Middletown Wins $10 Million Urban Renewal Grant Plan
City officials announced a federal grant securing three urban renewal projects for Middletown. The package totals over ten million dollars, with nine point three million for downtown renewal and a smaller first year. five to six years may be needed to complete the plan.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Paul Christiansen
Christiansen
Middletown
Garfield
Nixon's First-Year Actions Called Historic Turning Point
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew says the Nixon administration has achieved milestones in its first year that will mark a historic turning point in the international relations of this nation.
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New York
Spiro T. Agnew
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Southeast Asia
Salt
Europe
Romania
Israel Says It Foiled Arab Amphibious Strike
TEL AVIV AP Israel said it thwarted an Arab amphibious strike with a Dead Sea raid in which three Arabs were killed and three captured. The raid followed heightened guerrilla activity across the Lebanese border and prompted warnings of a possible larger strike into Lebanon. One Israeli soldier was killed and two wounded during border fighting Thursday night.
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Dead Sea
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Hebron
Amman
Palestine Armed Struggle Command
al Fatah
Nixon to issue Laos role statement this weekend
White House says a Laos policy statement is a strong possibility this weekend as Congress presses for full disclosure. Senator McGovern accuses officials of deceit while noting 500 bombing missions daily and urging clarity on whether the U.S. is at war in Laos. Senate leaders demand full details on military advisers and actions.
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Laos
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Nixon
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McGovern
National Newspaper Association
Senate
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Harry K. Byrd Jr
D-Va
Lockheed Urges Federal Aid as Defense Funding Concerns Rise
Sen. William Proxmire, opposing defense spending, says Lockheed Aircraft seeks up to 641.2 million dollars from the Pentagon, calling it a bailout that risks the defense industry as Lockheed faces a 32.6 million loss for 1969 and price disputes delay payments on four major weapons systems.
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Pentagon
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Lockheed
Congress
Red Attacks Grow in Viet Nam Fighting
AP reports action across South Vietnam on Thursday with 246 enemy soldiers and eight American deaths. Forty U.S. troops wounded. Saigon says casualties light. Four American helicopter crew members killed after a helicopter was shot down near Song Be close to the Cambodian border.
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Mekong Delta
Que Son
da Nang
U Minh Forest
My Lai
Government moves to void Boyle Mine Workers election
Washington reports the Department of Labor will sue to overturn union president W A Boyle's 2 to 1 Dec 9 victory after Yablonski's murder. Five people face charges in the triple slayings at Clarksville Pennsylvania as violence marks labor disputes and regional clashes persist in Vietnam.
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United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Joseph A. Yablonski
Boyle
George P. Shultz
Yablonski
Clarksville
Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Appalachia
Laos faces possible North Vietnamese advance near Vientiane
North Vietnamese forces push west and south from the Plain of Jars threatening Laos as U S air power alone fails to halt them. Analysts warn of potential expanded U S involvement though ground troops are deemed politically unacceptable. Vang Pao forces counter from Long Cheng and Sam Thong as the Lao government seeks to resist while Prince Souvanna Phouma avoids requesting foreign ground troops.
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Nixon
U.S
Asia
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
America
Sala Phoukhoune
Vang Vieng
Prince Souvanna Phouma
United States
Prince Souvanna
Weekend Skywatch Hopes Clouded by Eclipse Forecast
Forecast warns cloudy skies tomorrow may spoil viewing of the sun eclipse around 1 30 p m. Tonight warms but only to the mid 30s with a 29 percent chance of precipitation. Saturday looks partly cloudy with a high in the upper 40s and a 10 percent rain risk.
Razor Blades and Hippies Born in Same Era
A witty contrast notes that the stainless steel razor blade and the hippie emerged in the same period, marking a clash of modern convenience and counterculture during the era's cultural shifts.
Lamar South Carolina Reacts to School Integration Tension
In Lamar a small town of 1,350 faces upheaval after 100 white adults overturn two school buses carrying Black students and clash with state patrol. Gordon Brown, a druggist and father, defends public schools amid boycott threats and law orders while contemplating the town’s future.
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Lamar, S.C
Gordon Brown
Laurence Lowery
Lamar
South Carolina
Dodge City
Brown
LBJ Under Close Watch at Brooke Army Medical Center
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson remains under close observation at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio amid fatigue chest and arm pains and a lingering cold. Doctors report his condition stable with no new medical developments causing concern.
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Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Brooke Army Medical Center
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