Americans Visit China in First Team Trip in Two Decades
The American table tennis team toured Beijing and faced a large crowd in a modern gymnasium. Fans welcomed the visitors with banners and a public address, and the ailing 18 year old John Tannehill stayed at a hotel to recover. Officials in Washington signaled possible steps to improve U S China relations as China shows signs of political and social relaxation after the Cultural Revolution.
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Chou En-lai
Chon
Summer Palace
Peking
United States
China
U.S
John Tannehill
Middleport
Ohio
Tannehill
Hsin Chiao
Glen Cowan
Santa Monica
Calif
People’s Republic
Washington
State Department
Mao Tsetung
Liu Shaochi
Liu
Wedding guests detained at Long Island club over unpaid bill
William Cappiello sued Woodbury Country Club in state Supreme Court for $360,000 claiming 155 guests were locked in a banquet room and forced to wash dishes during his daughter's Sept 26 wedding. The club filed a cross suit for $1,831 unpaid bill and $425 for a damaged door. Police were summoned as valuables were confiscated.
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New York
UPI
William Cappiello
Woodbury Country Club
State Supreme Court
Long Island
Cappiello
Capielio
Laird weighs Vietnam force policy amid Vietnam war talks
Secretary Laird deflected questions on a long U S troop presence in South Vietnam and floated the idea of volunteer service after the 1973 combat role ends. He warned against relying on volunteers and noted a pending Calley review. He cited Soviet naval activity near Egypt and described expanding bases at Mersa Matruh.
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Volved
Laird
South Vietnam
Vietnam
U.S
William L. Calley Jr
Middle East
Soviet Union
United Arab Republic
Mediterranean
Mersa Matruh
Alexandria
Arson trial set for Navy medic at Camp Pendleton
A 23 year old Navy corpsman James H Zipf from Overland Park Kansas faces a general court martial early next month on arson charges linked to a January fire that destroyed a naval hospital barracks at Camp Pendleton and injured six sailors.
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Camp Pendleton
Navy
Kansas
Marine Corps
James H. Zipf
Overland Park
Naval Hospital
First China US Phone Link Since 1968 Breakup
Boston radio host Guy Mainella placed the first mainland China United States phone call in two and a half years. The line routed via Oakland and Tokyo to Peking connected with a U S table tennis team member, costing 12 dollars for three minutes and four dollars for each extra minute.
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New York
App
China
United States
Boston
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Long Lines Department
Guy Mainella
WBZ
U.S
Peking
Oakland
Calif
Tokyo
Shanghai
Inflation trends and wage claims across industries
The steel industry seeks substantial wage and benefit increases while production is cut and new plants delayed to recover losses. The council notes less progress on wages since December and flags higher freight and wage costs in rail and trucking, higher lumber prices, and excessive construction pay. Meat prices lag wholesale declines, while Humphrey accuses Nixon aides of causing a premeditated recession costing workers billions in lost income and revenue to governments.
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Paul W. McCracken
Humphrey
Campaign Button Printing Firms Offer Custom Pins
Readers can order custom slogan pins from Western Plastic Products and two other firms in Southern California. A minimum order is 50 buttons in two colors about 2 inches wide, with an estimated price around 26 dollars.
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L. M
Long Beach
Western Plastic Products
Magnolia Ave
Western Badge and Trophy Co
S. Manchester Ave
Anaheim
Mason Badge Products
Sierra Bonita Ave
Los Angeles
Ray du Guay
Action Line
Action Line answers on life policies and club refund dispute
The column confirms Colonial Penn Life policies are in force after filing errors. It also reports a refund dispute with Aviation Unlimited at Orange County Airport where Dan Walters’ missing $50 remains unresolved and Cliff Walters declines further action.
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Colonial Penn Life Insurance Co
Philadelphia
American Association of Retired Persons
AARP
Colonial Penn
Action Line
Long Beach. A
Club
Cliff Walters
Dan Walters
Aviation Unlimited
Fountain Valley
A. No
Aviation. Unlimited
Commonwealth Ave
Fullerton
Gravel opposes Amchitka ABM test amid quake fears
Alaska Senator Mike Gravel renewed opposition to an underground ABM warhead test on Amchitka Island, warning of potential earthquakes, tidal waves, groundwater contamination, and seismic shocks. He questioned the necessity as the Spartan interceptor prospect faces doubt.
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Washington
UPI
Mike Gravel
Alaska
U.S
Aleutian
Amchitka
Siberian
America
Senate
Gravel
Planis
Washington Post
United States
The
AEC
Japan
Canada
Tam
California
U.s.-Canadian
Pacific
Mitchell Sharp
Aleutians
God Told Me to Leave Army Conscientious Objector Case
California youth Pvt. Edwin Wheeler Altadena 23 wins release from the Army as a conscientious objector. U S District Judge D W Suttle ruled Wheeler currently at Fort Sam Houston Medical Training had stated God told him to separate from the armed forces. The judge found his belief religious and sincere and ordered his discharge pending final processing.
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San Antonio
California
U.S
D. W. Suttle
Pvt
Edwin Wheeler
Altadena
Wheeler
Ft. Sam Houston
Suttle
Aliolo seeks Bay Area trial move in bribery case
Seattle Santa Francisco mayor Joseph Aliolo requests transferring his bribery conspiracy trial to a Bay Area city to allow him to continue mayoral duties. The motion argues logistical and administrative needs while the case proceeds.
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Seattle
San Francisco
Joseph Aliolo
Bay Area
Mineta leads in 15-way San Jose mayor race
Norman Y. Mineta, who spent two boyhood years in World War II relocation camps, appears set to become the first Japanese American elected mayor of a major U.S. city after leading with 62 percent of votes in early returns. With 89 of 147 precincts reporting, challenger David J. Goglio held 14 percent and Joseph H. Donohue 16 percent. incumbent Mayor Ron James did not seek re-election.
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San Jose
Norman Y. Mineta
David J. Goglio
Employe
Joseph H. Donohue
Ron James
Stanford president orders probe after campus raid on paper
Stanford University President Richard Lyman asked the legal officer to investigate a raid by Palo Alto police on the Stanford Daily. Four officers searched offices for photos of a Friday medical center protest, provoking concerns over press freedom and citing a 45 minute inspection.
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Stanford
UPI
Stanford University
Richard Lyman
Lyman
James Siena
Palo Alto
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Felicity Barringer
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