Grandfather fights for peace on TV plea to FCC
James Ashenhurst a 60 year old Lombard Illinois grandfather waged a one man campaign for equal time on television to respond to the Army ad campaign. He spent two dollars in postage matching the Armys 1.6 million dollar TV push and says the effort will work despite being brushed off by the FCC.
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Federal Communications Commission
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Lombard
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FCC
Army
American Cancer Society
Ciggaret
Son Avenue
Vietnam
Mendel Davis Wins South Carolina Special Election Seat
Mendel Davis, 28, Democrat and aide to Rep. L Mendel Rivers, won a South Carolina 1st District special election Tuesday to fill Rivers death. He defeated three rivals including a black civil rights activist and an oral surgeon who mounted the strongest Republican bid since Reconstruction.
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Mendel Davis
South Carolina
Rep
L. Mendel Rivers
Davis
Rivers
Patton becomes assistant commander at Ft Knox armor school
Brig. Gen. George Patton, son of the WWII general, was named assistant commander at the U S Army armor school in Fort Knox Kentucky. He reviewed troops during welcoming ceremonies as the 194th Armored Brigade also stood in honors. TV comedian Pat Paulsen announced another White House bid and plans to visit New Hampshire this spring.
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Ford Motor Co
White Motor Corp
Knudsen
General Motors
George Dively
George Patton
Tuesday
U.S. Army Armor School
Ft. Knox, Ky
Pat Paulsen
New Hampshire
Queen Elizabeth Cancels Engagements for Cold Rest
The queen, suffering a cold, has been advised by doctors to cancel engagements and rest after a Tuesday night dinner with Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ministers. She is scheduled to leave Monday for a visit to British Columbia, Canada.
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Elizabeth HH
Diag
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
British Columbia
Canada
British Adventurers Row 8000 Miles Toward Australia
John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook were reported way out in the Pacific as they attempt an 8000 mile voyage to Australia. The Coast Guard cutter Point Winslow escorted their 35 foot rowboat Britannia II for almost nine hours Monday night off Point Reyes about 25 miles north of San Francisco.
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Sylvia Cook
Pacific
Australia
Coast Guard
Point Winslow
Point Reyes
San Francisco
Cheap offensive in Vietnam eases after four days of shelling
Reports from Saigon say North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks diminished overnight after a four day burst described by U S analysts as a cheap offensive. U S B 52s hit the Ho Chi Minh Trail and outlets to curb supply flows to the south. US military leaders expect renewed actions by May Day. In London William Rogers pledged support for Red China in Asia and said a four week decision on Chinese UN representation would follow. In Moscow a wind saved Soyuz 10 from a lake after three cosmonauts were trapped inside. The craft reportedly cannot float, according to Soviet scientists.
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U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
South Vietnam
London
William Rogers
Red China
Asia
United Nations
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Peking
Moscow
Communist Youth League
Komsomoskaya Pravda
Soviet Union
Soyuz
Park Chuung Hee wins third term as South Korea president
President Park Chuung Hee is reelected in Seoul securing about 65 percent of votes and a lead over rival Kim Dae-jung by more than a quarter of a million, signaling a strict policy stance toward North Korea for the next four years. Experienced observers forecast a larger margin, around one million votes.
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Park Chuung Hee
South Korea
North Korea
Park
Kim Dae-jung
National Security Wiretap Appeal Faces Supreme Court
The Nixon administration asks the Supreme Court to uphold wider electronic surveillance without prior court approval citing national security. Solicitor General Griswold said the Justice Department will appeal a lower court limit, as two district courts split on the issue. Thompsonville Illinois tornado kills one and injures twenty with extensive damage to homes. In New York, a Brooklyn tenement shooting left five wounded, including two children, as police search the area.
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Nixon
Supreme Court
Erwin Griswold
Justice Department
New York
Brooklyn
Emmy Nominations Highlight Controversial Documentaries
Hollywood reacts as The Selling of the Pentagon earns a news documentary nomination and George C. Scott is up for A Man Called Lombardi in the cultural documentary category. Washington reports welfare rolls growth slowed in January but total recipients rose 24 percent in 1970.
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Pentagon
George C. Scott
Scott
Lombardi
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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