Rescue Beagle Dumpy Survives Gas and Bulldozer Ordeal
In Salem Ohio two women found and saved Dumpy a three year old Beagle mix after he survived being gassed in a dog van and struck by a bulldozer at a landfill. A deputy was suspended for neglect of duty and new carbon dioxide gas units will be installed in county trucks. Dumpy is recovering with partial paralysis but regaining movement and hope for adoption.
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Mahoning County
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Salem
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Laos rebels pledge to free nine Americans in Laos
North Vietnam said the Pathet Lao promised to release nine U.S. captives in Laos but gave no timing or location. The United States pressed for clear dates and places as a condition for final U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam. Brig. Gen. Wickham noted withdrawal hinges on lists of POWs and release details. The Viet Cong objected to including 159 embassy Marine guards in the pullout, calling it a breach of the Paris cease fire.
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Laos
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Bui Tin
Pathet Lao
John A. Wickham Jr
Joint Military Commission
Mansfield says Gray FBI head vote a nip and tuck
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says L Patrick Gray III faces a close vote in the Judiciary Committee as questions about his ties to the Watergate investigation linger. He notes the panel should defer action until all facts are disclosed and warns against hostage tactics.
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Dmont
Senate Judiciary Committee
L. Patrick Gray III
FBI
Mansfield
Gray
Nixon urges hiring Vietnam veterans for peace and opportunity
President Nixon praised Vietnam veterans and urged employers to hire them. He linked honoring veterans to national unity and a lasting peace, invoking Lincoln and calling hiring the veteran a good investment and duty. He spoke in a taped radio statement from Key Biscayne, Florida.
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Nixon
America
Vietnam
Abraham Lincoln
Warm but wet day with showers in the forecast
The weather forecast calls for a warm day with a good chance of showers today and tonight. Temperatures will reach the low 70s with overnight lows in the upper 40s. Skies stay cloudy Monday with further showers and highs in the 60s.
My Lai massacre CIA plot alleged by Oklahoma paper
The Sunday Oklahoman reports Pentagon sources say the 1968 My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was planned with the CIA to wipe out villagers as a lesson to the enemy. It claims 450 civilians were slain and that later Army actions were a coverup to avoid implicating the CIA or policy.
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Oklahoman
Pentagon
My Lai
South Vietnam
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The
CIA
Jack Taylor
Taylor
Pope Paul VI Allows Women to Distribute Communion in Priest Shortages
Vatican officials say Pope Paul VI will authorize bishops to let qualified laymen or laywomen give Communion where priests are scarce. The move follows synod pressure and aims to ease priest shortages, though formal priestly roles for women remain limited.
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Paul VI
Lessing
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Vatican Congregation
Paul
Canada
George Cardinal Flahiff
Winnipeg
Death trap in Belfast kills three soldiers enticed by girls
In Belfast a carefully planned ambush left three British army sergeants dead after two women lured them to an Antrim Road apartment. Four soldiers were unarmed and off duty when the attackers fired with a Thompson submachine gun and pistol. A third man died in hospital twelve hours later, a fourth wounded remains critical. Police hunt for the killers and the two women. Toxic political tensions rise as IRA factions brace for continued conflict.
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Northern Ireland
Lisburn
Antrim Road
Great Flood of 1913 memories recalled by Middleton historians
Veterans Wilfred Vorhis and George Crout recount the Great Flood of 1913 with Herbert Fall illustrating the moments. The feature appears on page 1.
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Wilfred Vorhis
George Crout
Herbert Fall
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