Nations Seek Sea Law Pact At UN Conference
About 5000 delegates from most nations attend the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in Caracas. They discuss a universal 12 mile territorial limit and a plan for adjacent areas with resource control while ensuring free passage through straits. The United States and Soviet Union back guarantees of navigation.
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Venezuela
H.S. Amerasinghe
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
North Vietnam
Vienna
United States
Soviet Union
Cloud spoils eclipse science near Perth Walpole site
In Perth Australia AP reports a thick cloud ruined a year's work by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization scientists preparing for a total solar eclipse at Walpole. Minutes before totality the cloud obscured the sun, dashing hopes as observers faced despondence though a distant hill enjoyed sunlight three miles away.
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Perth
Australia
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
Walpole
Republicans Take First Row On Ballots In Missouri Race
Missouri voters will see Republicans on the first row of ballots for the next four years after Gov. Bond’s 195,000 vote victory over Democrat Dowd. Party control of the left-hand column follows the governor’s win, last seen in 1942 and 1944 with Forrest Donnell’s earlier governorship.
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Christopher S. Bond
Edward Dowd
Forrest C. Donnell
GOP
U.S. Senate
St. Louis Strikers Reject Settlement
Mayor Poelker to outline strategy as city aldermen meet about striking workers who rejected a proposed pay raise. Trash and water workers from Teamsters Local 610 and NFWW Local 675 walked off June 12 and demand more than the offered 29.03 or scale step, plus written sick leave and vacation assurances. Supervisors run the water works during the walkout.
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ST. Louis
John Poelker
Teamsters Local 610
National Federation of Water Workers
Glen G. Boyer
Local 610
Boyer
Tornado survivor in Ankeny recalls three blows
Herman Nagel survived three tornadoes that devastated his Des Moines suburb home and damaged the town. Two residents died and ten were hurt as cleanup and utilities restoration continued. Nagel says he senses premonitions before funnel clouds and reflects on the first strike in Fargo.
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Iowa
Herman Nagel
Nagel
Des Moines
Joy
N.D
Nagels
US military team to visit Egypt for insights on October war
A small U S team of fewer than six senior officers will visit Egypt to learn from Egyptian perspectives on the October war. Officials deny plans to survey Egypt's weapons needs for possible arms sales, though Egypt may suggest weapons they would like to obtain. The move follows a thaw with Egypt and reopens the broader arms and military rapport landscape amid evolving U S Egyptian ties and Russian supplier role.
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U.S
Egypt
Pentagon
Cairo
James R. Schlesinger
United States
Schlesinger
Russia
Henry A. Kissinger
Army
Sinai
Arms items and Soviet advisers tied to Middle East
A June 20 1974 report states gear captured from Arabs by Israelis was flown to the United States for close inspection yielding valuable details on Soviet antiaircraft missiles antitank weapons and other arms. US officials note 800 to 1000 Soviet advisers technicians and other personnel remain in Egypt despite Russia withholding new military supplies.
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U.S
Russia
Egypt
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