South Dakota Flood Death Toll Reaches 208
Amer ica's worst flood disaster in 44 years raises 208 dead with 500 missing as Rapid City officials warn of more bodies in Black Hills streams. Civil Defense and National Guard search through debris. curfew imposed and 3,000 homeless. Water and gas outages persist. aid from federal agencies and Red Cross mobilizes rescue and relief.
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South Dakota
Associated Press
Rapid City
S.D
America
Black Hills
Civil Defense
Duane L. “Duke” Corning
National
Corning
Donald Barnett
Raitswollen Canyon Lake
DFL convention leaves party split over platform planks
At Rochester Minnesota Democrats ended a bruising convention divided by three platform planks backed by the Liberal Coalition. They called for marijuana legalization amnesty for draft evaders and equal rights regardless of sexual orientation. Moderates denounced the planks as extreme and unworkable.
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Rochester, Minn
Minnesota
Democrats
Vietnam
George McGovern
Shirley Chisholm
Terry Montgomery
Sauk Rapids
6Th District
DFL
Montgomery
Finch to tour flood-hit Rapid City area
Presidential Assistant Robert Finch will visit the Rapid City flood disaster zone in South Dakota arriving from California. He will meet with local officials and Office of Emergency Preparedness Director Donald Eddy as the region copes with more than 200 deaths.
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Small Business Administration
HEW
Office of Economic Opportunity
Rapid City
S.D
Robert Finch
Finch
California
Office of
Donald Eddy
Tent Sale Ad Promises Fast Action in Herald Want-Ads
For sale 10x18 tent in excellent condition priced at $65 and a 10x10 eating fly. The ad, slated for three days, was pulled after one day as the tent sold almost immediately. For similar results call 443-8801.
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Herald
Trucker hits pickup killing 12 on wheat trip near Shady Nook
A tractor trailer crashed into a moving pickup carrying 14 people on a swimming outing along U S 165, about 20 miles south of Alexandria. Twelve died and another was critically injured in the Sunday wreck.
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U.S. 165
Here
Shady Nook
Swissair
Zurich
Tel Aviv
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Sioux City
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
China
U.S
Tokyo
North Vietnam
Foreign aid fight begins in Senate debate on Vietnam bill
The Senate opens debate on a 17 billion foreign military aid bill as stalemated talks on ending U.S. involvement in Indochina loom. Mansfield seeks an end the war amendment while Stennis signals firm opposition and key spending cuts are outlined for security assistance and credits.
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Washington
Senate
Vietnam
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mike Mansfield
Dmont
U.S
Indochina
United States
North Vietnam
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services Committee
Stennis
Foreign Relations Committee
Cambodia
Congress
Laos
Thailand
Miss Minnesota Week Proclaimed in Austin
Miss Minnesota Sheila Bernhagen and Robert Austin watch as Mayor Leo Reding proclaims June 11 to June 17 as Miss Minnesota Week across Austin. The 1972 Miss Minnesota Pageant will be staged at the high school auditorium next Wednesday through Saturday.
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Sheila Bernhagen
Robert Austin
Leo Reding
Austin
U S jets strike 10 mile stretch of North Vietnam rail
U S jets attacked a 10 mile stretch of the North Vietnam northeast rail line to China and set freight cars ablaze. Two MIG interceptors were shot down by Navy Phantoms, with a Navy A6 lost and crew missing. U S command reports numerous downed MIGs this year and plans to destroy some 600 stranded cars.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
China
U.S. Command
Hanoi
Coral Sea
U.S
Air Force
Lang Chi
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Com
Supreme Court upholds private clubs right to exclude
The Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision delivered by Justice Rehnquist, upheld that private clubs may exclude Negroes even when holding a state liquor license. The ruling, reversing a Harrisburg federal court, states state-furnished services do not convert private conduct into state action, while dissenters warned of entanglement with discrimination.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Moose Lodge
Harrisburg
Leroy Irvis
Pennsylvania House
Rehnquist
Warren FE. Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell
Nixon Administration
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
Thurgood
Marshall
Brennan
Pennsylvania
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Florida
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Jackson Boulevard
Omaha
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Cheyenne River
Roland Stephenson
Red Cross
Braska
Wyoming
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Albany
Hubert H. Humphrey
Tive Committee
Richard Moe
Humphrey
Earl Craig
University of Minnesota
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Craig
U.S. Senate
Wendell Anderson
Lebedoff
Waverly
Rapid City Area
Mand
South Vietnam
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