Major League Baseball Players Strike Opens 1972 Season Risk
The MLB Players Association authorized a strike in Dallas after a 47 to 0 vote with one abstention. The action suspended the start of the 1972 season and affected 12 exhibition games as Marvin Miller called for resolution on a pension dispute.
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New York
Major League Baseball Players Association
Dallas
Association
Miller
Denny McLain
Detroit
Oakland Athletics
Sports Fans of America
Baseball
Bowie Kuhn
Easter Pilgrims Fill Jerusalem and Global Church Services
Easter pilgrims flood Jerusalem for sunrise blessing at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre led by Patriarch James Joseph Bertritti. Across the world Christians attend elaborate services, visit families, and mark holidays amid traffic and crowds.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Christ
James
Joseph Bertritti
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Rome
Pope Paul VI
St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican
St. Peter’s Square
Desperate B52 Crew Fails to Reach Base in Orlando Crash
A burning B52 bomber crashed near McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando. Seven crew members were killed and eight civilians injured as the eight-jet aircraft plunged into the Silver Beach area about a quarter mile from the runway. Fourteen names and roles of the crew are listed along with witness accounts of the final moments and a fireball crater.
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Orlando
Fla
Air Force
Silver Beach
McCoy Air Force Base
Russel E. Dougherty
2Nd Air Force
McCoy
Wendell W. Campbell
Washington, D.C
Dougherty
America
McCoy Base
Tom Smith
Massive North Vietnamese Drive Into Quang Tri Province
In a major push, three North Vietnamese divisions with SAMs crossed the DMZ into South Vietnam targeting Quang Tri. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam reported heavy fighting with South Vietnamese infantry, marines and armored cavalry in several bloody battles. Bases fell back or came under attack as U.S. forces staged air and naval support. Kontum City near the provincial capital also saw fighting as the coast of a broader offensive emerged.
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Lam
Saigon
Quang Tri
da Nang
Quang Tri Province
Kontum City
Button Up For Easter
Middletown and surrounding areas will see chilly Easter weather with morning lows near 30 and a high around 40. Skies remain cloudy though rain chances are limited at about 20 percent tonight and tomorrow with a chance of snow in northern Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky share similar conditions and overnight lows in the 30s.
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Middletown
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio to lead first nationwide study of U.S. education governance
Ohio Superintendent Martin W. Essex announces a 30 month national study financed by a 370000 dollar federal grant. The project will examine how state county and local governments govern education and may develop new governance models with advisory help from Georgia and New York officials.
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America
Ohio
Martin W. Essex
Essex
Ohio State University
Richmond
Detroit
Jack Nix
Georgia
Ewald Nyquist
New York State
April Weather Weaves Chaos Over Tampa and East Coast
April brought storms and unusual cold with tornadoes in central Florida. Tampa Bay area reports about 350 homeless after twisters demolished 75 homes and mobile homes across several communities. Heavy rain soaked Miami while the Eastern Seaboard endured fog and clouds from Maine to Florida.
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Associated Press
Maine
Florida
Maryland
Miami
Tampa Bay
Twisters
Midwest
Minnesota
Missouri
Indiana
Washington
Oregon
Boyle Convicted in Federal Case Over Union Funds
United Mine Workers president W A Boyle was found guilty on 13 counts of using union funds for unlawful campaigns. Co defendants John Owens and James Kmetz were acquitted. Sentencing could bring prison, fines, and a lifetime ban from union office.
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United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony” Boyle
U.S. District Court
Boyle
John Owens
James Kmetz
Chaplain Acquitted Of Misconduct Charges
Cmdr. Andrew F. Jensen the first Navy chaplain tried by general court martial was acquitted of adultery charges after two women wives of Navy officers testified they had sexual intercourse with him on 21 occasions Jensen 43 father of two testified to denying all counts The case could have ended his 16 year Navy career
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Lington
Charles Garland
Charles
Garland
Anthony Ellington
Anthony
Tina Ellington
Smith
Donald Sparr
Jacksonville, Fla
Andrew F. Jensen
Jensen
Mary Ann Curran
Lora Gudbranson
Navy
X rated fortune cookies leap from tradition in San Francisco
In San Francisco the fortune cookie business shifts to adult cookies with risqué humor. Lotus Fortune Cookie boss Ed Louie explains the new line aims to amuse, not offend, drawing on 25 years in the trade and a family legacy.
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San Francisco
Ed Louie
Lotus Fortune Cookie Factory
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Marvin Miller
Vietnam
Irish Republican Army
Sinn Fein
Republic of Ireland
Ireland
Eammon de Valera
Dublin
West
Brooke
Nancy Robertson
Robin
Danny
Laura
Eric Reeves
Sparr
Robertsons
Robertson House
Orange County
Fukuay-Varina
N.C
Allen H. Murray
Philadelphia
George M. Gamache
Somerset
Mass
Columbus, Ohio
Tampa
Tony Boyle
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