Fear of a three-day week drives British leisure woes
AP dispatch from St Mary Cray, England notes a cut to Sunday trains and TV, six counties buy time to curb birth rate, energy czar asked to shield contraceptive makers. Prams idle at Patterson Edwards plant as Britain’s three-day week aims to conserve electricity, workers seek diversion amid boredom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh A. Mulligan
ST. Mary Cray
England
Pram Works
Britain
Paul Delaney
China expels five Russians for alleged espionage in Beijing
China expelled two Russian diplomats and three Soviet officials including their wives and an interpreter from Beijing on espionage charges. Moscow said no knowledge of the move, heightening Sino Soviet tensions. The five left after Yu Chan protested alleged spying and noted they were persona non grata.
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Kay Tateishi
Associated Press
Tokyo
China
Peking
Moscow
Yu Chan
V.S. Tolstikov
Hsinhua
Chinese Navy Battle Over Paracel Islands War Report
AP dispatch from Saigon describes a clash in the South China Sea as a Chinese naval task force of 11 ships engaged South Vietnamese vessels. A 60 man Chinese vessel was sunk and a 100 man South Vietnamese patrol boat was believed lost. two South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and two wounded onshore. Both sides claimed island combat and possible Vietnamese warplane participation. Paracel Islands were pressured by Chinese missiles causing the Vietnamese task force to withdraw.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
South China Sea
Saigon Command
le Trung Hien
Radio Saigon
Hien
Paracel Islands
France
China
Rioters Rampage in Belfast and Strabane in 1969 unrest
In Belfast Protestant enclaves rioters attacked troops and police, hijacked a bus and a garbage truck, and looted shops after a Protestant man was arrested. In Strabane a bomb killed no one but destroyed a tavern. IRA blamed. Authorities note long sectarian violence since 1969 with many deaths.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Strabane
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Nixon's Wire Taps Revealed and Questioned by Prosecution
Washington AP report notes hidden microphones in the White House and Camp David. Tapes, cut wires, and seized recordings fuel a grand jury probe into possible tampering or withholding as lawmakers push for accountability in the Watergate era.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
Washington
White House
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
Senate Watergate Committee
Federal Aviation
Alexander P. Butterfield
Proxmire calls limousine amendment a colossal fake
Senator William Proxmire disowned the energy bill amendment limiting government limousines, calling it a colossal fake. He noted the provision would have reduced government cars to about 27 of 800, with only top officials receiving individual vehicles, and criticized the House-Senate conference for a restricted scope. A separate note from Victoria BC describes a new $75,000 mobile air quality lab nicknamed Snifferburg built on a 21 foot school bus chassis to monitor air around the clock with a teletype conduit to the data center.
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Washington
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Wisconsin
Senate
Congress
Proxmire
Victoria
B.C
Snifferburg
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