Bombing in Laos resumes amid cease-fire violations
U S forces resume limited air strikes in southern Laos with nine B52s targeting enemy positions near Pak Song after Premier Souvanna Phouma cites North Vietnamese offensives. Officials say strikes will be small and selective to signal intolerance of cease-fire breaches.
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Laos
United States
U.S. Pacific Command
Honolulu
Pak Song
Souvanna Phouma
U.S
U.S. Defense Department
Freed POWs Press Back From Vietnam War Homes
Returned American prisoners of war hold news conferences across the country voicing mixed views on amnesty for draft evaders and promising to reveal the full story of captivity when all soldiers return. They defend conduct in captivity and urge national unity amid antiwar sentiment.
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Indochina
United States
Army
Mark A. Smith
San Francisco
Smith
Hawthorne
Calif
Letterman General Hospital
Pentagon
Fitzsimons General Hospital
Denver
Colo
Daniel Maslowski
Chicago
Maslowski
Army S
Gary Guggenberger
Cold Springs, Minn
Dayan deflects blame in Libyan airliner downing
Israeli Defense Minister Dayan says flight recorders show all sides erred in the Libyan jetliner crash. He backs international probe and proposes Egypt Israel hot line to prevent repeats. Elazar admits ordering the plane shot down amid a hostile air space incident near the Suez Canal.
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Moshe Dayan
Israel
Egypt
al Yom
Beirut
Muammar Kadafi
Revolutionary Command Council
Dayan
David Elazar
Air Force
Mordechai Hod Elazar
Suez Canal
Cairo
Elazar
Suez
Nixon and Ismail discuss possible peace talks with Egypt
President Nixon and Secretary Rogers express cautious optimism after talks with Egyptian national security adviser Hafez Ismail. Officials say progress implies a step by step path toward peace, starting with reopening the Suez Canal and a limited Israeli pullback, while Egypt demands comprehensive 1967 war withdrawals.
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Nixon
William P. Rogers
Hafez Ismail
Middle East
Ismail
Rogers
Suez Canal
POWs Speak Of Return and Morale After War
A selection of comments from freed American prisoners of war at news conferences at military hospitals nationwide. Capt. Mark A. Smith cites shock at U S conditions. Capt. John Dunn recalls routine days. Denton talks of surviving under duress. Stockdale denies being used in orchestrated speech. Smith notes public admiration for returning veterans. Jenkins criticizes antiwar minority. Mulligan calls for unity and flag pride. Jenkins and Wallingford address amnesty and draft evaders.
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Associated Press
United States
Mark A. Smith
Letterman General Hospital
Calif
Navy
James A. Mulligan
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Capt
Jenkins
Discount Rate Raised by Federal Reserve Board
The Federal Reserve Board boosted its discount rate from 5 to 5.5 percent effective Monday to curb inflation amid rising short term rates. Chairman Arthur Burns urged banks to restrain prime rate hikes and to moderate increases on small business, agricultural, home mortgage, and consumer loans. The move follows currency disruption and accelerating inflation as markets adjust.
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Federal Reserve Board
Arthur F. Burns
Burns
Federal Reserve
Committee
Contaminated Lettuce With Pesticide Sold in Four Shipments
In Los Angeles four lettuce shipments carried Monitor 4 pesticide above legal limits but not at a level deemed hazardous, according to acting FDA director John R. Weatherwax. He stressed the amounts were illegal yet not threatening to human consumers.
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Los Angeles
Food and Drug Administration
John R. Weatherwax
FDA
Weatherwax
Nixon Outlines Social Program
President Nixon, in a nationwide radio address, calls for fiscal responsibility to reform social programs he deems largely failures. He proposes moving anti poverty efforts to cabinet departments, merging education programs into new revenue sharing schemes, ending hospital subsidies, and focusing on effective measures to aid the needy without expanding the budget and taxes.
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Nixon
America
State of the Union
Congress
Office of Economic Opportunity
Weekend Weather Outlook With Snow Likely
Cloudy skies with a light snow chance Saturday night and Sunday. Temperatures reach 25 to 35 degrees with northeasterly to easterly winds 5 to 10 mph and a 30 percent precipitation chance. Monday brings variable cloudiness with a low around 20 and a high near 35.
Money Loser Nino Lo Bello Reflects On Self Clobbering
Financial writer Nino Lo Bello recalls starting to indict the church for wealth but ending up harming himself as he reports ongoing money losses.
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Nino Lo Bello
Man Confined 34 Years Dies Before Court Hearing
Lawrence Marmes, 72, who claimed illegal confinement in mental institutions for 34 years, died Feb. 16 before his March 19 jury trial. Marines sought $800,000 against Monroe County and its hospital for transfers from 1933 to 1967. His attorney withdrew a change of venue after the death. He had been confined since 1933 and released in 1967. a personal representative may pursue the case if appointed. He resided at Homme Home and had no known living relatives.
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Sparta
Wis
Lawrence Marmes
Monroe County
Peter Pappas
Atty
Steven L. Abbott
Pappas
Abbott
Marmes
Marines
Langlade
Waupun State Prison
Leo Billerbeck
St. John’s Episcopal Church
St. John's Church
Homme Home For the
Stoughton
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