B52s Ramp Up Bombing Across DMZ and Vietnam
U S B52 bombers continued heavy saturation strikes on North Vietnamese supply routes across the DMZ dropping about 2 000 tons in 18 hours and targeting caches near Ben Quang and Quang Tri City. Fighters conducted extensive strikes in North and South Vietnam as ground fighting with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces intensified. an Army helicopter was shot down but the crew survived.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Dmz
Ben Quang
Bis
Quang Tri City
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S. Command
Quang Tri
U S Unemployment Rate Drops in November
The Labor Department reports the national unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in November, the lowest in 27 months, with unemployment down by more than 200000 to 4.2 million. Average weekly earnings rose but hours worked declined, while jobless rates varied by gender and age across the workforce.
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Ashington
Labor Department
Life Magazine to Fold Amid Continued Losses
Time Inc announced Life magazine will discontinue after the December 29 issue. The 36 year old weekly, known for photojournalism, ends due to continuing losses with deficits in 1969 70 and smaller deficits in 1971 72.
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New York
Life
Time, Inc
Henry Luce
Life magazine folding ends era of a journalistic pioneer
The announcement to fold Life follows rising costs and postal rate pressures, with editor Hedley Donovan and chairman Andrew Heiskell stating the decision as staff gather for a closed meeting at Time-Life in New York. The piece contrasts Life with Look, which ceased in 1971, noting ongoing losses and bleak projections for 1973 and 1974.
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Time-Life
Sixth Avenue
50Th Street
Life
Look
Hedley Donovan
Time, Inc
Andrew Heiskell
Apollo 17 Nears Moon Orbit After Midcourse Marker
Apollo 17 passed the halfway point of its voyage to the moon as the crew slept well and prepared for a 12 03 p m EST burn to correct course. Command ship America and lunar module Challenger remained nose to nose and close to the moon, with a one second thrust planned to place the craft into lunar orbit.
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Moon
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H. Schmitt
Cernan
Apollo 17
Earth
America
Challenger
Mission Control
Professor defuses hijack by hurled grenade on Ethiopian jet
U S professor Roderick Hilsinger of Temple University helped foil an Ethiopian Airlines hijacking near Addis Ababa. He picked up a live grenade and threw it as security forces killed seven hijackers and wounded ten passengers and crew, with three hijackers arrested. The plane landed safely after an engine and rudder damage.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
A_ US
Roderick Hilsinger
Temple University
Philadelphia
Hissinger
Seventh Day Adventist Hospital
Nixon Keeps Kleindienst in Cabinet Shakeup Department
President Nixon announced he will retain Attorney General Richard Kleindienst for a second term while revealing a major shakeup in top Justice Department posts. The White House also disclosed that Louis R. Bruce is being removed as Indian affairs commissioner and Harrison Loesch will leave as assistant Interior secretary.
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Camp David, Md
Nixon
Atty
Richard Kleindienst
Justice Department
White House
Louis R. Bruce
Harrison Loesch
City Heads Toward $1 Million General Revenue Sharing
Lawton officials led by Mayor Don Whitaker push to protect federal funds, warning against cutting categorical grants as the first general revenue sharing installment of $476,479 arrives. They argue GRF was meant to supplement, not replace, existing aid including urban renewal and Model Cities programs. Whitaker spoke at the National League of Cities in Indianapolis where revenue sharing dominated discussion amid a Nixon plan to trim pollution spending.
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U.S. Treasury
Lawton
Don Whitaker
Whitaker
Feds
Indianapolis
Ind
National League of Cities
Nixon
Congress
State Revenue Sharing Checks Sent Out Today
The federal government mailed 29.1 million dollars in revenue sharing checks to Oklahoma state, county, and local governments. Oklahoma leaders announced the final totals for the first half of 1973 on Thursday. Checks for the second half are to be sent the first week in January and are expected to be about the same as the first half, with the total for state, county, and local governments about 600 thousand dollars less.
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Oklahoma State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City and Tulsa See Mixed State Revenue Shares
State totals on Page 18 show Oklahoma City receiving about 1.3 million dollars less than anticipated while Tulsa gains roughly 1.2 million. A Treasury Department letter to Sen Henry Bellman and Rep Tom Steed explains the variance. Changes in local revenue computations under the revenue sharing act adjust distributions, moving from 1965 66 tax data to 1971 figures.
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Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Treasury Department
Henry Bellman
R-Okla
Tom Steed
D-Okla
James E. Smith
Okla
Santa To Appear Here Saturday
ANTA Claus is set for his first official visit of the 1972 Yale season in the Lawton Jaycees Christmas parade. The event starts at 10 a.m. at Sixth Street and C, marching east to Third and south to D, then west to Sixth. Parade entrants assemble at 9 a.m. on C between Sixth and Tenth Streets. weather could cancel with 8 a.m. notices on local stations.
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Anta Claus
Lawton Jaycee
Sixth Street
Third Street
Sixth
Tenth Streets
Ron Cole
Jaycee Parade
Cole
County Slated To Get 341 186 In Revenue Sharing Funds
The county will receive half of its 1972 revenue sharing funds next week with the remaining half due in mid January. Funds may be spent or saved for future large projects and are authorized for maintenance and operating costs in public safety environmental protection health and other services. Decisions on spending rest with the county commissioners and may cover sheriff department equipment fire protection and environmental projects.
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Omanche County
Frank White
County Board of Commissioners
White
Sheriff's Department
Doctor Worries Over Truman's Heart in Critical List
AP report from Kansas City notes former President Harry S. Truman remains on the critical list at Research Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Wallace Graham said his heart shows irritability and stress, with some improvement in areas but no overall progress. Truman, 88, was admitted Tuesday with lung congestion and a weak heart. temperature fluctuates and pulse and blood pressure are stable.
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Ansas City
Harry S. Truman
Wallace Graham
Graham
Truman
John Dreves
Wilson Miller
Dreves
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