Iowa Beer Laws Change as 18-Year-Olds Gain Rights
Sunday Digest reports Iowa grants 18-year-olds full drinking rights and extends club closing time to 2 a.m. statewide, with local option rules for Sunday sales based on income sources. Washington scene notes bicycle gang whistles in downtown areas, teens using whistles to signal speed and danger with groups sometimes numbering up to 100 at night. police have not yet acted.
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Des Moines
Iowa
County Boards of Supervisors
Washington
Capitol
Washington Monument
Eight killed and seventy nine hurt in Amman crash
An Aeroflot TU134 with 84 aboard including Princess Dina crashed on takeoff in Amman, crashing into a house at the runway end. Eight killed, 79 hospitalized or treated, with 20 awaiting admission. Authorities probe cause. witnesses heard unusual engine sounds during liftoff.
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Amman
Jordan
Hussein
Abdel Karim Tarameh
Dina
Sherif Ahmed al Haymak
Beirut
Yerevan
Armenia
Moscow
Jordanian Transport Ministry
Transport Ministry
Bills Extend Debt Limit and End Indochina War Funding
The Senate approved extending the 465 billion national debt ceiling to November 30 after House passage 294 to 54. Congress also authorized a stopgap funding measure ending U S combat involvement in Indochina as of August 15, with Nixon expected to sign, ending a four year stalemate over war funding.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
Congress
U.S
Indochina
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Bilk Scheme Nets Bank $8220 In Complex Telephone Fraud
Police and the FBI seek a man posing as a Sentry Insurance official who tricked the First National Bank out of 8220. The ruse involved calls pretending to charge cash to a vacation bonus account and arranging pickup by a Sentry messenger at the insurer’s headquarters.
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Stevens Point
Wis
FBI
First National Bank
Sentry
Insurance Company
Wisconsin Rapids
Kadets Win 1972 Class C Title In Pageant Of Drums
The Kadets drums group with an average age of 11 won the 1972 Class C championship. Saturday night they competed in the open class against drum and bugle corps from across the state.
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Kadets
Tribune
Racine Kiltie Kadets
Memorial Field
Wisconsin Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Congress Okays Hike In Benefits For Social Security
Congress approves a 5.6 percent Social Security increase for 30 million recipients starting July 1974. payroll tax hits higher earners, max extra payment set at 35.10, with minimums for aged blind and disabled rising to 140 for single, 210 for couple. Tax base up to 12600, earnings exempt limit rises to 2400 January 1.
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Cial
Second Longest Solar Eclipse Stuns Africa Researchers
The total eclipse darkened sub Sahara Africa for 7 minutes and 4 seconds, with Concorde observers extending totality to 74 minutes. Scientists in Chad, Mauritania, Nigeria, Kenya, and Lake Rudolf gathered data while locals watched in awe and fear. The event, second longest on record, unfolds along a 9,300 mile band from Brazil to the Indian Ocean.
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Loiyengalani
Kenya
Sub- Sahara Africa
Nairobi
Andre Turcat
France
Fort Lamy
Chad
Mauritania
Lagos
Nigeria
Meteorological Department
United States
Lake Rudolf
Brazil
Atlantic Ocean
Sub- Sahara
Africa
Indian Ocean
Judge Denies Second Injunction On Dredging
Federal Judge James E. Doyle denied a second injunction by the Wisconsin DNR to halt Army Corps dredging at Billings Slough on the Mississippi River. A prior temporary injunction had limited Crosby Slough dredging near La Crosse for spoil disposal alleged to affect habitat. The hearing was continued to July 9 for more information and time to decide.
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Army Corps of
Mississippi River
Madison
James E. Doyle
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Doyle
Crosby Slough
la Crosse
Bergen
Vernon County
Richard Rantham
Billings Slough
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Sunday Digest
Baers
Ebatches
Tri-State
Pageant of Drums
White House
Canberra
Atlantic
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