Viet Cong General Airlifted To Talks
U.S. helicopters lifted Lt. Gen. Tran Van Tra and 28 other Viet Cong men to Tan Son Nhut after Loc Ninh operations. Tra, deputy COSVN commander, may unlock POW exchanges as four-way cease fire talks stall without his presence. Cease-fire violations drop slightly amid ongoing fighting in northern provinces.
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Saigon
U.S
Tran van Tra
Tan Son Nhut
Tra
COSVN
South Vietnam
Joint Military Commission
Loc Ninh
Camp Davis
U.S. Signal Corps
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Paris
Anderson Legman Indian Impersonator: Key To Prosecution
Washington AP reports the government builds its case on a police infiltrator who joined Indian demonstrators heading to Washington during the Trail of Broken Treaties. Whitten and Indian lawyer Hank Adams were arrested with stolen BIA documents after transporting boxes to a car. They face unlawful possession charges. Anderson defends them as guarding press freedom and exposing government misconduct toward Indians.
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Washington
Leslie H. Whitten
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Whitten
Jack Anderson
Hank Adams
Adams
Anderson
FBI
Dennis Hyten
Anita Collins
Restraining Order Blocks Baxter Park Timber Sale
A Maine Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order against the Baxter Park Authority and Great Northern Paper Co blocking a timber harvest in Baxter Park. The attorney general’s office filed the request, with a Feb 9 hearing set for a preliminary and permanent injunction. The move follows efforts by the NRC and four Maine citizens to halt the cutting, amid debate over Baxter’s will and park wilderness protections.
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Phyllis Austin
Associated Press
Augusta
Kennebec County
Superior Court
Albert Knudsen
Baxter Park Authority
Great Northern Paper Co
Wilderness Park
Attorney Generals Office
Atty
Jon A. Lund
Natural Resources Council
Maine
Lund
Kenneth M. Curtis
Leg
Islative
Land
NRC
Percival P. Baxter
Great Northern
Baxter
Mt. Katahdin
James S. Erwin
Forestry and Fish and Game Commissioners
Erwin
Irish Catholic Protestant violence escalates in Belfast
Extremist actors hurled a fragmentation device into a bus carrying Catholic workers in a Belfast suburb, injuring nine as Catholic and Protestant factions vowed retaliation. Security chiefs blamed Protestant extremists, while IRA and UDA exchanges warned of a new phase of sectarian attacks amid ongoing Belfast violence.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Rillas
Irish Republican Army
Ulster Defense Association
St Francis College announces major program overhaul
St Francis College unveils a three year BA plan with 30 courses, a new A B C no credit grading system, a three 10 week term schedule, and a marine biology concentration within biology. President Robert L Horn says revisions redefine the college and emphasize student success.
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St. Francis College
St. Francis
Robert L. Horn
Horn
Atantic
Stennis Improves Slightly After Holdup Shooting
Washington AP reports Senator John C. Stennis 71 remained in very serious condition after being shot in a holdup. A hospital spokesman said he showed slight improvement following a comfortable night, while he serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Washington
John C. Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
Top Nixon contributors include Hughes Sinatra and EDS executives
Reclusive Howard Hughes and singer Frank Sinatra are listed among early Nixon campaign donors, with about 14 000 to committees and 18 000 across several groups. Howard Hughes may top 100 000 overall. Frank Sinatra to about 50 000. Electronic Data Systems executivesHart II and Marquez contributed 63 000, linked to Medicare Medicaid contract scrutiny.
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Howard Hughes
Frank Sinatra
Nixon
Washington
Spiro Agnew
GAO
Hughes
London
House Subcommittee
General Accounting Office
Dallas
Ross Perot
Electronic Data Systems of
Cfilledge Hart II
Thomas J. Marquez
House Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee
Electronic Data
Perot
White House
County Budget Back To Drawing Board
Augusta York County legislators pressed county commissioners over the 1973 74 budget at a Holiday Inn session. They faulted missing 1972 actuals and 1971 revenue sharing figures and inconsistent explanations. Commissioner Dutremble promised revisions by next week as officials from Biddeford and Kennebunkport observed without speaking.
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Augusta
York
Holiday Inn
Carl Sheltra
Lucien Dutremble
Biddeford
Gilbert Boucher
Kennebunkport
David Walley
Boucher
Walley
Maremont Wins Army Contract for Rifle Parts in Saco
The Maremont Corporation division in Saco secured a 2.5 million dollar Army contract announced by Sen. Edmund Muskie. It covers replacement and modification of 106 480 worn barrels and front sight assemblies for M 16 and M 16 A1 rifles. Alphonse J. Polackwich said the renewal preserves military work and adds new jobs, extending production into 1974.
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Maremont Corporation
Saco
Edmund Muskie
Alphonse J. Polackwich
Maremont
Three Teenagers Killed In Belfast
In Belfast a wave of sectarian killings leaves Gabriel Savage 17 shot in a ditch after being dragged from his girlfriend. Two other Catholic teens, Peter Watterson 15 and Philip Rafferty 14, die. a third 15-year-old is wounded. Police fear a terror campaign aimed at families.
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UDA
Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Ulster Defense Association
IRA
Mena
Dublin
Gabriel Savage
Savage
Northern Ireland
Gerry Fitt
Peter Watterson
Falls Road
Watterson
Philip
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Michael Spath
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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McGovern
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Sinatra
Vicemittees
Rafferty
Elizabeth
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