Brezhnev Pushes Detente in May Day Address
Leonid Brezhnev opened the May Day parade in Red Square with a speech urging detente with the United States Western Europe and Japan. He pledged peaceful futures with France West Germany and other states and noted stronger Soviet American relations while warning of hostile forces. He called the Soviet position stronger and cited the Lenin Peace Prize awarded to him as a prelude to the celebration.
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Moscow
Leonid 1. Prezhnev
Red Square
United States
Brezhnev
Japan
Ouachita River Crest Forecast Revised To 48 Feet By May 10
The National Weather Service raised the Ouachita River crest forecast to 48 feet by May 10, surpassing the previous 47 foot projection. Monroe gauge shows 46.4 feet this morning with rising levels expected through Friday, while area rivers remain under flood alert and precautions advised.
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Ouachita River
National Weather Service
Monroe
The
Weather Service
Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Ouachita, Black
Red
Columbia Lock
Jonesville Lock
Alexandria
Red River
City of
Acme
FBI Agents Guard White House Files Amid Watergate Probe
FBI agents stood outside key White House offices including Haldeman Ehrlichman and Dean as President Nixon moves to protect files likely needed for the expanding Watergate investigation. Press secretary Ziegler called it a safeguarding procedure with no cast against individuals.
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Washington
FBI
White House
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
H. R. Haldeman
John Eb. Ehrlichman
John
Inside The News-Star Section Details
The listing shows the News-Star contents by section including Abby Lowman Broadway Radio-TV Classified Sports Comics Theater Crossword Van Dellen Editorial Women Horoscope Weather Jumble and page counts across 22 pages. It outlines panel positions and page assignments for 2 sections and 2B 7A 8A 5B 10A 4B 4A 1B 6A 5A 5B.
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Lowman
Radio-Tv
van Dellen
Be Kind to Animals Week Aims to Aid Flood Strays
Mrs. Mary Edwards of Ouachita Parish Humane Society urges motorists to slow down as animals seek high ground amid floods. The society distributes food for stranded animals along White's Ferry Road and D Arbonne Lowlands to lure them away from highways while pursuing broader shelter efforts.
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Mary Edwards
Ouachita Parish
White’s Ferry Road
D’arbonne
Storm Dumps New Rains In Flood Areas
A powerful spring storm dumped heavy snow over the northern Rockies and spawned tornadoes hail and downpours across the region forcing road closures and flood warnings. Eleven deaths reported and flood damages exceed 399 million with over 11 million acres still under water as crests move southward.
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Kan
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Rawlins
Wyo
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Tex
Corps of Army Engineers
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Iowa
Mississippi River Commission
Mississippi
Commission
Mississippi River
Nixon seeks 2.9 billion in foreign aid to Congress
President Nixon sent a 2.9 billion foreign aid program to Congress for fiscal 1974. Indochina aid totals 632 million for reconstruction in South Vietnam Laos and Cambodia with no rehabilitation funds for North Vietnam. The plan, about 2.0 billion more than 1972 levels, supports economic and military aid via AID with 1.7 billion for nonmilitary spending next year.
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Nixon
Congress
Indochina
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Senate
House
Agency For International Development
Louisiana Leaders Split Over Nixon Watergate Response
Louisiana lawmakers and political figures expressed mixed support for President Nixon after the resignations tied to Watergate. Rep. F Edward Hebert and Sen. J Bennett Johnson endorsed his actions, while Gov. Edwin Edwards and Republicans urged independent probes and broader accountability.
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Louisiana
Nixon
F. Edward Hebert
Dla
J. Bennett Johnson
Johnston
Edwin Edwards
Chance Of Rain With Mild Spring Temps In Twin Cities
Skies will be partly cloudy to cloudy with mild temperatures in the Twin Cities. Showers and thunderstorms are possible tonight and Wednesday with highs in the lower 80s and lows in the mid 60s. A 60 percent rain chance persists tonight and Wednesday. clearing by late Wednesday.
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Monroe’ Municipal
Senate Votes For Special Watergate Case Prosecutor
The Senate unanimously approved a proposal for President Nixon to appoint a special prosecutor from outside the government to oversee the Watergate investigation. Sen. Charles H. Percy argued for independence, noting the executive branch cannot self investigate.
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Washington
Nixon
Charles H.percy
R-Ii
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Defense
Elliot L. Richardson
Percy
Richardson
Chuckle on politics poster woes and layoffs
Witty remark notes how winners keep jobs while losers are axed and campaign posters remain, a dry take on political fallout and lingering signs.
Solons Call For Market Panel Resignations In Louisiana
Louisiana lawmakers urge resignation of eight member Market Commission after an investigation into loans to Winnfield Minerals. They note an $80 000 1971 loan followed a $250 000 credit and the firm later failed to repay. ex officio member Agriculture Commissioner Dave Pearce is involved.
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Louisiana Market Commission
Winnfield Minerals, Inc
Edward Brady
Houma
Market Commission
Winnfield Minerals
Brady
Joint Legislative Audit Advisory Committee
Dave Pearce
Commssion
Delbert Estes
The
Pearce
Legislative Committee
Jackson B. Davis
Shreveport
Cotton Allotment Transfers Okayed In Louisiana
Louisiana ASCS announces that cotton producers may transfer acreage allotments due to widespread flooding and rains. Transfers require parish committee approval and must involve cotton production on the receiving farm. Twenty four parishes named disaster areas include Avoyelles Bossier Caddo Caldwell Catahoula Concordia DeSoto East Carroll and more.
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Louisiana
Willie F. Cooper
Louisiana Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Cooper
Avoyelles
Bossier
Caddo
Caldwell
Catahoula
Concordia
DeSoto
East Carroll
Franklin
Grant
LaSalle
Madison
Morehouse
Natchitoches
Ouachita
Pointe Coupee
Rapides
Red River
Richtak St. Landry
St. Martin, Tensas, Union and
West Carroll
Butz pledges disaster aid as Delta crop fears rise
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told the Delta Council in Cleveland Mississippi that the Nixon administration will exhaust every means of disaster assistance for flood struck farmers. He urged preservation of cotton production while noting land must dry and waters recede before planting can resume. He praised preproduction selling programs and warned cotton remains in a precarious position amid ongoing floods along the Mississippi River.
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Cleveland, Miss
Earl Butz
Nixon Administration
Delta Council
Butz
Goverment
Mississippi River
Army Engineers
Frank M. Mitchener Jr
Sumner
Ehrlichman Confesses Role in Pentagon Papers Probe
Presidential aide John Ehrlichman told FBI investigators he hired Watergate conspirators G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to probe the Pentagon Papers case and knew of the alleged break in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist’s office, a federal judge disclosed today.
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John Ehrlichman
FBI
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt
Daniel Ellsberg
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