Truce Line Established In Belfast Amid Violent Week
British paratroopers opened a crossfire truce line in Belfast between Protestant and Catholic factions after a weekend of deadly fighting leaving nine dead including a 13 year old. The long violence has killed 327 overall as troops struggled to restore order in Ballymurphy and Springmartin zones.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Ballymurphy
Springmartin
Kelly’s
Irish Republican Army
McGovern Seeks Upset as Michigan Primary Nears
Senate hopeful George McGovern rallies in Michigan cities including Livonia Kalamazoo Flint and Detroit as he presses for an upset in the Democratic presidential race. He argues pension reform and expands worker protections while George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey campaign elsewhere in Tuesday contests.
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George McGovern
Michigan
South Dakota
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Maryland
McGovern
Detroit
Livonia
Kalamazoo
Flint
Los Angeles
California
United Auto Workers
Shirley Chisholm
New York
Humphrey
Baltimore
Wallace
Washington
Annapolis
North
Lansing
Gov. Wallace
Grand Rapids
Saginaw
Amish Exempted From State School Law by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court unanimously exempted Amish people from compulsory schooling beyond the eighth grade. The decision, delivering by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, said mandatory formal education after eighth grade could threaten the free exercise of their religion. The ruling stemmed from a Wisconsin case as part of a day with other actions including bus service desegregation appeals and labor issues.
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Ashington
Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Warren E. Burger
Norfolk
Burger
Demonstrations Lead to Mass Arrests at Princeton
Twenty six people were arrested today at Princeton University during a renewed protest at the Institute for Defense Analyses over U S war moves in Vietnam. The arrests bring the campus total to 190 since nationwide protests began last week.
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Princeton University
Institute For Defenses Analyses
U.S
Vietnam
Ivy League
Probe Begins Into Idaho Silver Mine Disaster
Survivor Byron Shultz testified before a House subcommittee that Sunshine Mining Co gave miners no fire drills or survival plan. He described entering a shaft door to find many dead or unconscious and escaping with a fellow miner, as union officials blamed safety neglect and limited federal cooperation.
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Washington (Ap
Sunshine
Kellogg
Idaho
Byron Shultz
House Select Labor
Frank McKee
Union
Sunshine Mining Co
McKee
U.S. ‘Bureau of Mines
Mines Stay Until POWs Free Nixon Tells Wives
Three wives of missing or captured servicemen met with President Nixon and said he affirmed that North Vietnamese harbors would stay mined until prisoners are released. They reported Nixon expressed leverage to help bring the men home and pledged continued pressure until all missing and prisoners are accounted for.
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Moscow
U.S
Nixon
Tass
London
New York
Pravda
Communist Party
Ashington
Southeast Asia
Phyllis FE. Galanti
Husband
North Vietnam
Sybil E. Stockdale
North Vietnamese
Hanoi
Allies Score Second Win In Three Days From Bastogne Front
South Vietnamese forces retook Fire Base Bastogne 12 miles west of Hue after six hours of battle aided by B52 strikes, marking a second northern front counterattack in three days. U.S. air power and artillery supported the operation as Hanoi pressed nearby targets in Kontum and An Loc amid ongoing siege and clashes near Trang Bang.
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Saigon
Bastogne
Hue
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri City
Associated Press
Peter Arnett
Kontum City
Saigon-Phnom Penh
Trang Bang
An Loc
U.S. Command
North Vietnam
U S
North
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Warm Weather Returns To Area Across Southwest Oklahoma
Fair skies and temperatures in the 80s are forecast for Lawton and southwest Oklahoma through Tuesday as summer like weather returns to the state. Highs this afternoon mid 80s with tonight’s low around 50s and Tuesday highs in the upper 80s. Southwesterly winds 8 to 15 mph continue tonight. High Sunday was 79 and low 55.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Comanche County Incomes Lag State Averages
A 1970 census report shows Comanche County average family income 7295 dollars versus 7725 statewide. Per capita income stands at 2568 dollars. Labor force participation is 88.4 percent for men and 36.9 percent for women aged 16 plus. White collar workers total 52.6 percent with 31.5 percent in government roles. About 34.3 percent of married women with husbands present work, and 23.0 percent have children under. Only 66.2 percent of men and 58.1 percent of women 16 plus are high school graduates.
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Coy Hobbs
Comanche County
Bureau of the Census
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