Bicentennial of Revere Ride Launches American Revolution
A 1775 parade of British officers from Boston spurs the alarm that begins the American Revolution. Solomon Brown spots the riders near Boston and Lexington informs Capt. Parker and guards are sent to Adams and Hancock. Revere warns of a looming military move as authorities seal Boston for the night.
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Paul Revere
Lexington and Concord
Don McLoud
Associated Press
Boston
Solomon Brown
Lexington
Brown
Province House
John Ballard
William Dawes
Grenadiers
Charlies River
Thomas Gage
Revere
Revere the Mechanic and Midnight Rider: A Boston Patriot
Steven Kane will portray Paul Revere in a local reenactment starting at 7 30 pm from East State Street recreation center. He rides to Lexington and joins a Minuteman band toward the county courthouse where an 8 15 pm town meeting re creation is set.
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Steven Kane
Paul Revere
East State Street Recreation Center
Minutemen
North Vietnamese pressure grows around Saigon amid new clashes
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces pressed toward Saigon’s coastal enclave with shelling at Bien Hoa and attacks on Phan Thiet, Phan Rang, and nearby districts. Officials note intensified radio silence and ongoing cross-border activity as Cambodian turmoil unfolds and U S intelligence reports bolstering divisions near the Saigon region.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Bien Hoa
Phan Thiet
Binh Thuan
Phan
Thiet
Phan Rang
Cambodia
Radio
Humanitarian Funds Advance Panel Balks at Viet Aid Bid
Congress again hesitates to approve more military aid to South Vietnam while eyeing humanitarian assistance tied to evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese. Senate and House panels debate a total near 1.0 billion in aid, with Kissinger calling Vietnam a lost sphere of U.S. influence and urging cautious, limited action.
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Congress
South Vietnam
Senate
Armed Services Committee
House Inter
National Relations Committee
House
Ford
Secretary
Henry A. Kissinger
Indochina
U.S
Vietnam
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Kissinger
United States
Hanoi
Southeast Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Appropriations Committee
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
Connally Quietly Plans Return After Acquittal
Former treasury secretary John B. Connally says he hopes to resume political life after being found not guilty on bribery charges. He spoke outside federal court after the six hour deliberation, expressing no firm plans but happiness for his family and a possible future role in politics.
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Treasury
John B. Connally
Nellie
U.S. District Court
Washington
Connally
Federal Court
Jake Jacobsen
Dairymen
Jacobsen
Nell
Edward Bennett Williams
Sharon
Texas
Conspiracy Theories Surface Over Faisal Death
Arab officials in Washington say King Faisal’s alleged assassin may not have acted alone, diverging from the Saudi government’s initial account though they offered no specifics. In Paris, Christiana Onassis denies a dispute with Jacqueline Onassis over Aristotle Onassis’s will and calls rumors of a planned divorce before his death untrue.
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Faisal
Washington
Paris
Aristotle Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Christiana Onassis
Metros with Substantial Unemployment Reach Record 105
The Labor Department added thirty-one communities to the list of metropolitan areas with substantial unemployment, raising the total to a record 105. A year earlier the number was 41. In Ohio, John F. Evans of Mechanicsburg was named state fair manager by the Ohio Expositions Commission, succeeding Victor Lucas who resigned.
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Washington
Labor Department
Columbus
Ohio
John F. Evans
Mechanicsburg
Evans
Victor Lucas
Weather outlook showers tonight and through Saturday
The forecast calls for showers and thundershowers tonight with lows in the mid to upper 50s. A chance of showers Saturday followed by cooler conditions with highs in the mid to upper 60s.
Ohio House OKs Emergency School Aid Measure
Ohio representatives approved an emergency bill to add about 3 million in state aid to school districts this year amid 135 million in recent supplemental funds. Rep. Tulley called for saving every dollar while Rep. Sweeney framed the move as correcting an error in the budget’s school aid method.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph P. Tulley
Patrick A. Sweeney
G Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Sweeney
Tulley
Lake County
Senate
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