Guerrillas Threaten Diplomats Over Torture Probe
In Montevideo the Tupamaros threaten to retaliate against foreign diplomats if two guerrilla leaders jailed for alleged torture are harmed. They demand Uruguayan authorities free about 150 political prisoners in exchange for three kidnapped foreigners, including two Americans and one Brazilian. The group issued a brief communique via radio, with no direct mention of the captives. The government had ignored a Friday deadline for prisoner release.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Tupamaros
O 4
Estim
Raul Sendic
Sendic
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Claude L. Fly
Fort Collins
Colo
Richmond
Ind
Dan A. Mitrione
Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide
wive—Myriam Fly
Henrietta Mitrione
Maria Aparecida Leal de Dias Go
Dias Gomide
Malvin
Raul Bidegain Creissing
Mitrione
U.S. Agency For International Development
U.S
Fly
Colon
Mrs Hume Long Dies in Mexico Missouri
Mrs Hume H Long of 317 East Liberty Street died at her home from a heart condition. Funeral services are pending at Arnold Funeral Home. She was the former Grace Bassett, married November 2 1911, and survived by three children Margaret Lawrence King Josephine Warner and Ritchie H Long and a sister Clara Christian son. News of Lat er Tupamaros kidnapping in Uruguay and related hostage crisis details follow.
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Hume H. Long
E. Liberty St
Arnold Funeral Home
Grace Bassett
Long
Lawrence
Margaret) King
Mexico
Warner
Josephine) Byers
Jefferson City
Ritchie H. Long
Texas
Clara B. Christianson
California
100 Degree Heat Prompts Missouri Weather Warnings
Kansas City AP reports repeated mentions of 100 degree temperature in western Missouri with forecasts of near 100 in the southwest from today through Wednesday. Sunday, partly cloudy with thundershowers east. highs mid 80s northeast to upper 90s west. rainfall heavy in north central Missouri raising flash flood alerts as Chariton River approaches bankful.
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Kansas City
Missouri Weather
Weather Bureau
Joplin
Vichy
Kirksville
Novinger
Unionville
Chillicothe
Chariton River
Iowa
Missouri
Columbia
West Plains
St. Louis
Rainfall tops August average across county
Weather summary reports heavy August rain with 5.36 inches for the month, 1.51 inches above normal. Weatherman Smokey Woods logged 1.83 inches last night as fields stay muddy after four days of rain, while farmers expect little tillage before harvest. Ledgerland had a drought last month with only 1.11 inches, contrasting last year’s July deluge of 13.35 inches causing floods and crop damage.
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Smokey Woods
Ledgerland
Mrs. Ferris Dies at 94 Laddonia Leader and Publisher
Alice Moss Ferris, a lifelong Missouri Democratic leader and editor publisher of the Laddonia Herald, dies at 94 in Perry after a career spanning state and national campaigns. She spoke for Roosevelt in 1932 and was the first Missouri woman to second a national nominating ticket.
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Laddonia
Alice Moss Ferris
Missouri
James A. Reed
Ferris
Twain Haven
Perry
William Lewis
Martha Jane Kindred Moss
Robert Ferris
Audrain
Joe T. Robinson
National Campaign Committee
Robinson
al Smith
Chicago
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Missou
Harry Truman
Audwain
Rites For Mrs Ferris To Be Sunday
Funeral services set for 2 pm Sunday at Wilkey Bienhoff funeral home in Lad donia for Mrs Alice Moss Ferris. Callaway County Magistrate Judge Hugh P Williamson to deliver the eulogy. Burial in Laddonia Cemetery. Survivors include son Hampton R Ferris of Jefferson City and three grandchildren.
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Wilkey- Bienhoff Funeral Home
Laddonia
Alice Moss Ferris
Callaway County
Hugh P. Williamson
Hampton R. Ferris
Jefferson City
Mexico
Herbert Green
Florissant
James Eliethermes
Nancy Bartley
Martha Tinsley Kennen
Palmyra
Ferris
Laddonia Herald
Pleasant Street Slurry Sealing Planned If Weather Permits
Pleasant Street from Jefferson Street to Woodlawn is slated for slurry sealing Monday pending suitable weather. Mexico Street crews have halted sealing this week due to rain.
Guns Quiet Along Suez Canal Ceasefire Takes Hold
The Suez Canal banks were quiet for the first time since the 1967 war after a U.S. proposed cease fire. Israeli reports said no casualties, though Egyptian artillery and rocket fire from Jordan occurred. Diplomats and U.N. envoys prepared talks toward wider Arab-Israeli peace as the truce held through the first hours.
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Associated Press
Suez Canal
Middle East
Canal
Jordan
Dead Sea
Tel Aviv
Golan Belgic
Syria
Israel
Yigal Allon
Washington
Cairo
Jerusalem
United Nations
New York
Amman
U.S
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Meir
Nixon
Egypt
U.N
Soviet Union
United States
Suez
Fears of Power Clash Helped Spur Mideast Truce Effort
Washington reports that dread of a U.S.-Soviet showdown in the Arab-Israeli dispute helped fuel a new peace initiative. Observers note weary opponents seek quiet after 22 years of fighting as talks begin in New York under U.N. mediation. Both superpowers wish to avoid direct confrontation while Arab and Israeli leaders weigh Soviet or rival Arab influence. end of gunfire on Friday marks a hopeful moment as Egyptian and Jordanian concerns over radical influences rise.
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United Nations
Gunnar V. Jarring
Sweden
Geneva
Nicosia
Cyprus
U.S
Crnmenys
Farring
Jarring
Washington
Middle East
Mideast
Fedayeeni
Antepemee
Tee
New York
U.N
Gunnar Jarring
Nixon Administration
Soviet Union
United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Jordan
Hussein
Inflation Alert points to price increases in first report
The Nixon administration released its first inflation alert, led by Council of Economic Advisers Chair Paul McCracken, noting inflation responds to therapy but depends on duration. It cites wage and service price rises, mentions metal sectors, and cites spring rubber contracts and cigarette price hikes as factors while avoiding pressure on labor or industry. Unemployment rose to 5 percent in July. A separate notice records the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Albert McCulley of 502 N Wade St at Austrian Hospital. baby weighed nine pounds six ounces.
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Washington
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
McCracken
White House
Labor Department
Albert McCulley
N. Wade St
Austrain
McCulley
Russia urges Laos settlement amid Laos war talks
Saigon diplomatic sources report Moscow is pressing a political settlement for the Laos war and telling North Vietnam it will not boost military aid. Russia reportedly told North Vietnam to cool it in Laos and pull 40,000 troops from the northern area, as Vientiane and Saigon observers see cautious progress toward talks but warn it will take time. Moscow seeks to reduce Red China influence and safeguard its Laos embassy and cochair role in Geneva.
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Saigon
Soviet Union
Laos
North Vietnam
Russia
Vientiane
Souvanna Phouma
Pathet Lao
Cochairman
Britain
Souvanna
Indochina
Gas Trains Move Nerve Gas Rockets Through South
Army ferries 3000 tons of nerve gas rockets by two freight trains from Kentucky and Alabama toward a Wilmington North Carolina disposal point. The plan includes a sea dumping 16000 foot deep off Cape Kennedy Florida. Local officials and experts debate safety as 27 Florida oceanography experts convene to assess risks.
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Associated Press
Army
Kentucky
Alabama
South
Wilmington
N.C
Utah
Florida
Claude Kirk
Allen Light
Sunny Point
Cape Kennedy
Fla
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Tax Appeals Board
Audrain County Board of Tax Appeals
Board of Equalization
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mrs. Ferris
U Thant
Golda Meir
McCulleys
General Assembly
State Department
House Merchant Marine Subcommittee On Oceanography
Roani Thompson
Macon
Anniston
Ala
Blue Grass Army Depot
Miami
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