France's Indochina exit offers U.S. lessons from AP analysis
AP Special Correspondent William L. Kyvan argues France endured a brutal Indochina defeat and later prospered after shedding empire, suggesting America faces similar stakes. The piece notes France's Algeria exit and rising influence, while warning Washington about entangled alliances and declining power.
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William L.kyan
France
Indochina
Paris
Saigon
Algeria
Japan
United States
Whittaker To Lead Assault On Second Highest Mountain
Big Jim Whittaker, first American to reach Everest, heads an expedition to K2 the world’s second highest peak. He leads a 10 ton supply build to Skardu with eight others and a photographer wife. The climb targets the northwest ridge with a July or August summit, cost about 200000 dollars.
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Berkeley
Calif
Big Jim Whittaker
Mt. Everest
Himalays
Whittaker
Diane
Pakistan-China
Skardu
Seattle
Nove
Everest
Oscar Eckenstein
Calgary
Alberta
National Geographic
Sierra Glab
Fugitive linked to 1962 bond jump and 1960s stock scheme
Police say Michael posing as Mrs Carmichael headed Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp in Los Angeles and Dallas. He fled before arrest on charges including theft over $20,000 and bond-jumping in 1962. Dallas found wigs and impersonation devices at his home.
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Strong
Michael
Dade Couny
U.S
Los Angeles
Dallas
Carmichael
Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp
Twentieth Century Corp
Organ donations and eye selling spark controversy and tragedy
The piece recounts kidney and cornea shortages, a Kane Pa man offering to sell an eye to debt payoffs, and a Pittsburgh man offering a kidney. Barnes Hospital rejects the eye sale on moral and legal grounds while donors worldwide send contributions. The narrative also covers entertainer Mae West? (Note: The source mentions Miss Baker and Grace, but the core focus is organ donation and a controversial eye sale.)
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Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Donald Schlopy
Kane
Schlopy
Scholopy
Germany
Erie
Ohio
Robert Nuzum
Nuzum
Harold Jacobs
Crossville
Petitioners Call For Ban On Bullets In Congress Action
Washington AP reports the Consumer Product Safety Commission will deliberate within two weeks on a petition to ban handgun bullets as a hazardous substance under a federal court order. If outlawed, pistol bullets could be effectively banned nationwide.
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Washington
Congress
Consumer Product Safety Commission
America
U.S
Phnom Penh
Saigon
Kuon Loc
Pentagon
Philippines
Australia
France
Taiwan
Thailand
Spain
Sweden
Britain
Canada
Italy
Commission
National Rifle Association
Susan Sullivan
Chicago
NRA
Unemployment fund strain increases state borrowings
The Labor Department says only 19 states held adequate reserve funds at 1974 end while seven states and Puerto Rico drew funds. Hashian warned one to seven more states may borrow later. April tax collections could ease needs briefly as unemployment climbs above 9 percent. The program faces extensions to 65 or 52 weeks with proposed broadening of coverage.
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James Hashian
Labor Department
Manpower Administration
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Minnesota
Nevada
Maine
Pennsylvania
Montana
Oregon
Hashian
Free fish and chickens drawn by crowds across two cities
In Boston hundreds rushed the Fish Pier for 27,000 pounds of trout-like pollock donated by a trawler owner after wholesale prices fell to 10 cents. In Indianapolis a farmer gave away 2,000 White Leghorn chickens at a southside shopping center, drawing 800 to 900 people over about 12 hours as prices for eggs remained weak.
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Cavendish
Calgary
Calgary International
Diplomat Club Sport Field
Phnom Penh
Okinawa
U.S
Boston
Mel King
Indianapolis
Seymour
Ind
David W. Rust
Boston Globe
O'Hara
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