Powell Confirmed by Senate as Rehnquist Battle Looms
The Senate confirmed Powell by a wide margin as Nixon appoints him to the Supreme Court to succeed Hugo Black. Attention shifts to William Rehnquist with a split Judiciary Committee and staunch opposition from Bayh while Mansfield aims for a quick floor vote. forecasts vary on final support, with informal counts showing up to 65 ayes and at least 23 noes.
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UPI
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Supreme Court
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Senate
William H. Rehnquist
Powell
Fred R. Harris
D-Okla
Harris
Richmond
Hugo Black
American Bar Association
Rehnquist
John M. Harlan
Judiciary Committee
Birch D. Bayh
D-Ind
Phoenix
Ariz
James O. Eastland
Dmiss
Mike Mansfield
Bayh
Hugh Scott
Trudeau seeks end to U S import tax
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau pressed President Nixon to remove the 10 percent import surcharge, saying it hurts Canada and others. Officials described a cordial two meetings at the White House, with no final agreement but optimism if pursued officially. Trade ministers also talked on the 1965 auto pact and defense production sharing, with Trudeau returning to Ottawa to brief Parliament.
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UPI
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Man on death row freed after pleading guilty to murder
Edgar H. Smith Jr., who spent 14 years facing execution at Trenton State Prison, was released after pleading guilty to a murder he says he did not commit. He received four years probation after a judge weighed his long imprisonment and his 19th appeal.
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UPI
Edgar H. Smith Jr
Trenton State Prison
Smith
Superior Court
Morris
Pashman
Buckley
U.S. District Court
America
Japanese pacifists sponsor Pearl Harbor Day rallies
Japanese pacifists plan antiwar demonstrations in Tokyo on the Pearl Harbor anniversary. Jane Fonda was set to attend one rally. The 1941 attack involved carriers and submarines hitting Pearl Harbor, sinking the Arizona and wounding or killing thousands, marking a pivotal WWII event.
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Pearl Harbor
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Western Pacific
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Philippines
Pacific Counseling Service
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Society For
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Nagasaki
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Soviet Union
Soviets land device on surface of Mars
The Mars 3 descent craft soft landed on Mars by parachute in the southern hemisphere, Tass reports. Signals were received and recorded aboard Mars 3 and later transmitted to Earth during Dec 2 to 5 sessions. Mars 2 previously orbited Mars after ejecting a Soviet flag.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Tass
Red Planet
Earth
Mars
Martian
First shelling of city Foe bombards Phnom Penh
North Vietnamese troops bombarded Phnom Penh and Pochentong Airport today in the first shelling of the Cambodian capital in 20 months. Three 122mm rockets hit the city and eight struck the airport, wounding civilians and killing two Cambodian soldiers. Two women and two children were injured by a rocket that hit a house. No significant damage reported at the airport. Royal Lao Army and Cambodian forces faced advances and evacuations continued for hundreds of wounded. In Saigon, South Vietnamese forces clashed with North Vietnamese regulars in eastern Cambodia and the Central Highlands as American bombing persisted.
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Norodom Sihanouk
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Laotian Panhandle
Badent
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South Vietnam
Kidnaper captured Florida coed freed
Gerald Givens found a gun barrel as his wife prepared to drive their Florida State University student daughter to class. Three hours later 20-year-old Andrew Jackson Jr. was arrested on kidnapping for $1,000 ransom. Geraldine Givens endured a brutal ordeal before a highway chase ended with Jackson wounded and jailed.
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Fla
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Florida State University
Andrew Jackson Jr
Givens
Geraldine
Jackson
Raymond Hamlin
Gene Geiger
Geiger
Hamlin
Miami
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