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...locker-room luminaries-like Tommy Nobis of the Atlanta Falcons and Homer Hero Henry Aaron. When Jimmy's Atlanta staff phoned to recruit Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, however, their pitch went awry. Yaz said he was pretty busy with the Massachusetts campaign of Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, a leading candidate for Speaker of the House. "Is he a Republican or a Democrat?" asked the Carter scout in Atlanta. "Democrat," replied an incredulous Yaz. "Well, tell him he'd better get on the Carter bandwagon," said the staffer. "In Boston," snapped Yastrzemski, "we think Carter better...
...discovery of illegal activity by the North Koreans in Scandinavia may be only the iceberg's tip. Five months ago in Cairo, Egyptian officials caught two North Korean diplomats with 400 kilos of hashish in their luggage. A North Korean official assigned to Malaysia has also been recalled after dealing in smuggled goods...
...bust took 18 months of sleuthing. Starting with a tip in late 1974, federal investigators painstakingly pieced together the facts of an intricate $20 mil lion Medicaid scheme and indicted 16 people in Chicago two weeks ago. By last week six of them had pleaded guilty, and one indicted doctor had committed suicide. The case is the latest example of the fastest-growing form of white-collar crime: ripping off Uncle Sam's multibillion-dollar social-welfare programs. But with the Chicago indictments, Uncle also served notice that he is finding new ways to strike back...
...figured in the effect of the minor candidates, Lester Maddox and Eugene McCarthy, Ford pulled ahead of Carter by 42% to 40%. Maddox is a negligible factor, polling only 1% of the vote at this point. But McCarthy draws 7%, down from 12% in August but still enough to tip the election to Ford...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci asked that the council send letters to both Massachusetts Senators and Congressman Tip O'Neill requesting them to intervene to terminate federal contracts with Cambion, and Saundra Graham proposed that a special 24-hour police detail at Cambion be ended pending Cambion's agreement to bargain in good faith with the union...