Maritime plan for giant floating ports to ease oil import crisis
The Maritime Administration urged building huge floating platforms named Superports off Delaware Bay and the Louisiana coast to handle ultra large tankers and reduce energy shortages. The report deems the project economical and ecological, aiming to secure oil imports amidst the energy crisis.
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Washington
Maritime Administration
Delaware Bay
Louisiana
America
B52 Bombers Hit Both Sides as Saigon Front Advances
U S B52s flew 14 missions over the North Vietnam southern panhandle and near Quang Tri as South Vietnamese Marines and paratroopers pressed an advance, reporting heavy shelling and 18 enemy dead while government troops suffered three KIA and 26 wounded. Ground action was light elsewhere amid weather hindrances. Highway 4 in Cambodia reopened after a land mine halted traffic briefly.
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Bluefield Man Killed by Shotgun Blast. Suspect Charged with Murder
Farley Riley, 32, of 311 Ramsey Street Bluefield was found on his porch with a gunshot wound. Cecil Arlie McGlothlin, 53, of the same address, is charged with murder and held on a $10 000 bond after witnesses reported the incident at 12 30 a.m. Riley died at Bluefield Sanitarium. The Harrington Richardson shotgun was recovered from a bedroom. A preliminary hearing is planned.
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Farley Riley
Jim Dent
Cecil Arlie McGlothlin
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Kenneth Pruett
Tom Mustard
Pruett
Bernard Bailey
Detective Bureau
McGlothlin
Beaver Pond
C. J. Harvey
Harvey
Mercer County Intermediate
Howard M. Jarrett
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Greever Funeral Home
Tazewell
Nixon Confident of Truce in Vietnam Talks
President Nixon expresses confidence in a right kind of peace settlement and resumes Paris talks with Henry Kissinger at the Waldorf Astoria. They plan further meetings at Camp David and with South Vietnamese emissary Nguyen Phu Duc, amid tensions over Kissinger’s role and resumed negotiations after a nine day break.
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Superports Idea Eyed to Ease Oil Imports
A Maritime Administration report urges building vast floating platforms called superports off Delaware Bay and near the Louisiana coast to import foreign crude. Proposed sites need 100 foot depths, with Delaware at Cape Henlopen and Rehoboth Beach and Louisiana four miles west of the Southwest Pass. Estimated costs run $499 million for Delaware and $191 million for the Gulf site.
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America
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New York
Soros Associates, Inc
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Council On Environmental Quality
United States
Gunmen Try to Free IRA Boss at Dublin Hospital
Gunmen disguised as priests and doctors opened fire inside Mater Hospital Dublin aiming to free IRA leader MacStiofain who was jailed after a six month sentence. One gunman, one policeman and two bystanders were slightly wounded in the shootout as troops searched Dublin.
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Sean MaccStiofain
Republican Army
Macolain
Sean MacStiofain
Irish Republican Army
MacStiofain
Mater Hospital
King Hussein narrowly escapes assassination in helicopter
Beiruit AP reports King Hussein of Jordan escaped a rocket attack on his helicopter on palace grounds amid a coup plot by dissident air force and army officers. The rebel pilot Talal al Khatib was killed, and Hussein, lightly wounded, was treated then returned to duties as investigations unfolded.
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Jordan
An Nahar
al Moharref
Air Force
Talal al Khatib
Armed Forces Hospital
al Moharrer
Dajani
al Khatib
Amman
Nazi hunter says he can locate Mengele with funds
Tuvia Friedman of Haifa says with financial backing he would obtain a new passport and travel to South America to capture Josef Mengele the Auschwitz doctor. Friedman, who helps run the Haifa Documentation Center, has helped seize 250 Nazi criminals but believes Mengele may be alive in Paraguay or other South American nations and warns against another Eichmann style trial in Israel.
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Paraguay
AMA leader suggests armed guards for inner city health centers
Cincinnati AP The AMA chief Dr. Carl A. Hoffman proposed nationwide security for neighborhood health centers to lure physicians into high crime areas. He cited physician shortages and noted some centers already use guards. he also urged rural and Appalachian practice mandates funded by state or federal programs.
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Carl A. Hoffman
Huntington
W. Va
Hoffman
Idleness a Rising Issue for UAW Bargaining
The United Auto Workers union faces a potential push for more leisure time as auto industry talks approach next year. A spokesman notes officers favor more time off to help workers be with families, but no formal policy will be set until after the bargaining convention in March.
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