Viet Cong Frees 34 POWs Including Woman
At Clark Air Base Philippines the Viet Cong released 34 prisoners of war including a foreign woman. The group includes 27 American service members, 3 American civilians and 2 West German medical workers. Among the Americans are Capt. Stephen R. Leopold and Sgt. Frank E. Cius Jr. Also aboard were five ARVN RTN members captured in Hue. President Marcos welcomed the returnees with U.S. officials present.
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POWs Freed From Hanoi Reflect on Homecoming News
About 106 U S servicemen liberated from North Vietnam on the C141 StarLifter shared their wartime memories and hopes as crowds greeted them at Clark Field. They described reception, magazines, and questions about Nixon and peace accords.
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Chuckle Humor as a Holes Out of a Stuffed Shirt
A witty line notes humor as a hole that lets sawdust escape from a stiff figure. The quip uses a personified image to critique formality and lack of genuine ease in social settings.
Nixon seeks to cut seven urban programs and aid plan
President Nixon announces a 2.3 billion dollar plan for broad community development grants to states and localities while eliminating seven urban development programs and suspending four housing programs. He urges Congress to pass a no strings attached Communities Act and criticizes federal housing programs as creating a nationwide slumlord system.
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Peace talks in tepee at Wounded Knee today
Peace talks were scheduled in a tepee at Wounded Knee South Dakota as militants who occupied the village since Tuesday burned a government proposal to end the stand off. The Justice Department offered a 200 person departure with no arrest threat starting at 10 am EST and only male Indians to identify themselves. The AIM led group rejected the offer and proposed staying in the village while seeking negotiations for supplies and local legal actions.
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Medicare Cost Hike Faces Senate Subcommittee Opposition
Proposed increases in hospitalization costs for Medicare patients met firm pushback from Democratic members of a Senate health subcommittee. The discussion centers on how higher charges would impact beneficiaries and the program’s funding.
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Medicare
Senate
Caspar W. Weinberger
30 Become Cardinals in Brief Consistory
Pope Paul VI elevates 30 Roman Catholic cardinalates in one day. Americans Archbishops Luis Aponte Martines Timothy Manning and Humberto Medeiros among new cardinals. The group includes first cardinals from Pakistan Kenya Pacific Islands and Zaire. total college 145.
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San Juan
Timothy Manning
Los Angeles
Humberto Medeiros
Boston
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Sacred College
France
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Pakistan
Kenya
Pacific Islands
Zaire
Puerto Rico
Health plan outlines patient charges for hospital stay
The administration plan would require a patient to pay 10 percent of daily hospital charges after the first day, which is set at 72 dollars. The 91st through 150th day window highlights extended duration costs under the proposal.
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Middletown Area Weather Forecast Tonight and Tuesday
Mild temperatures with a chance of rain for the Middletown area. Lows tonight in the 50s and highs Tuesday in the 60s. Yesterday's high 64 and overnight low 53 with 0.03 inch rain recorded. State and national forecasts on page 12.
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U S diplomats bodies return home from Khartoum
In Khartoum the bodies of U S Ambassador Cleo Noel Jr and Charge d Affaires G Curtis Moore were loaded onto a Boeing plane to return to the United States. Eight guerrillas surrendered after a 60 hour standoff that also claimed the life of Belgian chargé d affaires Guy Eid.
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