McGovern Seizes Delegates Across Five States
Senator George S. McGovern widened his lead in the Democratic delegate race as five states selected delegates for the Miami Beach convention. He gained 24 more first ballot votes, standing 436 to Wallace's 323, with 1 509 needed. Muskie benefited in Maine while Jackson swept Washington, and Chavez backed McGovern in a San Francisco stop.
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George S. McGovern
Miami Beach
Vermont
Iowa
Washington
McGovern
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Louisiana
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
South Dakota
New England
Muskie
Sen
Henry M. Jackson
Jackson
San Francisco
Phoenix
Fresno
Cesar Chavez
Humphrey
San Diego
Iowa votes to McGovern and Muskie in Democratic makeup
Eighteen delegates for McGovern and Muskie each lead a 46 member Iowa Democratic delegation to the national convention in Miami Beach starting July 10. Ten delegates remain uncommitted with about five leaning to Humphrey. The statewide slate includes 12 at large delegates and 34 from six district conventions.
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Des Moines
George McGovern
South Dakota
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Iowa
Miami Beach
Muskie
McGovern
Muskie del
English Valleys Senior Crowned Festival Queen
Roberta Reinert, a senior from English Valleys high school, was named Miss Eastern Iowa at the 26th annual Jaycee sponsored festival. She is 18 and the daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Reinert of North English. They also awarded band trophies to Western Dubuque Class A Wilton Class B and Dike Class C and listed other winners with their directors.
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Greite
Duene Crock
Roberta Reinert
English Valleys
Eastern Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Reinert
Debra Miller
Norway
Iowa
English Valleys High School
Eastern, Iowa
Miss Reinert
Robert Reinert
North English
Western Dubuque
Phil Schmitz
Wilton
Bill Holt
Dike
Richard Wright
Deep River- Millersburg
Karen Bartachek
A. G. Gaimarn
Brunett
Airport Bond Debate Highlights Cedar Rapids Costs
Voters weigh a $5 million airport bond amid mixed local benefit in a 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday election. The piece notes rising airline travel, air freight figures for Cedar Rapids, and revenue versus expenses for airport operations since 1968, with specifics on 1971 income and major users like Collins Radio Co. and United Air Lines.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Collins Radio Co
United Air Lines
Ozark
Price cap eyed for service prices at 3 percent
The Price Commission considers a 3 percent yearly limit on most service price increases to simplify controls and aid enforcement. The rule would cover hotels, banks, advertising, real estate, and more but exclude small firms and health and utility services. A decision is due next month.
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New York Times
Washington
The
Price Commission
Commission
Cost of Living Council
Internal Revenue Service
Reporter Tells Burundi Purges
Belgian reporter Walter Geerts says genocide is underway in Burundi as President Micombe ro purges opponents. He describes tracking down arrests and killings of intellectuals mainly from the Hutu tribe and mass graves outside Bujumbura.
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Brussels
Belgium
Burundi
Walter Geerts
Michel Micombero
Geerts
Bujumbura
Micombero
Soviets Press For Progress In Arms Talks With Nixon
Moscow monitors the Nixon summit as a chance to show that U S ties with Moscow remain central despite China outreach. Kremlin leaders seek concrete arms and trade deals, plus steps toward European security and force reductions, to prove a practical Soviet American partnership.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Nixon
China
United States
Peking
Kremlin
Europe
Nixon arrival marked by protest at Salzburg airport
President Nixon landed in Austria on the first leg of his Moscow trip as police cleared 200 Vietnam war demonstrators from the Salzburg airport runway. A small protester band shouted Nixon Murderer before being dragged away. Kreisky greeted the Nixons and escorted them to Klessheim Castle for two nights before their eight day visit to Moscow.
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Leonid I. Brezhnev
Aleksei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Nixon
Peking
Salzburg
Austria
UPI
Moscow
Washington
Bruno Kreisky
Klessheim Castle
South Viet Namese Near An Loc Last Stand Seen
South Vietnamese forces resisting the siege of An Loc fought off a day long attack by North Vietnamese tanks and infantry. An American officer called it possibly the last stand for An Loc, a rubber town 60 miles north of Saigon.
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Saigon
An Loc
Airplane Dinner Order Promptly Refused as Takeout Joke
A passenger on a flight ordered his dinner aloud to the stewardess. She replied with a quip asking if the order was for takeout, delivering a lighthearted airline humor moment.
Albania Criticizes Nixon Talks as Moscow Washington Alliance
Albania denounces President Nixon's Moscow talks as an alliance between Moscow and Washington. The ATA dispatch says the two powers act in concert against the freedom of nations, despite North Vietnamese water mining or intensified bombing.
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Vienna
China
Albania
Nixon
Peking
Kremlin
Moscow
Washington
ATA
Freedom of Nations
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Associated Press
By Frank Nye
the Gazette
Ted Ellsworth
Dubuque
U.S
John Culver
Cedar Rapids Democrat
Frank Nye
Class A
Prairie
Kenneth Smykil
South Tama
David E. John
Mt. Vernon
Donald Stine
West Branch
Dan Anderson
Gallup
Wathan Flying Service
Hedrick Smith
New York Times Service
Vietnam
Helen Thomas
Andrews Air Force Base
Vnukovo
By Michael Putzel
Kontum
North Vietnam
U. S. Command
Hanoi
South Vietnam
U.s.-Ussr
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