Nixon Opens GOP Convention with Quick First Ballot Push
The 29th GOP National Convention opens in Miami Beach as Nixon seeks a first ballot win. Rockefeller and Reagan shoulder hopes to extend balloting beyond two rounds while campaigns focus on securing key delegates. Nixon publicly trails by about 95 to 100 votes with 572 committed.
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Fla
Republican Party
Richard M. Nixon
Associated Press
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Ronald Reagan
California
Rockefeller
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Nixon
Republican Plank Calls for Vietnam Peace Talks Without Surrender
The Republican platform favors peace negotiations in Vietnam without surrender and outlines crime and social reform aims. Sen. Everett Dirksen says no floor battle is expected as the 13,000 word policy declaration, praised by Nixon and Rockefeller, leaves tax changes and prices absent. The document features a Vietnam proviso that remained in dispute at the platform group’s 18 hour session.
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Vietnam
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Rockefeller
Reagan
Associated Press
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
California
Ronald Reagan
Platform Group
Viet Cong clash wounds American general near Saigon
Viet Cong fighters wounded Brig. Gen. Franklin M. Davis Jr. and shot down a helicopter in two battles 13 miles southeast and 24 miles southwest of Saigon. U.S. infantrymen reported 41 enemy killed and 19 weapons captured. two Americans killed and 13 wounded. Davis’s son Stephen was killed in action in 1967.
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Franklin M. Davis Jr
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Davis
Waltham
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Vietnam
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Four Alarm Blaze Destroys Hartzell Warehouse
A four alarm fire in St Paul destroyed a Hartzell Manufacturing warehouse, a 300 by 50 foot frame building used to store dies and packaging for a diecasting firm. Loss estimated at $400,000 or more. The structure was a two story facility owned by Hartzell Manufacturing, Inc.
Republican platform draws Soviet critique in Miami Beach
Tass criticized the Republican convention platform for outlining issues in the United States but failing to propose concrete remedies. In Minnesota a 2-year-old boy, Michael W. Englund, died after being struck by his father's car in a Columbia Heights driveway.
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Fla
Tass
Columbia Heights
Cattleman and Daughter Die in Iowa Air Crash
A Dalhart Texas cattleman Gerald Leon Lasley 43 and his 15 year old daughter Jerri died when their single engine aircraft crashed near Lanyon Iowa during an electrical storm. Greene County Sheriff Roland Riley identified the victims. The crash occurred Sunday as severe weather moved through the area.
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Hijacker with Baby Forces Cuban Flight for Sightseeing Trip
A hijacker armed with a pistol and his infant demanded a plane head to Cuba. Pilot James Vach, 21, was released after three hours at Havana Airport and returned to Florida, turning the trip into a $5 sightseeing excursion.
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Havana
Florida
Border firing leaves multiple dead and wounded
In Seoul an exchange of fire along the Korean frontier killed nine North Koreans and one American. South Korea reported also five American wounded amid a rash of shooting incidents.
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South Korea
Senden
Hormel Estate Trustees Granted Temporary Order
A restraining order keeps the Hormel Foundation as trustees of the Hormel estate until the Minnesota Supreme Court hears the case at 10 a.m. on Sept. 4 in St. Paul. The prior July 25 order removed the Foundation, noting a charity cannot serve as administrator for a private trust. Temporary trustees were named by Dist. Judges Warren Plunkett and Daniel Foley.
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Hormel Foundation
Suspense at 29th Republican National Convention Emerges
A humorous, overheated chronicle of the opening day at the 29th Republican National Convention in Miami. The piece riffs on quorum rumors, party intrigue, hotel prices, and the surreal atmosphere as reporters and attendees navigate security, celebrity presence, and eccentric backstage moments. It name-checks figures and events in a satirical tone.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Abe Lincoln
Miami
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Nixon Nears First Ballot Nomination in AP Survey
Nixon nears a first ballot bid with 572 pledged and uncommitted delegates in AP tallies, 95 needed to hit 667. Rockefeller rises to 232 and Reagan to 161 as Nixon gains include eight from Idaho and other small shifts across Illinois Connecticut Minnesota and more while 187 uncommitted delegates remain a swing factor.
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Fla
Richard M. Nixon
Associated Press
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Ronald Reagan
California
Idaho
Wyo
Sacred Heart Youth Electrocuted Near Family Farm
Wade Kronlokken a 16 year old farm youth from the Sacred Heart area was electrocuted Saturday after contacting a power line near his home. The body was found several hours later and authorities say he apparently climbed a utility pole and fell to the ground when he touched the wire. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Morris Kronlokken who live about six miles south of Sacred Heart.
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Wade Kronlokken
Sacred Heart Area
Morris Kronlokken
Sacred Heart
Truce Holds in Soviet Bloc as Bratislava Talks Signal Czechoslovak Liberty
Prague reports a bloc truce with Soviet press backing stability while Dubcek pledges to continue reform. He cites Bratislava declaration as permission for Czechoslovakia to pursue its liberal path within socialist unity. Spacek notes the declaration favors shared goals but honors different national conditions. Janelle Root watches Windom 4-H booth decorations in Mower County.
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Moscow
Josef Spacek
Czechoslovak Party
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