Debates On Vietnam War Risks With Cambodia Move
U S official Laird says sanctuaries in Cambodia could alter the war's course and threaten South Vietnam. Life magazine editorials and Congress debates frame limited intervention and potential funding cuts amid Nixon policy shifts. Senate protests and proposed amendments surface as lawmakers react to Southeast Asia developments.
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Ted Hanoi
Vietnam
Young
Congress
Senate
Foreign ‘Relations Committee
Southeast Asia
Nixon
White House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Gulf of Tonkin
Indochina
Cambodia
Ogden. Reid
Rm.y
U.S
Laos
Thailand
Robert Leggett
Calif
Paula Findley
R-Ill
Texas Campaign Shifts Focus to Bentsen Bush Duel
The piece surveys a heated Texas 1960s style campaign, noting Bentsen leads Yarborough and Bush in GOP hopes for a first post Reconstruction governor, plus possible team moves to oppose Eggers. It traces past Senate battles and the upcoming statewide race dynamics with party splits and turnout concerns.
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Bush
Bentisen
Washington
Reconstruction
Tower
Texas
Nixon
Allies Drive Deeper Into Cambodia In Fishhook Advance
Allied forces press into Cambodia in a Fishhook sector push near Saigon aiming to disrupt the Central Office for South Vietnam. Spokesmen report 715 Communist deaths since the offensive began, with 50 trucks and 130 tons of rice seized and bunkers uncovered as paratroopers and armor tighten the ring.
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Saigon
UPI
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Fishhook
Communist Command
Nixon
U.S
Memot
Fire destroys barn on North Quirt Avenue after 6:25 PM
A small barn at 3807 N Quirt Ave burned Sunday evening. Firefighters reported hot flames as they arrived and noted attempts to save the structure were unsuccessful. Authorities described smoke and heat issues with limited access to the scene.
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N. Quirt “Ave
Johnson
Dation Garman
First Nevada Woman Runs for Governor on Prostitution Platform
Carson City reports Margie Dyer of Sparks has become Nevada’s first woman candidate for governor. She runs on a platform supporting legalized prostitution and legalized abortion, arguing state licensing and medical exams for prostitutes would regulate the trade.
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Carson City
Nev
Margie Dyer
Nevada
Sparks
Locoweed’s effects on livestock and control methods
The article details how locoweed intoxication harms horses, cattle, and sheep, causing weakness, staggering, and death from starvation. It notes recovery is partial at best, explains plant destruction by trimming, and lists white Oxytropis lambertii purple Astragalus mollissimus and blue A diphyus species as locoweed varieties. It also recalls the origin of the term loco as slang for crazy among ranchers.
College students nationwide plan weeklong antiwar strike
Avalanche News Service reports that protests against the Southeast Asia war spread to colleges as a weeklong strike is planned beginning Monday. Campus occupations at Case Reserve University and editor bodies call for action amid Nixon Cambodia policy. Demonstrations continue abroad with anti American protests in London Stockholm and Auckland.
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Avalanche Journal News Services
Southeast Asia
London
Stockholm
Auckland
Cleveland
ROTC
Case Reserve University
Case
Robert
Morse
Cambodia
Nixon
Qgambedin
University of Pennsyvania
Princeton
Pennsylvania
State
Termple
Bryn Mawr
Villanova
Lycoming
Bucknell
Rutgers
Goucher
Drexel
West Chester State
Philadelphia College of Art
Columbia
Andrew W. Cordier
Columbia ‘University
Cordier
Cornell
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth
Haver
Family Builds Mini Golf Course and Playhouses at Home
Dave Molles, his wife Esther and their 14 children in Pomona California create a growing family project with a 25 by 150 foot lot hosting a seven hole miniature golf course a tree lined path a crooked jail a Victorian mansion a lighthouse and a red barn. They plan 11 holes as funding and time allow Molles works in the Los Angeles suburb water department and starts projects after work with crating wood and reused parts to fashion playhouses and a miniature baseball field and basketball court.
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Pomona
Calif
Dave Molles
Pagonda
Dave
Esther
Philadelphia Street
Molles
Meter Division
Water Department
Los Angeles
Auction aims to build Hollywood history hall of fame
A charity auction seeks to buy many items to display costumes and props from classic films. Miss Reynolds advocates preserving motion picture history for public access as Mayer's era closes. new studio head James Aubrey focuses on independent filming and borrowing gear. The event runs through May 20 with items like a stern wheeler from Showboat for sale.
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Hollywood Hall of Fame
Wizard of Oz costumes reel in huge fan memory
Clark Gable raincoat and Judy Garland gingham dress headline a vast wardrobe exhibit with 350000 costumes from stars like Gable Tracy Lombard Cooper Stanwyck Garson. Props include HMS Bounty fragment from Mutiny on the Bounty a gold leaf Chinese sedan chair from The Good Earth and a railroad engine once used by Ulysses S Grant in How the West Was Won.
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Clark Gable
Judy Garland
Gable
Tracy
Lombard
Cooper
Stanwyck
Garson
HMS Bounty
Delicateley
Ulysses SB. Grant
Texas Legislature Races Mark Tight Runoffs and Balance
In the Panhandle Amarillo lawyers Jack Hazlewood and Max Sherman join a Senate runoff to challenge GOP Rep. Malcuf Albright for Hazlewood’s seat amid a shift in Hazlewood lineage. Former Rep. Lindley Beckworth faces John Warren in November. Democratic primaries yield many unopposed seats, with ongoing debate over Senate liberal versus conservative control and potential party balance shifts. Redistricting and taxes, liquor, and other issues loom for the 1971 session as key matters.
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Panhandle
Jack Hazlewood
Max Sherman
Amarillo
GOP
Malcuf Albraham
Canadian
Hazlewood
Grady Hazlewood
Canyon
U. S
Lindley Beckworth
Longview
John F. Warren
Tyler
Tom Christian
Claude
Senate
Kennard
Maury
Wallice
Roth
Mutscher
Felix
McDonald
Edinburg
House
Forimer
Lindsey Rerriguez
Hidalgo
MeIon- Hid
Burke Mussrove
Breckenridge
Rant Muniz
el Paso
Bob Burnett
Arlington
Hudson Moyer
Moyer
Nanney
Sen. Hazlewood
Chet Brooks
Pasadena
J. P. Ward
Meridian
Murray Watson
Waco
David Ratliff
Samford
H. J. Blanchard
Lubbock
Jack Hightower
Vernon
Texas Research League
New device immobilizes drunk motorist start of car
Reed City Michigan company Nartron Wire Corp introduces safelock a compact auto gadget that prevents engine start if a driver cannot react within 200 milliseconds after ignition probe The unit aims to curb drunken and impaired driving and costs under ten dollars with tests modeled after Wright Air Development Center studies and a 140 to 160 millisecond human reflex.
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Reed City
Mich
UPI
Nartron, Wire Corp
Reed
City
Michigan
Norman Rautiola
The
Corporation
Rautilio
Gerlad Miller
Wright Air Development Center
Dayton
Ohio
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Houston
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Truman Roberts
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