Ford warns voters against sweeping generalizations
Vice President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans not to tar an entire administration or party with broad generalizations during a speech to the National Council of Christians and Jews in Cleveland. He defended the Constitution’s remedies, called for selective judgment, and urged unity while condemning both government and revolutionary crime. Protests accompanied his remarks.
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UPI
Gerald R. Ford
American People
Ford
National Council of Christians and Jews
Los Angeles
Symbionese Liberation Army
California
Nixon
Middle East
United States
Israel withdraws armor from Golan Heights under UN plan
Dozens of flatbed trailers haul Israeli armor off the Golan Heights as Israel moves behind new lines in occupied Syria. UN forces set up HQ in two Quneitra buildings as the four stage disengagement progresses to June 26, while Assad and Hussein push for broader steps toward peace.
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Golan Heights
Israel
Syria
Israei
United Nations Force
Henry A. Kissinger
Quneitra
Golan
Rafid
Mt. Hermon
U.N
Hafez Assad
New York
ABC Sunday
United States
Middle East
King Hussein of
Jordan
Newsweek Magazine
Jordan River
Tornado Alley Toll: 25 Dead Across Three States
A weekend of killer tornadoes across Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas left 25 dead and hundreds homeless. Oklahoma reported 15 fatalities with Drumright and Tulsa among hardest hit while Arkansas and Kansas also faced losses. Federal aid moved toward relief efforts as rivers rose and a long recovery began.
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United Press International
Red Cross
Peggy Glen
Tulsa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Nixon
Katharine Cornell Dies at 81 Theatre Icon of Era
Katharine Cornell, first lady of the American stage for over three decades, died at 81 in Martha’s Vineyard after pneumonia. The Buffalo native, famed for character creation, starred in The Green Hat The Letter The Age of Innocence and St Joan, with a career spanning road tours nationwide and a 1922 marriage to director Guthrie McClintic.
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Katharine Cornell
Vineyard Haven
Mass
UPI
Martha’s Vineyard
New York
Phyllis Meras
Vineyard Gazette
George Bernard Shaw
Miss Cornell
Buffalo
N.Y
Maude Adams
Guthrie McClintic
McClintic
Barretts of
Wimpole Street
Gas line blast fires mile-high flame near Fauquier County
A natural gas line exploded near a rural air park in Fauquier County Virginia sending flames almost a mile into the sky. Officials capped the line and the fire died out with no injuries reported. The blast occurred along a Transcontinental Gas Co line in an isolated area with only a few residents nearby.
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Bealeton
UPI
Transcontinental Gas Co
Fauquier County
Ash Wednesday at Harte Theatre and other cinema notes
Harte Theatre on Main Street shows Elizabeth Taylor in Ash Wednesday without Burton. Twin Cinemas I features Arnold with Stella Stevens. At Zero II presents Nurses’ Report and Tove Swedish Style. Manchester Shopping Center screens Blazing Saddles rated R. Call times for Harte 442-8500, Cinemas 442-8179, Manchester 362-1229. A blast near Fairfax County caused flames seen miles away and sky turned red per reports. Bennington Banner offices and contacts listed.
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HARTE
Elizabeth Taylor
Burton
Harte Theatre
Main Street
Twin Cinemas Cinema I
Arnold
Stella Stevens
Manchester
Manchester Shopping Center
Mel Brooks
Cinemas
Sheriff frees guardsmen in missing drills case
Four Massachusetts National Guard privates from the 220th Infantry Battalion were jailed for missing drill meetings after court martials but charges were dropped and they were released on weekend furlough. Sheriff Buckley criticized the action as unconstitutional and overcrowding, noting the jail held 244 inmates.
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Billerica, Mass
UPI
Massachusetts National Guard Privat
Middlesex County House of Correction
John J. Buckley
Buckley
Thomas E. Doherty
Keamon F. Lane
James T. Nicholson
Woburn
Fiorentino
Doherty
Cambridge
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el Dorado
Ark
Magnolia
Oklahoma Cities
Oral Roberts University At
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Bennington, Vermont
Ariotous
ABCP
Coes Prismow
SUN
the Doctor
Matinee Sat
Fairfax County
Washington, D.C
Warrenton
Delta Airlines
Main St
Banner Publishing Corp
New York Times
Eeee Lyce
Air Condit
Henry Fonda
Butch Cassidy & the
Sundance Kid
Annan
Colonial
Colonial Shopping Center
Williamstown
KITTY
Saratoga Race Course
Saratoga Springs
Young America
Mac Davis
Anne Murray
Springfield
Queens of New York
Saratoga Fair Hunter & Jumper Classic
Saratoga Ballet Company
Donna Fargo
Ray Evens
Don Rice
O. J. Simpson
Willie Mays
Glen Campbell
Tony Orlando
Dawn
Jody Miller
Saratoga Fair
Red Skelton
Mary Lou Collins
Bob Hope
Lynn Anderson
Spirit of America
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Racing City Chorus
American Piano
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Sami Jo
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Smothers Brothers
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Little Angels
National Folk Ballet of Korea
Young & Lively
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Bob Florence
Skitch Henderson
America
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Chieftones
Commerford-Shea
F.F.A
Mitchell
Racing City
RCA
Saratoga
Schaffner Players
U.S. Navy
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Ticketron
U.S.A
Union Avenue
East Avenue
Tony Orlando Or
Johnny Cash
Ray Stevens
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