Rebels declare independence in East Pakistan grove ceremony
East Pakistani rebels proclaimed Bangla Desh independence in a Baidyanathtala grove near the Indian border with Nazrul Islam reading the proclamation. Pakistan planes bombed Chundanga killing 50 civilians while fighting reported in Jessore and Sylhet amid regional unrest.
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UPI
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Kushtia
East Pakistan
Bangla Desh
Bengal Land
Nazrul Islam
Baidyanathtala
Calcutta
Nazrul
Bengal
Mujibur Rahman
Pakistan
All India Radio
Chundanga
Indian
India
Jessore
Sylhet
Brahmanbaria
Saudi Arabia
Jiddah Radio
Secretariat
The
Islamic World League
Reagan warned to raise welfare payments by June 30
The Nixon Administration demands California boost welfare payments for needy children by June 30 to avoid losing $708 million in federal aid. HEW asserts California must comply with a July 1969 cost of living increase and notes only California remains noncompliant. Reagan plans emergency conformity rules by May 1 amid reform proposals in Congress and Sacramento.
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UPI
Nixon
Ronald Reagan
U.S
Reagan
San Clemente
California
HEW
John D. Twiname
Table Tennis Trip Opens Sino US Relations New Page
A US table tennis team returns from Communist China after a historic week long visit that eased tensions. Premier Chou En Lai says the trip opens a new page in relations, while Nixon envisions someday visiting China as trade moves quicken.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Mao Tse Tung
Chou En-Lai
Peking
Red China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chou
Nixon
Washington
United States
Nagoya
Japan
State Department
U.S
Department
White House
United Nations
Commerce secretary urges Alaska pipeline despite critics
Secretary Stans argues the 800 mile Alaska line from the north slope to Valdez would secure U S oil supplies and cut reliance on North Africa South America and the Middle East promising up to 8000 Alaska jobs the creation of 30 new tankers and about 48000 man years in U S shipyards while opposing a Canada route.
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UPI
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Alaska
Stans
Interior
Robert C. B. Morton
Valdez
North Africa
South America
Middle East
Interior Department
U.S
Canada
Middle West
California lawmakers propose broad tax expansions despite Reagan opposition
On the final day for unrestricted bill introductions, legislators including Assemblyman Frank Murphy Jr and John Dunlap pushed new taxes. Proposals would extend the 5 percent sales tax to takeout food, tax radio and TV advertising at 4 percent, and empower counties to levy income and use taxes on residents and utilities. Governor Reagan opposed any new or higher taxes this year.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Frank Murphy Jr
Santa Cruz
John Dunlap
Napa
Leo McCarthy
San Francisco
McCarthy
Nixon vows to keep forces in Vietnam for two reasons
President Nixon says U.S. forces will stay in Southeast Asia until all war prisoners are freed and South Vietnam can defend itself. He rules out a permanent Korean style residual force and expects further troop withdrawals later this year. He defends Calley review and cites no fixed withdrawal deadline before 1972.
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UPI
Nixon
Southeast Asia
U.S
Vietnam
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Korea
Sou Vietnam
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