Obstetrics and Gynecology; uterine cancer; cervical cancer; limited use; mentally retarded women


Feds indict another Nixon crony

by LNS

page 10

keywords: C. Arnholdt Smith; federal indictment; fraud charges; San Diego; Philip A. Toft; banks; Westgate California; United States National Bank; conspiracy; bank funds; Nixon election campaign; tax fraud; civil case


Books The Saturday Night Special

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: review; Robert Sherrill; gun control; National Rifle Association; Richard Kluger; Senator Thomas Dodd; gun control bills; Remington; Colt; Winchester; Gun Control Act of 1968; blacks


Movies The Parallax View

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: review; Warren Beatty; political assassinations; Alan J. Pakula; murder; conspiracy; Paula Prentiss; government officials


TV

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Sherlock Holmes; Masterpiece Theater; Nigel Davenport


Photos

by John Serbell

page 1, page 2


by LNS

page 4, page 5, page 6


Artwork

by LNS

page 3, page 10








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