Editorial Eagleton ghost will stay with McGovern
The Eagleton resignation from the Democratic ticket will haunt McGovern and raise questions about candor and mental health. The piece argues the episode exposes flaws in vetting and public attitudes toward mental illness and politics, urging a better national understanding.
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Thomas A. Eagleton
George McGovern
Eagleton
McGovern
Tom Eagleton
Candor
Missouri
Ingleton
Memoirs of a crook sparks new crime trend talk
The Irving scandal mockingly in print prompts satire on crime and publishing. Critics condemn his forthcoming book as mercenary and valueless, arguing it belittles readers while Grove Press faces backlash over marketing.
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Clifford Irving
Irving
Howard Hughes
McGraw-Hill
Grove Press
Grove
Irving Waverty
Cliff
Edith
Nina
Vietnam War Civilian Toll Deepens Amid Stalemate
AP reports a true stalemate in South Vietnam with heavy casualties averaging 1,000 soldiers weekly and a massive refugee flow. North Vietnamese aims persist, cease-fire talks linger, and South dependents on U.S. aid shape a costly, unresolved conflict.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
South
Washington
Korea
United States
Thieu
Plain of Reeds
Seven Mountains
U.S
North Vietnam
North
Hanoi
Soviet Union
China
Paris
Leech Lake Legal Services Board adopts 1972 resolution
The Leech Lake Reservation Legal Services Project Inc board meeting on July 26 1972 affirms continued operation of the project and rejects Grand Jury recommendations to suspend two attorneys. It authorizes action to challenge the Grand Jury report and calls for impartial investigations.
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Cass County Grand Jury
Leech Lake Legal Services
Leech Lake Reservation Legal Services Project, Inc
Minnesota
Office of Economic Opportunity
Washington, D.C
Leech Lake Indian Reservation
Cass
Beltrami
Itasca
United States Congress
Grand Jury
Cass County
District Court
Legal Services Project
Cass Lake
Board of
P.J. Moriarty
R. B. Elton
Sheriff's Department
Venice
Leech Lake Reservation
Delbert Ellis
Phillip Nelson
Board of Directors
Pamela C. Seelye
Copperhead Found in Pool Drain at Terre du Lac
Shirley Campbell cleaning a pool drain at Terre du Lac near Bonne Terre Missouri found a copperhead snake. Jim Campbell and two colleagues killed the reptile after she alerted them by phone. A bystander noted eye lids might reveal the snake’s temperament.
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Bonne Terre
Terre du Lac
Jim
Shirley Campbell
Shirley
Copperhead
Snake Eyes And Old Newspaper Friends In A Pacific War Tale
The narrator recalls a World War II Pacific dice game with banana snake eyes metaphor and reflects on friendship as Jim notes that moving between places gains new friends while keeping old ones, underscoring long ties in Minnesota and Iowa.
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Shirley
Pacific Ocean
Jim
Minnesota
Iowa
Meany's unions stay neutral in 1972 race
AFL CIO President George Meany predicted only about 20 percent of AFLCIO member unions will endorse a candidate. He said 80 percent will follow neutrality, noting past endorsements in 1960 1964 and 1968 and criticizing George McGovern. Meany urgedCOPE lobbying and stressed labor nonpartisanship.
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Milwaukee
Aflcio
George Meany
Meany
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H
Bor
Labor
Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Friends of
Congress
American Labor Movement
Farm costs creep up on farmer budgets
Washington reports show rising costs for farm inputs. A farmer paid 6.43 for overalls up from 6.02, bought a 19 300 combine vs 17 820 previously, and harvested wheat at 1.32 per bushel down two cents from last year. Higher costs press on returns even as some prices improve.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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NEA, Inc
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