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...AMPI officials discovered that it was illegal because it came from AMPI corporate funds. In an elaborate effort to conceal the contribution, they directed Bob A. Lilly, assistant to AMPI General Manager Nelson, to replace the gift with an equal amount borrowed personally from the Citizens National Bank of Austin; such a personal contribution could be legally arranged. Then, to repay Lilly, AMPI asked attorneys and public relations firms with whom they had previous friendly business dealings for interest-free loans ranging from $5,000 to $56,000 each. AMPI paid back the lenders by raising their retainers...
...cooperative money to John B. Connally, then Secretary of the Treasury, for contributions to the campaigns of unnamed politicians. Connally turned down the money twice. Jacobsen later told the Watergate grand jury that he left the money untouched in a safe-deposit box in the Citizens National Bank of Austin until last Nov. 27. The grand jury offered no clue as to what might have happened to the $10,000 but said that Jacobsen had lied, and indicted him for perjury. Last week he pleaded not guilty in Federal District Court in Washington...
...terrorism were still notably scarce in British life. One evening last week in London, McConnell was given a persuasive reason to reconsider his analysis. As he was riding in a cab near Buckingham Palace, a white British Ford in front of him veered to the left, forcing a maroon Austin Princess limousine to a halt. On top of the limousine, visible from front and rear, was a shield displaying the royal coat of arms. Inside were Princess Anne and her husband of four months, Captain Mark Phillips...
...dashing to the rescue. At the sight of a second constable, Peter Edmonds, 24, the gunman fled into St. James's Park, which flanks the Buckingham Palace Mall. Edmonds, who was unarmed, brought him down with a flying rugby tackle. A young woman rushed up to the Austin and asked Anne, "Are you all right, love?" Though severely shaken, she replied, "Yes, I'm fine, thank you." A bullet through the rear window marked how close they had come to death. It was the first attack on the royal family since 1939, when shots were fired...
...Austin, Texas...