Nixon and Chou Meet In Chinese Capital Talks
President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai held a nearly four hour session in Peking to discuss key disagreements as China and the United States move toward possible normalization. Mrs. Nixon toured the Pe king Hotel kitchens while the Chinese press gave extensive coverage of the visit.
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Peking
Nixon
Chou En-lai
Chou
China
U.S
Mao
Peking People’s Daily
Communist Party
Tse-tung
Nixons
Qatar Coup Shifts Power Within Royal Family
Bahrain Radio reports Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani seized control of Qatar from his cousin Sheik Ahmad bin Ali in a dawn coup. The new emir pledged a 20 percent salary raise and social reforms while promising modernization and calm across Doha and the peninsula.
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Beirut
Sheik Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani
Persian Gulf
Qatar
Bahrain
Sheik Ahmad bin Ali al Thani
Iran
Radio
Sheik Khalifa
Arabian Peninsula
New Mexico
Bahrain Radio Said
Doha
Kennedy Youth Among Hijacked Jet Passengers Released
The Ye men mission said Tuesday that all male passengers on a hijacked West German jet were released by five Palestinian guerrillas. Joseph P. Kennedy III was among those aboard. hijackers still held the aircraft and crew. The incident stemmed from a flight after leaving New Delhi with explosives reported on board.
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Men
Joseph P. Kennedy III
Robert F. Kennedy
Palestine Liberation Force
Government of India
New Delhi
Edward M. Kennedy
Washington
DEN
Palestine
Senate Uses Closure to Limit Debate on Employment Discrimination Bill
In Washington the Senate invoked its closure rule to curb further debate on a bill strengthening a federal ban on employment discrimination. In Hollywood the 44th Academy Awards nominations were spread among Fiddler on the Roof The French Connection and The Last Picture Show. In Kansas City rescuers struggle amid rubble as two men trapped since Sunday remain unaccounted for. In Moscow Luna 20 reports a soft lunar landing near the Sea of Fertility. In Berlin East Germany offers West Berliners Easter and Pentecost passes for visits.
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Washington
Senate
Hollywood
Kansas City
Stanley Wood
Grandview
Donald Shannon
Topeka
Kan
Moscow
Soviet Union
Sea of Fertility
Museum Wins Accreditation
The Museum of the Great Plains earned accreditation from the American Association of Museums, becoming Oklahoma’s first and one of 58 nationwide under the program recently started. The accreditation was announced in a Feb 18 letter to James N. Miles, executive director of the Institute of the Great Plains.
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Museum of the
Sill's Mr Aviation To End 36-Year Fort Sill Career
Frederick E. Goodwin, veteran commander of the U S Army Field Artillery Aviation Command at Fort Sill, plans retirement after more than 36 years of service. He led Fort Sill aviation for eight years and helped prepare aviation units for Vietnam. Goodwin helped develop early armed helicopter doctrine and served in a career closely tied to field artillery.
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Sill’s
U.S. Army Field Artillery Aviation Command
Fort Sill
Air Mobile Field Artillery
Aerial Field Artillery
Goodwin
Aviation Command
Lawrence H. Caruthers Jr
U.S. Army Field Artillery School
Geronimo
Col. Goodwin
Army
Vietnam
Parks Eyed for Bicentennial Celebration Nationwide
The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission proposed a nationwide network of Bicentennial parks. Parks would be on land donated by the federal government, 100 to 500 acres each, with the feds funding design and construction. States would manage operations.
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Washington
Mahoney
Polls Open 7 P.M. for Great Plains Area Vo-Tech Board
Polls stay open until 7 p.m. today for voters in the Great Plains Area Vo-Tech School district to elect a five year school board member. Candidates are Julius H. Johnston and Rev. Edward E. Davis. Eligible voters may cast ballots at Cache City Hall Indiana High School Medicine Park School Elgin home economics building Flower Mound School Bishop School Stony Point School Eisenhower High Central Junior High Will Rogers Lawton High Tomlinson Junior High and Cleveland.
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Great Plains Area
Vo-Tech
Julius H. Johnston
Edward E. Davis
Cache City
Indiahoma High
Medicine Park
Elgin Home Economics
Flower Mound
Bishop
Stony Point
Lawton
Eisenhower High
Central Junior
Will Rogers
Lawton High
Tomlinson Junior High
Cleveland
City Sells PLC Sewer Effluent For New Plant
City council approves a contract selling 3.5 million gallons daily of sewage effluent to Public Service Co for 7.5 cents per thousand gallons, yielding about 96000 annually and funding a $25 million PSC electric plant southeast of Lawton. PSC to pay major share of a 3 mile water line and will store effluent in a PSC lake for cooling.
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Public Service Company
Lawton
PSC
Floyd Zook
Public Service Co
Cache Creek
Lawton Water Authority
S.E. 45Th Street
Lee Boulevard
Zook
Freeholder List Climbs To 24
The list of candidates for freeholder increased to 24 for the March 7 charter issue election. Local realtor Howard Way filed for freeholder in Ward 2 at 3103 Brent Circle. Eight posts are up, two per ward. The top two in each ward win if the charter issue passes. filing closes Friday.
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Freeholder
Howard Way
Brent Circle
IRA Bomb Blast Kills 7 at Aldershot Base
Seven people die and seventeen are wounded in a bomb blast at the British army base in Aldershot. The IRA claimed responsibility saying the attack was a reprisal. Eleven officers were among the wounded as the explosion rocked the mess and surrounding buildings.
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Aldershot
England
Irish Republican Army
Bill Aims to Increase Retirement Pay for Service Members
A bill to raise retirement benefits for uniformed personnel was filed by Sen. Tower and Sen. Bellmon. It seeks to compute retirement pay from the active duty basic pay in the retiree’s rank and years of service, currently based on the retired pay level. The measure remains with the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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John Tower
R-Tex
Henry Bellmon
R-Okla
Bellmon
Uniformed Services
Senate Armed Services Committee
Tower
U S Fliers Down Second MIG In Five Weeks
U S pilots shot down a second North Vietnamese MIG in five weeks over northeast Laos near the North Vietnam border. Maj. Robert A. Lodge and 1st Lt. Roger C. Locher reported firing missiles from an F4 Phantom at about 90 miles southwest of Hanoi as two MIGs crossed into Laos. They tracked the target by radar and saw an explosion and fireball.
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AIGON
U.S
North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Robert A. Lodge
Columbus
Ohio
Roger C. Locher
Sabetha
Kan
Laos
Hanoi
Plain of Jars
Lodge
Locher
James d’Entremont
D’entremont
Indochina
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Chiang Ching
Mao Tse-tung
Great Hall of the People
Henry A. Kissenger
William P. Rogers
Chi Penfei
The
People’s Daily
Lawton Area
Lawton High School
Eisenhower Elementary School
Kennedy
New York
Yemen
United States
International Red Cross
Joseph Kennedy
Bang
By Paul McClung
Frederick E. Goodwin
City Sells PLC
By Skip Gibson
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
IRA
Derry
U.S. Fliers
MIG
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