Students Shield IRA Leader as British Seek Arrest in Belfast
In Belfast students at Queen’s University blocked British troops and police from entering the student union to seize IRA Sinn Fein president Thomas Macgiolla. About 150 students formed a barrier with desks and furniture as security forces tried to escort him from the debate scene. Macgiolla, 45, sought safe passage to the Irish Republic while noting he could be interrogated for 48 hours without charges. Separate incidents saw a police officer wounded in Dungannon, and bomb damage at stores in Londonderry and Lisburn near Belfast.
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Saigon troops trap plan to encircle enemy near Krek
South Vietnamese forces with American air and artillery support swept into a vast rubber plantation north of Krek in Tay Ninh to trap about 3,000 North Vietnamese troops. UPI reports B52 strikes F4 jets and helicopter gunships aided the push while rangers and tanks moved across the plantation. In Saigon, anti Thieu protests burned two American vehicles amid a third day of demonstrations against U.S. presence in Vietnam.
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Klein predicts Agnew on 72 ticket at Nixon second term
In Asheville, North Carolina, White House aide Herbert G. Klein said he believes President Nixon will choose Spiro T. Agnew to run again as vice president. Klein spoke to a North Carolina broadcasters convention and dismissed fears of pressure on the press as rhetoric.
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North Carolina Association of Broadcasters
Payoffs to New York plainclothesmen reveal widespread corruption
UPI reports veteran officer William Phillips testified at Knapp Commission hearings that almost all plainclothes cops he knew took payoffs. He described earning 6000 dollars in six months in Harlem, and gamblers paying at least 70000 dollars monthly across a Harlem precinct.
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Knapp Commission
William Phillips
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Harlem
Knapp
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Whitman Knapp
John V. Lindsay
Man kills police officer after landfill closure in Bellefonte
John Tressler, 48, who ran a garbage dump near Bellefonte, fired on police directing traffic after a court injunction ordered the landfill closed. Patrolman Ronald Seymore, 29, was killed and auxiliary officer Clarence Seaward, 45, wounded. Tressler fled in a brown car with two men. later arrested at a hunting cabin. State troopers detained relatives in Lock Haven. Mayor Keller said the attack followed the closure order and his threats to “hit back.”
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UPI
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Purdue Mountain
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Ronald D. Seymore
Clarence Seaward
Centre County
Pennsylvania
Seaward
Centre County Hospital
Hershey Medical Center
Ralph Walter Perryman
Lock Haven
Ellis O. Keller
15 Die In Fire At Geiger Nursing Home
A fast spreading blaze at the Geiger Nursing Home in Honesdale Pennsylvania killed 15 residents 10 women and 5 men aged late 70s to 80s. Only one attendant escaped while a fireman and others were treated for smoke inhalation.
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UPI
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Robert Jennings
Wayne County
Larry Martone
Vince Martone
Vaudine Lyon
Wayne County Memorial Hospital
Joyce Geiger
Ronald Gardas
Geiger
Harvey
Dorothy Smith Richards
Nixon Keeps Tight Reins on New Economic Boards
President Nixon limits independence of the Pay Board and Price Commission to align policy with the 1972 election goal of halving inflation by year end. The administration retains overall objectives while labor gains non veto status on the Cost of Living Council.
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Norman Kempster
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Alf-Cio
George Meany
Labor
President seeks post free‑ze controls legislation
President Nixon asked Congress on Tuesday to extend wage and price controls through May 1, 1973 with standby authority over dividends and interest rates. A special court of appeals would review Pay Board and Price Commission decisions, with direct Supreme Court appeal. The plan envisions responsive chairmen and rapid initial meetings, aiming to shorten inflation expectations and curb living costs.
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Supreme Court
The Stewardesses At Williams College Cinema
Williamstown theater ads show The Stewardesses rated X. A double feature includes Bullitt and Bonnie and Clyde with Steve McQueen Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The films feature graphic violence, drawing concern over influence on viewers. Showtimes list 7 and 8:55 followed by 7 and 9.
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