Senate vote against foreign aid shocks world powers
The U.S. Senate's defeat of a foreign aid bill drew dismay across nations including Nigeria and Japan. President Nixon called the move irresponsible while critics argued aid should be spent at home. supporters warned it would damage U.S. prestige and global aid efforts.
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U.S. Senate Ac
Vieglor
Senate
Congress
Nigeria
Clement Isong
Nigerian Central Bank
U.S
United States
Nixon
Ronald Ziegler
Hugh Scott
Pensylvania
Claiborne Pell
D-R.l
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
U.N
China
London
Indira Gandhi
India
Washington
Vatican
World Synod of Bishops
Rome
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Japan
Massive Wyoming Utah storm claims eleven lives
A powerful snowstorm blanketed southern Wyoming and northern Utah, dropping up to three feet of snow and causing a dozen fatalities. Eight died in light plane crashes near Brandon, Cole, and Jackson. Rawlins faced two feet of snow, stranding truckers and delaying a circus. A power outage crippled Rawlins for three hours.
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Laramie
Wyo
Wyoming
Utah
Rocky Mountain
Brandon
Cole
Jackson
Wye
Jim How
Michigan
Dick Wolfe
George Wolfe
Berkley
Detroit
Jackson Mole
Wolfe
Rawlins
Salt Lake City
John Baldwin
Miller-Johnson Circus
Love and flight from East Berlin end in prison and plans
In September 1969 in East Berlin Jenkins and Strickland were arrested trying to help a fiancée flee. Jenkins received 242 years, Strickland four. Miss Neumann got two years nine months. Elisabeth Neumann, born in Czechoslovakia, hopes to join family in the West. Brigitte Heider, a West Berlin medical student, and Strickland’s fiancée, also faced charges and plans to move to California with Strickland after release.
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Jack Strickland
Santa Barbara
Calif
West Berlin
Strickland
Brigitte Heider
East Berlin
Miss Neumann
Jenkins
East Germany
Republic
Elisabeth
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Charity Hospital
Miss Heider
Free University
California
University of California At Santa Barbara
Tito visits Houston and Space Center tour with Tito and Nixon talks
Tito and his wife visit Houston for a Space Center tour after discussions with Nixon on European security and world issues. The visit was tightly guarded as newsmen clashed with Secret Service. astronaut Stafford and Gilruth hosted and presented a framed Earth photo from lunar orbit.
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Tex
Los Angeles
Ottawa
Canada
Tito
Nixon
Middle East
India-Pakistan
Indochina
Africa
Houston
Space Center
Thomas Stafford
Robert Gilruth
Feader
Secret Service
Gilruth
Earth
Linar
Apollo & Astronauts
Officials say too much hatred marked UN General Assembly
Washington AP report quotes U.S. official George Bush describing the UN General Assembly vote that expelled Nationalist China and seated Communist China as uglier than expected. He recalls heckling during his remarks and notes mixed reactions from delegates, while urging periodic sessions in other cities to revitalize the UN and calling for fiscal reforms.
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Washington
Theljand
General Assembly
U.N
George Bush
China
United Nations
U Thant
Bush
U.S
United Nat
Sec
Tolviet Union
United
States
Britain
France
People’s Republic of China
Security Council
U.N. General Assembly
Moscow
Peking
United States
Nixon moves to pre empt UN Taiwan stance in China policy
Nixon aims to shore up political support while pressuring the United Nations for reforms and maintaining a conciliatory mood toward Communist China. State officials say Washington seeks U.N. financial reform, not punishment, and fears bankruptcy as Wu Thant retires. The strategy blends domestic politics with international finance and China policy.
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China
Nixon
United Nations
Congress
United States
U.N
Taiwan
U.S
William P. Rogers
WU Thant
Thant
U.s.peking
Vatican Holds Line On Married Priests Amid Synod Rift
A Vatican draft outlined that mandatory priestly celibacy remains in the Latin Church though amendments could adjust the stance. It notes exceptions for married Protestant pastors, warns against broad expections, and highlights tension with Ukrainian rite bishops invited to Rome by Cardinal Slipij to discuss an independent synod.
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Vatican
Paul
Pope Paul
Rome
Josef Cardinal Slipyj
Cardinal Slipyj
Jean Cardinal Villot
Paul VI
Slipyj
Slipjy
Soviet Union
Brezhnev Pompidou Outline Steps Toward Berlin Protocol
Brezhnev and Pompidou agreed on a process for Berlin protocol signature by the Big Four and Bonn ratifications, aiming for early 1972, with preparations for a Helsinki security conference next spring and a plenary in fall. They stressed inviolability of frontiers, noninterference, equality, independence, and no recourse to force. They backed a 1972 European security conference and urged renewed Jarring mediation in the Arab-Israeli conflict, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and regional sovereignty. France and the Soviet Union also favored ending foreign intervention in Indochina as part of a political settlement for the Indochinese peoples.
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Brezhnev
Pompidou
Berlin
Bonn
Kremlin
Moscow
Helsinki
Europe
Middle East
Jarring
Jerusalem
France
Soviet
Unon
Indochina
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Swanson Motors, Inc
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Mor Tees
CTR
PTT
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Life & Casualty Insurance Company OF Tennessee
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