Agnew Attacks Senate Critics Amid Camp Cambodian War Talk
Vice President Spiro Agnew denounced Senate critics as “Cassandra” figures while police clashed with antiwar demonstrators outside a Denver convention. He touted the Cambodia invasion as the war’s most successful operation as 23 men and a woman were arrested and a policeman injured amid skirmishes outside the Corrigan Exhibition Hall.
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Denver
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Senate
Convention
U.S
Cambodia
Agnew
Colorado
Nixon
Low price on 11th century Bassane painting at Sothebys
A 11th century Bassane painting depicting the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt sold at Sothebys for 240000 dollars amid puzzlement from experts. A similar subject work fetched 855200 dollars from the Los Angeles County Museum last December. Experts could not explain the lower value.
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London
Egypt
Sotheby’s
Los Angeles County Museum
Border Dispute Between Guyana and Venezuela Muted by Moratorium
Foreign News Commentary by Phil Newsom notes Guyana and Venezuela signed a June 18 agreement in Port of Spain to shelve their 93,000 square mile border dispute for twelve years. The quarrel centers on Essequibo and Rupununi Plateau, with potential mineral wealth and past clashes. President Caldera of Venezuela advocates a moratorium, extendable unless one side ends it.
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Phil Newsom
UPL
Guyana
Venezuela
South America
Port of Bagain
Trinidad
Essequibo
Great Britain
Britain
Rupununi
Forbes Burnhar
Rafael Caldera
Caldera
Policy shift on grazing fees eyed by Western cattlemen
Washington reports the Public Land Law Review Commission proposes tying grazing fees on government land to fair market value, a change some say could save Western cattlemen substantial sums while promising only modest future increases. The commission also urges fair permit value considerations for current lessees.
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Washington
UPI
Public Land Law Review Commission
Congress
Forest Service
Bus passenger defies elder seat request in San Francisco
Linda Tungon, 20, refused to give up her seat to a 65 year old woman on a San Francisco bus. The elderly woman struck her with a cane and later fled the scene after the driver halted the bus. Tungon was treated for a bruise on the forehead.
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San Francisco
UPN
Linda Tungon
Miss Danson
Almanac for Thursday June 25 1970 and historic milestones
United Press International notes the date as the 176th day of 1970 with 189 left. Highlights include the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 where Custer and 208 men died, Eisenhower directing a European theater, North Korea invading South Korea in 1950, the 1962 Supreme Court ruling on prayer in schools, and a thought for the day from John Galsworthy about thinking of the future.
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United Press International
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
George Custer
Little Big Horn
Montana
US War Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South Korea
U.S. Supreme Court
Mae West at 77 Defies Stereotypes in New York Interview
Mae West, at 77, proclaims liberation as a core belief. She recalls resenting men’s sexual freedom at age 11 and says women should have it too. She adds she has never put women down and has kept them uplifted in her films.
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New York
UPI
Woman's Liberation
Mae West
Mae
Miss West
Fragmentary 1925 News Snippet with Tornado Toll
A disjointed clipping notes a liberated woman wearing stage makeup, praised by an International fan club president from Toronto who drew with pencil. It also records a March 18 1925 tornado toll of 689 across Missouri Illinois and Indiana.
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Craigadie
Toronto
Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
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Scotts
Cope
U.S. 30 Center
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Combine
Columbus
Food and Drug Administration
Duncan
Tarner
Columbus Grain New Office
Tarner Grain
Duncan Grain
Bial
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