Sunday Truce Prospects in Vietnam Talks
Diplomatic sources say United States and North Vietnam may resume negotiations to craft a cease fire in Indochina by Sunday. South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu could sign the agreement, while U S officials express caution about a quick settlement.
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Washington
United States
North Vietnam
Indochina
Nguyen van Thieu
Saigon
State Department
Harry Dent
Nixon
Kissinger
Hanoi
Juco Student Learns Business by Doing
Barbara Kihm profiles Neosho County Community Junior College freshman Eric Hines and partner Gary Lounsbury who started The Fish Farm with about $600. The venture, selling exotic aquarium fish from Long Beach to Kansas City, funds education and provides practical accounting experience.
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Juco
Charles Hines
Eric
Neosho County
Santa Fe
Hines
Lounsbury
Long Beach
Calif
Kansas City
McGovern Attacks Nixon In Strong Speech
Senator George McGovern told a Pittsburgh audience that Americans will tell President Nixon next Tuesday to take his bungling bugging burglars and get out of the White House. The language met with applause though his wife called it too strong.
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Pittsburgh
George McGovern
Dience
Nixon
White House
McGovern
Northeast
Nixon Promises Tax Relief for Older Americans
President Nixon pledges property tax relief targeted at seniors as a top campaign priority. He criticizes high elderly tax burdens, urges Congress to restrain spending, and contrasts with Democratic plans amid a tight election race. McGovern criticizes Nixon on spying and misconduct at a Pittsburgh dinner.
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Nixon
Congress
Pittsburgh
McGovern
City Commission Grants In Town Water Rates to Industries
In a special meeting, Chanute's City Commission approved negotiating lower in town water rates for Mid America Refining Co Inc Harry Byers and Sons Inc and Ash Grove Cement Co as high consumption users. The panel also voted to purchase a backhoe for gas water and sewer work at 41985 and studied a partition option for Central Park Building with bids ranging 9360 to 18961.
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Mid America Refining Co. Inc
Harry Byers and Sons, Inc
Ash Grove Cement Co
G. W. van Keppel Co
Bob Bunting
van Keppel Co
Kansas Ciy, Co
Miller Denies Suppressing Kansas Crime Stats
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller rejected claims he hid KBI crime figures and welcomed 1971 data showing overall major crimes declined 0.8 percent while four violent crimes rose 8.6 percent from 1970. A Hoffman campaign accusation spurred a bureau stat review.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas
Robert E. Hoffman
Miller
Hoffman
Missing El Dorado Puppy Sought by Teacher
Miss Scovell, a 22 year old El Dorado music teacher, asks buyers at a garage sale for the return of her brown and black puppy. The dog escaped from a neighbor’s porch during a garage sale and was sold to buyers from Chanute, prompting the ad in The Tribune.
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el Dorado
Jane Scovell
Today
Whites Continue School Boycott
In New York hundreds of white adults jeered as 30 black and Puerto Rican pupils entered a Brooklyn junior high school for the third day of classes this year. Police with helmets guarded the entrance while protesters were kept behind barricades as the day began.
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New York
Carnarsie
Brooklyn
Altoona Midway To Stage Four One Act Comedies
Altoona Midway High School will stage four one act comedies in the school auditorium on Wednesday with a 12 45 afternoon show and an 8 p m evening performance. Twenty five students including sophomores juniors and seniors will perform the plays Grandpa Goes Hunting Prize Money Wild Hobbyhorses and Noble David. The public is invited.
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Altoona - Midway High School
David
Altoona - Midway
US 75
Buffalo
Altoona
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Sparks Unclear Exchange
The fragmentary note reads Intercepted Letter Dear Cha. Intercepted Letter Dear Cha. The odd phrasing suggests a coded or garbled communication with imagery like mattress cooking appearing in the text. The item hints at a sealed or censored correspondence in a historical context.
Unscheduled Rabbits Stir Pretty Prairie High
Pretty Prairie Kansas students faced a prank when three live rabbits were found imprisoned in two cafeteria ovens over the weekend. Cooks detected the break in Monday morning and smelled burning rabbit hair when the ovens were heated. Principal Douglas Mitchell called it a prank and said the district would pursue the culprits.
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Pretty Prairie, Kan
Pretty Prairie High School
Douglas Mitchell
Prisoners riot over diet in Kansas City jail
Prisoners at Jackson County jail in downtown Kansas City set a mattress and debris fire during a protest over beef in meals. Firefighters contained the blaze as county officials released a report noting infestations and cold, infrequent meals in the jail kitchen.
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Kansas City
Jackson County
William L. Kimsey
Communists Launch Major Attacks Across South Vietnam
In the sixth day of intensified fighting, Communist forces conducted over 100 attacks including two overran ranger camps at Ba To and Que Son in the north. Government positions faced shelling in the central highlands and Mekong Delta while U S air and naval strikes remained paused above the 20th parallel. B52s targeted supply caches in the south.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Ba To
Que Son
Mekong
U.S
North Vietnam
Trains Crash in Chicago Kills 44. Cars Under Probe
Federal investigators question the strength of lightweight steel cars after a rear end collision on Illinois Central Gulf lines during the Monday rush hour. At least 44 dead and over 300 injured as two commuter trains wrecked and six hours passed before all victims were freed from the wreckage.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Canada votes in near dead heat general election
In Toronto AP reports a tight race as Canadians await final results from the 29th general election. After counting Monday ballots only four of 264 House seats were undecided with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals leading at 108 and Robert Stanfield’s Conservatives at 107, both short of a majority.
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Canada
House of Commons
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Liberals
Robert L. Stanfield
Conservatives
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