Moscow Summit in Doubt as Vietnam War Mounts Pressure
The piece analyzes how the Vietnam War pressures threaten President Nixon’s Moscow visit. It notes Hanoi’s delayed offensive, potential U S bombing resumption, and Soviet aims from increased trade to tech access, all risking a breakdown of the summit schedule around May 22 and shaping a fragile Cold War détente.
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World Assembly For Peace
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Stormy Weather Across Regions With Warm Rebounds
Storms and cold rain hit the northwestern quarter while much of the nation enjoyed milder conditions. Snow fell in Dillon Montana and Ely Nevada, with upper 70s in central Minnesota. An Associated Press report notes scattered precipitation east of the Mississippi and shows large regional temperature swings.
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Arkansas Weather Forecast Aims for Warm Day With Showers
Experiment Station report notes 2¢ hours ending 7 am Tuesday with highs near 79 and lows around 47. Forecasts fair conditions in the east, partly cloudy elsewhere, with a few showers and thunder showers in the northwest this afternoon and increasing clouds tonight. Wednesday brings considerable cloudiness and scattered showers with warmer readings, then cooler by Wednesday.
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Pooch Dies Waiting on Supreme Court
Smokey the 11 year old Weimaraner died of old age while his case against Hillsborough County’s vicious animal rules lingered before the U S Supreme Court. The dog’s owner Jim Fair fought a $7,000 damages award and the dog’s long legal battle ended with Smokey’s death.
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Muskie blasts Nixon over Vietnam bombing at fund dinner
Senator Edmund Muskie proclaimed that Nixon’s renewed bombing of North Vietnam causes irreparable harm to the nation and decency, urging Nixon's defeat. At a $125-a-plate fundraiser for his Democratic presidential bid, Muskie vowed to withdraw all U S forces from Indochina within two months of inauguration if elected.
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Democrats say Ramsden report misused in ITT case
Senate Democrats charge the Justice Department misused consultant Richard Ramsden’s report in settling the ITT antitrust suit. Ramsden testified he did a quick financial analysis of Hartford divestiture effects, not a recommendation on a settlement, while officials said the Ramsden report influenced the settlement decision.
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Dillon, Read & Co., Inc
Flanigan
Wall Street
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Antitrust Division
Supreme Court
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ITT
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Hijacker Captured After Delta Flight Hijack Over Florida
William H. Greene III, 30, of Berea Ohio, hijacked Delta Flight 2 from Miami to Chicago with demands for 500000 and Nassau. He was captured without incident near O’Hare International after the plane landed. FBI says he will be charged with air piracy possibly carrying the death sentence. The plane carried 91 aboard with a Nassau stop in Palm Beach.
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Associated Press
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Delta
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Stewart
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Ohio
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Calif
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Atlanta
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Nassau
Million Dollar Suit Over Prison Stabbing At Cummins Farm
A former Cummins Prison Farm inmate, James W. Moore, sues in U S District Court seeking 1 million dollars. He alleges state officials including ex Gov Winthrop Rockefeller and prison officials were negligent after a fellow inmate stabbed him on January 3, 1969, nearly severing his throat. The suit claims warnings to officials were ignored and the attacker received a seven year sentence on May 23, 1969.
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Cummins
U. S. District Court
James W. Moore
Winthrop Rockefeller
Correction
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Victor Urban
Cummins Asst
J. R. Price
Moore
Randy Arnold
Arnold
Mary Ann Andrews death notice in Hope
MARY ANN ANDREWS Mrs. Mary Ann Peague Andrews, 62, of Hope, died at her home early today. Survivors include her husband Sam, one son William C. Andrews, and two grandchildren of Greensboro, N. C. Funeral services are pending at Oakcrest Funeral Home of Hope. PARMA, Italy (AP) Mercedes Formati, 55, Italian soprano whose career spanned the 1940s and 1950s, died Monday. Msgr. James H. O'Neill PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) Msgr. James H. O'Neill, 80, the Army chaplain who wrote the Patton Prayer just before the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, died Monday. He wrote the prayer on Dec. 8, 1944, at Gen. George S. Patton's order, calling for an end to immoderate rains. Shortly afterward the weather cleared and Patton's tanks were able to reach Bastogne to thwart a German advance.
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Hope
Sam
William C. Andrews
Greensboro
N.C
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James H. O'Neill
Pueblo
Colo
Patton
Msgr. O'Neill
George S. Patton
Bastogne
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