Humphrey Campaign Faces Bleaker Path to Nomination
Humphrey confronts mounting trouble as California’s June 6 primary looms. He shifts funds west to halt McGovern, who leads in several states. Michigan and Ohio show weak showings, while Pennsylvania and Florida hint at black-leaning support for McGovern. Oregon and New Jersey portend tougher results as New York looms.
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Wallace Wins Two Primaries as Nixon Dominates Republicans
Gov. George C. Wallace bowls over Michigan with 51 percent and Maryland with 40 percent as he aims to deadlock the Democratic National Convention. McGovern and Humphrey trail. Wallace picks up 113 convention votes to total 323 while McGovern holds 402 delegates nationally.
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Connally Speculation Grows On 1972 Ticket Path
Washington AP reports renewed speculation that John Connally may join Richard Nixon as a running mate in 1972. Agnew questions whether he would want the No. 2 job again and hints the choice may involve Nixon. Connally resigns as Treasury chief saying no political ambitions while praising Nixon.
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Quiet But Tough Shultz To Be treasury Boss
John B. Connally resigns as Treasury secretary handing the post to George P. Shultz. President Nixon notes a changing of the guard with no shift in policy as Shultz, previously OMB director, brings sharp administration and international finance experience to the role.
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Ohio Boundary Claim Denied by Supreme Court Master
Special master Phillip Foreman recommends rejecting Ohio's bid that the boundary with Kentucky lies in the river's midpoint. He notes Ohio's Supreme Court has long held the boundary at the low water mark on the Ohio shore, implying Ohio has acquiesced to Kentucky's claim.
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Bundestag to ratify Brandt pacts easing Cold War tensions
West Germany's Bundestag was set to approve Chancellor Willy Brandt's nonaggression treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland by a strong margin. The pacts renounce force and acknowledge postwar German territorial losses, paving the way for further steps toward European détente ahead of Nixon's Moscow summit.
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West Virginia Manufacturing Jobs Decline 1967 1970
West Virginia saw a drop in manufacturing employment from 133200 in 1967 to 126400 in 1970, while neighboring states Virginia Ohio Pennsylvania and Maryland mostly rose. The WV Manufacturers Association presented the figures to a legislative interim committee noting coal mining jobs are counted in manufacturing. Association president Charles Hamilton said 1971 figures were not yet available.
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Seven Americans Die as Shells Hit Kontum Airfield
North Vietnamese shells struck a U S Air Force C130 at Kontum in the central highlands killing seven Americans and injuring two others. The blast also destroyed an ammunition dump at Pleiku and damaged the Da Nang Hue corridor as fighting raged near Hue and Fire Base Bastogne.
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Senators vote against own ceasefire clause in Case Church move
Key senators backing an end the war amendment say they will oppose the measure due to a White House backed clause requiring a ceasefire before U S troop withdrawal from Vietnam. The 47 to 43 vote adds a ceasefire condition to a Case Church proposal to end all Vietnam war funding four months after prisoners are freed. The clause would trigger only under an internationally supervised cease-fire, a provision supporters say could keep U S forces in Vietnam.
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