Nationwide strike shuts 80000 soft coal miners at midnight
Washington reports eighty thousand soft coal miners walked out at midnight Thursday in a 100 percent effective strike. United Mine Workers sources say the action stemmed from wage price freeze uncertainty. Checks in West Virginia Ohio Colorado and New Mexico showed miners quitting at contract expiry. The UMW did not formally declare a strike, but the walkouts constituted a universal work stoppage.
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Bombers Back Allied Offense North of Saigon
U S B52s bombed bunkers and storage sites along the Cambodian border north of Saigon as part of a renewed allied counteroffensive. Shelling of South Vietnamese bases near the Cambodian rubber center Krek intensified but eased from earlier in the week. Paris reports Communist leaders rejected a U S cease fire offer and condemned President Nixon at the peace talks, accusing him of bloodstained hands.
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Belfast Snipers Turn Neighborhood Into Ghost Town
Snipers fired from empty houses in a Belfast district as sectarian violence persists, turning the area into a ghost town after two years of clashes.
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Dominican consul general kidnapped in Caracas ransom offered
In Caracas a 56 year old Dominican Republic consul general was abducted and ransom demanded at 1 million dollars. It marks a second Latin American kidnapping with political overtones this week. A separate report notes Mexico aviation director Julio Hirschfeld Almada was freed after a 250 thousand dollar ransom. In Beirut two carloads attempted to kill Iraqi Kurdish leader Mullah Barazani with grenades but were slain by guards.
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Vatican bishops say priestly celibacy a problem globally
The 94 national conferences of Roman Catholic bishops report that priestly celibacy is a problem in their countries during the third international synod of bishops first working session held Thursday night.
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Missile curb hopes in US Soviet talks progress
U S officials after high level talks say optimism for a mutual missiles restraint agreement remains. They caution against certainty on reaching by year end while noting Soviet willingness to continue discussions based on the May 20 Washington Moscow SALT statement and that the next SALT round will address offensive missiles.
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Lesie Bacon Illegal Arrest Upheld by Court
Leslie Bacon, antiwar activist, had her arrest warrant quashed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, ruling the Seattle issued warrant illegal. The ruling followed her habeas corpus petition after being detained as a material witness in the March 1 bombing inquiry.
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