McGovern Backers Sue Over California Delegates Seat
California supporters of Senator George McGovern filed suit in Washington asking for a restraining order to block a revised California delegation from being seated at the Democratic convention opening July 10 in Miami Beach. The dispute centers on the Credentials Committee's 151 to 271 split among Humphrey Wallace and others after overruling California's winner take all primary.
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Edmund S. Muskie
Sissippi
Michigan
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Sen
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Maryland
Blair Lee III
Plot to smuggle C 4 and weapons aimed at Cuba exposed
Nine arrested in a $465000 munitions smuggling scheme stretching from New York to Texas and Louisiana with a Shreveport C-4 seizure. Officials say the batches were intended for Cuba but arrest details also reference Diaz and Carlos Diaz as suppliers.
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Murray Kessler
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N.Y
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Baton Rouge
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United States
Richmond Harper
South Texas
Marion Hegler
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Eagle Pass
Tex
Carlos Diaz
Nation Celebrates 196th Birthday With Stars and Stripes Show
Oklahoma City hosted The 1972 Stars and Stripes Show as red white and blue crowds filled the arena. Bob Hope Anita Bryant Nancy Wilson and Mickey Mantle headlined a $300000 patriotic spectacle NBC taped for a Tuesday broadcast. Federal events framed Independence Day with a Yankee Doodle Dandy contest in Philadelphia and FBI Director Gray delivering remarks at Independence Hall. Nixon and wife planned a quiet White House holiday in San Clemente.
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San Clemente
Lockheed Struggles With Debt Despite Government Aid
Lockheed Aircraft Corp faces bankruptcy risk despite Pentagon backing a $250 million loan guarantee and British support for Rolls Royce engines. The company owes $500 million to banks after using $100 million of the guarantee. The Tristar L1011 jet, key to its future, has weak orders as the airline market remains in a slump.
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Rolls Royce
Rolls
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Ohio toll hits 18 on holiday highways
The Associated Press reports 18 people dead in Ohio during the 102 hour holiday period, with four in two double-death crashes. Pedestrians and motorcyclists make up part of the toll as the year’s fifth worst weekend.
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Associated Press
Ohio Department of Highway Safety
Blue mold devastates tobacco in Kentucky Ohio and Indiana
University of Kentucky expert Dr. J. H. Smiley warns blue mold in barley is harming tobacco crops across Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and Indiana. Warmer weather is the only accepted remedy as the fungus thrives around 70 degrees and no approved fungicides exist.
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Seven Die in Belfast Violence Across Sectarian Weekend
Seven men were shot in the head during a violent weekend in Belfast casting doubt on the cease-fire. At least two victims were Catholics, three Protestants, and one 19 year old English Jehovah's Witness. Authorities suspect Protestant extremists or IRA linked squads. a separate kidnapping involved Gusty Spence as UDA threats of retaliation surfaced.
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366 Perish On Nation's Highways
Six Columbia residents died in a fiery crash at an intersection near West Columbia after their car failed to stop for a traffic light and sped over 100 mph. The collision with three parked trucks raised the Independence Day weekend highway death toll. separate crash near Litchfield Illinois killed four and badly injured another.
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Litchfield
Illinois
Indo Pakistan Peace Accord Reached At Simla
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfikar Bhutto announced a peace agreement after five days of talks at Simla. They agreed on staged troop withdrawals except in Kashmir, resumption of communications and trade, and peaceful settlement of disputes.
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Nixon Spends Most of 1972 Away From White House
President Nixon has spent about two thirds of 1972 away from the White House in the first half of the year. He favored Aspen Lodge at Camp David and Key Biscayne with Grand Cay nearby, while his wife Pat accompanied him from Chicago.
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