Gamble in Laos
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan analyzes how the United States decision to back an incursion into eastern Laos sits against a decade of Southeast Asia change. The piece argues Laos no longer offers the vital leverage it once did, with global powers less eager for a nuclear-tinged crisis and regional cooperation rising as the new framework for peace.
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AP News
William L. Ryan
Laos
Southeast Asia
Ppose
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva
United States
Indochina
Suez Canal
U.S.S.R
China
Peking
Asia
Lobbyist Secret Donors Aided Ford Campaign
Washington AP report details how Gerald Ford’s campaign benefited from a Washington DC committee run by Harold Lovre, a former congressman and ATA lobbyist, that raised about 4,500 with donor names kept confidential. Ford acknowledged the mechanism as legal, noting Lovre’s long friendship since 1949.
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Washington
House
Gerald R. Ford
American Trucking Association
Harold O. Lovre
South Dakota
Lovre
D.C
G.R. Ford
Michigan
Ford
GOP
Grand Rapids
Associated Press
Election Committee
Congress
ATA
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
U.S
Associaton
Irvin Hoff
Boggs
Hoff
Wellsville Personal News Highlights Local Dives and Dinners
The Wellsville column lists first time Red Cross Bloodmobile donors in Wellsville and nearby towns including Charles Schreiner, Mrs. Tom Eckler, Maynard Kleinsorge, Mrs. Barbara Roberson, Mrs. Robert Bachman, Mrs. Jerry Plynn, Gale Wilson, and Carl Schmidt. It notes barrow shows in Columbia and Montgomery City, district FFA contests in Kirksville, and free meal menus for Wellsville, Middletown, and Wellsville-Middletown R-1 schools for February 16.
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Barrow
Columbia
Missouri
Montgomery City
Davis
Kirksville
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Wellsville
Charles Schreiner
Bellflower
Tom Eckler
Middletown
Maynard Kleinsorge
Barbara Roberson
Robert Bachman
Martinsburg
Jerry Plynn
Gale Wilson
Carl Schmidt
Montgomery County
Lester
Blackshaw
James Anderton
LeRoy Strube
New Florence
Gloria Leverett
Henry Kraftzeck
Robert Whitehead
Lindell Hildebrand
Lawrence Oligschlaeger
Faye Cobb
Bernard Arens
Wellsville-Middletown
Lon Nol Relapses and Heads to U S Hospital
Cambodian premier Lon Nol, ailing, suffers a relapse and will fly to the U S Army Tripler Hospital in Honolulu for treatment of a stroke. Sources say he will depart Phnom Penh by air this weekend, with doctors predicting recovery within one or two months and no government changes expected.
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Saigon
Lon Nol
Cambodia
U.S. Army
Honolulu
Phnom Penh
U.S
Washington
Walter Reed Hospital
Sisowatch Sirik Matak
Am Rong
Sirik Matak
Susan Atkins testimony details Tate killing and LSD influence
Susan Atkins testifies in court that Charles Manson followers who killed Sharon Tate and six others were high on LSD. She describes victims as unreal, says the killings seemed like a good idea at the time, and notes she regrets revealing events to jailmates.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Susan Atkins
Tate
IBM
Jay Sebring
Charles Mansett
Miss Tate
Malibu
Vincent Bugliosi
Heart Fund Drive For Laddonia Set
Hays said volunteers will canvass Laddonia for contributions calling at each home between now and February 21. Mrs. Hays urged residents to watch for canvassers as the town mounts a heart fund drive.
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Laddonia
Laddoni Hays
Personal Scout News From Vandalia Camp Thunderbird 1972
Tuesday night reports detail Camp Thunderbird for 1972 including tenderfoot to life badges awarded by Robert Dunn to David Howdeshell David Marshall Elwin Maiden and Chris Schuessler. Dances Indian Devil and Pipe dances featured with a long list of attendees and church visits. MR and Mrs Clyde Hook hosted a birthday dinner for Mrs Arthur James. Afternoons list numerous visiting families and Fayetteville Ark trip. Van-Far menus for Feb 15 week listed with meals.
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Trower
Robert Dunn
David Howdeshell
David Marshall
Elwin Maiden
Chris Schuessler
Mark Hribar
Boyce Branstetter
John Allen
Stuart Smith
Charles Stroker
Ricky Atkinson
Don Trower
Junior Charlton
Mike Lemasters
Ken Callanan
First Baptist Church
Eddie Babb
Steve Cox
Melvin Dempsey
Eddie Marshall
Mike Deppe
Roger McCollum
Greg McCollum
Scott Sutton
Don Cordry
David Cordry
Virgil Girard
Donnie Holt
Glynn Babb
Martha
Bill Lemasters
Donald Trower
Sharon
Clyde Hook
Arthur James
Mr. James
Richa David
Merle Lee
LuAnn
Nancy
Manuel Thurman Kenny
Julia
Edgar Lee Hook
St. Charles
Van-Far
Washington
Turkey
Apollo 14 astronauts begin two weeks of isolation
Apollo 14 crew Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa return to Houston after splashdown and a 14 hour flight from American Samoa. They enter quarantine in a Lunar Receiving Laboratory trailer with 12 staff to monitor medical and housekeeping tasks until February 26.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Shepard
Houston
Roosa
New Orleans
Pacific Ocean
Samoa
Pago Pago
Moon rocks arrive for quarantine study at Mexico MO
Scientists open the first box of lunar samples collected by Shepard and Mitchell from Fra Mauro highlands. About 10 pounds of rocks are placed in a dry nitrogen cabinet after sterilization. The crew and boxes were quarantined to prevent germ spread, with most samples to follow aboard the quarantine trailer and New Orleans shipment.
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Moon
Shepard
Mitchell
Fra Mauto Highlands
New Orleans
Liquor Agent Collapses, Dies in Missouri
Thomas J. Greer aged 54 from Fredericktown, a state liquor control agent, collapsed and died while aiding Missouri Highway Patrolman Kenneth Lancaster in a prowler investigation near Bloomington. Lancaster tried mouth to mouth resuscitation. the prowler was later apprehended.
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Bloomfield, Mo
Thomas J. Greer
Fredericktown
Greer
Kenneth Lancaster
Bloomington
Lancaster
Highway Patrol
Prowler
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Man
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Froma
Berkeley
Calif
William Eller
University of California
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Vandalia
Ralph Talbert
Ron Talbert
Vickie
Cheryl
Phillip
Fayetteville, Ark
Keith
Springfield
Arkansas
Apollo
Mexico
Fes
F.C.E. Club
Musigby
Nolan Boone
East
Suneral Home
Order OF the Golden Rue
Don Greening
Nu-Way Lumber Co
6Th & Walnut St
Maverick
Torino
Toring
Carroll Motor CO. Inc
Liberty Mexico, Mo
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