Bomb attacks hit GE facilities in New York and D.C.
Incendiary devices exploded at three General Electric sites in New York with a live bomb found at Manhattan headquarters. FBI declined to speculate on conspiracies while investigators checked for links to labor tensions and antiwar protests.
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Washington
FBI
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Lexington Avenue
East 50Th
51St Streets
Eugene Flood
Brooklyn
Queens
Southern Governors Seek Help From Congress on School Busing
Four Southern governors meeting in Mobile Alabama oppose racial busing to achieve desegregation and demand federal support including the Stennis amendment. They accuse a federal double standard and plan to seek congressional action while urging orderly, democratic solutions. In Florida Rep Cramer vows to intervene in court to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act. About 243000 Dade County students resume classes after a desegregation break.
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Congress
Dixie
Albert Brewer
Alabama
Lester Maddox
Georgia
John McKeithen
Louisiana
John Dell Williams
Mississippi
Mobile
Ala
South
North
Brewer
Williams
Maddox
McKeithen
Supreme Court
Florida
Rep
William C
Dade
Miami
UPI
John Bell Williams
Albert P. Brewer
Randolph offers Patriots a rent free home in Vermont
Randolph Vermont proposes its soccer field at Randolph Union High School as a 1970 Patriots venue if the team supplies the missing stands to meet NFL capacity. Chamber of Commerce president Chester A. Pierce suggests naming the town Boston Vermont if the offer falls flat and notes the town’s 3400 population and lack of passenger rail.
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UPIC
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Boston Patriots
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Randolph Chamber of Commerce
Chester A. Pierce
Randolph Union
Patriot
Bill Sullivan
Pierce
NFL
Chamber of Commerce
Cambodia Holds Five U.S. Sailors
Saigon reports Cambodia captured five American sailors and the gunboat they sailed into Cambodia from Vietnam on the Mekong River. The crew, unnamed, were later said to be disoriented and held at a Cambodian naval base while Washington seeks their release. This marks the second such detention amid ongoing tensions in the region.
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UPS
U.S
Cambodia
Vietnam
Mekong
Benewah
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
United States
Sihanouk
Inside columnists urge cautious Israel thoughts
James Reston and Gerald Raftery weigh complex ideas on peace in Israel, warning that immediate solutions may incur high costs. The discussion appears alongside local notes on self restraint for environmental protection and a separate report on a $7,000 budgeting error in Manchester.
Democrats Respond To Nixon State Of The Union
The Democratic leadership in Congress rebuked President Nixon with a nationally televised program noting priorities on education, crime and the environment while largely avoiding Vietnam. Senators Muskie and Jackson led discussions on pollution and population with Californians, and others voiced concerns on inflation and housing. The broadcast featured voters and lawmakers in diverse locales, reflecting party positions versus Nixon’s priorities.
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Congress
Nixon
Vietnam
William Clay
Missouri
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Henry M. Jackson
Houston
Patsy Mink
Hawaii
Missing But Not Lost Hikers Found Safe Along Long Trail
Four Manchester area hikers aged in their 20s were delayed but not lost after a 14 hour hike on the Long Trail near Danby. They sheltered in the William Nichols cabin and were located by two searchers on snowmobiles around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Local volunteers and police coordinated a wide search. a plane spotted the camp at night. Hikers said they had food and kept a lantern, writing OK in the snow, and later faced criticism over reporting and use of resources.
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Manchester
Danby
John Conover
Paul Himmelsbach
Scott Gobbi
Margaret Hunnewell
Bennington College
William Nichols
Old Job Shelter
Leonard Britton
Cliff Tarbell
Dorset
Gobbi
Bromley Mountain
Landgrove
Conover
Bromley
William LaCount Jr
Harman Brown
Hapgood Pond
Griffith Lake
Bennington
Himmelsbach
O.K
Nichols
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Davis Has Candidate For Governor: Himself
Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis signals interest in a second term and cites his reform program as a factor. He says a GOP candidate must commit to environmental preservation and government reorganization, and notes polls will test voter support for his leadership.
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Davis
GOP
State Committee
Life Insurance Company
Senate study targets Medicare fees and rising medical costs
A Senate Finance Committee report criticizes doctors for high Medicare fees and calls for drastic reform and higher taxes to save the Medicare trust fund. It urges a legally fixed Part B fee and a schedule limiting charges, with different patient copays for participating versus nonparticipating doctors.
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Senate Finance Committee
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Blue Shield
Medicare
Blue Cross
Treasury
Nixon
Congress
Robert H. Finch
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Tennessee
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Yarborough
Detroit
Philip A. Hart
Michigan
Soviet Union
Betsy Samuelson
5Th Battalion
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Royal Australian Regiment
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