Ginger Blasts North Carolina Coast With 80 MPH Winds
Hurricane Ginger torn across the North Carolina coast causing severe flooding and power outages. The storm, downgraded to a tropical system near Cherry Point, drove tides up to five feet and forced evacuations as 5,500 sought refuge in 28 Red Cross shelters. Homes flooded, businesses damaged, and emergency centers activated along the Morehead City Beaufort area and coastal counties.
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N.C
Jdeath
Charles Clifford Price
Washington
Morehead
Ginger
Cherry Point Ma
Witn-Tv
Capelline Air Station
Virginia
North Carolina
Trent and Neuse
Gordon Raeburn
Atlanta
U.S
New Bern
Beaufort
Canead Alamaa
Rann Ann
Axsom Smith
Belhaven
Wash
Ington
M.A
Pungo
Pamlico
State Highway Patrol
Cape Lookout
Red Cross
Six Month Deadline Contingent On POW Release
The Senate renewed calls for a total U S withdrawal after a 57 to 38 vote backing Mansfield amendment requiring a six month deadline contingent on the release of American POWs in Indo China. The move drew support from Senator Mansfield and Stennis while House opposition loomed.
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Senate
Hugh
U.S
Scott Said
Indo China
Mansfield
Tojon
Demps
Mike Mansfield
Nixon
Scott
John C. Stennis
Armed Services Committee
Stennis
House
Coal Miners Strike Deadlines Pass With No Immediate Action
The Associated Press reports some coal miners, longshoremen, dock and rail workers had deadlines pass without a fresh strike. Talks continued in private as the 4 percent four month Taft Hartley ban faced expiration, with no immediate renewal expected and no serious threat of a walkout.
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Associated
East
Gulf Ports
West Coast
Draft and labor strikes rock 1972 UMW and dock unions
Washington sets a three month 10000 man draft quota while coal miners in Ohio Virginia and West Virginia walk off the job and 15 000 Longshoremen idle at the Port of New York. The Pentagon says later inductions will total near 15000 with Christmas holiday months easing December.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Ohio
Virginia
West Virginia
2& Mines
Pentagon
Jerryn W. Friedheim
Melvin R. Laird
Army
Laird
Friedheim
Senate
Gener
Defense Department
Selective Service
International Longshoremen’s
U S Officials See Hope for Mutual Missile Curbs Deal
U S and Soviet officials ended high level talks optimistic about a major arms control pact on mutual missile curbs. Officials caution no certainty a year end agreement will be reached. They note improved Washington Moscow relations and ongoing SALT discussions.
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U.S
Washington
Moscow
Nixon
Rogers
Trouble Brews in Springfield Street clashes flare again
Violence continues in Springfield Massachusetts as white and Puerto Rican youths armed with rocks and clubs roam streets. Police disperse crowds with no serious injuries reported. four whites and three Puerto Ricans arrested for breach of the peace, bringing total arrests to thirty five since clashes began September 22. Two more wounded in a shotgun blast near the disturbance site as talks are set to try easing tensions between black and white students.
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Springfield
Mass
Rank Freedman
Technical
North
Puerto Ri Cane
Agricultural Losses Will Run Into Millions
Hurricane Ginger swept eastern North Carolina causing multi million dollar agricultural losses. Tobacco harvest was complete but soybeans corn peanuts and other crops suffered. Much of the corn was 50 60 percent picked with stalks blown over hindering machine harvest. Peanuts in fields had exposure risks and potential severe losses if sun and handling are delayed. See CROPS Page 2-A.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
United States hard line on dollar and trade barriers
Secretary Connally warned that the U S would remove the 10 percent surcharge only if other governments show tangible progress in dismantling trade barriers and let market forces freely determine exchange rates during a transitional floating period. West Germany welcomed the idea, but France and Japan showed caution about full free-floating moves.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
International Monetary Fund
Schiller
Japan
Connally
IMI
World Bank
Peking Anniversary Banquet Hints Chou Absence
AP dispatch from Tokyo notes China marked its 22nd National Day with a large banquet for 2,000 officials but Chou En Lai was conspicuously absent. Mao Tse-tung was said to be in good health, while U.S. and Soviet officials watched the affair for signs on ABM talks and China’s foreign posture during the anniversary events.
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Tokyo
Tanjug
China
Communist Party
Chou
Mao I'se-tung
Maois H
Nam P. Rogers
Cial
Andrei
A.chou En-lai
Gromyko
Governor Scott May Weigh Move To Community Colleges
Raleigh AP Gov Bob Scott may join North Carolina State Community College System after his term ends, says Ben Fountain director of the system. Fountain says talks have been ongoing and Scott has shown interest though no decision on salary or title has been made. Scott would bring experience from his time as lieutenant governor and state Board of Education.
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Raleigh
Bob Scott
North Carolina
Community College
State Comunity College
Ben Fountain
Scott
Community — College
Fountain
Technical Institute and Community College System
Pountain
Nok
Ginger
Scot
Community College System
State Board of Education
Ous
Giants Claim Division Title in San Diego rout
Juan Marichal pitched the San Francisco Giants to the National League West division title with a dominant 5-1 win over the San Diego Padres in the season finale. The veteran right-hander dominated through eight sparkling innings, yielding just one run as theGiants clinched the division.
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Wal Bock
Associated Press
SAN Diego
Juan Marichal
San Francisco Giants
San Diego Padres
North Vietnamese Offensive Slowed as Saigon Reinforcements Fly In
Saigon reports say North Vietnamese offensive slowed temporarily as South Vietnam and U S troops shuttle reinforcements to besieged artillery bases along the Cambodian frontier. Government forces ferry troops by air and ground amid ongoing combat.
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Saigon
Amerther
Bombers Strike Near Border Amid Weather Fronts
Turbulent weather and air strikes mark a six day US bombing campaign near the border. Reports say about 200 tons of explosives fell Friday and Saturday on suspected troop concentrations, with heavy rain and storms complicating operations in Tay Ninh and Saigon areas.
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Tay Ninh
Nguyen Vani Fiilay
Moun Thieu
Saigon
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