Panama Presses for End to U.S. Canal Zone Control
At a United Nations Security Council session in Panama City Gen. Omar Torrijos denounced U.S. colonialism in the Canal Zone and called for Panamanian jurisdiction over the canal. He cited economic blocks against Cuba and U.S. copper and telecom interests, calling for greater Panamanian control and fewer U.S. troops.
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Puerto Rico
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International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Inmate slain at MHI after murder probe begins
Investigators pursue the killing of 56 year old Laura F Flury at the Mental Health Institute in Independence Iowa. Fellow patient Rita Kelchen 33 is confined and guarded as authorities consider charges. An autopsy will be performed and the body sent to Dubuque.
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Buchanan County
Laura F. Flury
Dubuque
Helen Barton
Selig Korson
Rochester
Flury
Daryl Roberts
Mental Health Institute
Roberts
Iowa
Miss Kelchen
Monticello
Independence Facility
Dollar Slips in London Zurich Bank Trading
The dollar weakened in bank to bank trading in London and Zurich with the pound at 2.4675 dollars and the dollar at 3.230 francs in Zurich, later improving slightly. Dealers cited reduced volume and profit taking as factors while gold rose to 82 dollars an ounce in London.
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Zurich
Blizzard Strikes Wounded Knee Indians Amid Siege
Severe blizzard blankets Wounded Knee South Dakota as 300 AIM members and supporters hold the hamlet for over two weeks. Officials promise aid, but deliveries are blocked by gun threats, and insiders warn insulin shortages and medical needs are critical. Grand jury indicts 31 people in Sioux Falls related to the takeover.
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Charles Cowan
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Sioux Falls
Senate Votes to Use Highway Funds for Transit
The Senate approved diverting 850 million dollars of road user taxes to mass transit amid a 49 to 44 vote led by Senator Lowell Weicker. The move challenges the highway lobby as part of an 18 billion dollar three year highway aid bill and preserves a Nixon spending prohibition amendment.
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Nixon Defies Dean Testimony in Watergate Fight
President Nixon announced he would not let John Dean testify on Capitol Hill and urged a Supreme Court test if needed. He said Mitchell and Stans would testify if summoned, while lawmakers weighed Dean's offer to answer only written questions. The White House briefing covered court tests, Gray nomination, and other policy notes.
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Birch Bayh
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Robert Byrd
D-W.va
John Tunney
North Vietnam
Alfred Jenkins
State Department
John Holdridge
Henry Kissinger
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Sudan
United States
Bombings Kill and Hurt Over 100 at Buddhist Service
A pre-dawn series of explosions at the Soai Kiem pagoda in Tra Cu, Vinh Binh province, killed 17 to 20 people and wounded 82 to 88 as Buddhists gathered for worship. Officials blame Communist terrorists amid long standing Cambodian-Vietnamese tensions.
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le Trung Hien
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Soai Kiem
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Blondie Creator Chic Young Dies at 72 in Florida
Murat B. Chick Young, creator of the Blondie comic strip, died Wednesday at Apollo Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was 72 and had been in declining health. Blondie appeared in over 1,500 newspapers in 16 languages with about 75 million readers daily.
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Chick” Young
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Los Angeles
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National Red Cross
King Features
Social Cuts Spark Senate Probe Of Welfare Rules
A Senate subcommittee led by Edward Kennedy attacks HEW proposed welfare rule changes as unwarranted and dangerous. They warn cost controls cut too deep while HEW budgets next year near 1.8 billion dollars. Lawmakers urge delay, protests, and possible legal action to block the rules. Republican critics fault the blanket condemnation without hearings. AFL-CIO decries cuts as abandonment of aid programs.
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Congress
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Dmass
Senate Special Committee On Aging
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Maryland
Clifford P. Hansen
Wyoming
Charles Percy
Illinois
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Nixon
Andrew J. Biemiller
Labor Federation
Department — of Legislation
Subcommittee On Intergovernmental
Chuckle America Claims Top Living Standards Worldwide
A satirical piece asserts America's leading standard of living but undercuts the claim by noting affordability issues and copyright concerns. The humor contrasts high living expectations with financial realities.
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