Half million march against Ganges diversion at border
Bangladeshis flood toward the Indian border to protest India's Ganges water diversion to Calcutta led by 95 year old Maulana Abdu Hamid Khan Bhashani. The trek aims 40 miles to near the Farakka Dam with banners demanding shared water rights.
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Rhodesia accuses Kissinger of meddling in Rhodesia affairs
Rhodesian Prime Minister Jan Smith denounces Henry Kissinger as uninformed meddler over U S backing a black majority government. Smith warns premature whites handover could trigger fighting among black factions. A UK Labour MP Gwilym Roberts urges Britain to halt Rhodesian recruitment efforts targeting British soldiers amid guerrilla conflict.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower denies portrait of mother in Final Days
Julie Nixon Eisenhower rejects the Washington Post book portrait of her mother as withdrawn and drinking heavily during the Nixon White House era. She credits Pat Nixon with empowering President Nixon amid Watergate and the Vietnam War and defends her mother’s strength.
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Young marbles champ Roach earns DC title in 1917
Bernard Roach an 11 year old from southwest Washington followed in the footsteps of famous figures as he crouched and fired an aggie marble to win three rounds at the District of Columbia championship. His victory earned a berth to the national marbles championships in June 1917 in New Jersey, continuing a long tradition since the 1922 start of the national event.
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New Career for Tarbara Podlucky Stockbroker Bid
Tarbara Podlucky, 22, former high fashion model, begins training as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch in New York. She is among 11 women and 108 men in the class. A 1975 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Buffalo, she aims to apply her talents in the securities field. Also, Livingston Merchant, 72, former U.S. ambassador to Canada and adviser to Eisenhower, died at his Washington home after a heart attack.
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