Thieu Seeks Confidence Vote and Vows to Quit
In a televised address President Thieu says he will run alone in the October 3 election as a vote of confidence in his policies. He pledges to resign once peace returns to Vietnam if the people approve, and rejects Ky's proposal for a joint resignation.
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Thieu
Saigon
UPS
Nguyen van Thien
Lo Vietnam
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
The
United States
Thien
Nguyen Cao Ky
Duong van
Minh
Tran van Huong
Huong
Senate
Tennessee court of appeals to hear response in desegregation case
UPI reports Judge Bailey Brown expects the Fifth Circuit to allow a response to criticism over his handling of Shelby County school desegregation before a potential reversal. The motion, filed by NAACP attorney William Caldwell, charges white tacism influenced district court reasoning and cites remarks at a recent hearing.
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Memphis
UPI
U. S. District Court
Bailey Brown
Ffth Circuit Court of Appeals
Shelby County
Appeals Court
William E. Caldwell
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Brown
Jikige
Knoxville
Knoxville City School Board
Convention Winds Up All But Final Moves
In Nashville delegates wrap up most business on the Tennessee constitutional convention draft. They won't act again until Sept. 13 to finalize the property amendment, with Nov. 7, 1972 offering a tentative ballot for voters. Debates focused on restricting gambling taxes and affirming no state property tax.
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Nashville
UPI
Constitutional Convention
Tennessee
George Dehoff
Murfreesboro
Del
Clifford Allen
Robert S. Brandt
Insurance Must Pay Court Says Vietnam War Benefit
The Virginia Supreme Court ordered an insurance payout to Christine Jackson, grandmother of Calvin Cook, a serviceman killed in Vietnam. Since Congress never officially declared the conflict a war, the policy’s war death benefit clause was inapplicable, and the court favored the beneficiary’s claim.
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Richmond
UPL
Virginia Supreme Court
High Court
Petersburg
Hastings Court
Christine Jackson
Calvin Cook
Vietnam
Congress
Young Woman Cased Station Before Attack On San Francisco
San Francisco officials said a young woman acted as advance lookout signaling accomplices with a flashlight before the attack on Ingleside police station that killed Sgt. John Young and wounded a dispatcher. Composite sketches described a 5 foot 9 inch, stylishly dressed woman in a micro miniskirt and tan coat who reported a stolen purse with a fake address. Police connected the shooting to a broader conspiracy involving up to eight suspects and a Bank of America bombing nearby.
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San Francisco
YPI
Charles Ellis
John ¥. Young
James Nance
Fleeing Lawyer Linked to San Quentin Escape
UPI reports fugitive Stephen Mitchell Bingham, tied to San Quentin’s escape attempt, held Canadian and Cuban passports but no confirmed departure reports. A federal fugitive warrant seeks extradition if located outside California as Bingham faces five murder counts for smuggling a gun to George Jackson. Allan Mancino, injured in the Aug. 21 outbreak, is held as a potential witness with officials offering limited details.
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San Francisco
UPI
Stephen Mitchell Bingham
San Quentin
Canada
Cuba
FBI
Tieve
California
James Buren
U.S
Bingham
Buren
Connecticut
Soledad Wrother
George Jackson
San Quentin Prison
Jackson
Lbg
Allan Mancino
Mancina
Macing
Bernadette Devlin to stay in politics after birth
Bernadette Devlin vows to continue in politics and raise her newborn daughter Roisin Elizabeth herself. She denies marriage plans, notes baptism at Cookstown Holy Trinity, and says she will adjust travel to balance motherhood with campaigning in Northern Ireland.
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Cookstown
Northern Ireland
UPI
Bernadette Devlin
Press Association
Miss Devlin
Dan Devlin
Roisin Elizabeth
London
Devlin
Waterway backers praise model ecology plan for Tennessee Tombigbee
Promoters of the $387 million Tennessee Tombigbee waterway defend environmental safeguards under the National Environmental Policy Act and call the project a model for future navigation projects. They cite EPA and QE Council approvals and note a lawsuit by the Environmental Defense Fund seeks an injunction with a Sept. 15 16 hearing set. The project spans Mississippi and Alabama linking the Tennessee River to the Gulf of Mexico under a five state development authority chaired by Glover Wilkins.
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Washington
UPI
Mid-South
Mississippi
Alabama
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Tennessee River
Gulf of Mexico
Tennessee
Kentucky
Florida
Tennessee-Tombighee
The
Environmental Defense Fund
EDF
Wilkins
John C. White
Southeastern
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Environmental Quality Council
Nixon
Manile
Ala
Can Committee Require Talk Judge Ponders
Nashville UPI reports a Tennessee subcommittee under Rep. Hob Hawks questions its power to compel testimony. Chancellor Drawota ordered a temporary injunction barring subpoenas for Ben Austin and Jess Bowman in a Putnam County highway department probe. Attorneys clash over whether the panel can jail witnesses and beyond. Oakley blasts the inquiry as illegitimate.
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Frank F. Drawota
Ben Austin
Jess Bowman
Bob Hawks
Memphis
Putnam County
Austin
Bowman
Russell X. Thompson
Demphis
Tennessee
Mitchell Urges Absentee Voting For Students In College Towns
UPI Mitchell called for newly enfranchised college students to vote by absentee ballot and barred from voting in host college towns. He said federal guidelines will not ease college voting in 1972 and argued student voting there would discriminate against other voters, notably servicemen.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
UPI
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
National Association of Secretaries of State
Democratic National Committee
U.S
Kingsport Times and News Publication Details
The Kingsport Times and its sister editions publish daily and Sunday editions with home delivery in Kingsport Tennessee. It lists subscription pricing, holidays, and postage details and notes prohibition on republication of owner content. Local and national news services are credited.
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport Hews
Kingsport Times-Neves
Kingsport Publishing Cooporation
Lynn Garcener
Kingspact
Tennessee
United Probe Inferrationa
Chicago Daily News
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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Clifton
Cobb
Ellen Lipney
Young
Ellis
Ingleside Station
Bank of America
Stonestown
Fillis
International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union
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