Parker resigns Hempstead County Democratic Committee Chair
In Hempstead County Arkansas Donal Parker resigns as chairman amid parliamentary disputes and factional tensions. The meeting nominates Crit Stuart Jr. for chair with Barry Brown’s resignation resolution praising Parker and welcoming Stuart adopted August 15, 1972.
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Attorney General's Office
Parker
Joe Purcell
E. C
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Bud
White
Mack McLarty
Larry Patterson
Will Rutherford
F. C. Crow
Dorsey McRae
Ray Lawrence
Finis Odom
Henry Singard
Harry Hawthorne
Carter Sutton
Pat House
Ida K. Stuart
Jim Cole
Crit Stuart Jr
Monroe Stuart
John R. Graves
Maxine Stewart
Mitchell LaGrone
John B. Gardner
Sloman Goodlet
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W. C. Bruner Jr
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W. E. Tarpley
Hempstead County Central Committee
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Barry Brown
Buddy McIver
Stuart
Barry
Brown
Hempstead County
Democratic Committee
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O'Brien claims evidence of party office bugging
Former Democratic chair Lawrence F. O'Brien says he can prove Democratic National Committee offices were bugged and that his lawyer plans to question seven top Republicans. McGovern accuses Nixon of indirect responsibility as bugging devices were seized after the arrest of James W. McCord, security chief for the Nixon campaign.
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O'Brien
Democratic National Committee
George McGovern
Nixon
McGovern
Lordstown
Ohio
White House
James W. McCord
Nixon Campaign Committee
Woman Jumps From Mississippi Bridge In Memphis Area
A 31 year old Memphis woman identified as Tanya Ayler jumped from the Mississippi River bridge in West Memphis Tuesday evening. She struck a protruding object and fell about 15 feet onto a ledge, then was carried up by State Troopers Charles Sutter and Jerry McLaughlin to a Memphis hospital where she was reported in good condition. The purse identification confirmed her name.
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Mississippi River
Charles Sutter
Jerry McLaughlin
Memphis
Tanya Ayler
Fulbright orders inquiry into Jackson SALT claim
Sen J W Fulbright chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee directs staff to question the CIA over Henry M Jackson’s charge that the Russians misled Nixon in the Moscow SALT talks. Jackson cites intelligences sources and argues the interim accord yields unequal arms parity between the U S and Soviet Union.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Dissenting voices shape GOP platform talks in 1968
Miami Beach AP reports dissent from Sen. Jacob Javits and allies urging full Vietnam pullout, support for court-ordered desegregation via busing, and legalizing marijuana. 75 Republican women led by Shirley Temple Black pressed for more women’s rights in the party.
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GOP
Vietnam
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New York
Nixon
U.N
Shirley Temple Black
Javits
Platform
Southeast Asia
U.S
Fischer Draw Leaves World Title Hopes Alive
AP report from Reykjavik says Bobby Fischer drew game 14 with Boris Spassky, four hours, four moves. Fischer trails 6 percent to 8 percent, needing 12 1/2 points for the title as Spassky must win 12 to keep the crown. Gligoric calls Fischer the better player.
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Iceland
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Fischer
Spaseky
Svetosar Gligoric
Spassky
Weather summary from Arkansas station report
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Wednesday with high 93 and low 68. Partly cloudy hot conditions in the south with scattered afternoon thundershowers. Tonight generally fair and warm. Thursday partly cloudy and hot with similar temperatures. Highs in the low to mid 90s and lows in the mid 60s to low 70s.
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Arkansas
Clark testifies before a Senate subcommittee
Randolph Clark testifies before a Senate war refugee subcommittee in Washington after a North Vietnam visit that sparked a political storm. He criticized U S war policy, drawing pushback from Nixon aides and McGovern, amid clashes at an American Bar Association meeting and public remarks broadcast on Radio Hanoi.
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Ramsey Clark
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U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Edward M. Kennedy
Judiciary
Clark
George McGovern
McGovern
Nixon
Johnson
Rita Hauser
Citizens Committee For
American Bar Association
San Francisco
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Ameri
Radio Hanoi
Shriver Claims Success in California Fundraising Efforts
In San Diego AP dispatch, Sargent Shriver reports progress persuading two major California donors to back the McGovern Shriver ticket. Eugene Wyman and Paul Ziffren pledged cooperation though they offered few specifics on contributions. Shriver also emphasized health insurance support and an antiwar stance during a White House visit to Spanish speaking patients at USC Hospital.
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Calif
Sargent Shriver
California
Los Angeles
Eugene Wyman
Hubert H. Humphrey
Shriver
Paul Ziffren
Edmund S. Muskie
Wyman
Rich and Poor
George McGovern
White House
National Health
Los Angeles County
University of Southern California Hospital
Funeral services for Mrs ElVera Leewald Barnica
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. in the Herndon Chapel for Mrs ElVera Leewald Barnica 41 who died August 14. The Rev Frank Perigo of El Dorado officiated. Burial followed at Memory Gardens under Herndon Funeral Home direction.
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ElVera Leewald Barnica
Herndon Chapel
Frank Perigo
el Dorado
Memory Gardens
Herndon Funeral Home
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