Brandt wins Nobel Peace Prize in historic victory
Willy Brandt, 67, becomes the first head of government in years to win the Nobel Peace Prize for easing East West tensions. The Nobel Committee lauded his work toward reconciliation and Europe’s peace, with Brandt vowing to uphold the award’s duties. Also noted: Kissinger met Chou Enlai in Peking as Nixon’s upcoming visit to China looms. Agnew canceled an Aegean cruise but toured Greek sites before resuming travel plans.
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Willy Brandt
Europe
Brandt
Fiveman
Norway
Brand
Bonn
Danilo Dolel
Helter Camara
John Collins
London
Hitler
Germany
Henry Kissinger
Chou Enlai
Peking
New China News Agency
Chou
Yeh Chien-ying
Chi Pertel
Yeh
Chi
U.S
Nixon
Red China
Spiro Agnew
Athens
Agnew
Aegean
Greece
Minos
Knossos
Crete
Rut
Cambodian premier ends sterile democracy in decree move
Lon Nol declared the end of this sterile game of democracy and vowed to rule by decree to halt drift toward chaos and unite the nation for victory against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. He warned certain groups were sowing confusion, possibly embryonic parties after Sihanouk's 1970 ouster. Information Minister Long Boret called it a fifth column aiding the Viet Cong.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodian
Lon Nol
Sed
Cambodia
Nordom Sihanouk
Long Boret
Senate approves 1.37 billion tax cut for individuals
The Senate Finance Committee moved a 1.37 billion tax cut for individual income taxpayers on 1971 returns, attaching the measure as an amendment to a minor bill to speed action and printing of 1971 returns. Also notes foreign relations push for Vietnam withdrawal within six months and church calls for end to Indochina military involvement. Rains flood parts of Texas, six dead. Justice Department says no underground Amchitka test before Sept 27. decision pending on five megaton explosion tied to Safeguard system.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Indochina
House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Louisville
Christian Church
Disciples of Christ
Justice Department
Amchitka
Alaskan
U.S. Atty
Edmund Clark
U.S. Court of Appeals
Nixon
Safeguard and Ballistic Missile System
Spartan
Arraignment in Hospital for Rap Brown on Major Charges
H. Rap Brown, claiming the alias Hoy Williams, was arraigned in Roosevelt Hospital New York on attempted murder robbery and illegal weapons charges and ordered held on 250000 bail. Three accomplices face similar bail while Brown recovers from five bullet wounds after a bar holdup shootout with police. Judge James Yeargin appointed William Kunstler as counsel amid guarded proceedings with fingerprint confirmation cited by prosecutors.
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H. Rap Brown
FBI
New York
Brown
Roosevelt Hospital
West Side
Supreme Court
James Yeargin
Wiliam Kunstler
Svho
Hoy Williams
Kunstter
Stephen Sawyer
Nixon era campaign stance and Kellogg official moves
Atty General Mitchell avoided volunteering on directing Nixon’s 1972 bid, noting a shift from past lines to a more cautious stance depending on Democratic nominees. Mamie Eisenhower rests quietly at Ft. Sill, while PCC Commissioner Robert Wells resigns to seek Kansas governorship. No replacement named. Nixon and Agnew planned to attend a Chicago fundraising dinner on November 9.
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Federal
Robert Wells
Kansas
Wells
PCC
Nixon
Former Grand Dragon of Michigan KKK indicted
A federal grand jury indicted the former Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan and four associates in Detroit on conspiring to intimidate black students exercising rights to attend Pontiac public schools. Named defendants include Robert Miles 46 Alexander Distel Jr 28 Wallagey Fruit 29 Raymond Quick 24 and Dennis Marfey. The alleged conspiracy ran from July 4 to Sept 9.
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Grand Dragon
Michigan Ku Klux Klan
Inio
Pontiac
Mich
Atty
John Mitchell
U.S. District
Detroit
Robert Miles
Alexander Distel Jr
Wallagey Fruit
Raymond Quick
Dennis
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Karl Branting
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Dag Harmaarksjohl
Martin Luther King Jr
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The
Fnterna Tv
Jinlas
Rai
Kosygin
Ottawa
Alexei Kosygin
Soviet Union
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Moscow
Rich How To
Paris
United States
Rinaldo Ossala
Italy
Group of Monetary Representatives
U.S. Treasury
John Connally
United Nations
Saigon
Church
Dallas
Texas
Southwests
Zepel
Orion
Lakewood
Martha
John ‘Mitchell
Mitchell
Mamie Eisenhower
Ft. Sil
Okla
Chicago
Dragan
Bulleck’s
Chirk Avenue
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