Muskie Launches Presidential Bid with Call for New Beginning
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie formally begins his 1972 campaign with a nationwide TV buy worth 30000 and a call to change America. He says he seeks not only to change presidents but the country, while Republican leaders accuse him of badmouthing the United States. Muskie files in New Hampshire for the March 7 primary and rallies across 34 states.
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Washington
Edmund S. Muskie
Coy No More
White House
United States
Maine
Presi
Muskie
America
Abraham Lincoln
Nixon
Robert J. Dole
Kennebunk Beach
New York
New Hampshire
New England
Massachusetts
Charles Kurfess
U.S
John Ashbrook
Johnstown
Gordon Scherer
Cincinnati
Ashbrook
Gray
First Strike Of New Year N Viet Attacked SAIGON
North Vietnam saw the first U S air attack of the year as F105 fighters hit an antiaircraft radar site after a period without major raids. MIGs were sighted on the border. U S forces reported no engagements. Bombers targeted DMZ areas and infiltration routes in North and South Vietnam.
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North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Laos
Ing
U.S
Air Force
South Vietnam
Dmz
A Shau
Trang Bang
Mekong
Rach Gia
Final Offer Emerges as Pressmen Expand Unfair Labor Charges
The Athens McBee Plant pressmen union broadens unfair labor practices claims against Litton Industries while Litton presents a take it or leave it contract offer. The firm sticks to the bookbinders' settlement, resisting a more favorable deal and noting limited progress after 12 bargaining sessions. Union security remains a key dispute as decertification petitions loom.
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Tom Price
Messenger
Pressmen’s Union
Athens McBee
Litton Industries
Litton
Surviving Jungle Trek Ends As 17-Year-Old Found Safe
Juliane Koepcke, 17, survived a Christmas Eve air crash in the Peruvian jungle. She wandered for days, swam flooded areas, built a raft, and reached a wood cutters camp before being flown to a missionary center near Pucallpa and later reunited with her father. Her mother remains missing.
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Lima
Peru
Juliane Koepcke
Tournavista
Pachitea
U.S
Pucallpa
Juliane
Hans Koepcke
Iquitos
Lineas Aereas Nacionales
Amanda de Pina
Ohio solons return to tackle redistricting and pay raise
Ohio lawmakers resumed business after a holiday break to address congressional redistricting, state employee pay increases, and an election bill. The plan includes changes to the compromise redistricting proposal and possible amendments from the House, with debate over reforming district lines and party delegate voting rules.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Theodore Gray
Gray
Congress
William McCulloch
Piqua
Jackson Betts
Findlay
McCulloch
Betts
Brown
Democratic Party
FBI Probes Leaks From National Security Council
FBI investigations center on leaks of highly classified information to newsmen tied to the National Security Council led by Henry Kissinger. Sources say the probe began after columnist Jack Anderson published purported verbatim notes from White House meetings on India Pakistan and the Middle East. The State and Defense departments were checked with no evidence they supplied the leaks.
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FBI
National Security Council
Henry Kissinger
Jack Anderson
White House
India-Pakistan
Middle East
Anderson
Riously
Departments of State and Defense
State
Pentagon
Nixon Meets Space Officials as Apollo Winds Down
President Nixon called NASA administrators Dr. James Fletcher and George M. Low to the Western White House to discuss post Apollo programs. Fletcher planned to brief reporters and hint at NASA’s future research and development goals amid discussions of Earthly applications of space technology.
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Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Space Agency
White House
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James Fletcher
NASA
George M. Low
Fletcher
New Orders Allow British Troops to Use Firearms in NI
The British army in Northern Ireland issued a 20 paragraph yellow card granting 14 000 troops permission to use machine guns on city streets as well as rifles and pistols. The orders address the campaign by IRA gunmen to oust the British from the province.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
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National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
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Norene Arnst
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the Messenger
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Kurfess
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Ted Brown
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