Wilson Says British Press Blocks Political News
London AP report notes former Prime Minister Harold Wilson criticizes owners and editors for inhibiting free political reporting. He cites Labor supporters in the party and hostile press as factors at the Labor convention in Blackpool. Wilson says proprietors and editors influence opinions alongside journalists.
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London
Harold Wilson
Wilson
Labor Party
Labor
Blackpool
North Vietnamese hold hamlets near Saigon amid air war
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces remained atop a string of hamlets 14 to 22 miles north of Saigon as South Vietnamese units reported no push to dislodge them. U.S. fighter bombers conducted over 300 strikes, with targets including Yen Bai MIG base and Dong Hoi area.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Yen Bai
Hanoi
Thai Binh
Haiphong
Dong Hoi
Demili
Kontum
Quang Ngai
de Nang
Hue
Quang Tri
Associated Press
Holger Jensen
Jensen
le Trung Hien
Tay Ninh
Police Chief and Patrolman Charged With Assault
Helena Arkansas AP Police Chief Preston Bottorff and Marvell Patrolman S B Mackey Jr are charged with two counts each of assault and battery. A Municipal Court judge ordered the charges after a four hour hearing. The hearing centered on polygraph tests given to four men by state police investigators and raised questions about the admissibility of polygraph results in court. The two inmates testified but the officers did not. A trial date for the misdemeanor charges will be set later.
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Helena, Ark
Preston Bottorff
S. B. Mackey Jr
Marvell
John L. Anderson
Helena
Atty
Gene Raff
Larry Golston
Clyde Bell
T. H. White
Golston
Bell
Bottorff
Mackey
State Police Criminal Investigation Division
Arkansas
United States
Raff
Armed man takes over pizza parlor in Idaho Falls
Joseph Mullins 23, a Vietnam veteran, entered Chance's Pizza Parlor with two gasoline bombs and a pistol during supper. He ordered evacuations, threatened owner Chancey Poliski, and was disarmed by his brothers John and Tom before police arrest. Mullins faces assault with a deadly weapon charges and arraignment set for Tuesday.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Robert Pollock
Joseph Mullins
Mullins
Pollock
Mullins Wal
Chance
Chancey J. Poliski
John
Tom
Oklahoma shoppers face crackdown on cheap mail order cigarettes
Oklahoma officials say residents buying cigarettes from a Denver firm by mail at approximately 2.65 per carton are under investigation. A J Beddo, director of the cigarette tobacco tax division, said state and federal authorities are reviewing reports of tax avoidance.
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Oklahoma City
Rider Dies in Local Nursing Home at 87
Joe M. Rider, 87, died early Tuesday in a local nursing home. He was a member of the First Baptist Church. Survivors include a grandson Joseph Lee Rider of Ponca City Oklahoma a granddaughter Beverly Hane Palermo of Houston three great grandchildren four brothers Basil Nathan Tillman and Barney Rider all of Patmos and one sister Dassie Hollis of Patmos. Funeral services set for 10 a m Thursday at Herndon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Gerald Trussell officiating. Burial in Memory Gardens under Herndon Funeral Home direction.
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Joe M. Rider
First Baptist Church
Joseph Lee Rider
Ponca City
Okla
Beverly Hane Palermo
Houston
Basil
Nathan
Tillman
Barney Rider
Patmos
Dassie Hollis
Herndon Funeral Home
Gerald Trussell
Memory Gardens
All Around Town Hempstead Singing Convention Schedule
The Hempstead County Singing Convention will be held Oct 14 and 15 at McCaskill Assembly of God Church. Singing starts Saturday at 7 30 p m and Sunday at 10 a m. Lunch at noon. Public invited. Four Phi Beta Lambda members from Red River Vocational Technical School attended the State Leadership Workshop Conference in Conway: Johnnie James and Pat Harris of Hope, Sue Bradshaw of DeQueen, and Sharon Fritts of Mineral Springs. Eleven colleges and vocational schools represented.
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Hempstead County
McCaskill Assembly of God Church
Conway
Johnnie James
Pat Harris
Hope
Sue Bradshaw
DeQueen
Sharon Fritts
Mineral Springs
Tucker releases 20 point platform for Arkansas attorney general race
Democratic nominee Jim Guy Tucker proposed a two point plan including restoring the death penalty in some cases and creating a statewide law and society curriculum for junior and senior high students. He called for a program with classroom work and criminal justice system observation, aimed at local school systems, noting many offenders are youths and a sizable share of prisoners are under 21.
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Little Rock
Jim Guy Tucker
Attorney General
Tucker
State Department of Education
St. Louis
Florida
6Th Judicial District
Proxmire cites assassination threat over Lockheed loan dispute
Sen. William Proxmire, the Senate’s famed jogger, says he was threatened with assassination during the Lockheed loan guarantee debate. He disclosed in a new book that he faced life threats but they were considered serious at the time because of the heated political climate. The book, Uncle Sam, Last of the Bigtime Spenders, criticizes military and domestic waste and calls for fewer secret hearings.
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Washington
William Proxmire
Guar
Senate
Congress
Executive Branch
Wisconsin
Muskie Slippage Follows Slur Controversy and FBI Claims
The Maine senator faced fallout after a racial slur accusation from a Union Leader editor. He denounced the paper in a tearful speech outside its office, then fell in Democratic primary polls. The Post reports FBI and Justice files allege a GOP spying and sabotage campaign aimed at crippling opponents before Nixon's bid. Three attorneys say they were offered big government jobs to act undercover, all declining.
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Maine
Muskie
William Loeb
Loeb
FBI
Justice Department
Nixon
Post
the Post
Weather Summary for Experimental Station Hours
Report covers A hours ending 7 a.m. Tuesday with high 79 and low 56. Temperatures ranged in the 50s to mid 60s. Forecast shows high Wednesday in the 00s.
Fragmentary OCR Item on Race and Names
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