U S Toll in Vietnam War Rises to Weekly High
UPI reports 59 Americans killed in combat last week the highest weekly total since November with 49 killed in Laos and more noncombat deaths raising overall war casualties. Wounded total stands at 217 while PAVN forces push near Hill 31 in Laos and North Vietnam watches.
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Laois
Laos
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Thien
Official Vietnam Press Agency
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Hill 31
Lews
Khe San
Nixon to visit Des Moines for rural development talks
President Nixon plans a Monday Des Moines trip with four Midwestern governors to push revenue sharing and rural development. He will be joined by six cabinet members and local aides, with possible discussions with farm editors and more meetings planned in Iowa and beyond.
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Nixon
Des Moines
White House
Ronald Ziegler
Gavs
Robert Ray
Jaws
Warren Hearnes
Missouri
Richard Ogilvie
Mindis
Patrick Lucey
Wisconsin
Ziegler
Council On Rural Development
Springfield
Iil
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Ray
America
Soviet Denounces U S Laos Intervention In Indo China
Moscow says the United States cannot act with impunity in Indo China and Laos. The Izvestia and Tass released a government statement calling the intrusion a dangerous act and pledging continued aid to North Vietnam and Laos patriots.
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Izvestia
Tass
China
U.S
Indo-China
North
Vietnam
Lang
Democratic Republic of Viet
Nam
Laos
Poor Spelling Spells Truble For Children
A sister and brother aged 7 and 8 attempted to cash a forged ten dollar check at West Side Mald-Stite Sandwich Shop. They returned with a childwritten note, police contacted by the waitress, and Youth Bureau officers took them home for parental handling. The check was part of several found discarded.
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First Avenue SW
Youth Bureau
Shell Oil Fined 340000 for Gulf Spills Safety Violations
Shell Oil Co was fined 340000 in U S district court for safety-device omissions on Gulf wells. The company had pleaded innocent but changed to no contest and faced 2000 per each of the 1970 counts, not involving the offshore platform fire from December.
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Shell Oil Co
Gulf of Mexico
U. S. District Court
Gulf
Shell
Conol
Long skirts spark stares and social norms debate
Local observers discuss how fashion choices for women, particularly long skirts, influence attention and social expectations in public spaces. Critics and supporters weigh comfort, modesty, and style in daily life.
Cuban Fishing Boats Seized After High Seas Clash
Four Cuban fishing boats were seized Thursday after a jurisdictional dispute on the high seas. The Coast Guard and Florida marine patrol arrested skippers and brought them to port to face charges for fishing inside the 12 mile U.S. limit. Florida officials said affidavits backed witnesses of violations, with one crew member reportedly injured by a boat wake.
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High Seas
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Lamda
Florida Marine Patrol
Florida Natural Resources
Randolph Hodges
Key’ West
Joé Fitzgerald
U.S
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Fitzgerald
Florida
Lola Pulisbrhus
E.G. Little
Florida Marine
Coast Guard
Diligence
Capel York
Key West
Iowa House Approves Redistricting Plan In Partisan Vote
Des Moines Iowa Republicans push a senate backed redistricting plan creating a Fourth district with a Democratic tilt pairing John Kyt and Neal Smith amid five other incumbents in separate districts. The plan would make several GOP districts safe while rewarding Democrats in the Culver area as the House narrowly defeats the proposal 68 to 7.
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Senate
John Kyt
Neal Smith
Gross
Scherle
Mayne
Schweigel
G.O.P
Shet Culver
House
Snooping and fear shape Texas civil rights testimony
Washington report on Curtis Graves recounts his claim that federal authorities surveilled him since 1960 for desegregation work. He says the 112th military intelligence group and Birdwell tapped phones and used micro pickups to monitor conversations with Barbara Jordan and Muhammad Ali, amid broader worries of political enemies and repression.
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Congress
Jost Birdwell
America
Unitarian
San
Curtis Graves
Graves
Ung
Houston
Senate
Sen
Peer
112Th Militi 2
Cathal
Catholic Church
Walter Birdwell
Birdwell
Texas
Ing
Barbara Jordan
Muhammad Ali
Ben Lavy
James Hippard
Will Gray
Nixon See U S Will Withdraw More From Vietnam
President Nixon outlined a broader Indo China focus and said some U S forces would stay in South Vietnam to retrieve prisoners and deter new enemy thrusts in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos He urged negotiations while pursuing phased withdrawals and expanded aid and air support to allied forces and warned of increased Soviet power and risks in the nuclear age.
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South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Washington
Nixon
Hanoi
Vietnam
U. S
South Vietam
Cambodia
Laos
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Ava
David Sruce
Paris
Southeast Asia
Soviet Union
Trea Raul
Nclear
Moscow
GI Uses His Savings To Aid Korean Child
Army specialist Lawrence Savage 19 of Brighton spends his 1000 savings to pay for brain surgery for a Korean infant near Uijongbu. The child, son of a Korean mother and an American soldier in Vietnam, has severe muscle spasms and已 accrued about 400 for medical costs. Savage planned to marry Rita Fasco this fall but will seek other wedding financing.
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Brighton
Savage
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South Korea
Mae
Vietnam
Rita Fasco
Miss Fasco
Error in Road Use Tax Report Overrides City Totals
Iowa officials report a miscalculation in last Friday’s road use tax increase notices. Amos Anes, treasurer aide, says the total distribution to 1 000 cities and towns was wrong due to using the county total for secondary road funds. Printout lacking town names caused the mistake. Cedar Rapids officials confirm the error and that city checks were correct.
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Sanette Gran
Iowa
Wate
Amos Anés
Ohe
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Gazette
Ames
Cedar Rapids
William Heins
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