Day of disruption fails to gain popular support
A gelignite bomb hidden in a corrugated hut near Coalisland exploded injuring a British army officer and a second soldier as a separate Belfast day of disruption faltered. Civil rights organizers admitted the protest drew little public support, part of a week of unrest linked to jailing IRA suspects without trial.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Coalisland
Pay board in controversy over inefficiency and bickering
The Pay Board, created to oversee pay policy, drew swift criticism for inefficiency and guideline violations amid bickering among its 15 labor, business, and public members. Organized labor secured White House assurances that administration interference would not affect its decisions. Pat Jordan says her ex-husband Ray will give her away when she remarries this spring in Lincoln England.
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Donald RE. Finley
White House
Lincoln
England
UPI
Pat Jordan
Ray
Gravel appeals papers decision in Pentagon Papers case
Senator Mike Gravel warns the Supreme Court that lawmakers will curb speech to the public if the Justice Department can subpoena publishing officials over Pentagon Papers materials. The First Circuit allowed questioning Beacon Press and MIT Press as Gravel appeals the grand jury reach. The case centers on speech and debate protections and potential chilling effects on legislators.
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Washington
UPI
Mike Gravel
Alaska
U.S. Supreme Court
Executive Branch
Justice Department
Gravel
High Court
First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Boston
Beacon Press
Unitarian Association
House
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
Capitol
Meredith seeks GOP nomination to challenge Eastland in Mississippi
James H. Meredith, civil rights hero, announces bid for the Republican nomination to oppose Senator James Eastland. Meredith sets up campaign HQ in Jackson and becomes the second GOP contender after Prentiss Walker. He says his blacks' investment program in Mississippi is failing but will continue, after earlier admission to Ole Miss sparked 1962 campus riots.
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UPI
James H. Meredith
Deep South
James Eastland
Dmiss
Clarke Reed
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Jackson
GOP
Eastland
Prentiss Walker
Mississippi
New York
Kosciusko, Meredith
Attala County
St. Petersburg
Sic
Air Force
University of Kansas
Maryland
Ole Miss
Columbia Law School
B52 Bombers Strike Viet Cong Rocket Site Near Da Nang
Wave after wave of U S B52 bombers hammered a Viet Cong camp launching rockets toward Da Nang air base. The raids marked the most concentrated Stratofortress attacks in five months as 41 attacks across South Vietnam raised fears of a coordinated Communist offensive before Nixon’s Feb 21 trip to Peking.
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da Nang
South Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin
Coral Sea
Hancock
San Diego
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Tonkin Gulf
da Nang Air Base
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Peking
Lin Piao Alive in China Reported by Foreign Ministry Official
Paris based UPI reports Lin Piao former Chinese defense minister survives, labeled politically eliminated rather than dead by Wou Fanwou director of European section, who said Lin was not aboard the Mongolian plane. French delegation noted Premier Chou En-lai said Vietnam talks not on Nixon visit agenda.
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UPI
Lin Piao
Lin
Mao Tsetung
China
Vietnam
Didier Julia
Gaullist Party
Wou Fanwou
Peking
Wou
Julia
Chou En-lai
Nixon
Liu Chaochi
Won
Liu
Widow Receives 50000 From Honest Coworker
In Trenton New Jersey Leo Scaduto a NYC office worker living in Brooklyn gambled weekly on the New Jersey lottery. He gave 1 to Nancy Colacchio a Washington Township coworker who bought him two tickets. He credited her with his win and the pair shared the prize splits.
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Trenton
N.J
UPI
Leo Scaduto
New York City
Brooklyn
Nancy Colacchio
Washington Township
John
Fox Point
Wis
Scaduto
Ralph Batch
Miss Colacchio
Leo
Soviet geochemist revives 250 million year old organism
Soviet geochemist N Chudinov of the Berezniki potassium combine near Perm revived organisms that thrived 250 million years ago in the Paleozoic era. Tass said the paleozoic visitors came to life in his laboratory and even multiplied, a discovery linked to the coloring of Perm’s potassium salts.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
Soviet Union
N. Chudinov
Berezniki
Perm
Chudinov
Great
Perm Sea
North
Urals
Kharkov
B. Perfilyev
Nature
Earth
Fantasia and Dirty Harry at local theaters
Critics note Fantasia is not a bad kids film but overexposure raises fatigue as venues show many other titles. Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood is deemed highly violent and rated R with showings at 7 10 and 9 05 p m in Williamstown.
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Hollywood
Food price forecast raised as 4 percent rise eyed
The Agriculture Department forecast grocery prices could climb up to four percent this year, up from 2 to 3.5 percent earlier, with raw agricultural products exempt from controls and retailers allowed to pass added costs under Phase II. Farm income may reach 17.7 billion dollars in 1972, a record high, compared with 15.7 billion in 1971 and 17.1 billion in 1947. A White House business conference drew 1,500 delegates, amid claims it favored big business and excluded labor and consumer voices.
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Pay Board
Price Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Member Price Commission
Nixon
Aerospace
Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
William R. Cotter
Donn
Cost of Living Council
White House
Fred H. Harris
D-Okla
Harris
Ralph Nader
Federal Communications Commission
Nicholas Johnson
Corporation
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