Ford to formally announce presidential bid within month
Washington UPI reports President Ford plans a formal presidential bid announcement within a month as he rides high after the Mayaguez rescue. He seeks GOP broad support, citing strengthened standing with national and local Republicans and hopes to attract conservative opposition and potential party backing.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Mayaguez
Republican Party
GOP
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Scott
Khmer Rouge Attacks Preah Vihar Temple on Border Cliffs
Thai border police report heavy fighting as Khmer Rouge forces launch a major assault to seize the ancient Preah Vihar temple perched on a cliff near the Thai Cambodian border about 300 miles northeast of Bangkok. Police Maj. Gen. Suraphol Chullabrahm confirms ongoing combat.
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Bangkok
UPI
Khmer Rouge
Suraphol Chullabrahm
Preah Vihar
Turkey warns Kissinger on lifting arms embargo at CENTO talks
Turkish Foreign Minister Ihsan Caglayangil pressed Secretary Kissinger to lift the U.S. arms embargo soon or face negative effects on Turkish American ties during a CENTO foreign ministers meeting. Kissinger pledged efforts to restore normal defense relations as Congress debates the Cyprus linked embargo.
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Ankara
UPI
Ihsan Caglayangil
Henry Kissinger
Congress
Turkey
Senate
U.S
Cyprus
House
Caglayangis
CENTO
U.S. Congress
U.S.A
Kissinger
Americans evacuated as Laos rebels tighten grip near Vientiane
UPI reports the U S Embassy will evacuate more Americans from Laos amid harassment by Communist troops holding hundreds of U S citizens in a Vientiane compound. Negotiations seek chartered planes while a Caravelle jet will carry the first group to Bangkok. The Pathet Lao forces move six artillery pieces and six PT76 tanks within three miles of the capital as they seize major towns and intensify control.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
U.S
Bangkok
Pathet Lao
World’s Largest Lake Sees Kidnapping At Tanzania Reserve
Three American students and a Dutch woman were abducted by 40 gunmen from the Gombe Stream Reserve near Kigoma Tanzania on Lake Tanganyika. Primatologist Jane Goodall escaped with staff. The captives, identified as Barbara Smuts Carrie Jane Hunter and Kenneth Smith, were seized after a Monday night raid and later moved toward Kigoma. Authorities and embassies coordinate a joint air and ground search with suspects speculated to be Mobutu opponents from Zaire. The U.S. and Dutch embassies seek safe release as the government presses the investigation.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanzania
UPI
Lake Tanganyika
U.S. Sponsored
Gombe Stream
Atherton
Calif
Kenneth Smith
Garden Grove
Emilie Bergman
Kigoma
Goodall
Stanford
Lebanon in tinder box as cease fire pact fails
Widespread fighting resumes around Beirut as the cease-fire collapses. Palestinian guerrillas and Phalangist forces clash in Dikwaneh and Tal Zaater refugee camp, leaving at least 17 dead and 100 wounded as Lebanon frays under anarchy and a caretaker government. Leaders consult military chiefs while protests threaten to paralyze the nation.
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Beirut
Dikwaneh
Phalangist
Peace
Tal Zaater
Ashrafiyeh
Suleiman Franjieh
Iskandar Ghanem
Joseph Skaf
Palestine Liberation Organization
Phalangists
PLO
Global political violence claims twenty American victims
An outbreak of political violence across the Middle East Africa and Asia has killed two American military advisers in Iran and kidnapped three students in Tanzania. A Laotian mob seized the U S Agency for International Development compound in Vientiane trapping three Americans. An underground Marxist group claimed responsibility for the assassinations in Iran.
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World
Middle East
Africa
Asia
Iran
Tanzania
Laos
Air Force
Paul Shaffer
Dayton
Ohio
Jack Turner
Christopher
U.S
Shaffer
Turner
U.S. Agency For International Development
Vientiane
Don Wilburn
Roger Murphy
William Darden
Dar Es Salaam
Republic of
Zaire
Planners eye industry Commission to plan for growth
Bennington planners, citing the county's low growth rates since 1970, push for controlled industrial expansion over the next year. Chairman Paul Bohne calls for long range commercial industrial planning with cooperation from selectmen and officials, aiming to counter sluggish growth and wage concerns. A second proposal, long range capital budget planning, would coordinate major expenditures with selectmen and school boards to align bond issues and timing.
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Bennington
US Commerce Department
Paul Bohne
Planning Commission
Bohne
Bohen
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Commission
EPA New England administrator affirms environment priority
John A. McGlennon, EPA New England regional administrator, told the Vermont LWV convention in Rutland that the national energy crisis does not endanger environmental concerns. He called the car the environment’s top menace and urged higher gasoline taxes to curb usage while noting 1972 water act funds will boost the economy.
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Russ Garland
Rutland
John A. McGlennon
New England
Environmental Protection Agency
Vermont League of Women Voters
LWV
McGlennon
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Backlog grows in Bennington Superior Court cases
A mounting caseload, few judges, and shifting case types contribute to a growing backlog in Bennington Superior Court. Judges warn the statewide system faces strain with 14 counties, six judges, and plans for an eighth. Older cases linger as newer matters rise in complexity, with more motions and jury trials extending timelines.
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Bennington Superior Court
Bennington
William C. Hill
Franklin S. Billings Jr
State Supreme Court
John P
Morrissey
Windham
Windsor
Rutland
Chittenden
Hill
Elizabeth King
Winhall Trust
Haystack Mt
Superior Court
New man at the U N and First Lady visit Vietnam camp
Inside National covers a new U N official appointment and the First Lady visiting a refugee camp in Vietnam. Local items note plans for Bennington Memorial Day parade, AARP officer installations, and a Vermont high school biology book ban.
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U.N
Bennington
AARP
Vermont
Kit Foster
MAU
Washington
Dern
Dorset
Buxton
Hoosick Falls
Olympic Stadium
Montreal
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