West German parliament approves nonaggression pacts with USSR and Poland
Bonn ratifies Brandt pacts recognizing postwar European borders and vowing nonaggression. Opposition abstentions and party unity moves pass lower house. fate final in upper chamber. In Manila three elite Filipinos executed for 1967 abduction rape of actress Maggie de la Riva. Marcos rejects clemency. In Belfast gunfire, bombings wound multiple, including a child. deadly attacks target engineers and Protestant workers.
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Willy Brandt
Soviet Union
Poland
Brandt
Europe
Christian Democrats
Ite
Christian Democratic
Manila
Maggie de la Riva
Ferdinand Marcos
Philippines
Marcos
Congress
Edgardo Aquino
Jaime Jose
Basilia Pineda Jr
Million-dollar theft at Worcester Art Museum
Four paintings valued over one million dollars were stolen from Worcester Art Museum by two masked men. A security guard was critically wounded as visitors were forced to the floor. Items include Rembrandt St Bartholomew, Gauguin The Brooding Woman and Head of a Woman, and Picasso Mother and Child. Thieves fled in a white station wagon.
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Worcester
Mass
Rembrandt
St. Bartholomew
Worcester Art Museum
Paul Gauguin
Tahiti
Picasso
Airlifted trucks aid Prescott forest fire fight
About 20 Forest Service tanker trucks were airlifted from Northern California to assist in the Prescott National Forest blaze. The airlift, managed by the 6th Army in San Francisco, drew trucks from California national parks to combat the 12,000 to 15,000 acre fire in rough terrain between 7,000 and 9,000 feet.
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Prescott
Ariz
Forest Service
California
Prescott National Forest
6Th Army
San Francisco
Navy flier Wilkins 'longest day' in Tonkin Gulf tale
Navy Cmdr. Tom Wilkinson, veteran of 275 missions, was shot down over North Vietnam while flying a Corsair from USS Constellation. He parachuted into the Tonkin Gulf as ships and aircraft searched, then rescue choppers lifted him after an hour of strafing. He recalled the tense escape and his decision to avoid capture.
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Navy Flier
Tonkin Gulf
Navy
Tom Wilkissom
Vietnam
Wilkinson
Hanford
Calif
Hanoi Hilton
Angela Davis Trial Defense Opens Case as Testimony Looms
The defense begins its case in the Angela Davis trial after 11 weeks of prosecution testimony. The central issue is whether Davis will testify, with speculation she may take the stand early. She is charged with aiding a plot to kidnap a judge and court officials 17 months ago, an abortive plan that left four people dead, including the judge.
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Angela Davis
Miss Davis
UCLA
Chavez says McGovern backs farm bill protests in Arizona
Cesar Chavez, head of the United Farm Workers, said on Wednesday that Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern telegraphed his support for protests against Arizona's farm bill. Chavez spoke in Phoenix on day six of a hunger strike opposing a law banning secondary boycotts during harvest time. McGovern's telegram reportedly called Arizona governor's signing of the bill brazen indifference to farm workers' rights to organize.
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Cesar Chaves
United Farmworkers Union
George McGovern
Arizona
Chavez
Phoenix
McGovern
Councilman Chavez fights liquor tax plan amid city chaos
Councilman Matthew Troy of Queens condemns Mayor Lindsay's $141 million tax package calling it nuisance taxes. He says he will vote against the full plan and urges fellow councilmen to do the same. Fidel Castro arrives in Bulgaria for an official visit in Sofia. President Todor Zhivkov greets the Cuban prime minister.
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New York
John Lindsay
Matthew Troy
Queens
Lindsay
Fidel Castro
Bulgaria
Todor Zhivkov
Sofia
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