Seven Killed In South Viet Plane Crash
A C7 Caribou crash near Tuy Hoa Air Base in bad weather killed seven people including Maj. Gen. Tran Thanh Phong deputy commander of the 2nd Military region. Fifteen others were injured. five Vietnamese and two Americans perished.
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Saigon
U.S. Agency For International Development
Tran Thanh Phong
Central Highlands
U.S
Phong
Tuy Hoa Air Base
Bien Hoa
South Vietnam
Schultz Remains Treasury Secretary Leads Economic Policy Council
Florida White House announces George Schultz will stay as secretary of the treasury in Nixon's second term. He will head a Cabinet level Council on Economic Policy with an office in the White House and a small staff.
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Fla
Florida White House
George Schultz
Henry A. Kissinger
Ziegler
Herbert Stein
Council of
Eco
Nomic
Nixon
Peter M. Flanigan
Council On International Economic Policy
Shultz
Labor
Office of Management and Budget
Treasury
New Economic Council
Labor, Commerce, Agriculture, Transportation and State
Council of Economic Advisers
Cost of Living Council
Council
White House
South Viet Envoy Seeks Fourth Kissinger Parley For Cease Fire
South Vietnam envoy Nguyen Phu Duc seeks a fourth meeting with Henry Kissinger at the White House to shape a peace settlement as Saigon hesitates to initial the draft. The United States presses for a quick settlement with Hanoi, while Saigon prepares for a cease-fire. Premier Tran Thien Khiem issues a directive to cabinet ministers to ready for cease-fire, as Mekong Delta officials report training for political action after the end of hostilities.
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Kissinger
Washington
South Vietnam
Nguyen Phu Duc
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
Duc
Paris
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Fla
Tran Thien Khiem
Nguyen van Thieu
United States
Khiem
Mekong
Pleasant Fall Weekend Weather Brightens Oklahoma
Pleasant skies and warmer temperatures settle over Lawton and southwest Oklahoma through Saturday. Gusty southwest winds 12 to 22 mph this afternoon shift to 10 to 15 mph tonight with highs near 65 and a low around 35. Saturday brings a high near 70 after a Thursday high of 53 and low 34.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Former Defense Secretary McElroy Dead At 68
Former Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy dies at 68 in Cincinnati from cancer after guiding the defense establishment into the space age. Ohio native and Procter & Gamble executive served from 1957 to 1959 under Eisenhower and also led educational commissions. His tenure coincided with Sputnik and the early space era, shaping national missile debate.
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Defense
McElroy
Incinnati
Ohio
Neil H. McElroy
Pentagon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Nixon
Berea
Procter & Gamble
Ground Work Begins On New 8 Million Phone Building Here
Ground work starts on an 8 million four story Southwestern Bell building at 17th and Gore in Lawton. The 100 000 square foot facility will house toll switching equipment a test center and operator facilities serving southern and western Oklahoma possibly parts of Texas. Construction runs about 18 months with future expansion to nine floors.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bell
17Th and
Gore
Jesse Eppler
Eppler
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
R. W. Hooper
Southwestern Bell
United States
Oklahoma
Texas
Lawton
Threatened Strike May Force Postponement Of Moon Launch
Apollo 17 astronauts undergo final physical exams as Boeing workers threaten a strike over pay cuts from last year. NASA officials deem a delay unlikely but caution that absence of nonunion documentation staff could slow preparations. Negotiations continue with potential injunctions and NLRB involvement.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
The
Space Agency
NASA
Eugene A. Cernan
Harrison H. Schmitt
Ronald E. Evans
Boeing Co
Boeing
Space Center
Trans World Airways
Bernard Mamet
Thirteen Arrested In City Drug Raid
Thirteen people were arrested late Thursday and today in a city wide drug raid. The operation involved city vice officers with state and federal agents after a nine week investigation. A total of 18 warrants were issued, with arrests ongoing through early today in See RAID, Page 4, Col.
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Ron Rutledge
Elmer Thomas Park
Fort Sill
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Gaelle Ale le
AP Aerospace Writer
IATSE
National Labor Relations Board
Mamet
NLRB
Kurt Debus
Kennedy Space Center
Debus
State Supreme Court
Tulsa Washington
Jim Goodwin
Muskogee
Tulsa Hale
Tampa, Fla
Florida
Treasury Department
Department
Federal Register
Norman
Okla
Arthur M. McAnally
Oklahoma University
Bizzell Memorial Library
Cleveland County
Bill Porter
Bell Telephone Co
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