Meir says she is ready to meet Sadat for peace
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir told Yedioth Ahronoth she remains ready to meet Anwar Sadat at any place and time to pursue a peace that begins human coexistence in the Middle East. She criticized Sadat’s statements as nearly destroying peace prospects while noting U.S. pressure over the Suez Canal and Israel’s proposed pullback. In Jordan, guerrilla forces and authorities move to ease the 14 day crisis as Amman works to reduce tensions.
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Anwar Sadat
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Sadat
United States
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Jerusalem
Israel
UPI
Thomas Cheatham
Egypt
Jordan
Amman
Offtrack Betting Debuts In NYC Overwhelms Windows
NYC OTB opens at two locations and draws a first day handle of 66098, far above the predicted 10000 as long lines form at Grand Central and Queens offices. Officials ration tickets, reconfigure windows, and study speedups while Roosevelt Raceway bets dominate and Aqueduct plans await.
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New York
UPI
Offtrack Betting Corp
OTB
Grand Central Station
Howard Samuels
Aqueduct
Roosevelt Raceway
CBS Refuses to Surrender Pentagon Documentary Data
New York UPI CBS declines to hand over outtakes and related materials used in The Selling of the Pentagon documentary to a House Commerce Committee subcommittee while offering the film and a written transcript. CBS cites First Amendment protection and warns the subpoena seeks to subject news judgments to legislative surveillance.
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Pentagon
New York
UPI
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Frank Stanton
Stanton
House Commerce Committee
Congress
First Broad Department
Inside South Vietnam Laos invasion ends officially
Report notes the Laos invasion timer closes fifteen days after all troops withdrew with the operation labeled officially finished. Page 2 coverage recalls the conclusion and surrounding context from the Vietnam theater.
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South Vietnam
Laos
Soviet leadership re elected as Brezhnev expands Politburo
The 24th Soviet Communist Party Congress renewed Brezhnev Kosygin and Podgorny as a three man troika for five years and expanded the Politburo to 15 with four Brezhnev protégés Viktor Grishin Dinmukhamed Kunayev Fedor Kulakov and Vladimir Shcherbitsky joining. The new Politburo also includes five incumbent alternates.
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Washington
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Viktor Grishin
Dinmukhamed A. Kunayev
Kazakhstan
Fedor D. Kulakov
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Ukraine
Soviet Union
Congress
Vermont lawmakers cut Legal Aid as funds shifted
The Vermont Senate and House clash over fiscal 1972 funding deleting 37000 from a general appropriations bill and 250000 annual payments for a 5 million University of Vermont arts building. Legal Aid faced removal amid clashes with Gov Davis over welfare policy and alleged staff political activity.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Legal Service
Deane C. Davis
Richard Blum
T. Garry Buckley
Bennington County
Justice evasive on FBI spying
The Senate Constitutional Rights subcommittee presses the Department of Justice for written documents on FBI domestic surveillance. Chairman Sen. Sam J. Ervin seeks memorandums by Mitchell and Clark, FBI guidelines on civil disturbance monitoring, and data on disclosure of confidential information about San Francisco mayor Joseph Alitoto.
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UPI
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Department of Justice
FBI
Sam J. Ervin
D-N.c
Department
Richard Kleindienst
Kleindienst
House
Hale Boggs
Ervin
John N. Mitchell
Robert Mardian
Mitchell
Ramsey Clark
Joseph Alitoto
San Francisco
Medicaid funds barred in New York abortions move
State Social Services Director George Wyman halted Medicaid fee payments for abortions. Since last July 1,850 such procedures were funded upstate, with New York City area numbers expected to be higher. Abortion under Medicaid will only be covered for serious medical reasons, reversing liberalized rules to permit abortions only to save the mother's life or to prevent acute suffering.
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N.Y
UPI
New York State
State Social Services
George K. Wyman
Department
New York City
Senen
Rockefeller
Wyman
Government loses wiretap appeal in Sixth Circuit
The Sixth U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3 to 2 that the President cannot bypass courts to order wiretaps on domestic groups. The court said the executive branch is bound by the Fourth Amendment in wiretap surveillance. The decision involves Lawrence Plamondon in a CIA offices bombing case and may prompt a Supreme Court appeal by the Nixon administration.
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UPI
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U.S. Supreme Court
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Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Ann Arbor
Mich
U.S. District Court
Detroit
Plamondon
District Court
Appeals Court
George Edwards
Defendant wounded during jail escape attempt in Connecticut
In Bridgeport Connecticut John Russell Pardue 29 was critically injured after a failed escape during his trial for a 1970 triple bombing and bank robbery. Pardue allegedly had a sawed off rifle smuggled in by his wife Nancy 25 who was arrested outside the district court after the shootout caused by her husband’s attempt to evade custody.
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UPI
John Russell Pardue
Park City Hospital
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U.S
Anthony DiRienzo
Nancy
U.S. District Court
James Russell Pardue
Federal Court
Bridgeport
Conn
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