Rules panel weighs delegate selection for 1976 GOP convention
A 108 member Republican Rules Committee in Miami Beach debated proposed changes to how delegates are chosen and allocated for the 1976 GOP convention. The panel grapples with boosting minority inclusion and altering state delegate strength while facing liberal and conservative opposition.
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Fla
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Convention Rules Committee
Republican Party
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
John W. Gardner
Common Cause
Massachusetts
Francis W. Sargent
Sen
James Buckley
New York
Philip M
Laird urges GOP support for Nixon defense and budget stance
Secretary Melvin Laird asked the Republican Platform Committee to back President Nixon merits of a firm yet relaxed foreign policy. The Economic Advisers urged continued price and wage controls as the budget ceiling and inflation fears shape the party platform and convention.
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Fla
Melvin R. Laird
Republican Party
Nixon
Pentagon
GOP
Laird
Council of Economic Advisers
Herbert Stein
Ezra Solomon
Marina N. Whitman
Council
Marina N. Whit
Congress
Jets attack targets Thanh Hoa area in North Vietnam
The USS Command said Navy jets struck seven targets near Thanh Hoa on Monday denying Hanoi’s claims of bombing a business center and cathedral area. They reported more than 190 strikes against the North with weather forcing cancellations. In Saigon, B52 raids and ground clashes yielded 97 enemy killed and 19 weapons captured, while 61 North Vietnamese and 3 South Vietnamese died nearby Hue Quang Tri.
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Thanh Hoa
North Vietnam
Hanoi
USS Command
South Vietnam
Kompong Bay
Quang Tri
Hue
Campers Cleared From Flamingo Park Ahead of RNC
Police removed about 100 demonstrators from Flamingo Park Miami Beach after the City Council opened the site to nondelegates for the Republican National Convention. Officers, numbering around 40, directed the camp’s dispersal as protesters headed toward a church shelter downtown. No arrests were reported and city officials planned sanitary and medical facilities by Thursday.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Flamingo Park
Rocky Pomerance
Miami Beach Community Church
Pomerance
Clifford O’key
O’key
Chuck Hall
Mitchell assails Clark over Vietnam pleas in sharp rebuke
Former U S attorney general John Mitchell labeled Ramsey Clark naive and duped by Hanoi as Clark urged an end to bombing in Vietnam. Clark, returning from North Vietnam, defended his stance and pressed for prisoner releases amid ongoing conflict.
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Washington
U.S
John Mitchell
Ramsey Clark
Hanoi
Clark
Johnson
North Vietnam
San Francisco
Mitchell
Committee For
United States
George McGovern
Nixon
Oscar Levant Dies at 65 in Beverly Hills
Pianist Oscar Levant, famed for wit and eccentricity and friend of Gershwin, dies in his sleep at 65 in Beverly Hills. Authorities order autopsy. he had long battled edema arthritis and insomnia. He left music, film, and radio work including Information Please and songs like Until Today.
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Calif
George Gershwin
Levant
Pittsburgh
Arnold Schoenberg
Oscar
Gershwin
Barbara Smith
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