Peruvian military regime faces new crisis as two admirals resign
In Lima two admirals quit their cabinet posts amid rising tensions in President Velasco's government. Rear Adm. Ramon Arrospide Mejia resigns as housing minister and is to retire. Vice Adm. Alberto Indacochea Queirdo steps down as director of the Office of National Integration. Velasco previously ousted Vice Adm. Vargas Caballero after Vargas urged freer speech. The shakeup follows a broader pattern of reform and political friction within Peru's military-led regime.
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Velasco
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Agustito Galvez Velarde
Amazon River
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Office of
National Integration
Chile
Bolivia
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
Adm
Luis Vargas Caballero
Navy
Vargas
Military Revolutionary Junta
Army
Air Force
Jose Arce Larco
Washington
Inter-American Defense Board
Fernando Belaunde Terry
Latin America
Cuba
Wire shortage drives up costs for farmers nationwide
The baling wire shortage began when steel firms redirected to other profits amid federal price controls, pushing prices from 11 to 14 dollars per 96 pound roll to 55 and up to 65 dollars. Despite 55 percent of baling wire coming from Colorado Fuel and Iron Co and round the clock production since Feb 1, supply remains tight for the season, leaving farmers reliant on pricier or dubious sources.
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Boston
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Southwest
Midwest
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co
Peru faces political upheaval as party bans spread
In Peru a government order outlawed the Accion Popular party and exiled its leaders amid a clash over Velasco’s rule. The move signals widening political crackdown after earlier ouster of Adm Vargas and demonstrates strain in the army, navy, and air force. The nation wrestles with inflation and a faltering economy.
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Peru
Velasco
Congress
Adm
Vargas
Primary outcomes show incumbents prevail in New Jersey and Alabama
Alabama Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley wins Democratic renomination over Charles Woods after a runoff near. Woods previously led Beasley in the first primary but failed to secure 50 percent. In New Jersey 69 candidates contended in 15 districts as incumbents won renomination easily, including Rep. Peter W. Rodine, House Judiciary Committee chair. Republican race for Frelinghuysen successor sees Milli Fenwick defeat Thomas Kean. Reinecke, aiming for California governorship, faced national scrutiny after a 1969 plan and a 1972 convention funding offer. He called himself not guilty amid calls for trial before the primary.
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GOP
Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen
Millicent Fenwick
Assembly
Thomas H. Kean
Reinecke
California
Flournoy
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Senate
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Sheraton Corp
San Diego
Mitchell
International Telephone & Telegraph
Sheraton
Weather Across Regions With Mixed Rain Chances
Coastal area forecast shows partly cloudy Thursday with highs around 80 and a 20 to 30 percent rain chance through Wednesday night. Mountains expect partly cloudy with morning fog and possible showers, highs near 80, and a 30 to 50 percent rain chance into Wednesday night. D C area mostly sunny to increasing clouds with late showers. coastal zones mostly sunny with late showers Thursday. winds from east to northeast 5 to 10 mph, turning south later Wednesday.
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Santarelli to resign as LEAA official amid controversy
Official reporter offered to exclude portions from Santarelli remarks. Santarelli and Attorney General Saxbe defended the quotes while a Philadelphia Inquirer account based on another interview prompted renewed scrutiny. Santarelli, 36, will stay until a presidential nominee is approved by the Senate.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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Mideast Crisis Flares as Meir Refuses Talks
Meir vows not to meet Palestinian guerrillas while Nixon plans a June 18 return from abroad for rest before Moscow summit beginning June 27. Kissinger says he will seek 100 million dollars for Syria if Damascus honors disengagement with Israel, and 4.2 billion in foreign aid to back the peace process. Ford praises Kissinger’s Middle East diplomacy as a new era of negotiation in U.S.A.
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Nixon
United States
Moscow
Henry Kissinger
Damascus
Israel
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Middle East
New York
Gerald Ford
U.S.A
Panel backs faulty machine in erasure of Nixon tape
Research Institute consultant Dr Michael Heck er says the panel rejected a faulty machine as the erasure cause. The panel, after tests on the Uber 5000, concluded the recorder used by Rose Mary Woods likely produced the erased segment. Woods’ lawyer denies any wrongdoing while defending her innocence amid media claims and investigations linger.
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Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
Miss Woods
Charles S. Rhyne
Rhyne
Sirica
Hecker
Richard H. Bolt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Franklin Cooper
University of Connecticut
Yale University
James L. Flanagan
Bell Laboratories
John G. McKnight
Thomas G. Stockham Jr
University of Utah
Mark R. Weiss
Federal Scientific Corporation
New York City
IRA May Plan Wave of Attacks Warned by Yard
London and Northern Ireland face possible IRA revenge attacks after Michael Gaughan, a 24 year old hunger striker, died in a British prison. Police say both the Ulster cities and major English cities could be targets as the IRA contemplates ending its cease-fire and aligning with the Provisional wing. Gaughan's mother urged peace, saying her son harmed no one.
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Scotland Yard
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
the Yard
Ulster
Birmingham
Liverpool
Michael Gaughan
IRA
Gaughan
Delia Gaughan
Michael
Colson's plan to aid Kennedy resurfaces in Magruder case
Former special counsel Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice amid admissions that a mailing drive aimed to help Kennedy over Muskie. Magruder recalls pressuring for the plan until Colson urged quick action after a talk with the President. White House aides corroborated the pro Kennedy effort, which yielded under 1,000 votes and Magruder calls it a waste. Meanwhile IRA hunger strikes by five guerrillas, including Dolours and Marion Price, continue as they seek sentences served in Ireland.
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ITT
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White House
Grinnell Corp
Senate Committee
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Grinnell
Charles W. Colson
Colson
Watergate
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House Judiciary Committee
St. Clair
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Haldeman
Fish
John Seiberling
Ohio
Associated Press
Seiberling
Nixon-Kleindienst
John D. Ehrlichman
George Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Magruder
H.R. Haldeman
New Hampshire
London
Dolours
Marion Price
Marion
IRA
Kidnap Plot and Broadside Extortion Case Unfolds
A man described as a kidnap suspect was arrested after authorities spotted a vehicle tied to the case in a hillside Tulsa area. He faces a federal extortion charge with a $1 million bond set, a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 12. Separately, Helmerich and Payne Inc. executive Terence Helmerich recounted a daytime kidnapping on a quiet street, describing a masked ringleader and a ransom paid by his father. He was restrained in a car and released near Jenks after the five mile drive. In Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Wilson pledged a power sharing approach to Protestant Catholic governance amid a five day session, while Ulster’s coalition government collapsed. In Cambodia, shootings at a school left multiple students wounded as authorities and education officials weigh responses to protests over a draft law and corruption.
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Helmerich
Helmerich and Payne Inc
Jenks
Tulsa
Terence MacSwiney
Cork
TRA
Britain
Northern Ireland
Harold Wilson
Wilson
Edward Heath
Ulster
Heath
Long Boret
701St
Sangkim
Monivong Hospital
Thach Chea
Associated Press
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