Peking and Washington to set up liaison offices
The United States and China announce official liaison offices in Washington and Peking to speed normalization and expand trade. Kissinger says offices will have full diplomatic privileges but not imply formal diplomatic relations, following talks with Mao and Chou En Lai.
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Washington
United States
China
Peking
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Chou En-lai
Taiwan
William P. Rogers
Chi Peng-fei
Paris
Hanoi
Chou
Mao
Two Towns Captured In Laos Violations
North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops captured two towns in southern Laos after the cease-fire began. Government troops retreated toward the Mekong River from Paksong as heavy shelling and ground attacks drove them from Muong Phalane, with reports of high violations and guarded confirmations from Laotian sources.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet Lao
Plain of Jars
Mekong River
Paksong
8Th Regiment
Pakse
Mekong
Muong Phalane
Savannakhet
U.S
America
Saigon
Laotian Communist Army
Supreme Command
Souvanna Phouma
Souvanna
Souphanouvong
Sam Neua
Thieu urges Soviet China to halt war material flows
President Thieu called on the Soviet Union and China to stop supplying war materials to North Vietnam to prevent a renewal of Communist aggression. He indicated a potential Nixon meeting next month at the Western White House and noted Laos cease fire should accompany Vietnam’s.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Soviet Union
China
North Vietnam
Nixon
White House
San Clemente
Calif
Thieu
Vietnam
Paris
Russia
Red China
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
Israel Denounced for Shooting Libyan Airliner Killing 105
The world condemned Israel after it shot down a Libyan Boeing 727 killing more than 100 people. Libya cites 105 dead with 112 aboard. survivors reported nine. Israel says the pilot refused orders to land amid overflight of Israeli sites. News notes U.N. condolences and global reactions.
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Associated Press
Israel
Nixon
Libya
Egypt
Suez Canal
Ohio Viet Nam veterans bonus vote unlikely this May
An unofficial conference committee was named to resolve differences in Vietnam veterans bonus financing. The key barrier is how to pay the $300 million bonds, with options of new taxes or committing general revenue to pay $24 million yearly for 15 years. Most expect delays until November.
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Columbus, Ohio
General Revenue Fund
Senate
Theodore M. Gray
Columbus
Conference Committee
House
Beagle Pups Sold Fast in Radcliff Ad
Alex Christian of Route 1 Radcliff advertised Beagle pups for sale. He reported selling all the puppies in two days. The brief notice promotes selling various items from pups to other goods.
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Alex Christian
Radcliff
Nixon to Recommend Tax Reform and Unemployment Bills
President Nixon said he would urge Congress to pass a tax reform bill built on 1969 and 1971 reforms and to submit measures to improve unemployment compensation, minimum wage laws, the private pension system, and transportation policy. He urged a $269 billion spending ceiling for 1974 and tied higher taxes to overruns. He also proposed an income tax credit for private school tuition.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
State of the Union
House
Ways and Means
Snow Arrives in Athens After Dry Winter
After a notably dry winter in Athens, snowfall finally appears, surprising residents and blanketing streets and rooftops in a rare winter event. The scene shifts as winter weather returns, bringing reports of slushy roads and cautious travel.
Food prices surge marks biggest monthly jump since 1951
Washington reports January 1951 style surge as food costs jump 2.1 percent in one month, the largest since 1951. Clothing and used car prices offset the gain, keeping total consumer prices up 0.3 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gold Hits Record European Highs Amid Devaluation
In London gold rose $3.63 at opening to a new peak of $83 an ounce marking a nearly $15 rise since the U S currency devaluation. In Washington the Navy ordered two aircraft carriers home from Asian waters reducing Indochina air power by about 100 bombers and attack planes.
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China
Air Force
Philip E. Smith
Navy
Robert J. Flynn
John Thomas Downey
Central Intelligence Agency
Kissinger
Downey
London
Europe
U.S
Washington
Asian
Vietnam
Midway
Alameda
Calif
America
Norfolk
Indochina
Wallace Physically Unable to Govern Alabama Say Newsman
Pulitzer prize winner Harold E. Martin claims Governor George C. Wallace is physically unable to govern Alabama. The remark stirs health controversy and paves the way for pension talks while Wallace weighs a possible third term in 1974.
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Wallace
Montgomery
Ala
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Harold E. Martin
Montgomery Advertiser-Alabama Journal
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Sinai
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Kurt Waldheim
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Damascus
Beirut
Lorient-Le Jour
Hafez Ismail
Ismail
Anwar Sadat
Messenger
Portation Systems
Dea Dry
Athens
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