Peace Looming For Miami Beach Con Event Security
Peace appears likely as Miami Beach prepares for the Democratic National Convention next July. Police Chief Rocky Permerance vows strict security, pledging to prevent violence by deterring troublemakers and educating the public, drawing on Chicago 1968 lessons and past Republican conventions for guidance and control of key access routes.
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Miami Beach
Rocky Permerance
Chicago
Law and Order
Democratic Party
Nazis Remembered as German War Crimes Probe Intensifies
German efforts to prosecute Nazi crimes continue at Ludwigsburg Central Office for Discovery and Prosecution of National Socialist Crimes. The Bundestag extended statutes of limitations, with the staff predicting ongoing work into 1980 and potential trials possibly as late as 2000, though major new atrocities are unlikely.
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Germany
Ludwigsburg
Federal Republic
Bonn
New York
Postmaster Ehrler volunteers to jump with Rotary prize
A Louisville Kentucky Rotary Club door prize of parachute lessons proves nonrefundable and headlines a playful moment as Postmaster Breher Ehrler offers to jump if Miss Ronnie Mashburn joins him. She agrees to be his instructor after declaring Poe has made 00 jumps. The tale closes with a note on legal cases and Nazi crimes in West Germany.
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Breher Ehrler
Louisville. Ky
Rotary Club
Ehrier
Rotary
Ronnie Mashburn
Poe
Rocking Along Promoters Lose Money at Satsop River Fair
Promoters of the Satsop River Fair and Tin Cup Races in Washington State report large financial losses after many rock music fans entered without paying. Some were admitted free to handle garbage and food kitchens, thousands sneaked in, and others used counterfeit tickets. The article questions when rock festival impresarios will learn.
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Washington State
Alabama Senate Passes Bill Allowing Women in Mines
Alabama lawmakers back a measure permitting women eighteen and older to work in coal mines, presenting a shift in mining labor rules and expanding opportunities for female workers. The bill now moves to the house for consideration.
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Alabama
Senate
New Cure For Cold Through Toe Freezing Test Report
Art Buchwald recounts a comic exaggerated tale of two Israeli researchers claiming to cure nasal colds by cooling the big toes. The narrator and his wife attempt improvised toe icing with ice, a fridge, and frozen drinks, humorously describing the absurd method and the eventual perceived relief, ending with a hangover note.
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Washington
Les
Reader Letters Question City Policies In Lubbock
Opal McBroom denounces city charges and garbage problems while urging residents to unite for a cleaner city and freer from taxes. Another letter complains about drivers ignoring signals and stop signs during a driving lesson. A third questions ticket distribution fairness for Texas Tech students and stresses inequity toward student body. A fourth argues busing costs should fund improved education, cautioning against reinforcing racial tensions.
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Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Opal McBroom
Ave. K
Avalanche Journal
Tech
Texas
A-J
Austin
Red Raiders
Texas Tech
Teresa Bailey
Lori Smith
Ann Walker
Sue Lynn Walker
Knapp Hall
William N. Blansitt
Bell St
Big Spring
Editorial praise for poor journalism sparks letters
A bundle of reader letters to The Avalanche-Journal praise or condemn media practices, discuss the Jesus Christ Superstar production at Lubbock Coliseum, and urge civic reflection on budgets and local projects. Contributors include Mrs Neal St Rose and Mrs George Naylor plus Lillian C. Rountree and Bill Morman, among others.
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Avalanche-Journal
Gadfly
West Texas
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P.O. Box
Morton
Lubbock
Avalanche Journal
Lubbock Coliseum
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Mary Magdalene
Christ
Pilate
Isaiah
God
John
Garden
Gethsemane
Jesus Christ
George Naylor
Lillian C. Rountree
18Th St
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
Lord
J. T. Baisden
16Th St
Nixon weighs timetable for Vietnam withdrawal in 1972
President Nixon may set a fixed date for pulling all U S troops from South Vietnam by mid 1972 in exchange for phased return of prisoners of warOfficials indicate new talks with Hanoi are underway or planned in Paris under Porter as Washington weighs a compromise base for a withdrawal amid Vietnamization plans and upcoming China trip.
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Nixon
South Vietnam
White House
Paris
William J. Porter
Vietnam
Administration
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GOP
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Peking
Communist
China
Ali
Laos
Mosquitoes and Fortune Cookies Roil Minnesota and Nixon Visit
A Minneapolis Tribune quip notes northern Minnesota mosquitoes work as a duo with big ones pushing smaller through screens. A Los Angeles Herald Examiner item jokes about Nixon planning a visit to Peking, prompting fortune cookies and a rickshaw purchase.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Nixon
Peking
Bill Kennedy
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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Moscow
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