Democrats Spar as Primary Near Tests Strength
Democratic candidates trading barbs as the first state primary approaches. Yorty accuses rivals of image building and speechwriters. McGovern accuses Lindsay of publicity stunts while Humphrey defends stance on Wallace. Muskie pitches space priorities and health care proposals amid campaign stops. Hoffa endorses Kennedy as the strongest Democrat to beat Nixon.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Sam Yorty
George McGovern
John V. Lindsay
Hubert H. Humphrey
George C. Wallace
Humphrey
Minnesota
Robert. Yorty
Chicago
Sen
Edmund. Muskie
Los Angeles
McGovern
Lindsay
New York
Cocoa
Fla
Wallace
Cape Kennedy
Centralia sets April 11 election date and voting law changes
Centralia city election is formally called for April 11 as council aligns local law with state rules lowering voting age to 18 and extending polling hours 6 am to 7 pm. Filing deadline March 15 for three council seats. terms of Galloway Bugg and Oliver expire. Council approves ordinance codification contract around 5000 dollars and reviews sewer-expansion report.
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Centralia
Ronald Galloway
Victor
Rusty) Bugg
Kenny Oliver
Howard Burton
Bill Crockett
Columbia
James Earl Ray Escapes Again From Brushy Mountain Prison
PETROL Tennessee AP reports James Earl Ray made a second escape attempt at Brushy Mountain Prison. Officials say he was found Feb 5 near the ceiling area of the gymnasium, suspected of cutting an opening. Ray awaits disciplinary action while serving 99 years for the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination.
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James Earl Ray
Brushy Mountain
Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Mark Luttrell
Nashville
Memphis
Cuba man gets five years for possession of dynamite
Gerald Hultgren, 28, of Cuba Missouri, was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of two sticks of dynamite with electric caps and ten incendiary bombs. He was arrested earlier in Crawford County by sheriff's deputies and the Missouri Highway Patrol before his guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge James H Meredith.
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ST. Louis
Cuba
Gerald Hultgren
U.S. District Court
James H. Meredith
Hultgren
Crawford County
Sheriff's Deputies
Missouri Highway Patrol
Archie Is Uncle To Black Girl
HOLLYWOOD AP Carrol O Connor the actor who plays Archie Bunker on All in the Family introduces a 19 year old black girl as his niece Richelle Williams known as Ricky has lived with the O Connors and is now a stand in and bit player in Blacula while her father and mother are longtime friends of O Connor and his wife.
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Hollywood
Carroll O'Connor
Archie Bunker
Richelle
O’connor
Ricky
Carroll
New Jersey
O’connors
Howard University
Expedition South Pole travelogue at Presser Hall
Kiwanis Club presents Expedition South Pole a travel and adventure program at 7 30 p m in Presser Hall Tickets available at the door Albert G Kerlof formerly of Belgium and Paris and now a U S resident since 1960 narrates a film on Antarctic scientific development noting only five percent of the continent explored and multinational cooperative research efforts
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Kiwanis Club
Presser Hall
Albert G. Kerlof
Belgium
Paris
United States
Antarctica
Ettie Crist Celebrates 110th Birthday in Oakland
Ettie Crist, an Oakland woman who loves baseball and bourbon, toasted family and friends on what she marked as her 110th birthday. The AP report notes her long life tied to fond memories of baseball seasons and daily bourbon.
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Oakland
Calif
Ettie Crist
Laird speeds up U S submarine missile program in wake of nuclear growth
Washington reports Secretary Laird says Soviet nuclear power is rising faster than expected and announces a faster U S submarine missile program. He also predicts draft calls will be substantially lower than last year, which hit a ten year low. He adds the new pace is meant to meet a growing strategic challenge.
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Washington
Fense
Melvin Laird
Soviet Union
Laird
U.S
Air Armada Resumes Operations After Tet Pause
Air activity in South Vietnam surged as B52s from Guam joined the campaign against a major Communist offensive. The U S Command reported 251 strikes in the 12 hours before the Tet cease fire, with raids focusing on staging areas and infiltration routes near the Laotian border and A Shau valley.
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Saigon
United States
Guam
Campagin
Indochina
South Vietnam
Pacific
U.S
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
A Shau
Nixon
China
Junkers
Nixon to Gift Muskox to China from Alberta Farm
Al Oeming, owner of an Alberta tame farm, says a pair of muskox will be sent to China by President Nixon as a gift from the American people. The muskox, from the San Francisco Zoo, descend from a pair traded to the zoo for giraffes about five years ago. Oeming joined the effort after an inquiry from Dr. Theodore Reed, director of the National Zoo in Washington, who was asked by Nixon to suggest an animal.
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Edmonton
Alta
al Oeming
Alberta
China
Nixon
Oeming
San Francisco Zoo
Theodore Reed
National Zoo
Washington
Popcorn Wagon Gets To Stay In San Francisco
The Board of Permit Appeals waived a $7 500 permit fee for Chrag Mohammed the last peanut and popcorn wagon operator in San Francisco allowing him to continue street vending begun in 1910. He plans to keep operating despite the change in mobile catering laws. In Belfast gunmen set off two bombs near Royal Avenue causing a major fire and widespread damage but no injuries. Relatives of 13 men killed at Bloody Sunday urged an international inquiry criticizing the Widgery report. Northern Ireland saw a quieter night after bombing near Armagh border with the army reporting no injuries.
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San Francisco
Board of Permit Appeals
Chrag Mohammed
Mohammed
Board of Supervisors
Belfast
Royal Avenue
Londonderry
Britain
Lord Widgery
England
Northern Ireland
County Armagh
Irish Republic
Heath Again In Emergency Talks On UK Coal Strike
Britain faces potential nationwide blackout as coal miners’ strike nears six weeks. Prime Minister Heath ends American trip to press talks with Trades Union Congress leader Victor Feather, seeking to avert economic disaster amid mass layoffs and power cuts. Parliament backs government stance as stock markets tumble and industries trim to a three day week.
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London
Edward Heath
Britain
Victor Feather
Trades Union Congress
Heath
Feather
Trade and Industry
John Davies
House of Commons
Davies
Labor Party
Commons
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Jay
Duncan Hines
Avs
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Spin Blend
Oscar Mayer
Florida
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Busch Bavarian
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