Peace activists converge in Germantown for Indochina conference
More than 200 activists from 14 groups gather at Camp Miami for a three day Indochina Peace Committee meeting led by Jane Fonda and John Hayden. Sessions focus on lobbying leaflets and community organizing to end U S involvement in Indochina despite ongoing aid to Saigon.
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C. J. Bosnak Journal
Germantown
The
Indochina Peace Committee
Jane Fonda
Chicago 7
John Fraines
Tom Hayden
John Young
Bob Chenoweth
Massachusetts
California
People’s Coalition For Peace and Justice
American Friends Service Committee
Nixon
U.S
Indochina
Saigon
Camp Miami
Detroit
AFSC
Jay Westbrook
Thieu
Democrats reject Nixon plan for new Watergate prosecutor
Senate leaders and House Democrats say the presidents plan for an independent Watergate prosecutor is unacceptable and would not be independent. Speaker ONeill and Rep. Ervin call the move flawed and obstructive. Some Republicans praise the decision while others oppose it. The White House expects Bork to pick a successor to Cox with possible congressional input.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Nixon
Sam J. Ervin
Dn.c
Senate Watergate Committee
Thomas P. O'Neill
Massachusetts
House
Congress
Archibald) Cox
White House
Cox
Bork
Mansfield
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
John Culver
Drona
Sirica
Weather Turns Showery With Cool Temperatures Ahead
A change in weather brings showers today tonight and tomorrow with highs in the mid 50s. Lows will be in the upper 30s. Rain chances run about 70 percent today and 50 percent tonight as Daylight Saving Time shifts.
Tear gas incident at football game deadly heart attack
In Temperance Michigan a 57 year old man died of a heart attack after a tear gas grenade exploded during a Bedford High School versus Toledo Whitmer game. More than 70 were treated for nausea or eye irritation. a 16 year old Temperance boy is in custody as investigators review the event.
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Temperance
Mich
Bedford High School
Toledo
Ohio
Whitmer
Monroe County
Martin Joseph
Toledo Area
Egyptians Israelis to discuss cease fire talks near front
Egypt and Israel agreed to a meeting between their military representatives under UN auspices to discuss a cease fire. U.S. Israeli Cairo announcements say peacekeeping forces arrived near the front where Egyptian troops face water shortages in the Sinai Desert. Officials indicated attempts to deliver non military supplies to about 20 000 Egyptian soldiers. The meeting was said to occur Saturday night somewhere along the front under UN flag.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Israel
Middle East
Washington
Tel Aviv
Cairo
U.N
Sinai
U.S
United Nations
Suez Canal
Golan Heights
Nahman Karni
Suez
West Bank
Pentagon
United States
Pacific
Europe
Telegrams Cheer Nixon After News Conference
Deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren said well over 3,000 telegrams and thousands of phone calls streamed to the White House in support of Nixon after Friday night’s televised session. Nixon then went to Camp David with his family as public reaction and Middle East briefings continued Saturday.
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Robert H. Bork
Cox
White House
Gerald L. Warren
Nixon
Camp David
Warren
Middle East
Birmingham
Ala
Archibald Cox
Elliot L. Richardson
William Ruckelshaus
National Organization
Fischer seeks rematch with Spassky for glory
World chess champion Bobby Fischer told a Manila news conference that he wants a rematch with Boris Spassky to end talk that he might resign. He said he is challenging Spassky despite holding the title won in Iceland last year.
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Manila
Philippines
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Fischer
Spassky
Iceland
Boy marches on despite blindness in high school band
Steven Smith, blind since age four, continues to perform with Edgewood High School band and plans a career in law. The feature notes his perseverance and music involvement as a local human-interest piece.
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Steven Smith
Edgewood High School
Eric von Klinger
Local men claim national egg toss record
Jim Bowen and Bill Mallory of Armco Steel unofficially set a national egg toss mark at Middletown High School field with a 210 feet 52 inch throw. Witnessed by Officer Erschel Philpot after about 30 attempts, the pair planned a future bid for the world record.
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David Izor
Armco Steel Corp
Jim Bowen
Bill Mallory
West
David Frost
Frost
Norm Snead
Mallory
Mike Douglas
Bowen
Middletown High School
Erschel Philpot
Philpot
Finland
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C. J. Bosnak
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