All-Volunteer Draft Doubts Surface in Nixon Plan
Nixon sets a July 1973 deadline to end the draft with six months to gauge manpower needs. Defense Dept assessments would follow, while Pentagon backs volunteer forces. A plan to halt inductions by December could test fulfillment of manpower needs if Congress does not extend the Selective Service Act.
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AIR Campaign Practices Committee
Charles Taft
Taft
National Guard
Melvin Laird
Why Do You Work Magazine Article Parody
Ottawa government tips on legally avoiding taxes by quitting smoking spark a possible rise in cigarette consumption. The Canadian Health Department calls quitting “perfectly legal” while critics fear a self righteous backlash against tax avoidance.
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Ottawa
Canadian Health Department
Canada
Colony Caper Oversimplifies Puerto Rico Vote
The United Nations Decolonization Committee backed a Cuban inspired move to urge Puerto Rico independence. The 12 to 0 vote with 10 abstentions targeted the United States and ignored a prior election yields where 425,081 supported commonwealth status, 273,315 backed statehood, and 4,205 chose independence. The Communist bloc criticized the outcome as misreading free elections.
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General Assembly
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People’s Republic of China
Cuba
Puerto Rico
United States
Statehood
Independence
Alaska
Hawaii
New York
Sausage World Record Sparks Laughing UK Crowd
In London a 21 year old milkman Ronald Logan ate 28 sausages in 12 minutes to claim a world record. Critics joke about the feat and the claim, while the audience reacts with disbelief and amusement at the stunt.
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London
Ronald Logan
Election mood in U S shows Nixon Agnew support abroad
Washington reports Republicans praise Nixon and Agnew at the convention with hints of Agnew's 1976 bid while observers abroad fear shifts in U S policy. Nixon seeks peace in Southeast Asia without capitulation to Communists, and world leaders monitor a race that could alter defense aid and global stability.
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Nixon
Agnew
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
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That Girl on Broadway and a Public Notice Humor
A Plain Dealer style notice laments funds spent on studies and bureaucrats while the needy suffer. A Tomah Journal notice seeks a lost gray and white female cat that answers to an electric can opener. A pome notes imagination and humor as consolations for self with a joke about veterinarians and doctors merging.
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Broadway
Tomah
Wis
McGovern seeks Johnson and Truman guidance in Texas visit
The piece analyzes Senator McGovern's Texas swing for a presidential endorsement, arguing he should seek advice from Truman rather than Johnson while noting current polls favor Nixon. It contrasts 1948 dynamics with today, cites party shifts, and mentions Meany, the Catholic and Jewish vote, farmers, and the solid South in a brisk, opinionated tone.
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Texas
Missouri
Johnson
Truman
White House
Senator McGovern
Nixon
Mr. Truman
George Meany
Puerto Rico debate mirrors colonialism claim at UN panel
A United Nations Special Committee on Colonialism places Puerto Rico as a colonial status under the 1960 Declaration of Independence for Colonial Territories, while Uganda faces Amin's decree expelling tens of thousands of Asians. The piece argues Puerto Rico is a free commonwealth and Uganda’s action targets long-standing Asian businesses, highlighting UN geopolitics and anti-American influence.
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United Nations
Special Committee On
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Portugal
New York
Kansas
Soviet Union
China
Tanzania
Salim
Uncle Sam
Uganda
Tbi Amin
Amin
India
Pakistan
Peking
Moscow
United States
Colonia
Navy reports 205 foot ship sinks after mine strike off Korea
Tokyo reports the 205 foot U.S. vessel near Sarsi struck a mine and sank within 20 minutes off North Korea’s east coast at midnight. Navy stated the incident Wednesday. In Detroit, Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg warned Russia cannot block a mass atomic air attack and that a new war could be decided in its opening phase.
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Sinner Aanae Labeok
Tokyo
U.S
North Korea
Navy
Detroit
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Russia
Pass It On Noteworthy Daredevil Knievel and TV Reruns
L M Boyd shares a collage of trivia about Evel Knievel avoiding planes, President Nixon, and a memory puzzle. He notes a pilot’s smoke message in the sky and observes aging generations, ending with mail address for reader submissions.
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Knievel
Richard M.xon
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