Rhodes Clears Licavoli Case of Payoffs Probe
Ohio Highway Patrol found no evidence of money changing hands in connection with former Toledo mobster Thomas Licavoli’s conviction commutation. Gov Rhodes moved his first degree murder verdict to second degree. Licavoli remains in Ohio Penitentiary after failing to win parole.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Highway Patrol
Toledo
Thomas
Yonnie
Licavoli
James A. Rhodes
Life Magazine
Rhodes
Highway Patrol
Joe Zerilli
Detroit
Hopes Dim As Arabs Attack Lebanese Villages
Lebanese government reports night attacks by Arab guerrillas on Rachaya Mashta Hassan and Aiha with rockets and mortars. One soldier killed four wounded. three guerrillas died and four captured. A woman died in a direct hit on a house at Rachaya.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Rachaya
Mashta Hassan
Aiha
Vil
Yanta
Sidon
Transarabian Oil Pipeline Co
Jerusalem General Elections Begin Amid Arab Voting Surge
Arabs from Old Jerusalem flock to 3,335 polling places as general elections open. Labor coalition led by Golda Meir seeks a plurality in the 120 seat Knesset while police guard stations against terrorism and civil defense checks accompany voting.
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Israel
Holy City
Jordan
Golda Meir
Labor
Laborites
Gahal Party
622 Jobs To Be Cut At WPAB
The Defense Department will cut 622 military and civilian jobs at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton Ohio. Rep. Clarence J. Brown says the cut is tempered by the canceled plan to deactivate the 17th Bomber Wing. The change saves about 6.4 million dollars in Air Force spending.
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Defense Department
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Clarence J. Brown
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Wright-Patterson
Systems Command and Logistics Command
Agnew Says President Needs Him At White House
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew told a meeting of the American Bakers Association that he regretted the brevity of his remarks but said he had his reasons. He explained that the president needs him at the White House and added it is autumn and the leaves need raking.
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Spiro T. Agnew
American Bakers Association
White House
Agnew
GE Plants Across Ohio Stay Open as 14000 Strike
About 14000 workers from IBEW UAW and IAM walked out nationwide over a GE contract dispute. In Cincinnati Evendale and Blue Ash plants faced injunctions and gate block limits while Evendale nonstrikers filled in. Cleveland plants also faced delays as production shifted to non-striking staff.
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Associated Press
General Electric
Ohio
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
United Automobile Workers
UAW
International Association of Machinists
IAM
Evendale
Blue Ash
Wilbert Lay
Cleveland
Cincinnati
One
Charles H. Turner
GE Workers Strike As 90 Percent Hit By Walkout
New York AP. A union coordinating office says more than 90 percent of General Electric's 147000 union workers joined a nationwide strike. GE plants were to open for those who wished to work, with 25 of 117 plants operating normally and 92 showing varying disruption.
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Bexar
San Diego
New York
General Electric
Pentagon
Prohibition Act Anniversary Marks Dry Nation Beginning
The Volstead Act became law fifty years ago today. Officially the country went dry, though the era that followed is described as the wettest in memory.
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New York
Mine Safety Bill Advances in House Vote Today
Backers say passage would memorialize miners killed in 1968 and earlier. The bill, the toughest yet, includes a new federal compensation system for disabled miners and mirrors a Senate approval from earlier.
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Washington (Ap
House
Congress
Consolidation Coal Company
Farmington
W.va
Carl D. Lerins
House Education and Labor Committee
Senate
B52s Strike Camps as Pviet Cong Reported Casualties
Allied forces killed about 100 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in South Vietnam fighting late Monday and today. U S B52s pounded enemy base camps along the Cambodian border north of Saigon, two Americans wounded. Officials suggested some American deaths may be unreported. Eighteen enemy were killed in border provinces and near raids. A helicopter gunship was hit from the ground and counterattacked while F100s participated.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Middletown Forecast and War News Brief
The Middletown area sees clear skies tonight with a low around 25 to 30 and a sunny but warmer Wednesday in the mid 50s. In Saigon area fighting claims multiple enemy deaths and American casualties as U S forces clash near the Saigon River with reports of six Viet Minh killed and one American wounded.
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Middletown
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