Nine Miners Trapped as WV Coal Mine Burns
Rescue teams drill a five inch bore toward Blacksville No. 1 mine seeking contact or signs of life for nine trapped miners after a Saturday fire. Officials say survival chances fade as temperatures rise and foam efforts fail to quell the blaze. More than 100 rescuers in 14 teams work near the mine entrance while families gather nearby amid mounting concern.
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Blacksville
W. Va
Consolidation Coal Co
Blacksville No. 1
John Corcoran
Consolidation
Corcoran
Igearch
Allneys
Leonard Pnakovich
Lear Mine Workers of America
Buying Income In Cedar Rapids Up Five Percent
New surveys show stronger Cedar Rapids buying power than expected. Chamber officials cite Sales Management magazine with average per household income at 13188 and median at 10694, while metropolitan area figures list per household 12817 and effective buying income at 652 million, up from last year.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Sales Management Magazine
Linn County
Incoe
Ceorient Breach Echoes in Failing Wordplay Puzzle
A fragmentary line hints at a humorous quip about wordplay growing harder to parse. The piece evokes a playful commentator voice, possibly a daily humor slot, with no clear subject or concrete names.
Warrants Issued In Cedar Rapids Marshal Case
Warrants were issued late Monday morning in municipal court for the arrest of two men on charges of robbery with aggravation of a U S Marshal. Dick McKinney was robbed and fatally wounded in a nearby alley during the incident. Police seek Harry Reese and Bruce Anthony Stark as suspects after days of searching without leads. Reese is described as in his early twenties, five feet ten inches tall, about 200 pounds, black with a full beard, with past residences in Chicago and Rock Island Marine areas.
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Cedar Rapids
U S
Reese
Chicago
Rock Island
Fischer Leads in Chess for First Time in Reykjavik
Bobby Fischer forged into the lead in the world chess championship match against Boris Spassky in Reykjavik Iceland after dominating the sixth game and forcing Spassky to resign. Fischer leads 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 with 18 games remaining, needing 12 1/2 more points to win. Spassky needs 12 to retain. Fischer opened with an unusual queen's bishop pawn move and built a decisive edge through exchanges, leaving Spassky with weaknesses on the queenside and a shifted attack.
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Reykjavie
Iceland
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Spassky
Fischer
Manny
South Vietnamese advance near Quang Tri Citadel
South Vietnamese troops push toward the walls of Quang Tri Citadel as a northern counteroffensive gains ground, while a central coast district town is recaptured. U.S. jets bomb Hanoi’s southern sector and a North Vietnamese airbase plant is set ablaze. The Tam Quan town on the central coast is retaken by about 1,000 South Vietnamese troops.
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George Esper
Saigon
Quang Tri
Hanoi
U. S
Associated Press
Dennis Neeld
Binh Dinh
Tam Quan
Neal Ulevich
U.S. de
Two More Die in Ulster Violence
In Belfast a sniper killed a British soldier at an army post near Ballymurphy. In Londonderry a civilian died and four were wounded as gun battles and crossfire occurred between gunmen and troops. Police seized explosives during raids on Catholic housing estates southwest of Belfast.
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Belfast
Londonderry
Larmy
Ballymurphy
Northern Ireland
Armaga
Drug Smuggling in Indo China Defies Hopeful Politics
A cabinet level report dated February 21 1972 rejects Nixon era optimism that narcotics smuggling in Southeast Asia can be stopped by regional governments. It highlights corruption and lax enforcement in Thailand South Vietnam and Laos and notes the pivotal role of Thailand as an air base for smugglers. The piece cites critics Rep Robert Steele and Alfred McCoy and discusses CIA rebuttals and Myanmar opium flow through Thailand to Europe and the United States.
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Seymour M. Hersh
York Times
Washington
Nixon
Southeast Asia
of Nise
Central Tr
Thailand
South
Vietnam
William P. Rogers
Robert H. Steele
R-Conn
Alfred W. McCoy
Yale
New York Times
McCoy
CIA
Times
United States
Steele
Turkey
Southeast
Ada
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Bangkok
Metley
Congressional
Europe
Democrats claim finances improved as campaign starts
Washington AP reports Democratic and Republican vice presidential contenders sparring ahead of the campaign. Democratic party chair says finances are improved for 1972 though paying the 1968 debt remains unresolved. Eagleton criticizes Agnew while predicting troop withdrawal by election day and considering a Meany meeting.
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Washington
Spire T. Agnew
Nixon
Anchorage
Pen‘laska
North Vietnam
South China
Richard Nixon
U.S
Thomas I. Eagleton
Agnew
ABC
Eagleton
Vietnam
Airlines Place Load Limits at Cedar Rapids Airport
Aircraft travel was disrupted as 7000-foot and 5450-foot runways were limited due to heat blistering. United Air Lines restricted loads through Thursday for maintenance while several passengers were unable to catch their flights. Airport manager Roy Jameson noted rising blow-outs suggesting runway deterioration amid reported Sunday highs in the upper 90s.
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Quarkir Lines
Cedar Rap 1
Lids
United Air Lines
Roy Jameson
Jameson
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Arnold Miller
United Mine Workers
Left
E. J. Pankovich
UMW
West Virginia
By Rick Scott
Westee Oe
0.S. Bureau Lot Mines
Chiles
Pnakovich
Company
Consoli
Dale Racter
Ami
Ceorient
Marshal Case
Vanous
Bruce A. Stark
Reykjavik
Tsaac Kashdan
Sis
Helas
Fischer Hashow
S. Viets
Neeld
Ulster
By Colin Frost
Indo-China
Laos
Jy Fred
Roficran
Pinghsiang
Kaiduong
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
George
Cedar Rapids News
Toa
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