143 Lives Lost in French Dance Hall Fire
In St Laurent du Point France a weekend dance hall fire killed 143 people with 142 bodies recovered and ten injuries. Survivors recalled panic and possible locked exits as investigators probe causes including short circuits or a discarded cigarette. Authorities identified 78 victims by nightfall among French and foreign nationals.
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ST. Laurent DU Point
France
Cabinet
Grenoble
Cing-Sept
Joelle Dowtley
Jacques Baumel
Dominique Guette
Raymond Chaniel
Daniel Bellemin
Five-Seven
Attempt on Life of President of Poland
A truck rammed into an airport reception line injuring Warsaw envoy and about 20 others while four witnesses reported shouts against communism. Polish President Marian Spychalski remained unhurt. a deputy foreign minister and two Pakistani photographers died. Police questioned a man named Feroze Abdulah as cause cited as brakes failure.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Poland
Marian Spychalski
Warsaw
Spychalski
Zwygiryd Wolniak
Wolniak
Mohammed Yasin
Mohammed Ashraf
Information Ministry
Chaudhri Mohammed Nazir
Supreme Court
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
Swiss Night at Turner Hall Returns for Fourth Year
The Monroe Swiss Singers and Monroe Turners host the fourth annual Swiss Night on Saturday November 7 at Turner Hall starting 8 p.m. with a dance by Alpine Brass. Performers include New Glarus Maennerchor Yodelers and Swiss Folk Dancers plus The Four Swiss Night Singers.
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Monroe Swiss Singers
Monroe Turners
Turner Hall
Alpine Brass
New
Glarus Maennerchor
Glarus Yodelers
Glarus
Barbershop Quartet
Clude Rita Bregenzer Elliott
James Bisegger
John Schild
Ben Blaser
Heinz Kim- Paul Ritschard Mich
Ernest Jaggi
Harold Maurer
Herman Feller Jr
Walter Stettler
Marguerite Rast
Sub base claim sparks Nixon warning on Cuba plot
Rep. William Cramer says Nixon told him the Soviet Union planned a submarine base in Cuba and had halted construction after a strong U S warning. Cramer waited for Defense and White House clearance before releasing the information. Also reports two hijackings divert flights to Cuba with 75 aboard a United jet and 49 aboard a National jet trapped for 20 hours before release.
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Miami
William C. Cramer
Nixon
Soviet Union
Cuba
U. S. Senate
Cramer
Defense Department
White House
Oregon
Caribbean
United Air Lines
John Kolons
Itad
United
Havana
National Air Lines
San Francisco
Pasage
United Fund names residential solicitors in Monroe drive
More than 180 women were named as residential solicitors for the United Fund of Monroe neighborhood drive launched today by Mrs. Sanford Wahl. Ward chairmen and block workers are listed for eight wards with numerous Mrs. and Mr. names across First through Eighth Ward, detailing the canvass organization and participation.
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Louis Blanc
Monroe
Turner Hall
Vern Meisner
Whitewater
Blane
Jerry Gentz
Charles Koch
Times
Gary Buikema
United Fund of Monroe
Sanford Wahl
SALT talks cited as Laird cites Soviet missiles rise
AP News In Brief reports Defense Secretary Laird says Russia has 1400 land based intercontinental missiles ready or under construction, 350 more than the US, with 30 missile submarines also listed. The figures precede SALT talks in Helsinki and were released after NATO briefing in Ottawa.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Russia
Laird
Congress
United States
Helsinki
Defense Chiefs
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ottawa
Campaign Draws to Close Today
Washington AP reports a sharp late surge in electioneering as President Nixon and aides campaign nationwide for GOP gains in the 35 Senate seats 35 governorships and a new House. Democrats seek to hold or expand their majorities amid inflation unemployment and law and order themes with key races in California Illinois New York Ohio Indiana Texas and Connecticut shaping the final outcomes.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Spiro T. Agnew
GOP
Law and Order
America
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Lawrence F. O’brien
House
O'Brien
Herb Klein
White House
Justice Department
Agnew
O’brien
Washington-Denver
Fair Campaign Practices Committee
Samuel J. Archibald
Goldwater
California
Illinois
New York
Vermont
Indiana
Ohio
Tennessee
Texas
Connecticut
George Murphy
John V. Tunney
Murphy
Ralph Smith
Adlair Stevenson III
Donneybrook
Daily News
James L. Buckley
Richard L. Ottinger
Len Charles E. Goodell
Robert Taft Jr
Howard Metzenbaum
Cleveland
Muskie
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Hubert H Humphrey
Minnesota
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Green County
Ray Kundert
Kundert
Apple LA Crosse
Nancy Krattiger
Fritz Wenger
Clarence Gissing
Turner
United Fund
First Ward
Harold Rudhti
Mmes
Elvira Gorham
Oscar Losey
Robert Richardson
Scott Stafford
John Deery
Paul Benkett
Roger Hoesly
Edwin Schindler
J. T. Etter
Eugene Herzberger
Uno Miller
Joe Rast
Floyd A. Coplien Jr
Melvin Dietmeier
Emil Sutter
Alton Schumacher
Avery Yost
Harold Rufenacht
Ken Rufer
Henry Stiner
Robert A. Johnson
Robert Meier
Robert Lostetter
Edward Arnold Mmes
Robert Trumpy
Rudhti, Wahl
Don Martin
Paul Mueller
Lester Goke
Arthur Roethe
Paul Line
Robert Baumann
Howard Breisath
Zeno Molitor
Larry Vance
Bob Logeson
John Holtshopple
Ernest Wellman
Nelson Schwend
Paul Paulson
David Lovett
Willis Stokes
Bressath
Hilton Kirchner
Francis Strait
Robert K. Benkert
Gladys Blum
Bud Pilz
Glenn Stauffacher
Nate Jones
Ted Ott
Harris Gempler
Victor Goepfert
Dick Newcomer
Clinton Blackbourn
Tony Serpe
Jim Erickson
Guerdon Heins
Harris Germann
Robert Batty
Larry Lindgren
Sherman Hodgson
Gayle Matzke
Frank Digman
Glen Schreier
Dan Ault
Larry Priewe
Hugo Voelkli
Ed Schneider
Keith Wainwright
Hedwig Portman
Robert Ableman
Clifford Hexom
Karl Kundert
Ray Gordon
Virgil Monte
Robert Prain
Joe Klessinger
Herbert
Fifth Ward
Roger Severson
Fritz Graber
Walter Graber
Ken Norder
Charles Robertson
Paul Schoenike
Duanne Rackow
Tom Smith
Werner Weissenfluh
Jerome Hunt
Frank Klarer
Melvin Gable
John Chambers
Jacob Gruenewald
Eugene Ft
William
Sixth Ward
Terry Stauffacher
Paul Alston
Gerald Weisenberg
Kent Baumgartner
Earl Brockman
Larry Kundert
Robert Penniston
Roy E. Kundert
Harlen Prechel
Mary Joy Rieder
Mary Beth Seaton
Anita Laser
Linda Rufener
Ginny Bacon
Minnie Daley
Seventh Ward
Garlan van Natta
Ella Bell
Fred Studer
Keith Holcomb
Stanley Franson
Robert Silvis
Roger Moe
Robert Smith
Donald Rutsch
Alvin J. Elmer
Michael Hyland
Gaylord Swenson
Dennis Hunt
Wendell Whitehead
Robert Rundle
Pat Lunda
John McLelland
Theodore Huebner
Daryle Severson
Richard Steiner
William L. Bruce
Donald Jacobson
Gene Lumm
Samuel A. Remus
Donald Lane
James 0. Driver
Frederick F. Lanz
Lillian Lee
Paul Moser
Norman Huber
Harold Crume
James Mauermann
Roland Thorp
William Tschanz
Edward Hughes
George McKeown
Donald Ogden
Paul Chapman
Harvey J. Recd
Michael Hughes
Donald Miller
George Bloom
Emma Pfister
AP News
Robert Jusza
la Crosse State University
Sparta
Monroe County
Justa
Hicksville
N. Y
West Allis
Charles Morito
Evanston, Ill
Franklin
Milwaukee
Morito
James E. Duffy
ABC
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Beloit College
Newsweek Magazine
Gallup
Navy
Richard M. Nixon
South Pacific
Life Magazine
James Udall
Pirate
Abby
First National Bank
Robert MacInnis
Patricia Tschanz
Andy Janke
Christine Bienema
James Iverson
Laura Monahan
Kerry Guttenberg
Bruce Stiner
Debra Sue Meier
Aleta Hannes
Curtis Wyttenbach
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