Nixon Warns Critics Gamble With Peace At Legion Meet
President Nixon, on his first 1972 campaign appearance, accuses critics of gambling with world peace and American safety while addressing the American Legion national convention in Chicago. He defends military strength as essential to lasting peace and notes he will not risk safety for economy.
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Chicago
Nixon
Sen
George
McGovern
America
Illinois
Mid
Igan
California
Spiro T. Agnew
Miami
Bee Threat From Brazil Could Reach North America
An Agriculture Department funded study by the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences warns aggressive Brazilian honey bees are migrating toward the United States at about 200 miles per year. With no natural barrier, they could arrive in North America within four to six years, with hundreds of bees capable of chasing and stinging animals or people within 100 meters of hives.
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Washington
United States
Brazil
North America
Agriculture Department
National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences
Bee
Amazon River
Intercepted Letter Details Worker Pay Protest
An intercepted letter notes janitors earn $2.74 an hour while mechanics earn $4.39 and protest. The memo highlights worker wage disparities and labor unrest.
Protesting demonstrators released after Nixon convention clash
More than 1,000 protesters arrested during disruption near the Republican National Convention were released on nominal bonds after overnight jailings. Bonds ranged from 3 to 40 dollars as hearings continued led by multiple judges. Demonstrators returned to Miami Beach while police maintained a heavy cordon outside the convention hall.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Biscayne Bay
Flamingo Park
Nixon
Secret Service
Reduced Lunches Available For Children With Inadequate Funds
Buford Fisher, superintendent of schools, announced free and reduced price school lunches will be provided to children unable to pay. Eligibility depends on gross family income, family size, and number of children in school and day care centers. Families may apply via forms sent home or at the principal's office. appeals go to the superintendent at 410 S. Evergreen.
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Buford Fisher
Fisher
Stans Denies Ties To Break-in Case
Maurice H. Stans, Nixon campaign finance chairman, denies involvement in the Democratic headquarters break-in. In a CBS interview he says he may testify against others and cannot explain why a $25,000 campaign check ended in Bernard Barker's bank account.
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Miami Beach, Fla
Maurice H. Stans
Nixon
CBS Television
Stans
Bernard Barker
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Barker Bank
Hugh Sloan Jr
Finance Committee
First Aid Classes Held Here Red Cross
Multimedia First Aid courses conducted in Chanute on August 22 and 23 under OSHA rules. August 22 sessions at the state Highway Patrol office served school bus drivers from Unified School Districts 387, 413, 461 and 484 with twenty-one certificates. August 23 session at Chanute fire station led by John E. Erickson issued certificates to workers from Ash Grove Burlingon Mfg Manley Steel plus Norma Maring and Lyle E. Dean.
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Red Cross
Chanute
State Highway Patrol
Fice
William Dean Hilton
Frank
Helen Hayworth
John E. Erickson
Ash Grove
Burlington Mfg
Manley Steel
Norma Maring
Neosho County
Red Cross Water Safety
Lyle E. Dean
Royster Junior High
Area Forecast: Partly cloudy showers and possible thunderstorms
Partly cloudy with showers or thunderstorms developing this afternoon and continuing tonight possibly severe. Variable winds 10 to 15 mph tonight. Lows mid to upper 60s. Cloudy with thunder showers Friday and a little cooler. Highs in the low 80s. Precipitation probability 80 percent tonight 70 percent Friday.
Gould Faces New Bombing Related Charges In Kansas
Randall E Gould 23 of Lawrence Kansas was to be arraigned in Johnson County District Court on criminal damage to property and possession of explosives. New charges stem from 1970 bombings in Mission Hills and Prairie Village with co defendants Kenneth Sandusky and Richard Stanley. Sandusky free on 20000 bond and Stanley on 10000 bond facing preliminary hearings.
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Clathe
Kan
Randolph E. Gould
Lawrence
Johnson County District Court
Gould
Johnson County
Mission Hills
Prairie Village Bank
Mike Elwell
Douglas County
Arnold Stead
New London
Stead
Kenneth Sandusky
Kansas City
Richard Stanley
Lathrop
Sandusky
Stanley
Unrest Over Clean Rest Rooms At Tinker Air Force Base
At Tinker AFB Oklahoma City mechanics allege morale and funding strain as skilled workers rotate into janitorial tasks under an austerity program. A WG-10 mechanic earns 4.39 hourly for head swabbing while WG-2 custodians receive 2.74. Local 916 criticizes using journeymen for cleaning as wasteful.
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Oklahoma City
Tinker Air Force
The
Oklahoma City Times
Snow Storms Close Trail Ridge Road in National Parks
A cold front swept across Colorado bringing summer snow to Grand Teton and Rocky Mountain national parks. Campers remained safe as heavy snow covered peaks and Trail Ridge Road, the nation’s highest continuous highway, was closed.
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Associated Press
Grand Teton
Rocky Mountain National Parks
High Plains
Colorado
Parks
Trail Ridge Road
Rocky Mountain National Park
Denver
North Vietnam still imports vital materiel despite bombing
High Air Force officials say North Vietnam continues to import a large share of petroleum ammunition and other war goods. They estimate 25 to 50 percent of pre bombing levels are getting through the U S blockade and bombing. They warn the war could last several more years with limited Hanoi support.
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Washington
North Vietnam
U.S
North
Mc Govern backs teachers right to strike for campaign aid
Sen. George Mc Govern urged the American Federation of Teachers to endorse him and provide a $250000 campaign contribution. He spoke in Minnesota and planned speeches to the AFT and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He also visited Chicago for a reception at the American Legion convention and met with Mayor Richard J. Daley.
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ST. Paul
China prepares first UN veto to block Bangladesh entry
United Nations diplomats report China is ready to cast its first veto in the Security Council to block Bangladesh's admission to the UN. The veto follows three weeks of backstage maneuvering as the council prepared to meet in the afternoon to consider the bid.
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United Nations, N.Y
China
U.N
Bangladesh
United Nations
Security Council
Meat costs rise as July prices set records
Washington AP reports beef and pork costs hit record highs in July with overall supermarket food prices rising 1.8 percent. The Agriculture Department says year to date prices are 4.5 percent higher than 1971, driven by higher farm prices and retailer markups.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Dole Re-elected National Chairman by Acclamation
The Republican National Committee re-elected Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas as national chairman in its first post convention meeting in Miami Beach. Dole was chosen by acclamation and re-appointed Tom Evans and Anne Armstrong as co chairmen with Fred Scribner Jr. named general counsel.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Republican National Committee
Spiro T. Agnew
Robert Dole
Kansas
Dole
Tom Evans
Delaware
Anne Armstrong
Texas
Fred Scribner Jr
Washington, D.C
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Upper Marlboro, Md
Ralph Powers
Prince Georges County
Arthur H. Bremer
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Benjamin Lipsitz
Lipsitz
Volves
Oklahoma
Daily
Oklahoman
Bert C. Hurn
Western Missouri
Cha
William Armstrong
Dade County
Marsha Monestersky
Students For A Democratic Society
Superintendent of Schools
S. Evergreen
Douglas County Atty
Daniel Young
Lowell Malloy
American Federation of Government
Tinker
Reds
Paris
Vietnam
Pham Dang Lam
Saigon
Tinker Field
Hanoi
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