Navy Warships Leave Indian Ocean for Several Months
Washington AP reports U S Navy ships withdraw from the Indian Ocean for the first time since last fall's Middle East crisis. The carrier Kitty Hawk and escorts will pass through the Strait of Malacca, possibly stopping in Singapore, en route to Subic Bay. The move follows debates over Diego Garcia base plans and concerns from India and allies about a renewed U S naval presence in the region.
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House
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Australia
Laotians To Free Last US Prisoner
Pathet Lao spokesman says Emmet James Kay the last American POW in Indochina will be freed within sixty days ending June 3. Kay 47 a Hawaiian pilot with Continental Air Services was held after his plane forced landed in northern Laos last May 7.
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Wartime kindness sparks surprise G I reunion in New York
Greta Jean Jolliff, then eight in 1942 England, writes to The Editor of the American Newspaper with the Widest Circulation. The New York Daily News publishes her letter and publicizes the story. Ameri can GIs Harry and Smitty, now 56 and 61, and their wives travel to greet her in New York, reuniting decades later at the Hotel Biltmore after airline travel from London and a Kennedy Airport welcome.
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London
Stover to join MU symposium panel on business education
H M Stover president of A P Green Refractories Co in Mexico will participate in a one day University of Missouri symposium on Challenges to Professional Education for Business in the 1970s. The panel includes Robert L James and Prof Donald Shawver with Kauffman McPherson Bowen as other speakers. The event is open to the public with business government and education leaders in attendance.
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A. P. Green Refractories Co
Mexico
University of Missouri
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Christopher S. Bond
Donald Shawver
Capa Department of Marketing
Ewing Kauffman
Marion Laboratories
Kansas City Royals
J. Owen McPherson
Governor’s Committee For
Kauffman
University Police Deny Secret Student Files
University of Missouri police deny keeping secret files on politically radical students and staff from 1969 to 1972. Chief Mason acknowledges files existed but says they were not secret, with surveillance reported at a lower level. Faculty Council requests a report on the extent and continuation of surveillance.
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University of Missouri
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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University
Herbert Schooling
Columbia
Willow Springs Flood Turns Roads, Homes Overturned
Heavy rains in Willow Springs Missouri totaling over five inches in 24 hours caused extensive flooding. Mobile homes were overturned several cars washed away and multiple families evacuated. Roads in the area were temporarily closed by high water. The Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons will hold its 77th annual convention May 9-12 at Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City.
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Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
Crown Center
60 Cent Gasoline A Possible Summer Price, Sawhill Says
Energy chief John C. Sawhill told reporters at a National Oil Jobbers Council meeting that gasoline may rise only a few cents more and settle around 60 cents a gallon this summer. Current averages are about 53 cents for regular and 56 cents for premium. He warned of shortages if conservation slackens and urged maintaining 56 mph speed limits to save energy.
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National Oil Jobbers Council
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William E. Simon
Federal Energy Office
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