Hopes Dim For Nine Miners In West Virginia Mine
Rescue teams neared completing a five inch bore into the Blacksville coal mine to reach nine trapped workers as air quality and life support hopes remained slim. Geophones and microphones were deployed while federal inspectors noted weekly spot checks due to the mine’s danger level.
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Blacksville
W. Va
Cochran
Bureau of Mines
Washington
Consolidation Coal Co
Blacksville No. 1
Polling Places Open 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. Tuesday
Polling places for the city charter election will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday. A list of polling places appears on page 7.
Earth Resources Technology Satellite in orbit over poles
A $176 million Earth Resources Technology Satellite launched from Vandenberg reached a perfect polar orbit. The 1900 pound craft will circle every 103 minutes, photograph the globe every 18 days, and help map crops forests fish stocks and water resources using three cameras and a radiation sensor.
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Lompoc
Calif
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Earth
ERTS
Earth Resources Technology Satellite
South Pole
John Clark
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Spaceflight Center
Greenbelt
Major British ports shut down by protest strike
Striking longshoremen halted all major British ports to protest the jailing of five London dock workers for defying the National Industrial Relations Court. Sympathy strikes spread to miners printers and truck drivers. Prime Minister Heath met with Trades Union Congress leaders as exports and prices fell.
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Jondon
London
Liverpool
Hull
Southampton
Manchester
Glasgow
Bristol
Swansea
Ipswich
Edward Heath
Trades Union Congress
South Wales
Scotland
Yorkshire
London News
Stock Exchange
Britain
Cunard
Beth 2
New York
Pentonville
National Industrial Relations Court
En Industrial Relations A
High Court Asked To Rehear Death Penalty Cases
Prosecutors seek rehearing in 16 cases after the June ruling ending death row executions. Texas, Georgia, and Pennsylvania attorneys general urge review arguing the decision harms the jury system and state legislative power.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Texas
Crawford C. Martin
Elmer Branch
Arlen Specter
Anthony Soleri
Frank Phelan
Arthur K. Bolton
Martin
Specter
Philadelphia
Bolton
William Henry Furman
Lucious Jackson Jr
Furman
Savannah
Weather Outlook in Lawton Shows Near 100 Degree Heat
Forecasts call for fair to partly cloudy skies and temperatures around 100 degrees today and Tuesday in Lawton. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph this afternoon diminishing to 8 to 15 mph tonight as temps fall to the upper 70s. Sunday's high was 97 with a low of 74.
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Lawton
National Weather Service
Nixon seeks further rise in drug arrests
President Nixon heard that narcotics violation arrests have doubled in four years and aims to double again next year. In the Oval Office Ambrose noted arrests rose to 16 144 this year from 8 465 four years ago and heroin seizures also doubled. Officials present included Eugene Ambrose Asst Treasury Secretary Eugene T Rassides and Vernon Acree.
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Nixon
White House
Washington
Oval
Myles Ambrose
Ambrose
Federal Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement
Asst
Treasury
Eugene T. Rassides
Customs Bureau
Vernon D. Acree
South Vietnamese Retake Town On Central Coast
South Vietnamese troops advanced on two fronts to seize the Quang Tri Citadel walls in the north and recaptured a district town on the central coast. American jets bombed Hanoi's southern sector again, hitting a battery plant and causing about a dozen explosions as smoke rose to four thousand feet.
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Saigon
Quang Tri
Hanoi
Tery
U.S. Command
South Vietnamese drive to recapture Quang Tri Citadel
Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reports from Quang Tri as government paratroopers breach the 19th century Citadel walls under heavy North Vietnamese artillery. Officers describe high casualties and a dawn assault from bunkers as the counteroffensive to retake Quang Tri Province, which began June 28, continues.
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Associated Press
Dennis Neeld
Quang Tri
Nixon to Meet Tanaka in Hawaii for Talks
Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka accepts an invitation to meet President Nixon in Hawaii on August 31 and September 1 for an exchange of views on U S Japanese relations and trade. The talks follow Tanaka's recent election and precede Japanese discussions with China and the Soviet Union.
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Kakuei Tanaka
Nixon
Hawaii
Ronald L. Ziegler
Tanaka
China
Soviet Union
Ziegler
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John Corcoran
Consolidation
Rolling See
Long Island Sound
Orchard Beach
Earth Monitor
Marlow
U.S. 81
Rush Springs
Grady County
The
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Charles Thomas
Bonnie Jean Whipple
Duncan
Highway Patrol
Thomas
Impact
Heath
Nedd
South Viets
Dear Abby
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United States
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