Park says U.S. troops should stay
South Korean President Park Chung Hee tells The Associated Press that U.S. forces must remain in Korea until North Asia threats are eliminated. He cites Soviet Union China and North Korea as threats and notes no withdrawal is foreseen. Park also discusses economic self sufficiency and Okinawa base issues.
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Chung Hee Park
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North Korea
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Associated Press
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San Francisco
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Motorcycle crash claims Austin youth life
Michael Raschke an 18 year old Austin area youth died in a motorcycle crash on CSAH 28 when he struck a guard rail. His body was found in the Cedar River about 100 feet from the impact after a passerby spotted the motorcycle. The Mower County sheriff and coroner ruled death from head injuries. He planned to report to the Marine Corps in late September after graduating from Austin High School in 1969. Funeral arrangements set for Queen of Angels Church with wake at Mayer Funeral Home.
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Michael Raschke
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Austin High School
Mower County
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Oakland
Jeffery Ricke
Grand Meadow
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Minnesota
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Kenneth
Mary) Cook
Nancy Raschke
Gilbert Raschke
St. Paul
Inez Kneeland
New Brighton
Minn
Queen of Angels Church
Calvary Cemetery
Mayer Funeral Home
Israel calls on nations to save Jews in Arab lands
Israel's Knesset urged all states and parliaments to act to rescue Jews in Iraq Syria and Egypt before it is too late and called for a UN inquiry into Arab world Jewish crises. Prime Minister Golda Meir accused the U N Human Rights Commission of bias and urged urgent action from UN bodies.
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Associated Press
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Iraq
Syria
Egypt
United Nations
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Baghdad
Golda Meir
U.S. Human Rights Commission
Irish clubs back Devlin crusade in Detroit
United Irish American Clubs of Michigan voted to support Bernadette Devlin’s fundraising visit in Detroit where she tours the United States to aid Catholics in Northern Ireland. Some groups threatened a boycott, while sponsors include the New Democratic Coalition and reports tie sponsors to other political groups and committees.
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Ireland
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United Irish American Clubs
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Northern Ireland
Irish Rovers
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New Democratic Coalition
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Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
al Fishman
Detroit News
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New York Peace and Freedom Party Organizing Committee
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Eldridge Cleaver
U.S. curtails B 52 raids as Vietnam talks stall
The United States announces major steps to reduce Viet nam war violence including limits on B52 raids in South Vietnam. With North Vietnam silent, President Nixon defers troop withdrawals and warns that no settlement is possible while North Vietnam rejects mutual withdrawal of all non South Vietnamese troops. Ambassador Lodge told the deadlocked peace talks that over 130 battalions of regular North Vietnamese forces are actively engaged against South Vietnam.
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Associated Press
PARIS
United States
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Nixon
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Democratic Republic of
North
Vietnam
North Vietnam Rejects Mutual Troop Withdrawals in Talks
In Hanoi backed talks, North Vietnam’s Xuan Thuy denounced the U.S. demand for mutual troop withdrawals as a trick to prolong occupation and protect the puppet regime. He insisted South Vietnam must determine its own future with North Vietnamese forces remaining? The article notes South Vietnam’s people seeking freedom only if North Vietnamese troops return home.
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North Vietnam
U.S
Battle casualties dip for both sides
U S and allied forces saw lower counts last week as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese offensives slowed. American deaths reached 190 with 1 367 wounded, while South Vietnamese losses were 398 dead and 928 wounded. Enemy fatalities totaled 2 757, continuing sporadic clashes and a major terrorist attack near Phu My killing 24 and wounding 81.
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Phuoc Long
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Air Force
da Nang
South China Sea
Phu My
Russians Probe Opinion on China Attack Plans
Washington reports say the Soviet Union is sounding out international views on a potential Russian strike against Red China's atomic facilities. Western party sources last month circulated such a reaction, but other reports cast doubt on the accuracy of those claims and suggest misinformation or exaggeration.
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Lady Bird Johnson Grove dedicated in redwood park
In Orick California President Nixon and Mrs Johnson celebrated conservation efforts. Lady Bird urged bipartisan support and spoke of conserving the continent for children and grandchildren while a 300 acre grove was proclaimed in her name. Birthday cake and serenades marked her 61st birthday.
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Calif
Nixon
Lady Bird Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
San Clemente
California
Black construction drive shifts from street to talks
Pittsburgh leaders announce a conference to negotiate on increasing black participation in construction. Ten major projects worth over 200 million dollars pause work for three days after protests by hundreds, with Black Construction Coalition, NAACP, and Mayor Barr urging talks with the Master Builders' Association and unions to win black employment.
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Black Construction Coalition
Byrd Brown
Master Builders’ Association
Trade Unions Council
Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Joseph Barr
Brown
Barr
Mayo surgeon Henry Meyerding dies at 84 in Rochester
Dr. Henry W. Meyerding, former president of the International College of Surgeons and founder of the World Medical Association, died in a Rochester hospital at age 84. He retired in 1949 as an orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic after a year of heart illness.
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Rochester, Minn
Henry W. Meyerding
International College of Surgeons
World Medical Association
Rochester Hospital
Meyerding
Mayo Clinic
Former Minnesota governor Edward Thye dies at 73
Edward Thye, longtime Minnesota official who served as governor and U.S. senator, died at his Northfield area farm at age 73 after a struggle with emphysema. Born April 20, 1896, Thye began in state service in 1939 under Harold Stassen, later becoming lieutenant governor and governor in 1943. his 1952 Senate win was the last by a Republican chosen from a rural Minnesota background.
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Minn
Edward Thye
Minnesota
United States
Thye
Senate
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Congress
Harold Stassen
Stassen
U.S. Senate
Dakota
Guard plane missing with four crew in Alaska
A four-engine North Dakota Air National Guard plane vanished in Alaska during a routine flight from Elmendorf AFB to King Salmon. The C54 carried four crew members, including passengers Wahpeton bound personnel, and the duration was about one hour and twenty minutes.
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Anchorage
Alaska
North Dakota Air National Guard
Elmendorf Air Force Base
King Salmon
Senger
Wahpeton
Tricia Nixon Leaves Hospital After Health Check
Tricia Nixon, smiling but slow, left Walter Reed Army Hospital this morning two days after admission for abdominal pains. She waved to photographers as she walked down the steps to a White House limousine, accompanied by Brig. Gen. Carl W. Hughes, hospital commander.
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Washington (Ap
Tricia Nixon
Walter Reed Army Hospital
White House
Carl W. Hughes
Pioneer 10 wrecked after booster out of control at sea
AP dispatches report Pioneer 10 valued at 17 million dollars was destroyed when its booster rocketry failed and the spacecraft sank to the Atlantic floor. Other items note Minnesota as 1971 National Legislative Conference site choice and police protected schools amid integration clashes in New Iberia with a city curfew.
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Atlantic Ocean
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Minnesota
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New Iberia
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