Nasser Death Shocks Egypt as Nation Mourns Leader
Cairo crowds gather outside Kabbah Palace as Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack. Anwar Sadat acts as provisional president with a 60 day term while Egypt enters 40 days of mourning and prepares a state funeral.
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Cairo
Kabbah Palace
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Middle East
U. S
Nasser
Anwar Sadat
Aly Sabri
Mohammed Fawzi
Egypt
Koubbeh
Arab Socialist Union
Green County ASCS tour surveys 13 projects across farms
A Green County ASCS tour covered 75 miles featuring 13 practices and installations at farms in Monroe, Cadiz, Clarno, Spring Grove, Albany and Decatur townships. Highlights include Hartwig wildlife pond with ACP technical aid, Baumgartner spring pond, Peterson stream protections, Lichtenwalner contour strips and sod waterways, and Forestry Center educational plantings and timber exhibits.
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Leland Miller
Green County
SCS
Dwight Bump Farm
Albany
ASC
Don Siedschlag
Franklyn Dillon
ASCS
Chalet
Bluff View
William Hartwig
Monroe Township
Emil Baumgartner
Dale Peterson
Cadiz Township
Ralph Lichtenwalner
Clarno Township
Green County Forestry Education Center
Clarno
Soil Conservation Service
Hartwig
Baumgartner
Rueben Goecks
Edward J. Kaderly
Egypt Faces Uncertain Succession After Nasser
Paris reports say experts foresee a struggle in Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nasser. Diplomats doubt Anwar Sadat will be his successor and fear a Soviet move to install a pro Russian figure. An official quipped no one will know until the will is read.
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Paris
Middle East
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Anwar Sadat
Nasser
South Vietnamese Army Opposes North Vietnamese Near Saigon
South Vietnamese armored units clashed with North Vietnamese forces about 75 miles northwest of Saigon, reporting 21 enemy dead. The week’s sole major engagement across Indochina occurred as Cambodian officials warned a Viet Cong Khmer Rouge force threatened Phnom Penh.
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Saigon
Indochina
Phnom Penh
Arabs Monitor Cease-fire as Hostages Released in Jordan
Arab truce observers from Egypt Sudan Saudi Arabia Tunisia and Kuwait arrived in Amman to monitor a Cairo brokered cease-fire ending Jordan s 11 day civil war. The pact calls for army withdrawal guerrilla redeployment prisoner releases and relief aid deliveries from the United States Britain and Switzerland.
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Nasser
Cairo
Sheik Sabah As-Salem As-Sabeh
Kuwait
Sheik
Jordan
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
Amman
Hussein
Yasir Arafat
Bahi Ladgham
Israel
U. S. Air Force
Red Cross
United States
Nixon Praises 6th Fleet During European Tour
President Nixon lauded the U S 6th Fleet as indispensable for peace while aboard the Saratoga in the Mediterranean. He reviewed naval displays, silenced guns in respect to Egypt’s Nasser, and met top aides to discuss the Middle East and the death of Nasser. The five nation European tour schedule remains unchanged.
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Nixon
Nasser
U.S. Middle East
Israel
Mediterranean
U.S
Springfield
Yugoslavia
Tito
Edward Kardell
Robert H. Finch
U. S
Cairo Radio
Egypt
6Th Fleet
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Saratoga
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Navy
Air Force
Middle East
United States
William P. Rogers
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Henry A. Kissinger
Europe
Kardelj
Buddy Poppy Sales Set For Friday In Monroe
William Roth announces Buddy Poppy sales by VFW Post 2312 in Monroe will occur Friday Oct 2. Joseph Will is Post chairman with Mrs Hulett Pickett as Auxiliary chair. Proceeds aid disabled veterans with poppies made by veterans in VA and state facilities.
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William Roth
V.F.W
Monroe
Joseph Will
Hulett Pickett
Flanders Fields
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans Administration
Veterans Home
Wisconsin
V.A
Wood
Tomah
VFW
Clifford Reasa
Cambodian Communists shift to block Highway 4
AP dispatch notes Cambodian Communist forces moved from the Kirirom Plateau toward positions that threaten Highway 4. In Wisconsin a court ruled a welfare cut plan violates federal law and may expose the state to damages unless a new fund distribution procedure is created within 45 days. Kent State students marked the new academic year with a candlelit, nonviolent memorial service for the four killed on May 4. Elder inmates in New Mexico’s state penitentiary were surveyed on happiness and cited transportation and income as major needs. Pat Nixon in Rome rejected strikes including the women’s liberation effort and spoke with Italian press and Pope Paul VI about global influence.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Kent
Ohio
Kent State University
Ohio National Guardsmen
Santa Fe, N.M
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Rome
Pat Nixon
U.S. 6Th Fleet
UAW Chief Plans Return as GM Strike Enters Third Week
United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock prepared to resume bargaining with General Motors as the nationwide strike stretched into its third week. Woodcock and GM VP Earl Bramblett pledged to pursue at-plant working agreements at 155 plants before addressing broader economic and fringe benefit issues.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
General Motors
Woodcock
Earl Bramblett
DOJ reviews potential obscenity prosecution over Oh Calcutta TV
The Justice Department awaits reviewer word on whether promoters of the closed circuit telecast of Oh Calcutta will face federal obscenity charges. The off Broadway show with nudity was canceled in at least six of 86 scheduled cities Monday night. Some viewers were agents who will report if offended by the explicit content.
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Washington
The
Justice Department
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Sadat
Islam
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Fennimore
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Lafayette Extension
South Vietnamese
Britain
Switzerland
Beirut
Lebanon
International Red Cross
New York
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Buddy
AP News
Kirirom Plateau
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