Nixon asks Congress to approve Moscow arms curbs by Sept 1
President Nixon urged Congress in a White House briefing to approve by September 1 a Moscow defensive arms treaty and a companion five year offensive missiles pact. He said talks on broader limits could begin in October and stressed the need to fund a bigger defense program. Kissinger joined for a lengthy Q and A with members from five key committees as reporters observed.
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Nixon
Congress
Washington
Moscow
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
United States
Nixson
U.S
Kissinger
Senate
Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Mexico
Vietnam
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Armed Services Committees
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Nixon Receives Mexico Leader At White House
President Nixon welcomes Mexican President Luis Echeverria to the White House for talks and full military honors. Echeverria stresses shared responsibility of leaders in industrialized and developing nations to pursue peace and avoid a world of anguish amid technological progress.
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Nixon
Mexico
White House
Washington
Luis Echeverria
U.S
Te. Ellipse
Echeverria
Recheverria
River Stage Updates and Stationary Readings
Rivers at Camffen and Monroe show staged levels with 4.1 and 18.0 feet respectively. Both stations now report stationary stage, indicating no current rise or fall in water height.
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Camffen
Monroe
Gremillion appeals perjury conviction in fifth term bid
A federal appeals panel in New Orleans heard former Louisiana attorney general Jack P. F. Gremillion seek to overturn his perjury conviction for lying to a grand jury about stock in the Louisiana Loan & Thrift Co. The defense argued the charges stemmed from a second attempt to convict him after an earlier acquittal. The court took the case under advisement. no decision date was announced.
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New Orleans
Jack P. F. Gremillion
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S
Gerald Gallinghouse
R. Irvin Dymond
5Th Circuit
Gremillion
Mark
Louisiana
Louisiana Loan & Thrift Co
Ll&t
Lil&t
Federal Securities and Exchange Commission
Miss Madge Kelly Heads Sun Tour to Key West and Back
Miss Madge Kelly secretary to Dr W Carroll Summer at Ouachita Parish Health Unit departs for two week Key West vacation. Meanwhile 62 Baptist Church youths and eight sponsors embark on a Mid-South trip combining work and pleasure singing in five cities and visiting Six Flags and a St Louis Cardinal game under Darrell Washam. They plan stops in Searcy Ark Oxford Miss Nashville and Memphis Tenn and St Louis Mo and return Wednesday.
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Madge Kelly
Old
Sterlington Rd
Sunny Key West
Fla
Kelly
W. Carroll
Ouachita Parish
Key West
Mid - South
College Place Baptist Church
Church
Mid- America
St. Louis
Heat records top in Buckeye as U.S. temps rise
The National Weather Service reported the day’s highest temperature outside Alaska and Hawaii reached 105 degrees in Buckeye, Arizona. A cool 38 degrees was recorded this morning in Alamosa, Colorado, marking a wide temperature swing across the nation.
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New York
Nitrate Linked to Hypertension Study Sparks Oregon Talk
University of Oregon medical professor Dr William Morton reports a Colorado based link between high drinking water nitrate levels and hypertension. He notes regional variations in high blood pressure and cautions findings may be refuted by further data.
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Corvallis, Ore
University of Oregon
William E. Morton
Colorado
Morton
American Chemical Society
Corvallis
Portland
Henry Schroeder
University of Vermont
Colorado Heart Association
Denver
Oregon
Republican River
U.S. Public Health Service
Public Schools Absorb Private School Transfers Steady
U S Education Commissioner Sidney P. Marland Jr says public schools easily absorb large numbers of students from closing parochial schools. He notes a leveling public population due to a birth-rate drop and cites Nixon warning of rising costs if nonpublic schools vanish.
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Washington
UPS
U.S
Sidney P. Marland Jr
Marland
Nixon
National Catholic Education Association
NCEA
America
Tremors Hit Ancona as Port City Sees Mass Flight
Ancona Italy suffered 40 earthquakes up to ninth degree on the Mercalli scale leaving about 100000 residents evacuated. One dead dozens injured as walls collapse and damage tops 170 million dollars prompting widespread refuge in countryside parks buses and trains.
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Ancona
Rains Continue Over Area With Showers Likely
Light showers persisted in Northeast Louisiana with 13 inches of rain reported in the Twin Cities on Wednesday. Expect more showers and thunderstorms this afternoon into Friday with partly cloudy skies and no major temperature changes. Highs in the upper 80s and lows around the 70s. Winds from the south to southeast at 8 to 18 mph. Monroe Airport tallied a Wednesday high of 87 and a low of 73. Saturday to Monday forecast calls for scattered thundershowers each afternoon and evening.
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Louisiana
Twin Cities
Monroe Municipal
U S Combat Deaths Decline In Vietnam Alerts
U S troops killed in action dropped to six last week in Vietnam while 14 Americans were reported missing. Most missing were aboard a C46 transport that disappeared in the central highlands with 14 Americans 11 Vietnamese and six Chinese aboard. South Vietnamese casualties were 632 killed and 2 302 wounded with 167 missing the lowest totals in five weeks.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
U.S. Command
Central Highlands
Tropical disturbance forms off Yucatan drift toward Gulf
A tropical disturbance formed Thursday off the northeast Yucatan Peninsula and drifted northward toward the northwestern Caribbean and southeastern Gulf. The National Hurricane Center reported a low pressure system with 40 mph winds and squalls as reconnaissance planned a late flight into the system. Ships and land stations around the Yucatan Peninsula first reported the budding storm, the Atlantic season’s first.
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Miami
Yucatan Peninsula
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
National Hurricane Center
Inside The News-Star overview
Newspaper page rundown listing sections and features as read, including Abby Lowman Broadway Popenoe classifieds radio TV comics sports theater editorial horoscope women and puzzles across 48 pages. No specific events or figures described beyond the section headers.
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Abby
Lowman
I Comics
van Dellen
Bomb Raids Near Hanoi Suspended
SAIGON AP The United States paused bombing near Hanoi as a goodwill gesture during Podgorny's visit to the North Vietnamese capital. U S jets continued strikes south of Hanoi and targeted northern rail lines and Dong Hoi port, with dozens of bridges and depots destroyed.
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Saigon
United States
Hanoi
Soviet Union
U.S
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Moscow
North Vietnam
Podgorny
Calcutta
Vietnam
America
Dong Hoi
Hue
U.S. Phases Out More Army Units In South Vietnam
The U.S. Command announced the phaseout of 10 Army units in South Vietnam reducing American strength by 1,610 troops. The units include signal battalions aviation detachments security police and engineers as Nixon orders strength down to 49 000 by July 1 from 61 900 the prior week.
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Salgon
U.S. Command
South Vietnam
Nixon
Vietnam
U S Seeks Buyer For Tons Of Cash
Washington AP report on disposal of worn currency as the Treasury eyes buyers for ground up old dollars. Fed banks grind cash rather than burn it due to antiburn laws while two ventures seek uses from drilling mud to roofing felt. Only one buyer, a Kansas outfit, has shown real interest at about ten dollars a ton.
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Washington
U.S
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Treasury Department
Kansas
David Mud and Chemical Co
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
Secret Service
O. 1
Cathay Pacific Plane Crash Kills 81 Including 17 Americans
In Vietnam's central highlands a four engine Convair 880 crashed with 81 aboard, 17 Americans among them. Thomas J. Kenny and five family members were aboard from West Bend Wisconsin. Rescue teams found some bodies but no survivors as search was suspended at dusk.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
West Bend, Wis
Thomas J. Kenny
B.C. Ziegler Co
Roberta
Kathleen
Daniel
Mary Jane
Colleen
Andrew Pick
Cathay Pacific
Singapore
Andrew Kenny
Pick
U.S
Asia
New Daleh
Bangkok
Hong Kong
Passenger’s Dinner Order Sparks Flightroom Laughs
A passenger on a flight tried to order a meal with the joke line Will that be to take out prompting the stewardess to play along and trigger light humor aboard. The zany moment circulated among passengers and cabin crew for a brief onboard chuckle.
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Inside the News-Star
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Nam Dinh
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Tong Kong
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