106 More POWs To Be Freed In Weekend Release
AP reported North Vietnam handed the U S delegation a list of 106 U S prisoners and two Thai prisoners to be freed over the weekend. Viet Cong would release 26 military personnel and 4 civilians. The U S planned public release after next of kin notification. Washington notified Hanoi of the list.
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Saigon
United States
Butt
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Bui Tin
Washington
North
Laos
Hanoi
Nixon
William P. Rogers
Vietnam
Rogers
Nguyen Duy Trinh
Trinh
da Nang
Nha Trang
Bien Hoa
Can Tho
Mekong
Judge jails leader and fines teachers in strike
A Circuit Court judge jailed Jerry B. Abernathy for 60 days and fined the St. Louis Teachers Union $140,000 for four days of the 28 day strike, with execution delayed pending a March 22 hearing. Abernathy and the union faced civil contempt fines exceeding $500,000 overall.
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ST. Louis
Thomas F. McGuire
Jerry B. Abernathy
St. Louis Teachers Union
Abernathy
McGuire
Teachers Association
Association
Tragic Harvestore Accident Claims Paul Friedberg
Paul Wade Friedberg 20, a Mexico High School athlete and Central Missouri State University student, died in a silo accident while on a service call for Eastern Missouri Harvestore Inc. at the Beshears farm near Frankford, Pike County. Coroner J O Mudd ruled it an accident after Friedberg's arm was pulled into a grain augur as he and a coworker attempted to feed shelled corn. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church, with burial at East Lawn Memorial Park.
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Paul Wade Friedberg
Mexico High School
Eastern Missouri Harvestore Inc
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg
Harvestore
Francis Beshears
Frankford
Pike County
J. O. Mudd
Nicholas J. Friedberg
E. Anderson
Friedberg
Harvestore Company
Paul Friedberg
MHS
John Cline
Commerce Bank
Paul
Exeo
First Baptist Church
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Spokane
Wash
Nicholas
Cora E. McCasland Friedberg
Susan Friedberg
Mary Friedberg
Dwayne McDar
Gerald Wayne Beshears
Beshears
Friedberg Boy
County Zoning Doesn't Affect Farm Land in Missouri
University of Missouri planner Robert Simons told Vandalia residents that county zoning outside incorporated areas would not affect 95 percent of land used for agriculture. He outlined the voting on April 24 and explained how zoning could regulate housing and industry nearby, with a county plan to cover agriculture, parks, residential areas, and commercial centers. Four more informational meetings were scheduled in nearby towns.
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Robert Simons
University of Missouri, Columbia
Vandalia
Audrain Betterment Association
Simons
Simon
Boone County
Audrain
Commission
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Paul Lutz
University
Extension Division
L.E. Kohl
ABA
Don Schutte
Courthouse
Mexico
Scott’s Corner
Centralia
Nixon Defends Welfare Changes
President Nixon defended his welfare reforms in a congressional message. He warned that the reform program will reduce waste and focus on effective initiatives, while abandoning broad welfare reform due to limited legislative prospects. He backed strengthening aid to families with dependent children and outlined plans for health insurance, education funding, tribal empowerment, and a tax credit for nonpublic school tuition.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Office of Economic Opportunity
Shotgun blasts wound father and son in family quarrel
Raymond Mackey, 53, was shot in the leg and left upper chest and arm during a dispute at the Mackey home near Mexico yesterday evening. His son William Mackey, 24, is held in the county jail as investigators review the case.
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Raymond Mackey
Audrain Medical Center
Boone County Hospital
Jim Littrell
Mackey
William Mackey
1D Marine Drive
Old
Union School
Mexico
Littrell
Arnold
Oil promoter claims God partner and warns of quakes
Oklahoma City promoter Alan Hammer says he partners with God to reveal oil and gas where rocks jump in Elk City area. He threatened “earthquakes” and world end if submittals are not mailed. Scientists note large boulders may be gas-pocket related amid heavy regional oil and gas activity.
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Oklahoma City
Elk City
Oklahoma
Alan Hammer
God Almighty
Hammer
William G. Fisher
Owahorma Securities Commissioner
God
Fisher
Senators Abourezk and McGovern head to Wounded Knee siege
South Dakota's two senators fly to Wounded Knee to try to end a two day hostage crisis as AIM demands a Senate probe into the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Negotiations aim to free captives ages 12 to 82 while federal forces guard the town.
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Wounded Knee
South Dakota
James Abourezk
George McGovern
Pine Ridge
Abourezk
Senate
Bureau of Indian Affairs
FBI
Washington
McGovern
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Kennedy
Fulbright
American Indian Movement
BIA
Unions' Strike-A-Day Campaign Hits At British Hospitals
London AP reports British unions widen wage dispute with a strike a day affecting hospitals. Nonmedical staff from porters to cleaners walk out at over 200 of 2250 hospitals, forcing many to limit care while emergency services continue.
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London
Britain
Merseyside
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Wis
Record-Herald
OEO
Joseph Trimbach
Minneapolis
AIM
Custer
Rapid City
S.D
Ford Auto
Heath
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