Secret War Exposed Laos Involvement Grows Wariness
AP examines expanding U S involvement in Laos amid denials by administrations from Nixon to present. disclosures include Thai and Cambodian troops paid by U S funds, CIA led operations with Meo tribes, and rising bombing costs linked to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The piece traces Geneva accords, shifting policy, and evolving public statements about combat forces.
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Donald M. Rothberg
Associated Press
Washington
Laos
U.S
China
Vietnam
Cambodia
Thailand
Burma
United States
Nixon
Saigon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pentagon
Congress
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Bolovens
CIA
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
State Department
Agency For International Development
Air America
Continental Air Services International
John F. Kennedy
Southeast Asia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Aos
Eisenhower
Boun Ovum
Boun Oum
Pathet Lao
Kennedy
Souvanna Phouma
Geneva
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Roger Hillsman
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Montana
South Vietnam
Trail
Souvanna
Ho Chi Minh ‘Trail
National Security Council
Blight spreads through Southern corn fields in Audram County
University of Missouri extension agent Dale Schnarre reports rapid corn blight spread across Audram County. He notes the most infected fields are dryland corn, urges daily monitoring, and offers guidance on timing spray treatments. Fungicides such as diathene M45 manzate 200 and citcop 4B may slow new infections. cost is about 3.50 per acre and protection lasts about a week. Field decisions must be made per individual farm conditions.
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Audram
Dale Schwarre
University of Missouri Extension Service
Schnarre
Steel Strike Set With Walkout Backed by 93 Percent
Washington AP reports with two days left before the deadline the United Steelworkers Union announces 93 percent approval for a strike. No offer had been made by Wednesday though talks continued, with nine major firms and about 350,000 workers in steel manufacturing facing the midnight Saturday cutoff.
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Washington
United Steelworkers Union
Inquest Finds Negligence in Truck Crash Death
A coroner's jury in Audrain County finds negligence by a Moberly truck driver caused a New Year’s Day head on collision on Highway 54 South that killed Walter Calvin Gerard, 55, of Orange, California. Lab tests showed no drugs or alcohol. frost on the road and wrong side position were noted. The other driver was treated and released from hospital.
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Audrain County
Connie Pickering
Pickering
Highway 54
California
Moberly
Missouri Highway Patrol Laboratory
Walter Calvin Gerard
Orange
Calif
D.C
L.K. Blakey
Orachem
Community Memorial Hospital
Dennis R. Herndon
Blakey
Gerard
L.K
Howard Beckley
Foreman
Jerry Kalkofen
Robert Kalkofen
C.R. Stevens
James R
Pap) Young
Charles Young
Stanley L Peters Dies After Prolonged Illness
Stanley L Peters 71 of 2107 Fairground Ave died at 4 p m Wednesday after a long illness He worked 33 years as a dry press mechanic at A P Green Refractories Co and retired in August 1965 without a work day missed He managed the A P Green softball team survived by wife Abbay Neely son Sandey Peters daughters Mia William Davenport Jayne Peters four grandchildren two brothers and two sisters Funeral at 2 am Friday at Arnold ras home with Rev Tey officiating Elmwood Cemetery burial family to receive friends after 7 pm tonight at the funeral home
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Stanley L. Peters
Fairground Ave
Mr. Peters
A.P. Green Refractories Co
Green Company
A.P. Green
Mexico Area
Callaway County
Horace
Elizabeth Hansen Peters
Peters
Abbay Neely
Sandey P
Jack) Peters
Glendale
Calif
Mia
William L
Ann) Davenport
Atlanta
US Again Proposes General Cease-Fire
Paris reports Bruce calling for immediate negotiations on a general inductInternationally controlled cease-fire in Indochina during the final weekly session of the Vietnam peace talks. The plan has been rejected by Communist negotiators for two years. Bruce retires Sunday and will be replaced by Porter. Habib will lead temporarily. The Viet Cong accuse Saigon elections of rigging under the American Embassy.
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Paris
David K. E. Bruce
U.S
Vietnam
Indochina
Bruce
William J. Porter
South Korea
Philip C. Habib
Porter
Xuan Thuy
Viet Cong
South Vietnam
Saigon
Nguyen Thi Binh
David K.E. Bruce
Philip Habib
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge. Neither Mrs. Binh
US Halts Spy Flights Over China Ahead of Nixon Visit
US officials tell The New York Times that all manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights over China are suspended to avoid any incident that could disrupt President Nixon’s planned trip to Peking. The move echoes the 1960 summit collapse after a U2 shootdown. Informants say political motives outweigh intelligence gains.
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New York
United States
China
Nixon
Peking
New York Times
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Francis Gary Powers
the Times
Apollo 15 Near Moon With New Engine Ignition Method
Apollo 15 astronauts led by a newly qualified space plumber completed a one second course change at 11 04 am EDT to align for lunar orbit. The craft was 14 204 miles from the moon and traveling 2 401 miles per hour as it readied a precise burn.
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Scott
Moon
New firing procedure aids Apollo 15 engine ignition
Astronauts Scott James B Irwin and Alfred Worden launch from Cape Kennedy on a moon mission. Richard Gordon, backup crew commander, devised a computer aided firing method to bypass a short circuit in the engine system. First test planned at 4 05 p m EDT as Apollo 15 orbits the moon 70 miles above the surface.
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Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Cape Kennedy
Richard Gordon
Moon
Endea
Mission Control
Gordon
Orbit
Falcon
Ice Capades
Peggy Fleming
Apollo 15 traverses twilight zone as moon mission nears Apennines
NASA reports Apollo 15 passing the gravity equal zone near 219,308 miles from Earth and 39,028 miles from the Moon as speed shifts from 2,001 to about 5,700 mph. Scott and Irwin inspect Falcon, prepare for moon landing at the Moon’s tallest Apennines.
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Apollo 15
Scott
Irwin
Falcon
Moon
Apennines
Hadley Rille
Handy Dandy Instructor Helps Plumber In Space
Apollo 15 mission results in a space era plumbing fix as commander David Scott tightens a chlorine injector outlet. Ground control, including capsule communicator Karl Heinze, guides the maneuver with a special procedure drafted by Chita Perner of the prelaunch crew Today's Smile.
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Mission Control
Heinze
Scott
Carl
Houston
Henize
Scottid
Chet
O.K
Chita Perner
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Stephanie
Kim
Ina
Steelman
Kaiser Refractories Co
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Route 1
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