SEATO Talks Open Amid Stormy Manila Session
SEATO Council of Ministers begins its sth annual meeting in Manila marked by Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanant Khamman denouncing Western politicians for harassing SEATO members. He warned that scrapping SEATO would force Southeast Asia to seek new security arrangements and realignments.
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Manila
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Council of Ministers
Thailand
SEATO
U.S. Senate
Thanant Khaman
Southeast Asia
Byron Standby With Troopers For Record Pop Festival
Gov. Maddox ordered about 50 state troopers into Byron Georgia for a weekend pop festival expected to draw up to 100000 young concertgoers at the Middle Georgia Raceway. Police reported three minor violence incidents amid the 6000 plus crowd as they searched for Richard Woods of Hawkinsville accused of firing at guard Jimmy Davis who escaped injury.
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Byron, Ga
Byron
Lester Maddox
Middle Georgia Raceway
Carl Ferguson
Richard Woods
Hawkinsville
Jimmy Davis
Davis
Moorer Takes Command as Top Military Chief
Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rejects using the defense budget to solve domestic problems. The 58 year old Moorer spoke at a change of command ceremony at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and assumed duties from Gen. Earl Wheeler. He also received control of naval operations from Adm. Elmo R. Zumbwitz Jr.
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Washington
Thomas H. Moorer
Mooer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Navy
Joint Chiefs
Moorer
Army
Earl G. Wheeler
Young Blumenthal Seen As VISTA Director Pick
Anti poverty chief Donald Rumsfeld plans to name 24 year old Democrat Richard D Blumenthal to lead VISTA. If Senate approval comes, he would be the youngest person to hold a post at that level earning $38,000 annually. VISTA has lacked a regular director since July 1968 when William H. Cook left for Australia.
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Washington
Donald Rumsfeld
Volunteers In Service To America
VISTA
Senate
Richard D Blumenthal
William H. Cook
Australia
Lumbee Plan First Red Power Homecoming Day
The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina announce a peaceful first homecoming on July 4 in Pembroke. Coordinator W. J. Strickland says the event will demonstrate red power through nonviolent celebration.
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Pembroke
N.C
Red Power
North Carolina
W. J. Strickland
Man nabbed after pocket pick on downtown street
A man accused of pocketing a wallet on a downtown Charlotte street was caught by the wallet owner who found $300 and alerted plain clothes detective.
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Charlotte
N.C
Latin Embassies Bombed in Washington Firebomb Attacks
Four Latin American embassies were firebombed and lightly damaged early this morning, about 24 hours after a pipe bomb ripped through the Inter-American Defense Board. Police reported no injuries and no suspects.
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Washington
Inter-American Defense Board
Militant Protestants Parade in Belfast Amid Tensions
About 10 000 Protestant militants marched peacefully through Belfast Wednesday night while near Coalisland 40 miles away clashes erupted between Protestants and Catholics. Police and troops faced rock and bottle missiles. four officers a soldier and several civilians injured. 10 arrested. IRA members were seen in the crowd according to a British army spokesman who suggested IRA involvement.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Sign Theft at Whiskey Road and Easy Street Continues
Police report a recurring theft of a street sign at the Whiskey Road and Easy Street intersection. Fire officials estimate replacement cost around $20 per sign, including post and labor, with little evidence left by the thieves.
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Whiskey Road
Easy Street
Frank Whitecotton
Aiken Beauty Queen Eyes Teaching Career
Debby Bootle Miss Aiken 1969 plans to teach elementary education at USC Columbia and marry. Known as the local Dear Abby she helps peers, while caring for her siamese cat and collecting monkeys and antique bottles. She entered Miss Aiken thanks to Bobbie Jones and will compete in Miss South Carolina in Greenville.
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Debby
Aiken
University Terrace
USC
Tsing
Martha Ellis
Charleston
Bobbie Jones
Stumper Jackpot Reaches 140 Dollars In Contest Update
Puzzle No 10 offers a $140 prize as readers chase a winner amid near misses. Names from Aiken explore would be winners while Mrs Barton and others chase the elusive letter that would secure victory.
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Barton
Graniteville
Key
New Ellenton
Faudel
Richardson
Buchmiller
Burton
Aiken
Stephens
Tricentennial Costume Contest Highlights Arkenite Participants
Participants Reginald Simmons Barry Dickson Stephanie Wilds and Anne Cooney will dress 1830s costumes in the Ladies and Children's Costume Dress Contest at 3 p m Sunday at the old Hamburg Depot. Ceremonies opening Aiken County Tricentennial Week at 4 p m will follow the contest with a Ft Gordon Band concert.
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Reginald Simmons
Barry Dickson
Stephanie Wilds
Anne Cooney
Hamburg Depot
Aiken County
Ft. Gordon
Aiken Community Playhouse
Nixon frames Mideast as top danger in war talks
President Nixon defends the Cambodia operation and names David K. E. Bruce as new Paris envoy. Bruce, 72, will assume the post by August 1 and seek to narrow the gap between positions while U S troops faced scrutiny over Cambodia. Nixon cites the Mideast risk and asserts readiness to defend Israel amid Arab Israeli tensions.
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Los Angeles
Nixon
Cambodia
U.S
Paris
David K.E. Bruce
America
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Bruce
Maryland
France
Germany
Great Britain
South Vietnam
Campsite Sold by Sheriff Ends Camp Operation
A 35.65 acre tract near Monetta once used as a camp for underprivileged boys sold for 19000 by Aiken County Sheriff Paul Grant and his wife Eloise. Records show May 14 sale to Robert E. and Jane K. Talbert for 9668.78 cash plus 9331.22 mortgage assumption. The Grants bought the property April 19, 1966 for 10300, ran the camp, and incurred debt to feed and maintain youths while draining the lake and spending 2000 on bulldozing as they faced counselor shortages and finances.
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Monetta
Aiken County
Paul Grant
Robert E
Jane K. Talbert
Aiken First Federal Savings and Loan
Grant
Eloise M. Grant
H. Lenwood Cushman
State Named Beneficiary Of Mrs Iselin Estate
The State of South Carolina is named a beneficiary in the will of Hope Goddard Iselin who died in Aiken on April 5. The will lists more than $100,000 in real property and over $1 million in personal property. It leaves Hopelands in Aiken to the state or to a chosen charitable group for exclusive public or charitable use.
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South Carolina
Hope Goddard Iselin
Aiken
New York
Iselin
Hope Jones
Tuscan Ann
Archer Iselin
Middleburg
Weekly Battlefield Toll Lists 104 Americans Dead
SAIGON AP The US Command announced 104 Americans killed in Indochina last week eight more died in a North Vietnamese attack early today four American aircraft lost over Laos nine air crewmen missing South Vietnamese forces killed 58 of the enemy on the coast 25 miles southeast of the DMZ largest battle in the sector in over a year US and allied casualties totaled 42 858 killed and 282 503 wounded with 653 675 North Vietnamese killed overall.
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Saigon
Indochina
Laos
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Cambodia
101St Airborne Division
Hue
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