Bombings and killings in Northern Ireland strain Belfast amid violence
In Belfast and across Northern Ireland gunmen killed a 20 year old Catholic passerby, wounded a British soldier, and injured a paramedic in a spate of bombings. A 51 year old grandmother defused a live bomb while an oil truck bomb was defused in Lisburn. The violence, linked to the Irish Republican Army, aims to gut Belfast center by Christmas.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Margaret McCorry
Francis Gillan
Irish Republican Army
Violet Hamilton
Hamilton
Lisburn
Garrett Towns Viet Toll Highest Of Entire State
In Friendsville Maryland six local residents died in Vietnam shaping a grim record for Garrett County. Air Force Sgt. Tommy Fike the last to die on December 4 1971 raised the town’s toll to one of every 100 residents. Other fallen include Marine Lance Cpl Ross Fike Army Spec 4 Wayne Hook Army Spec 4 Roger Garlick Marine Danny Nicklow and Airman Norman E Thomas. Citizens recall the losses as they mourn and reflect on the war’s impact on their small community.
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Cap
Vietnam
Air Force
Tommy Fike
Garrett County
Fike
Maryland
Marine
Pfe
Danny Nicklow
Lance Cpl
Ross Fike
Army
Wayne Hook
Roger Garlick
Norman E. Thomas
Wayne Friend
Garrett
Garrick
Ross
Karol Rush
Quan Loi Air Base
Emerson
Virginia Francis Fike
Tommy
Mrs. Fike
Nixon Gift of Lincoln Portrait to White House Staff
President and Mrs. Nixon will present full-time White House staff with velvet-cased 8x10 color print of George Healy 1869 portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The image, which graces the State Dining Room, shows Lincoln with elbow on knee and head in hand. Distribution count not released. volunteers who decorated the East and State Rooms earned a photo session with Mrs. Nixon and Julie Eisenhower.
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Nixon
White House
George Healy
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
East Room
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Walt
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Bernice Rodeheaver
Danny
Nicklow
Ralph Garlick
Margaret Garlick
Nixons
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
COAL
Fuel Oil and Coal & Oi Co
Frederick Motor CO
Club Wagon
Motor Company
FORD
West
Patrick Street
Frederick
Prince Gardner
Esquire Leisure Footwear
Fairfield
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