Could GOP provocateurs stir unrest at Democratic convention
The Austin Daily Herald questions if the GOP planted agents among protest groups at the Miami Beach convention. It cites Zippies and Hippies threatening trouble, warns riots could help Nixon, and questions whether some demonstrators are secretly working for the Republicans or merely influenced by drugs.
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Miami Beach
Nixon
Adgast
Peoples Coalition For Peace and Justice
Students For A
The
United States
Chicago
GOP
Nixon Meany share golf cart and confidences on links
Washington story notes Nixon and AFL CIO chief George Meany rode together at Burning Tree Country Club sharing a golf cart and talks spanning Vietnam, economy, and policy. The piece links the pairing to labor and wage policy ahead of key Pay Board decisions and possible upcoming political moves.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
Washington White House
San Clemente
Richard Nixon
George Meany
U.S
Afl-Cio
Burning Tree Country Club
William Rogers
Treasury
George Schultz
Nixon
Meany and Company
Vietnam
Meany
Mr. Nixon
Congress
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Labor
Jim Hodgson
Teamsters
Frank
Fitz) Fitzsimmons
Camping sites grow as travelers seek values and scenery
A Illinois publisher reports rising camping interest with 709858 sites in 1970 to 820059 in 1971, a gain of 110201. Electric hookups up 81218, water 65218, sewer 27211. Minnesota offers 20093 total campsites with 14122 privately owned and 5981 on state lands along northern lakes.
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Illinois
Minnesota
Silent AGI-Business System Boosts U.S. Agriculture
A commentary praises the American agricultural system blending technology, mechanization, and scientific management. It notes record food and fiber production, surplus for domestic needs and aid to starving regions, plus Soviet interest in long-term grain purchases. The piece contrasts capitalist agriculture with socialist climates and productivity.
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Earl L. Batz
Moscow
Ussr
U.S
Educational rifts split NEA and School Administrators
After over a century of shared space in Washington the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators will separate. The NEA, about one million members, houses teachers, while the administrators group of 18,000 moves to a new headquarters as militancy over pay and conditions grows.
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America
Teache S
National Education Assn
NEA
American Assn
Washington
Opinions of Others Free Society and Thieu's Repression
A critical column condemns Thieu's South Vietnamese regime for using martial law to widen police control and suppress dissent. It argues arrests rest on weak evidence amid a broader U.S. policy shift to empower police, while citing biblical and political quotes. The piece appears in a compilation of editorials and notices from an Austin Minnesota newspaper.
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Thieu
South Vietnam
Unitedates
City council considers ambulance operation changes and charter shift
Last night the city council examined a new method for operating the city ambulance, approved a pay raise for street department workers, and discussed widening Myrtle street by half a block. The session also highlighted a proposal to amend the city charter to alter mayoral appointment powers on the water and light board without council confirmation.
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Myrtle Street
Water and Light Board
State spending exceeds receipts by 1.6 billion in last year
The U S Commerce Department reported that states spent 98.8 billion while earning 97.2 billion, resulting in a 1.6 billion deficit. Education led outlays at 35.1 billion, followed by public welfare 16.3 billion, highways 14.8 billion, and hospitals 4.6 billion.
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U.S. Commerce Dept
Quick Quiz Facts From Trivia Q A Set
A compact Q and A roundup answers a range of trivia questions. It covers undefeated world heavyweight champs two Gene Tunney and Rocky Marciano, longest blooming flowers orchids five weeks or more, mercury liquid at room temperature, earthworms lacking eyes, the Solid South dating to 1876, Crux on Australia’s flag, Apostle Paul as first great missionary, Paul Whitman king of Jazz, Cambodians’ language Emer with 74 letters, Charles Curtis as VP of Indian ancestry, and four to six dreams per night per science.
Nixon campaign stresses high road in 1972 race
Republican strategists maintain Nixon and Agnew can win re election if they stay disciplined and avoid personal attacks. They aim for an issue oriented contest to unite Democrats behind McGovern's divisions, with Nixon watching the Miami Beach convention from the White House and delivering the acceptance speech on August 23.
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Washington
NEA
Nixon
Agnew
George McGovern
Miami Beach
White House
Spiro Agnew
McGovern
Thomas Eagleton
Anchorage
Alaska
South Dakota
U.S
Peking
Moscow
Vietnam
Global View: Dikes as Bomb Targets in North Vietnam
North Vietnam faces ongoing dike damage amid war. Officials debate bombing strategies with some Pentagon and White House figures opposing dike strikes as counterproductive. Air attacks surrounding dikes risk massive floods, hurting crops and low-lying cities, while repair labor is stretched and floods may continue regardless of bombing.
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Washington
NEA
United States
Nixon
North Vietnam
Pentagon
White House
Defense
Melvin Laird
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Air Force
Navy Air
Hanoi
North
Vietnam
Today in History for August Seventh 1972
The Associated Press notes events on this date including 1789 War and Navy departments established, 1782 Washington founded the Order of the Purple Heart, 1804 American fleet bombards Tripoli, 1912 Roosevelt nominated, 1941 Soviet raids on Berlin, 1957 Abel indictment, 1962 West Germany warns neutrality, 1967 Arab merchants strike Jerusalem, 1971 Apollo 15 splashdown, and a thought from Ovid.
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Associated Press
U.S. War and Navy Departments
George Washington
Order of the Purple Heart
Mediterranean
Tripoli
Progressive Party
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Berlin
Brooklyn
Col
Rudolf Abel
West Germa
Old City
Jerusalem
Israel
Old Quarter
Jordan
Pacific
Ovid
Barbs on Savings for Vacation and Roof Repair
A brief note explains that anyone who saves for a vacation will have just enough money set aside to repair the roof. It frames savings as a balance between leisure plans and home maintenance.
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Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Auto Union
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Steel
I. W. Abel
Red Smith
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2Nd St. N.E
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Edmund E. Smith
Thomas J. Koeck
Magle
Milwaukee Journal
South
National Cotton Council
Mason City Globe Gazette
Mower County Fair
Friedel Steffens
Sarah Guy
Bearys World
NEA, Inc
Gene Tunney
Rocky Marciano
Australia
the Apostle Paul
Paul Whitman
Emer
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Ray Cromley
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