Echeverria Wins Mexico Presidency in PRI Landslide
Luis Echeverria Alvarez secured a broad victory as Mexico's PRI extended its 42 year rule. Unofficial results from 4,822 of 36,901 precincts show Echeverria with 1,232,200 votes and Efrain Gonzalez Morfin of the PAN with 158,324. The political scene also notes U.S. Senate action on appropriations and Southeast Asia policy, with House plans a lighter week and debates on antitrust for joint newspaper publishing and unsolicited credit cards.
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Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Mexico
PRI
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Echeverria
Efrain Gonzalez Morfin
PAN
National Action Party
Washington
Senate
United States
Southeast Asia
House
U. S
Cambodia
Nixon ends western stay returns to White House
President Nixon flies home to the White House after a 12 day western visit marked by visible action on domestic and foreign policy. He met with aides and spoke to newsmen while Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower return from Japan to join family celebrations for Julie's 22nd birthday.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
White House
Julie
David Eisenhower
Japan
Bomb Explodes in Chicago Causes Window Shatter and Bricks
An early Sunday blast on Chicago's North Side shattered windows at a residential hotel and the Checker Cab Company garage. The Edgecomb Hotel lost bricks but no injuries were reported. police recovered batteries and wiring suggesting a bomb.
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Chicago
Checker Cab Company
Edgecomb
Man Charged in Destruction of Government Property
In Minneapolis a minor Sunday fire damaged records at the Hennepin County Selective Service office. Robert G. Scarlett, 20, of Minneapolis, was held and faces formal charges of destruction of government property. He suffered first and second degree burns and was treated at Hennepin County General Hospital.
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Hennepin County
Selective Service Office
FBI
Robert G. Scarlett
Hennepin County General Hospital
Five Women Scientists Join Underwater Tektite II Mission
ST JOHN VI STI US VI AP five women scientists dive to work 50 feet below the sea off St John to live in a capsule for two weeks joining the Tektite II program a seven month underwater research effort that began in April.
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ST. John, Virgin Islands
NASA scientist loses moon fragment at Goddard Center
Dr. Nicholas M. Short of NASA reported a moon fragment weighing one fifth of an ounce missing from a safe at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. The fragment about two thirds the size of a garden pen was stored in a vial and Short hopes it will be recovered.
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Washington
Nicholas M. Short
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Short
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Wisconsin Fourth of July toll rises to 17 deaths
The long holiday weekend ends with 17 fatalities across Wisconsin in highway crashes raising the state toll to 505 for the period ending Sunday. Victims include Kenneth Kirchner a nine year old from Milwaukee and others from Whitehall Shullsburg Viola and more, with multiple counties reporting fatal crashes from Thursday through Sunday.
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Wisconsin
Kenneth Kirchner
Milwaukee
Oak Creek
Valentine DeLeon
Kenneth Merrill
Minneapolis
Spooner
Burnett County
Thomas A. Christianson
Whitehall
Markland
Cambodian Army Regains Saang Amid Heavy Losses
Cambodian forces secure Saang 20 miles south of Phnom Penh after intense 27 hour fighting, with 32 killed and 47 wounded. Vietnamese air support and gunships aided efforts against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units, while Kompong Thom faced renewed pressure.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Saang
Kompong Thom
Suang
Shullsburg Man Killed In Car Crash Near Darlington
John H. Lyne 21 of Route 1 Shullsburg died when his car left County Trunk 6 in Seymour Township rolled several times and caught fire. Coroner cites skull fracture. Survived by wife Elizabeth two sons Daniel Douglas daughter Denise and extended family. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of Hope Church.
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Lafayette
Darlington
Lynes
Viola
Richland County
Sheboygan County
Kohler
Michael G. Wackley
Elgin
Ill
Joyce A. Eichmann
Sheboygan
Nancy Wicke
Hannibal
Taylor County
Jump River
Medford
Christine Pederson
Blair
Trempealeau County
Stanley Keaton
Air Force
Superior
Douglas County
David Weier
Wisconsin Rapids
Wayne A. Johnston
Dubuque
Iowa
Grant County
Rodney Erickson
Amherst
Portage County
George Gall
Seattle
Wash
Sturtevant
Richard Gustafson
Racine
Racine County
Anna Raths
Milwaukee
Route 1
Seymour Township
Lafayette County
Lyle Olson
Mr. Lyne
Eagle Pitcher
Elizabeth
Daniel
Douglas
Denise
Howard J. Lyne
Curtis Lyne
James Farrey
Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church
Waseca brothers reach Richland Center on UNICEF trek
David Kunst and his brother John Kunst journeyed through Richland Center on the second leg of their UNICEF worldwide hike. The duo, ages 30 and 23, with their pack mule, plan to reach the East Coast then fly to Portugal to press on toward the Pacific via the Soviet route. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey aided their passage to the Soviet Union.
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Waseca
Minn
Unicef
David Kunst
John
Madison
Portugal
Hubert Humphrey
Soviet Union
Pacific
Rangers and Police Hunt Bombers Who Damaged Buses
Police and Texas Rangers search for bombers who damaged 36 Longview schools buses. No injuries reported though average damage tops $1,000 per bus. Officials note possible but unproven links to racial busing plans for September. Two men suspected. tracks indicate perpetrators outside the bus yard.
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Longview
Tex
Texas Rangers
Roy Stone
Stone
20 Americans Die In Toronto Jetliner Crash
A Canadian Air Canada Super DC8 crashed about four miles north of Toronto International Airport killing 108 people, including more than 20 Americans. The aircraft failed to complete a landing after attempting to touch down, with one engine on fire and reports of flames and debris as it left the field.
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Air Canada
Toronto International Airport
Montreal
Los Angeles
United States
Quebec
California
Queen Elizabeth II
Frobisher Bay
Manitoba
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Israelis Pound Egypt as Air War Rages Along Suez Canal
Israeli air force keeps bombing Egyptian missile sites along the Suez Canal amid claims of three Israeli planes downed in a week. Cairo reports two Phantoms shot down and pilots captured, while Tel Aviv disputes a second loss. Evidence shows a ring of six missiles under attack with one firing.
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Suez Canal
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Canal
Cairo
Israel
Middle East
Canal Zone
Do Your Own Thing Honor America Day Celebrated
Americans marked Honor America Day with prayers and songs and a nationwide celebration. Billy Graham preached to about 35,000 at the morning rally while protests clashed with police nearby.
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America
Bob Hope
Billy Graham
Graham
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