Nixon Soviet SALT accord near to curb nuclear arms
Nixon and Kosygin reached a two part SALT settlement after years of talks. One part would become a treaty on defensive antiballistic missile sites and require Senate ratification. The companion executive agreement would freeze offensive missiles at present US levels with Soviets allowed to catch up in launcher platforms.
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Moscow
Nixon
U.S. Senate
United States
U.S
Bolshoi Ballet
Tanks Destroyed as US Missiles Break Viet Nam Tank Assault
US forces used electronically guided missiles to stop a tank attack on Kontum City. A dozen tanks were destroyed. South Vietnamese Marines repelled a fourth assault near My Chanh north of Hue. North Vietnamese casualties were listed at 192 killed. Vietnamese losses at seven dead and 34 wounded. Haiphong air campaign targeted bridges and a power plant near Vinh. A Navy A4 jet was lost with the pilot missing. Kontum saw heavy fighting for a second day while Quang Tri, the northern provincial capital, had fallen May 1. U.S. helicopter TOW missiles destroyed 10 of 12 tanks. three tanks were American-made M48s captured earlier.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Kontum City
Highlands
My Chanh
Hue
Pleiku
Ohio House Rejects Supreme Court Rules and Approves Drug Tip Reward
In Columbus the Ohio House voted 72 to 11 to reject the Supreme Court proposed rules of criminal procedure, delaying automatic July 1 adoption. The chamber also approved a drug informants bill, offering rewards up to 500 dollars for tips leading to convictions and coding informants’ identities.
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Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Court
Alan Norris
Norris
Westerville
Ohio Supreme Court
House
Senate
Lawmak
Lehman
Woman Pleaded Guilty To Murder Gets 10 Years In Church
Eartha Lee Griffith, 28, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Orlando. Judge Claude Edwards offered a 10 year option to attend church each Sunday through 1982, plus a high school diploma, and $2,000 court costs. He noted extenuating circumstances and that he himself attends church irregularly.
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Orlando
Fla
Eartha Lee Griffith
Circuit Court
Claude R. Edwards
Edwards
The
First Methodist Church
Russians Reported With Submarines in South China Sea
Four Russian E class nuclear powered missile firing submarines were located about 700 miles east of the Vietnamese coast in the South China Sea, a Defense Department briefing said, placing them beyond the range of most U S warships patrolling off North Vietnam.
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Washington
South China Sea
Defense Department
North Vietnam
Ohio Guard to buy 500 riot control shotguns
The Ohio National Guard seeks 500 Remington 12 gauge pump shotguns with related supplies. The State Controlling Board approved release of 41,250 dollars to the Adjutant General for the purchase for use during civil disturbances and riot control. A separate item notes NAACP suit in Huntington seeks to halt federal funds to perpetuate racially discriminatory hiring by West Virginia state police.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio National Guard
Adjutant General
State Controlling Board
Adjutant General’s Office
NAACP
Huntington
W. Va
U. S
West Virginia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Kent Faculty Salaries Climb Despite Inflation
Kent State University trustees approved pay raises for faculty and staff described as minimal. President Glenn A. Olds criticized the raises for not matching the cost of living increases amid rising inflation.
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Kent, Ohio
Kent State University Board of Trustees
KSU
Glenn A. Olds
Bomb explodes at vacant store used by Breed gang in Cleveland
A bomb exploded early today in a vacant West Side store used temporarily by Breed motorcycle gang members. Daphne Lindsey, 26, wife of a gang member living on the building’s second floor, was injured.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Breed
Daphne Lindsey
Violence Escalates in Northern Ireland Amid Peace Push
Belfast and surrounding towns faced intensified violence as British troops fought gunmen at several sites. A bomb damaged a small town center while a Catholic man was tarred, feathered, and shot, and peace activists faced Republican opposition from grassroots IRA supporters.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Nixon Opposes Tax Increase but Hints at Substitutes
President Nixon opposes a tax increase next year if re elected but does not rule out a value added tax as a substitute for the property tax. Ehrlichman says the 1974 budget will not include a tax increase and cites possible alternatives such as income or excise taxes.
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Nixon
Washington
White House
John Ehrlichman
Congress
Ehrlichman
West Virginia moves to eradicate wild marijuana crop
West Virginia officials launched a program to eradicate a wild marijuana plant along the Potomac River in Hampshire County. The legislature declared the weed noxious and allotted 30 000 dollars for this year and the next to fund spraying and enforcement with a five year goal. Hundreds from the Washington Baltimore area previously harvested leaves, leading to 31 arrests and 13 canoe seizures in a single weekend.
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Romney
W. Va
West Virginia
Potomac River
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Sea Ziegler
Gerard Smith
Vladimir Semenov
Helsinki
Smith
Leonid Zamyatin
Semenov
Valentin Zorin
Freedom For
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Podgorny
Haiphong
Vinh
Kontum
Quang Tri
Esie Ns
Ers
Westerville Republican
General Assembly
Harry Lehman
C-56
Shaker Heights
James Thorpe
R- 90
Alliance
Thorpe
Ernor
Eddie Lee Lampkin
Atlantic
Daytona Beach
Fila
Coast Guard
Kent
Ireland
Brookings Institution
Brookings
Treasury
John B
Connally
Texas
Capitol Hill
George P. Shultz
West Va
Panhandle
State Department of Agriculture
Hampshire County
Cials
Washington-Baltimore
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