Dubcek Sees End of New Czech Crisis
Prague AP says Communist party chief Alexander Dubcek declared reform leadership has overcome perhaps the most serious crisis since the 1968 Soviet invasion. He addressed 1,500 officers and workers, attacking conservative Moscow aligned opponents and urging removal of special groups disturbing unified party action.
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Prague
Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Dubcek
Jan Palach
Palach
Legislators Told of Airplane Need in Minnesota
Minnesota officials told a Senate Finance subcommittee that the state needs an eight-passenger first-class aircraft. Commissioner Lawrence E. McCabe cited an aging 25 year old highway department plane and urged a new turbo prop at about 500000 with trade in of an eight year old Beechcraft. The craft would serve the governor, legislators, officials and visiting dignitaries, with limited use for Aeronautics Department business.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Lawrence E. McCabe
Aeronautics Deartment
Highway Department
McCabe
Senate
Twin Cities
Aeronautics Department
Highway and Conservation Departments
Bridge repair study underway at Mississippi River span
Minnesota and Wisconsin highway engineers met in Winona to study damages to the Mississippi River Bridge linking Wabasha Minnesota and Nelson Wisconsin and to discuss possible repairs.
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Winona, Minn
Highway Department
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Mississippi River
Wabasha
Minn
Nelson
Wis
Saigon Cancels Military Leaves Before Tet Cease Fire
Saigon suspends all military leaves from Feb 10 to prevent Viet Cong surprise attacks during Tet. Government forces go to 100 percent duty, with troops stationed at bases around the clock. Tet falls Feb 17. Viet Cong sets Feb 15–22 cease-fire. US reports 36 enemy dead, two Marine helicopter crashes with eight fatalities. Hanoi radio says NLF sets revolutionary committees across nine provinces and about 300 villages.
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Saigon
Viet Cong
Nuyyen van Thieu
da Nang
Marine Corps
U.S. 25Th Division
Radio
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
South Vietnam
Nixon Asks Senate to Ratify Nuclear Pact Promptly
President Nixon urged the Senate to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty promptly to advance negotiation with the USSR. He noted his past call to delay ratification after Czechoslovakia, and affirmed his condemnation of that Soviet action. He also ordered the Agriculture Department to continue 50 percent advances to feed grains participants, citing farmers’ need for notice of changes.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
U.S.S.R
Czechoslovakia
Agriculture Department
Lyndon 8. Johnson
Allies Study Peace Force for Vietnam
Paris AP reports U S and South Vietnamese negotiators are examining a three nation peace force of neutral Asian states to guarantee any Vietnam settlement. Japan Indonesia and Burma are the most cited possibilities as talks proceed in Paris. Vietnam Hanoi and the Viet Cong’s NLF have not joined the private discussions amid a deadlocked conference over political settlement versus military de escalation.
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Paris
U.S
Vietnam
Japan
Indonesia
Burma
United States
Hanoi
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
South Vietnam
Saigon
New Secret Navy Submarine Dolphin Arrives for Tests
The Dolphin, a secret Navy research submarine about half the size of a regular sub, arrived at Newport Naval Base for tests after being launched June 8 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire.
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Providence, R.I
Dolphin
Newport Naval Base
Portmouth Naval Shipyard
New Hampshire
Open Schools After Mild Weather Across Morris Area
Mild weather let hundreds of Minnesota students return to class in Morris and about 25 area schools after snow closures since January 22. A Minneapolis driver was fined 15 dollars for parking on a street after plowing, under a revised Snow Emergency Ordinance. Civil defense teams scout snow conditions in the southwest, and county officials seek emergency transport for pregnant residents.
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Morris
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Mercury
Twin Cities
Hennepin County
C. William Sykora
Civil Defense
Phillip A. Iverson
Wallace Hoaglund
Governor's Office
Steven County
Minnesota House approves permanent studded tire use bill
A House Highways Committee panel backed making studded snow tires permanent from Oct 15 to May 1, despite a Highway Department study noting road wear. Gov. LeVander’s spokesman supported the measure as Senate moves on a related right turn on red proposal with 59-1 vote.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
House Highways Committee
Highway Department
Harold LeVander
House
Senate
Karl Grittner
Italywide 24 hour strike hits heavy industry
AP reports a 24 hour national strike in Italy disrupts heavy industry though early estimates show about half of the labor force participated. In the United States UC Berkeley Chancellor Heyns vows arrests and suspensions for striking students amid clashes with police leaving 20 jailed and nine hospitalized. Separately St Paul hearings scrutinize gasoline prize games, labeled a swindle, as a bill to ban such promotions faces scrutiny while a major oil company defends the practice as fair and beneficial to operators.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Roger W. Heyns
ST. Paul
House
Harvard Arts and Sciences votes to withdraw ROTC credit
The Harvard faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to withdraw academic credit from all ROTC courses and to terminate the use of university facilities by ROTC personnel, moving to end university support for ROTC programs.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Eight die as air taxi crashes on takeoff in Port Angeles
An AP report says a twin engine air taxi crashed and burned during takeoff in Port Angeles Washington just before dawn killing eight passengers and two pilots on board. The piece also covers Nixon education task force proposed federal education funding and the release of American oil engineer Paul Bail by Iraqi authorities in Baghdad with CBS dispatches.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Washington
Nixon
Task Force On
New York
Paul Bail
Columbia Broadcasting System
Baghdad
CBS
Richard C. Hottelet
Bail
Elizabeth
Protests Anew in West Bank and Gaza Strips
Protests flare in two sectors as Arab students face curfews and closures in Nablus and Ramallah while Gaza schools reopen after a two day shutdown. Nablus residents petition Defense Minister Dayan amid calls to end alleged abuses as Gaza clashes injure 93 girls. In Cairo the Palestine National Council vows to keep guerrilla attacks. Eban criticizes Nasser’s settlement terms as Washington downplays them. The U.S. sees no urgency to intrude on the Big Four peace plan moderation.
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Associated Press
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Nablus
Casbah
Ramallah
Moshe Dayan
Gaza
Cairo
Palestine National Council
Israel
Abba Eban
Egypt
Middle East
Eban
Nasser
Sinai
Washington
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
France
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Big Four
Weekly talks aim at teachers pay scale in Austin
Stephen Wright and Ken Fossey announced that the School Board Committee and Teachers Council will meet every Monday evening to seek agreement on the pay scale and related issues. At the February 10 meeting, they will discuss the salary schedule, school day and year lengths, extra duties from a longer year, and whether more weekly meetings are needed to meet legal time limits. Wright and Fossey praised the friendly discussions and expressed hope for a reasonable settlement.
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Stephen Wright
Ken Fossey
Teachers’ Council
School Board Committee
Austin
Mower County
Wright
Fossey
Plans Satellite Launch Tonight From Cape Kennedy
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP the space agency plans to night to launch a communications satellite into stationary orbit 22 300 miles above the Pacific Ocean A three stage Delta rocket is to hoist the 22 63 nation International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium is paying NASA 7 million to launch the payload regardless of success or failure
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
Pacific Ocean
International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium
NASA
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