Nixon arrives in Tehran for talks with Shah
President Nixon lands in Tehran after Kiev stop in the Soviet Union for five hours of discussions with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Security is tight as Iran seeks U S support amid Gulf oil concerns and Moscow ties.
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Ohio House expects easy passage for private school tax credit
Columbus AP report says House Speaker Charles F. Kurfess predicts quick approval for a tax credit plan allowing parents to deduct 90 dollars per private or parochial school student from state income tax. He cautions court challenges loom despite Senate measures on environmental agency and tax assessment reform.
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Senator targets questioned in Raleigh mall shooting
Police say Senator B Everett Jordan was not the gunman’s target when a 22 year old janitor Harvey McLeod opened fire at the North Hills Shopping Center. McLeod killed three people and wounded eight before killing himself. Jordan escaped unharmed. One aide, Wes Hayden, was seriously wounded.
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Legislature weighs new environmental agency and tax reform
The lower chamber will consider two Senate approved measures. One creates a state environmental protection agency modeled after the federal body. The other provides an orderly method for each county to comply with the Board of Tax Appeals decision. The board set uniform property tax assessment at 35 percent of true value. Without action, windfalls and soaring rates could occur.
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Americans Flee Kontum With Wounded Amid Crowds
In Kontum Vietnam two American soldiers and two Vietnamese wounded are evacuated by helicopter as a crowd of locals pleads for passage. Guards insist only Americans and wounded Vietnamese may board. The scene repeats daily near a half finished stadium as helicopters depart toward Pleiku.
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Reds Pull Back Troops Haiphong Rail Yards Hit
American fighter bombers struck North Vietnam's Yong Bi rail yard near Haiphong, igniting fires and destroying 16 bridges as a large-scale bombing campaign intensified. A Marine A6 jet was shot down but rescued at sea. pilots logged over 250 strikes in 24 hours. North Vietnamese withdraw from An Loc reported, while Kontum in the central highlands saw renewed fighting.
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Associated Press
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Guerrillas clash with British troops in Belfast district
In West Belfast Ardoyne the Provisional IRA battled British forces in a sequence of gunfights with four gunmen hit and at least one soldier wounded. Bombs exploded at a bottling plant outside the city, while IRA officials said they would continue attacks despite a supposed truce.
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Weather Outlook Shifts To Showers With Evening Thunder
Mostly cloudy with showers and thundershowers tonight. Lows in the 50s. Cloudy with a chance of showers tomorrow and highs in the 60s. Rain chances 70 percent tonight and 40 percent Wednesday. Yesterday’s high reached 78 and the overnight low 63. Midlothian district reported .11 inch of rain.
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Gunbattle Ends Pot Smuggling West of Yuma
One man was killed and two others arrested after a gunbattle as eight smugglers loaded several hundred pounds of marijuana onto a truck near the U.S. Mexico border. Border Patrol said the attackers fired 45 caliber pistols, hitting a patrol car but not the officers. Remaining suspects fled. Mexican authorities joined the search at the border with help from California agencies and an Army helicopter.
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