Seven Americans Die In Enemy Attack Near Kontum
North Vietnamese shells struck a U.S. Air Force transport at Kontum airfield killing seven Americans aboard and wounding two. The attack also hit Pleiku’s ammunition dump and shut the Da Nang Hue highway. U.S. bombers pummeled North Vietnamese concentrations near Kontum as fighting raged west of Hue.
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Saigon
Kontum
Pleiku
da Nang
Hue
Bastogne
U.S. Command
Rakkasan
Helen
U.S. Air Force
Kontun
Highlands
US Rejects Congs Demand For Talks
Paris AP reports the United States and South Vietnam rejected the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese demand for a Thursday peace talks session. The two allies said battlefield actions and Paris rhetoric show no serious interest in substantive negotiation and warned against an empty plenary meeting.
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Paris
United States
South Vietnam
Schooling Sees Hopeful Signs at Missouri Commencement
Columbia Missouri AP Herbert W Schooling chancellor of the University of Missouri ColUmia speaks to about 4000 graduates at commencement. He notes budgets are tight and federal funding is elusive but cites a large reservoir of goodwill and the university’s vital role in the state’s economic and social well being amid shifting public concerns.
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Columbia, Mo
Herbert W. Schooling
University of Missouri-Columia
Schooling
Wallace wins Michigan and Maryland primaries amid campaign revival
Governor George Wallace scores 51 percent in Michigan and 40 percent in Maryland as he expands the northern reach of his pistol in Wallace campaign. McGovern and Humphrey divide second and third in Michigan and Maryland with 27 and 16 percent respectively. Wallace's doctors report possible but limited improvement after his Laurel gunshot wound, while Connally resigns as Treasury secretary and Shultz named as replacement. Bonn ratifies Brandt nonaggression pacts with the Soviet Union and Poland ahead of Nixon summit.
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George C. Wallace
Michigan
Maryland
Wallace
George McGovern
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
McGovern
Silver Spring
George Wallace
Alabama
Laurel
South
Tax Study Committee Formed in Missouri Senate
Missouri Senate names members of interim study groups including a panel to investigate the future of the property tax as a basis for school funding. The issue faces multiple lawsuits over constitutionality and unequal district funding. Members include Sens. Jack Gant Omer H Avery Norman L Merrell Maurice Schechter and Don Owens.
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Jefferson City
Senate
Missouri
California Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Texas
J. F. Patterson
D-Caruthersville
House
James E. Godfrey
D-St. Louis
Jack Gant
D-Independence
Omer H. Avery
D-Troy
Norman L. Merrell
D-Monticello
Maurice Schechter
D-Crewe Coeur
Don Owens
R-Gerald
Nixon At Camp David Ahead Of Summit Meeting
Nixon has retired to his Camp David retreat at THURMONT Maryland as he awaits the weekend summit with Soviet leaders. There was no word on when he would return to Washington.
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Nixon
Camp Thurmont
Camp David
Washington
Connally Agnew Guesses Grow For 1972 Ticket
Washington AP President Nixon praises Connally as a key economic leader while Connally, resigning after 18 months as Treasury secretary, says he has no political ambitions. Agnew questions whether he would want the No 2 spot again, suggesting a complex split over who best appeals to voters. Nixon notes Connally’s influence in Texas and in policy as he hints at a broader advisory role.
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Washington
John B. Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
Nixon
Connally
Treasury
Shhultz
John J
Spiro T. Agnew
Texas
Agnew
University of Maine
Texan
Comnally
White House
Nellie
Brandt Wins Close Vote On Treaties
In Bonn Germany Chancellor Willy Brandt saw the lower house approve two Soviet Union and Poland treaties by 248 to 0 with no abstentions. The threshold to override upper house objections was 249 votes. If the upper house blocks, a new lower house vote with 249 votes would be required. The fate rests on the Bundesrat's stance this Friday.
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Bonn
Germany
Bundestag
Willy Brandt
Soviet Union
Poland
Nixon
Moscow
Brandt
Warsaw
Europe
Christian Democrats
Bundesrat
New Head Of Presbyterians Seeks Action On Social Issues
C Willard Heckel, a 69 year old constitutional lawyer and longtime Rutgers law professor, was elected the new moderator of the United Presbyterian Church. He pledges active engagement beyond church walls and criticized U S involvement in Vietnam as illegal and immoral while supporting a grant for Angela Davis.
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Denver
United Presbyterian Church
C. Willard Heckel
Angela Davis
Vietnam
Heckel
Rutgers University Law School
Lois Stair
Waukesha
Wis
Wom
Feckel elected church head after first ballot amid grant debate
Feckel won a majority on the first ballot as a four way race triggered questions over the church grant to the defense of Miss Davis, an avowed Communist on trial for a California courthouse shootout that killed four. He stated on spot inquiries, while Carroll and Brown criticized the grant and Jones defended it amid ongoing church tensions.
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Feckel
Miss Davis
California
Heckel
James R. Carroll
Amarillo
Tex
Frank L. Brown
Casper
Wyo
James E. Jones
Los Angeles
Symington seeks federal meeting on St. Louis airport
Senator Stuart Symington D Missouri asked Transportation Secretary Volpe to meet with the Missouri St. Louis Airport Authority to press for a new St. Louis airport location in Missouri. He criticized FAA Administrator John Shaffer for bias toward the Waterloo Illinois site and skirted Shaffer by addressing Volpe directly.
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ST. Louis
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Transportation
John Valpe
Missouri- St. Louis
Symington
Missouri
Illinois
A. J. Cervantes
Wilncis
Richard B. Ogilvie
Volpe
John Shaffer
Federal Aviation Administrator
Shaffer
Waterloo, Ill
Two Initiated In Home Ec Society At Missouri
Bonnie Shiverdecker of Vandalia and Ann Windsor of Montgomery City joined 50 other students in a new Omicron Nu chapter at the University of Missouri. Windsor, a junior, will serve as president.
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Bonnie Shiverdecker
Vandalia
Ann Windsor
Route 3
Montgomery City
Omicron Nu
University ‘of Missouri
Miss Windsor
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