South Viet Namese Leave Sepone To Avoid Trap
South Vietnamese troops in Laos abandoned Fire Base Sofia near Sepone to dodge a North Vietnamese trap and moved southeast toward the border. A regiment pulled back from Sofia eight miles from Sepone as American helicopters resumed flights after improved weather, with several clashes reported and hundreds of enemy casualties claimed by air strikes.
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Saigon
Laos
Sepone
Sofia
Associated Press
George Esper
Ham Nghi
Esper
Lolo
Panhandle
U.S
America
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tran van An
Army Hero Charges More Viet Atrocities
Lt Col Anthony B. Herbert four times wounded plans to file federal charges against Maj Gen John Barnes and Col J Ross Franklin over alleged torture and murder of Vietnamese civilians. He says he witnessed the throat cutting and torture in a 173rd Airborne Brigade unit. The Army says 19 criminal allegations have been reviewed with some unfounded or under active investigation.
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FT. Mcpherson
Herbert
Pentagon
CID
Barnes
Franklin
Vietnam
Sgt
Stemme
Any thing Goes Variety Show Runs One More Night
The 1971 Hocking Valley Varieties production Any thing Goes, seen by about 3 000 last weekend, is held over for a 7 p m Saturday performance at Logan High School auditorium. Tickets from the initial run are honored and door admissions available. The show surpassed its $5 000 American Cancer Society goal in gross receipts and aims to cover expenses with Saturday’s run.
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Hocking Valley Varieties
Logan High School
American Cancer Society
Turkish Premier Resigns After Military Takeover Threat
Ankara reports Premier Suleiman Demirel resigned after top commanders demanded a new government. The memorandum to President Sunay and Assembly leaders cited the need to halt anarchy and carry out reforms. Military units went on partial alert with no troop movements in the capital.
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Ankara
Turkey
Suleiman Demirel
Cevdet Sunay
Assembly
Senate
Demirel
NATO
U.S
Late-Winter Storm Spreads Across Northeast and West
The Associated Press reports a late winter snow blanketed the Ohio to northern New England region while rain or snow dampened much of the Pacific Northwest. Cold conditions persisted in the northern Great Lakes as milder air flowed into most other areas.
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Associated Press
Ohio
New England
Pacific Northwest
Great Lakes
Weather outlook for Hocking Valley warming to near sixty
Partly cloudy and warmer weather is forecast for Saturday in the Hocking Valley with highs near 60. The morning temperature was 45 at 11 a.m. today, up from Thursday's high of 40. Overnight low reached 32 as another light snow fell overnight.
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Hocking Valley
Winter Weather Spreads Across Regions With Varied Snow and Rain
Four inches of snow fell in northern New England and one inch coatings extended from Ohio to the Northeast. A Northwest storm brought rain from Washington to central California with high winds and inland snow. In the Gulf Coast, warmth produced showers and thunderstorms and marble sized hail struck Greenwood Mississippi. Temperatures before dawn ranged from 4 degrees at Alpena Michigan to 72 degrees at Brownsville Texas.
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New England
Ohio
Northwest
Washington
California
Gulf Coast States
Greenwood
Miss
Alpena
Mich
Brownsville
Tex
Senate OKs Four More Years Of Appalachia
Ohio lawmakers advanced three education bills as the 109th General Assembly closed its ninth week. Sens. Ralph Regula and Oliver Ocasek introduced measures aimed at making Ohio education more efficient and solvent, with the first bill detailing revision efforts.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
Ralph Regula
Navarre
Oliver Ocasek
Akron
Ohio Churches Call for Tax Reform and School Aid
The General Board of the Ohio Council of Churches urged graduated personal income tax reform to fund state services and aid property owners, plus revising the corporate franchise tax and studying non profit holdings’ tax implications.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Board of the
Ohio Council of Churches
Three Banks Deny Loan Charges In Ohio Case
Three banks entered innocent pleas while a fourth had arraignment continued until March 19 by U S District Judge Joseph Kinneary on four counts of making illegal political loans totaling 60000 to a Citizens for Gilligan Committee in 1968 and 1969. John J Gilligan, a former Senate candidate and governor elect, is named in the case.
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Columbus
Ohio
U.S. District Court
Joseph Kinneary
First National Bank of Cincinnati
Citizens For Gilligan
John J. Gilligan
U.S. Senate
Ohio National Bank of Columbus
First Knox National Bank of Mount Vernon
Bellefontaine National Bank
Kinneary
Senate approves 1.5 billion Appalachia aid extension
The Senate passed a four year 571 million Appalachian Regional Development Act extension and 925 million for highways, with 40 million for general improvements and airport safety. The measure funds education housing health and mine-rehabilitation in 13 states and heads to the House.
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Washington
Senate
Appalachia
Nixon
House
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Appalachian Regional Commission
Appalachian States
Ribicoff accuses Rivers of trying to block Senate probe
Sen Abraham Ribicoff charged that late Rep Mendel Rivers sought to derail a Senate investigations subcommittee inquiry into former Army Brig Gen Earl F Cole. Cole testified denying wrongdoing over alleged corruption in Vietnam era PXs and clubs.
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Washington
Abraham — Ribicoff
D-Conn
Mendel Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
Senate
Earl F. Cole
Ribicoff
Cole
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Pxs
Vietnam
Rivers
European Post Exchange System
Senate Poised to Speed Social Security Boost in Omnibus Move
The Senate prepares a quick 10 to 56 percent Social Security increase by attaching a $5 billion expansion to a House debt-limit bill. It would raise minimum payments and average benefits, with taxes also rising on wages above $9,000 next year, though checks may arrive only by July.
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John J. Gilligan
Netzley
Senate
Tom Fries
D-86
Frederick Young
R-84
Dayton
Legislative Service Commission
Social Security Administration
White House
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
Dark
Mills
Ten OSU students arrest in campus drug raid
Ohio State University campus police arrested ten students after raiding six rooms in Lincoln Tower dormitory on Thursday. Police confiscated one kilogram of marijuana valued at 180 dollars and small quantities of amphetamine mescaline and LSD tablets.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State University
OSU
Lincoln Tower
Mills Nixon Clash Over Textile Plans
President Nixon and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills clash over textile imports as Mills pressed Japan to curb shipments while U S industry objects. Nixon backs tougher limits and ordered monthly import monitoring on wool and manmade textiles from Japan.
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Nixon
Washington
Wilbur D. Mills
Congress
Arkansas Democrat
House
Ways and Means
Mills
United States
U.S
Maurice H. Stans
Death of Whitney Young Shakes Negro Leadership
Whitney M. Young Jr. 49, executive director of the National Urban League, dies while swimming near Lagos. His body to be flown to the United States Sunday for a memorial service at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral with leaders Bayard Rustin Jesse Jackson Ramsey Clark John Lewis and others. The White House sent a transport to Nigeria to repatriate the body commanded by Brig. Gen. Daniel James Jr. and accompanying delegates include Louis Stokes Percy Sutton Ernest Dunbar and others. Young's widow remains in New Rochelle New York.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Whitney M. Young Jr
United States
Young
National Urban League
U.S
Christ Church Anglican Cathedral
Bayard Rustin
John Conyers
D-Mich
Jesse Jackson
Operation Breadbasket
U.S. Atty
Ramsey Clark
John Lewis
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
White House
U.S. Air Force
Daniel James Jr
Air Force
Robert Boles
Morocco
Ernest Dunbar
Louis Stokes
D-Ohio
Manhattan
Percy Sutton
New Rochelle
N.Y
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Cridersville
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