Runaway U S Soldiers Seek Sanctuary at Episcopal Convention
Two AWOL servicemen entered Notre Dame’s Episcopal convention in South Bend flanked by supporters and sought sanctuary from authorities. Bishop Barrett joined the plea while police stood by. Airman Louis Parry and Marine Cpl Louis Jones, both from Hawaii, denounced the Vietnam War as immoral and illegal and vowed not to return. A crowd of delegates and clergy listened as the clash with antiwar protests unfolded during the session.
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South Bend
Ind
Episcopal Church Convention
Louis Parry
Mountain View
Calif
Cpl
Louis Jones
Charleston
S.C
A.w.o.l
Hawaii
Vietnam
Parry
Jones
Richard Hernandez
New York
Convocation Hall
University of Notre Dame
Woman Struck and Killed While Walking to Mailbox near Homestead
Anna Wagner, about 70, was fatally injured about 8 25 a.m. Tuesday when struck by a car while walking to her mailbox across a gravel road. The driver Merlin Teggatt was en route north to Homestead from six miles south of town. The crash occurred one mile east and one mile south of Homestead.
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Homestead
Anna Wagner
Merlin Teggatt
Gls Flown in To Reinforce Battered Unit
Helicopters dropped 400 American air cavalrymen to reinforce South Vietnamese commandos after three days of fierce fighting with North Vietnamese forces 85 miles northeast of Saigon. At least 26 South Vietnamese troops were killed, 120 wounded, 17 missing, and four Green Beret advisers wounded as Lt. Gen. Julian Ewell ordered fresh reinforcements.
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Saigon
Julian Ewell
U.S
Second Field Force
First Air Cavalry Division
Violence in Four Towns Leaves Dead and Fires In Hartford
Four American communities faced overnight violence with one man killed and many injured as fires burned, looting occurred, and racial tensions flared. Hartford worst hit with police firing tear gas, a wounded policeman, and destruction in the North End.
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Hartford
Conn
North End
Fort Lauderdale
Francelia Nears Central America Striking Gulf shore
Hurricane Francelia brings fringe winds to Gulf of Honduras coast as it shifts southwest toward Central America. Forecaster Raymond Kraft predicts landfall between Belize and La Ceiba with entry possibly near Belize and Puerto Barrios Guatemala, affecting the northeast Guatemala coast.
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Miami
Francelia
Gulf of Honduras
Central America
Raymond Kraft
Belize
British Honduras
la Ceiba
Honduras
Guatemala
Kraft
Puerto Barrios
Ev Dirksen Undergoes Lung Surgery at Walter Reed
Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, 73, underwent removal of the upper right lung at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a chest X ray found a lung nodule. Biopsy showed a tumor. the upper lobe was removed with no spread detected. Postoperative condition described as satisfactory.
Nixon Outlines New Strategy for 1970s Peace and Welfare
President Nixon used Labor Day to address the National Governors Conference in Colorado Springs and tour NORAD. He urged a new 1970s strategy combining a strong defense with limited overseas commitments, urging government reform and a unified effort to meet domestic needs while sharing global burdens. He touted 11 reforms, starting with a major welfare reform.
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Nixon
White House
North American Air Defense Command
NORAD
Cheyenne Mountain
Air Force One
America
Congress
Colorado Springs
U. S
National Governors Conference
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Governors rebuff Nixon on welfare push for federal takeover
Governors meeting backed a five year plan for full federal financing of all welfare costs and universal health insurance while opposing Nixon's limited plan. The statement urged Medicaid financing from Washington and hospital cost controls, with Maddox dissenting and Rockefeller leading the call for national standards.
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Rockefeller
Maddox
James Rhodes
Rohio
Washington
Attorneys For Teddy Make Plea For Cross Examination
Massachusetts Supreme Court heard a bid to allow cross examination of witnesses in the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest. Senator Kennedy’s lawyers argued the inquest is accusatory, while Judge Boyle maintained it is like a grand jury with no cross exams. Security tightened in Edgartown as the case loomed, with Dr. Nevin withdrawing backing for exhumation. Dinis’s petition for exhumation remained before a Pennsylvania judge.
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Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Boyle
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward Kennedy
Kopechne
Edgartown
Kennedy
Edmund Dinis
Martha's Vineyard Island
Robert Nevin
Dinis
Miss Kopechne
Pennsylvania
Nevin
Bernard Brominski
Wilkes-Barre
Parents finance air conditioned portable classroom at School 86
In Indianapolis, when the school board could not solve overcrowding at School 86, 35 third graders started fall term in a portable classroom bought by parents on a lease loan. The PTO formed a corporation, secured a $12,000 bank loan, and the district promises to repay within two years.
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Indianapolis
Frederick Mason
North Vietnam faces worst farm disaster in a decade
Floods and manpower shortages threaten North Vietnam’s 1960s rice harvest. Analysts warn the delta floods may ruin up to 600,000 tons of fall rice, while a 40 percent cut in cultivated land and a labor drain to the army shrink production. Grain imports have surged from 50,000 tons in 1966 to 750,000 tons, with potential needs near 1.7 million tons in 1969 to avert famine for 18.5 million people.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Europe
U.S
Red River
October Draft Call Sets 29000 for October
The Pentagon announced a draft call of 29,000 for October, unchanged from this month. Of the total, 27,600 are for the army and 1,400 for the marine corps.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Army
Marine Corps
Czechoslovakia lifts border ban on journalists students
West German border police reported that Czechoslovakia ended its blanket entry ban for journalists and students. The ban had been imposed just before the Soviet invasion's first anniversary. Guards still confiscate films and sound tapes from outbound travelers.
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Munich
UPI
Czechoslovakia
Tearful farewell before football season ends
A man and his wife share a tearful parting in front of the television as they anticipate not seeing each other again until after the football season. Copyright data remains unspecified.
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