Agnew Assures U S Asia Allies of Support in Kuala Lumpur
Vice President Spiro Agnew told Malaysian leaders in Kuala Lumpur that the United States will not abandon Southeast Asia to Communist aggression. He pledged continued Western presence, though he could not guarantee a major power guarantee. The visit featured a security umbrella and a wreath at the Malaysian cenotaph, with Mrs. Agnew reportedly ill. Local officials described the security as the most elaborate yet for a foreign dignitary.
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Spiro Agnew
U.S
Southeast Asia
Agnew
Kuala Lumpur
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tun Abdul Rezak
Mary Beal
Subang International Airport
Most Admired Man 1989 Nixon Tops Poll
A Gallup survey of 1514 adults conducted in late November finds President Nixon as the most admired man for 1989 with 347 votes. Rev Billy Graham ranks second with 126 and Vice President Agnew with 115, followed by Lyndon Johnson and others.
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Nixon
Gallup
News Today
Billy Graham
Agnew
Lyndon Johnson
Edward Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Harry Truman
George Wallace
Pope Paul VI
Sen
Edmund Muskie
Israeli Jets Hit Cairo Area in Deep Penetration
Israeli jets attacked Egyptian military and industrial targets north and south of Cairo in a deep incursion described by Egyptian forces as instantly checked. Israeli correspondents said the planes faced little interference as they struck well defended sectors around the capital.
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Tel Aviv
Cairo
Inshas
Tel ¢ Kabir
Suez
Dahashur
Egypt
Peers ends ad hoc My Lai probe in Washington visit
Lt Gen William Peers flies to Washington after completing an inquiry into whether U S field officers concealed the My Lai Incident of March 16 1968. He declined to disclose any findings to reporters. A separate Zaragoza Spain hijacking ends with surrender and blocks of the plane.
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Saigon
William Peers
Washington
U.S
My Lai
Peers
Zaragoza
Spain
Albania
Maylano Ventura Rodriguez
Arctic Cold Grips Midwest and Dixie
The bitter cold spanned 36 states from the western mountains to the Appalachians driving energy use up while closing schools. Florida reached subfreezing temps as an arctic airmass moved south, with snow on the eastern third of the nation and a PDOT record chill across the region.
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Weather Bureau
Midwest
Westrn Mountains
Applachians
Georgia
Arkansas
Florida
Sit-In Protest Over Desegregation Plan At Petal School
Nearly 300 white parents and children staged a peaceful sit-in at an elementary school in Petal Mississippi to oppose an integration plan moving students to classrooms 13 miles away. Seven Forrest County schools began desegregation under a federal court order with no violence reported. In areas with higher Black enrollments, white resistance includes boycotts and a large switch to private schools.
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Petal
Miss
Forrest County
Runaway Boy Survives Frozen Ordeal in Buffalo Trip
Jesse Parker 15 survived a harrowing 1 000 mile journey from Corsicana Texas after running away on New Year’s Eve. He crawled into a refrigerated boxcar on a Southern Pacific freight and awoke unconscious in Mercy Hospital Buffalo with body temperature below 80 degrees. His father Jesse Sr. stayed by his bedside as he received IV fluids and began solid food recovery.
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Jesse Parker
Jesse
Buffalo
N.Y
Corsicana
Tex
Southern Pacific
Mercy Hospital
Jesse Sr
Prayers in public schools divide church leaders
Dr Cynthia Wedel, new president of the National Council of Churches, supports the Supreme Court ruling banning official prayers in public schools and favors teaching the Bible as literature to broaden religious knowledge. Dean Rusk warns against total hostility and urges restraint in policy during a speech at Waldate State College.
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National Council of Churches
Cynthia Wedel
Supreme Court
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Waldaate State College
King's Link Opens Martian? No. Morocco Morocco?
Morocco's King Hassan II and U.S. President Nixon inaugurated a satellite telecommunications link between their nations from San Clemente, using a Moroccan ground station and an Atlantic satellite, with hopes for personal talks later this year. In Boston, a bank manager was trapped in a vault for about 15 hours until an automatic time clock opened the door, then left smiling. the escape involved an air hose and a beverage line.
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Morocco
Hassan It
Nixon
Hassan
San Clemente
Peter Loomis
Uphams Corner
First National Bank of Boston
Loomis
Kemployas
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