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Sunday October 5, 1975
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News stories from Sunday October 5, 1975


Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

  • Senator Frank Church said that the Central Intelligence Agency not only planned but also tried to kill Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba during the administrations of three Presidents. The Senator, a Democrat of Idaho, who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the panel had evidence of attempts on Mr. Castro's life in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. He said the committee had no "hard evidence" that the presidents were aware of the C.I.A. activities. [New York Times]
  • Previously classified documents disclosed that the F.B.I. continued using a technique of its controversial program to disrupt activities of rightist and leftist domestic political groups for at least 2½ years after the April, 1971, date given by the bureau for formally ending the program. The documents, made available by the Socialist Workers party, showed that F.B.I. agents continued to seek personal data about members of the party. [New York Times]
  • Because of persistence by the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Ford administration has reversed its policy and agreed to continue providing operational funds for medical and dental schools that it had planned to phase out. The new Secretary, Dr. F. David Mathews, left his post as president of the University of Alabama to bring what he termed a "consumer" viewpoint to the department. [New York Times]
  • Vice President Rockefeller said that Congress should consider whether New York City should be granted temporary federal aid. The former New York Governor said this should be weighed after the city restored its "fiscal integrity" by moving to balance its budget and trimming its $3 billion short-term debt. His latest views became known after he had been quoted in an interview as contending that having Washington "pick up the check . . . would be the beginning of the end" of the nation's solvency. [New York Times]
  • The father of a 27-year-old housepainter accused of harboring Patricia Hearst in San Francisco says it was information from him that led the authorities to her. [New York Times]
  • Voters in Austria apparently increased the majority of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky's Socialist party in parliamentary elections. The government, announcing preliminary results, said that the Socialists had won 94 of Parliament's 183 seats, for a gain of one. [New York Times]
  • Eighty-six prisoners were escorted from East German jails to West Germany and West Berlin in a bartering process -- human beings for money -- that has been going on secretly between the two Germanys since the Berlin wall was put up by the Communists in 1961. The Bonn government bought these men and women out of prison for an undisclosed sum. The price in the past, it is said, has been up to $15,000 a captive. [New York Times]
  • Work on a dam in Senta, Yugoslavia, has uncovered the remnants of a 1,900-year-old city that may yield significant information about the Huns and other enemies of the Roman Empire. [New York Times]


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