Nixon to tour Asia and cross Iron Curtain frontier
President Nixon plans a round the world trip leaving July 23 and returning August 3 to watch Apollo 11 splashdown. He will cross the Iron Curtain into Romania in early August and visit five Asian nations Manila Jakarta Bangkok New Delhi Lahore while Rogers joins him to Japan Korea Taiwan Australia and New Zealand.
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Romania
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White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway
Montreal
Canada
Ziegler
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Florida
Neil Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin Aldrin
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Philippines
Jakarta
Indonesia
Bangkok
Thailand
New Delhi
India
Lahore
Pakistan
Indonesa
William P Rogers
Rogers
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Aus
Tralia
New Zealand
Nikolai Ceausescu
Romanian State Council
Monkey Set For Long Spaceflight Off Cape Kennedy
A pigtail monkey named Benny is strapped into a Delta rocket for a 30 day 250 mile high orbit from Cape Kennedy. The mission aims to collect medical data exceeding all prior U S manned flights and guide future long term space missions. Benny is described as alert and happy.
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Fla
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U.S
Benny
Thailand
Trumans Observe 56th Wedding Anniversary Quietly
Former President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Truman marked their 56th wedding anniversary at their Independence home. The couple kept celebrations small due to Truman’s health, with private visits from a few friends and relatives possible. They married in 1919 after meeting as children, and their daughter Margaret later wed Clifton Daniel.
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Harry S. Truman
Truman
Trumans
Trinity Episcopal Church
Margaret
Clifton Daniel
U.S
Kansas City
Hot and sunny stretch expected with isolated thunder chances
The forecast calls for continued heat with a high near 87 degrees. Tonight may cool to the mid 70s under partly cloudy skies with a chance of thunderstorms overnight and tomorrow.
Saigon Units Push to Clear Route to Ben Het Camp
Government infantry moved to open Route 579 into the besieged Ben Het Special Forces camp as heavy shelling continued for the 56th day. About 1,500 South Vietnamese soldiers arrived from Ban Me Thuot to relieve Dak To and push toward Ben Het, while US and South Vietnamese airpower intensified strikes and supply drops amid sporadic ground contact.
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Troop-Cut Talk Edges Toward Vietnam Clash
In Saigon President Nixon faces a likely clash with his Vietnam command team over the pace of American troop withdrawals before year’s end. Rankers at the U S command and the new embassy of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker sense an edgy mood as Abrams directs U S forces amid the debated timetable.
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Creighton W. Abrams
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunk
Defense
Clark M Clifford
Clifford
Paris
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Train Derailment Kills Priest. 80 Plus Hurt in Maryland
A 12 car Penn Central Silver Star derailed near Glend a le Md after tracks buckled at a crossing. One man, Rev. Annunzio Crescenti 55 of Montclair NJ, died likely of a heart attack. Over 80 injured were hospitalized as rescuers freed victims from overturned cars.
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Washington
Annunzio G. Ctessenti
Mount Carmel Catholic Church
Montclair
Father Crescenti
del Malkie
Prince Georges County
Malkie
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Maryland
Penn Central
Malke
Washington Area
Argentina marks third anniversary as protests loom during Rockefeller visit
In Buenos Aires police roved the capital to head off student and labor protests as Argentina’s military government marked its third anniversary. Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York governor and Nixon aide, began a Latin America fact finding tour with a stop in Argentina before planned visits to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guyana and Barbados.
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Argentina
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
New York
Latin America
Nixon
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Guyana
Barbados
Henry Miller and the new freedom examined
A newspaper feature notes Henry Miller as a progenitor of explicit modern fiction and discusses Marvin Miller in pornography. It contrasts Prince Charles’s upbringing amid royal expectations and notes readers’ interest in a four part series on Truth-In-Lending Act. A Buenos Aires protest scene turns deadly with the death of Emilio Jauregui and a wounded officer.
Drunk Passenger Hijacks Eastern Airlines Jet to Cuba
An intoxicated man with a knife hijacked an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 104 people fromBaltimore to Miami off Daytona Beach, landing in Miami after four and a half hours. The hijacker stayed in Cuba while passengers described him as sloppily dressed and drunk. Captain John R. Brunning piloted the plane.
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Florida
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Susky
Harrisburg
N.J
Peace Corps
St. Thomas
Gus Halwardson
John R. Brunning
New York
Visitors Flock to Eisenhower Burial Site in Abilene
Abilene, Kansas sees daily crowds near 8 000 to 10 000 on weekends and 5 000 to 7 000 on weekdays as over 270 000 visitors pass the Eisenhower crypt since the funeral. Officials project about 325 000 by Independence Day weekend as traffic, lodging, and services strain the city.
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United States
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Eisenhower Center
John Wickman
Eisenhower Library and Center
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