Florida tourism defies recession with strong winter arrivals
Northerners and international visitors flood Florida as hotels report near full occupancy in Miami Beach and central Florida. Officials cite January traffic near 1973 records, with Canada Brazil and Argentina guests common while air fares rise and airlines trim service.
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Miami, Fla
Florida
Dean Gaiser
Florida Department of Tourism
Joe Hart
Miami Beach
St. Tropez
Miami
Brazil
Gaiser
Nixon Tapes For Ten Dollars Sparks Local Probe
Mail order ads claim readers can buy personal copies of the Nixon tapes for 10 dollars but San Clemente police say respondents receive a 30 minute tape of old Nixon speeches. Det Sgt Arden Saunders says the probe is for possible mail fraud after nationwide complaints
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San Clemente
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
Oval Office
Arden Saunders
Kissinger says Soviets to join Middle East peace efforts
Secretary of State Kissinger assured reporters at Heathrow that the Soviet Union will not be excluded from Middle East settlement efforts. He urged cooperation, noting peace requires Soviet involvement, as he met Shah Reza Pahlavi in Zurich amid security precautions.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
Middle East
Kissinger
Heathrow
London
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Iran
St. Moritz
Harold Wilson
Moscow
Dam in the Valley protests spark Kentucky farmers
In Stanton Kentucky 50 valley families protest a proposed 40 million dollar dam on the Red River Gorge. Residents fear displacement and loss of homesteads dating to the 1780s while supporters cite flood control and recreation gains. Villagers learn to organize, write letters, and feed visiting politicians as they oppose the project.
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Stanton, Ky
Red River
H.B. Farmer
Clay City
Farmer
Willis D. Gradison Jr
Cincinnati
Ohio
Elsie Garrett
Banned Butler book becomes local bestseller after school dispute
In Butler Pennsylvania the district bans Contemporary American Short Stories for sexual content drawing protests. The 140 copies are held in Superintendent Bourandas office as a committee weighs next steps after a 5-4 board reversal from destruction to withdrawal. Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal cited as explicit content.
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Butler, Pa
Butler Area
Pennsylvania
Dimitro Bourandas
Pittsburgh
Bourandas
Ralph Ellison
No cease-fire, Eritreans reject peace bid and push independence
ELF secretary-general Osman Saleh Sabbi announced in Beirut that the Eritrean Liberation Front rejects a cease-fire with the Ethiopian army and will soon declare Eritrean independence. He urged the United States to embargo arms to Ethiopia and said rebel commands are confident of winning on the battlefield while Asmara is planned as the declaration site.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Eritrean Liberation Front
Eritrea
Osman Saleh Sabbi
ELF Popular Liberaton
United States
Ethiopia
Sabbi
ELF
Asmara
Greek Cypriots charge Turks grant citizenship in new state
The Greek Cypriot government accuses the Turkish Cypriot state in the north of granting citizenship to about 40,000 Turkish invasion troops and their families. The charge was in a letter to the U.N. Security Council ahead of a meeting requested to address the proclamation.
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United Nations, N.Y
Cyprus
United Nations Security Council
Huang Hua
Chines
Council
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Ankara
Athens
New York
Turkey
Security Council
Makarios
Glafcos Clerides
Rauf Denktash
Vedat Celik
Nicosia
Utah Native Admiral Conder Promoted to Flag Rank
Admiral Navy Capt. Maxine Conder, a Utah native aged 48, is chosen for promotion to flag rank and will likely succeed Rear Adm. Alene Duerk as director of the Navy Nurse Corps next summer.
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Navy
Maxine Conder
Utah
Conder
Alene Duerk
Navy Nurse Corps
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Hal Cohen
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Fort Lauderdale
Charles Kynes
Florida State Employment Service
Mideast
Middletown
Anwar Sadat
Bassan Freiha
al Anwar
Cairo
Freiha
Sadat
Ashraf Marawan
Shah
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Ee Heloise
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New State
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