Oregon Puzzled By Morse Plans On House Bid
Oregon observers weigh Wayne Morse’s plan to run for Oregon’s Fourth District seat against incumbent John Dellenback. Morse’s return to public life sparks labor and party speculation about his candidacy and the stance of AFL CIO leaders and Mrs Morse.
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Salem
Ore
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Senate
Washington
Vietnam
Morse
Robert W. Packwood
Portland
John Dellenback
Edward J. Whelan
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Midge
Wayne
Congress
Peg Bradley
Protland
Young Democrats of
Lane County
Eugene
Western States Conference of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Robert Duncan
Afl-Cio
Dellenback
Guerrillas invade U S Marine camp in northern Vietnam
UPI reports guerrilla forces attacked U S Marine Landing Zone Ross in Quang Nam province near Da Nang, causing 11 American deaths and 59 wounded in a four hour battle. Fifteen attackers found dead. Viet Cong or North Vietnamese unclear. The assault followed mortar bombardments along the coast and broader shelling of Chau Thuan hamlet.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Chau Thuan
da Nang
My Lai
South Vietnam
Quang Tri City
Lunar origin debate swirls after Apollo samples
Houston based lunar experts debate moon’s origin after Apollo 11 and 12 rocks. Shoemaker suggests long volcanic activity since 4.6 billion years, while Urey defends cold moon theory. Ongoing four day Moon rock meeting reviews cores, cores, metals and radiation records from the lunar surface.
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Houston
APS
Eugene A. Shoemaker
California Institute of Technology
Harold C. Urey
Edward Anders
University of Chicago
Earth
Thomas Gold
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.Y
Anders
Robert Walker
Washington University
St. Louis
NASA Postpones Apollo 13 Launch
NASA alters its lunar program with Apollo 13 moved likely to April from March to allow extra study of Apollo 12 rocks. Apollo 14 shifts to October, Apollo 15 early 1971, and Apollo 16 targeted for July or August 1971 as budget limits shape missions.
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Houston
API
U.S. Space Agency
Space Agency
Thomas O. Paine
Paine
America
Alan B. Shepard
Nixon
James A. Lovell
Thomas K. Mattingly
Fred Www. Haise
Lunar
Marius Hills
Pentagon Says 76,700 Civilian Workers To Go
Washington upi Defense Department rejects union claim of 100,000 job cuts for the year ending June 30. Freidhein says civilian staff will decline about 5 percent to 76,700 from 1,456,000 worldwide at the year start. Cuts include 33,700 Army and 30,000 Navy workers.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Massachusetts
Department
Jerry W. Freidhein
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Burglars Hit Post Office Strongroom For Large Stamps haul
UPI reports burglars broke into a post office strongroom last weekend stealing 110400 in cash and 1 23 million in insurance stamps They also took the post offices top secret burglar alarm and Marine Corps workers and 13000 Air Force employees were mentioned in the Washington sourced notes Daniel J Kearney AFL CIO executive warned Defense Department job cutbacks could remove more than 100000 federal workers with widespread layoffs New England faces hit especially the Boston Naval Shipyard may lose overhaul work as defense cuts bite
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London
UPI
Post Office
Marine Corps
Air Force
Daniel J. Kearney
Cohasset
Mass
American Federation of Government
Afl-Cio
Washington
Defense Department
Kearney
New England
Boston Naval Shipyard
France Eyes Dominant Mideast Role Amid Crises
The week closed with Arabs in disarray and France seeking leverage as Israel conducted bold strikes and Cherbourg gunboats escaped. France under Pompidou moves to reduce U.S. and British sway by offering to run abandoned air bases and seek Libya arms contracts worth up to 400 million dollars, while an embargo targets Israel, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
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France
Cherbourg
Norway
Rabat
Morocco
Palestine
Yassir Arafat
Egypt
Gulf of Suez
Sinai
Georges Pompidou
Charles de Gaulle
U.S
Mideast
Libya
Israel
Syria
Jordan
Iraq
Cherbourgh
Perot Sends Two to Vietnam to Deliver POW Letters
Billionaire H Ross Perot has stationed Tom Marquez and Chuck McKinley in Saigon with two Red Cross reps to collect letters from North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam. The letters will be sent to families in the North as a gesture of goodwill and to show seriousness of his prisoner issue plan.
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Dallas
UPI
H. Ross Perot
Saigon
South Vietnam
Perot
North
United
Nixon
Vietnam
Marquez
McKinley
Red Cross
Vientiane
Laos
United States
Hanoi
Jay Holman
United We Stand
Ton of Pennies Stolen By Determined Gunmen
Three gunmen wearing ski masks robbed a Michigan basement coin stash weighing over a ton. They loaded 63 bags of pennies worth about $3,150 in coins and goods into two cars, fleeing at high speed. Nelson, tied during the raid, freed himself and alerted police who recovered 31 bags. Authorities described the haul as potentially far larger, with thieves misjudging the collection’s value.
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Bloomfield Twp
Mich
UPI
Raymond E. Nelson
Nelson
Egypt Fails To Dent Israeli Bar-Lev Line
Egyptian commandos and air forces struck along the Suez Canal but Israel said the Bar-Lev line remained intact. Egypt claimed clashes killed and wounded Israeli troops and damaged vehicles, while Israeli reports said nine Egyptians died. Attacks also touched Jordan and Lebanon fronts with mixed outcomes.
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Egypt
Suez Canal
Israel
Bar-Lev
East Bank
Cairo
Port Tewfik
Qantara
Canal
Jordan
United Nations
Joseph Tekoah
Security Council
Lebanon
Ancient Gold Treasure Unearthed by Cambridge Archeologist
Emily Vermeule of Wellesley College revealed a vast hoard of 137 gold pieces dating back over 40 centuries found near a coastal mound on the Aegean Sea. The collection includes bracelets rosettes lunettes a lion-ended bracelet and a large Egyptian seal linking Egypts fifth dynasty to northern Aegean traders. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts owns the treasure valued in the millions and public disclosure followed photographs shown to the American Institute of Archeology in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
UPI
Cambridge
Mass
Emily Vermeule
Aegean Sea
Egypt
Aegean
Greece
Turkey
Vermeule
American Institute of Archeology
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George Brown
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Harry
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Freedom
National
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