Morton says Agnew to be GOP nominee for 1972 and president later
Republican National Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton plans to renominate Spiro T. Agnew for vice president in 1972 and signals he may seek the presidency in 1976. Agnew, seated beside Morton, defends his role as a Nixon administration functionary while focusing on Maryland gubernatorial and Senate races.
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Rogers C. B. Morton
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Morton
Charles Goodell
White House
Nixon
C. Stanley Blair
Senate
Glenn Beall
Washington
Capital
Illinois
Iowa
Arizona
Connecticut
Beall
US House of Representatives
Joseph Tydings
Diary reveals LBJ stuck in Vietnam war trap
New York AP report quotes Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson from her White House diary. She writes that seven months after the bombing order, Lyndon Johnson saw no exit from Vietnam, saying I can't get out and I can't finish it with what I have got. She notes March 1965 as she counted months to March 1968.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
Lyndon
Richard Nixon
No Hostages Ball Kidnapers Judge Urges
Valdosta Ga AP A Georgia judge in Valdosta orders all law officers in his circuit to shoot to kill if anyone attempts to kidnap him or the district attorney He cites the San Rafael California slaying of Judge Harold Haley as inspiration and says he would rather die than be abducted He has discussed the order with District Attorney George A Horkan and Judge Marcus B Calhoun both agreeing with him 100 percent.
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Valdosta, Ga
South Georgia
Omer W. Franklin
Thomas County
Franklin
George A. Horkan
Moultrie
Marcus B. Calhoun
Thomasville
Algerian Ex-Foreign Minister Belkacem Krim Found Dead
West German police search for an Algerian and two Moroccans believed linked to the strangulation of Belkacem Krim, exiled Algerian leader and former foreign minister. His body was found in Frankfurt's Intercontinental Hotel after checking in with the suspects who vanished without paying bills. Krim, a revolutionary figure who fell out with Ben Bella and Boumedienne, had been sentenced to death in Algeria in 1969 for plotting to kill a ruling party leader.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Belkacem Krim
Algeria
Krim
Intercontinental Hotel
Bonn
Salah Mohamed
Salim Karim
Mohamed Debi
France
Ahmed Ben Bella
Switzerland
Col
Houari Boumedienne
Ben Bella
Boumedienne
Oran
Kaid Ahmed
National Liberation Front
Extra Sleep Due Sunday
Washington AP reports most Americans will set clocks back one hour to standard time this Sunday at 2 a.m. The change excludes Michigan, Arizona, and Hawaii, which stay on standard time year round. Clocks stay on standard time until the last Sunday of next April when daylight saving resumes.
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Washington
Michigan
Arizona
Hawaii
Pigeon birth control pill may curb city flocks
Washington AP reports scientist Joan Sturtevant proposes a bird specific birth control diet that could cut pigeon fertility by up to threefold. She notes crop-milk sterilization could render about half of offspring permanently sterile and estimates a 10 generation wait to restore population from 10 000 birds. The method aims to humane control without eliminating birds.
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Joan Sturtevant
Miss Sturtevant
Science
Easthampton
Mass
TWA Strike Reaches Agreement in Principle
Washington AP Trans World Airlines and the National Mediation Board say a settlement in principle with the Transport Workers Union ends a nationwide strike. Pickets will be withdrawn at 7 a.m. EDT after ratification by stewardesses and pursers is sought. Details were not disclosed.
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Washington
Trans World Airlines
Transport Workers Union
National Mediation Board
Francis A. O'Neill
United States
TWA
National Railway Labor Act
Third Highest Award Forrester Medal From Bogus Citation
Saigon reports that General Eugene P. Forrester received the Army’s third highest valor award based on a fabricated citation by enlisted word artists. An Army spokesman said the award is under investigation, while Forrester was praised for prior distinguished service.
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U.S. Army
1St Air Cavalry Division
Eugene P. Forrester
George Newman
Forrester
Cam
Army
1St Cavalry Division
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