Navy battles Laos raids with fewer carriers
The 7th Fleet operates with four aircraft carriers after Constellation’s departure and Enterprise’s outage. Despite reduced strength, raids on Laos continue at similar intensity as crews stay dedicated. Casualties include seven Americans and six Koreans killed in combat, plus civilian deaths from attacks near Saigon. Police in Saigon arrest a Viet Cong squad planning attacks at Tan Son Nhut and police headquarters.
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Saigon
U.S
Laos
Constellation
United States
William F. Bringle
7Th Fleet
Western Pacific
Villians
Tan Son Nhut
Notre Dame Conference Faces Censorship Clash
Police seized a film during a Notre Dame censorship conference provoking student protests and a campus march. Faculty denounced police intrusion as the event finished early amid debates on pornography and academic freedom.
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Notre Dame
South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
William Kk. Voor Jr
Ncowland Science
Cathy Cecil
Miss Cecil
St. Mary's College
Voor
F. Richard Rembusch
Theodore M. Hesburgh
Hesburgh
Finch Signals OEO Rethink Could End Name Changes
Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch said the Nixon administration will keep the embattled Office of Economic Opportunity but did not promise major changes. He indicated programs might have their names altered or shifted to other agencies in a broad news conference Friday.
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Washington
Robert H. Finch
Nixon
Office of Economic Opportunity
Finch
Commerce and Labor Departments
Bureau of the Budget
Brazil President tightens grip by recessing state legislatures
President Arthur da Costa e Silva widened his crackdown by indefinitely recessing five state legislatures and purging 33 legislators. He also announced a national committee to probe subversion, signaling an expanded bid to curb opposition amid alleged corruption in Sao Paulo Pernambuco Guanabara Sergipe and Rio de Janeiro.
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Arthur da Costa E Silva
Brazil
da Costa E Silva
Sao Paulo
Pernambuco
Guanabara
Sergipe
Rio de Janeiro
Federal Congress
Farmer Slated For Key Post In Nixon Admin
Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch announced plans to appoint James Farmer to a major position within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Farmer, 49, former national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, is the first African American named to a major post in the Nixon administration.
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Washington
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nixon
Robert H. Finch
Farmer
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Finch
Auto Warranties Protect Maker, FTC Hearing Told
Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission says auto warranties mainly protect manufacturers and not buyers. He spoke at a hearing where Howard E. Crawford of General Motors protested an FTC report accusing most makers of failing to meet warranty promises.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Philip Elman
Elman
Howard E. Crawford
General Motors Corp
FTC
Russell Sage Coeds Picket in Frigid Troy Meeting
About 150 Russell Sage College coeds picketed a Board of Trustees meeting in Troy New York despite 15 degree weather demanding greater voice in college affairs. They carried signs such as Freedom Not Authoritarianism as trustees and student leaders discussed the protesters' demands inside.
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Troy
N.Y
Russell Sage College
Board of Trustees
City
Troy Club
Patman Eyes Rebozo Lease Guarantee Probe
House Banking Chair Wright Patman signals a possible inquiry into the SBA 20 year rent guarantee for a Miami shopping center tied to Charles G. Bebe Rebozo. He cites concern over a SBA employee who helped approve the guarantee and had close ties to Rebozo.
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House Banking and Currency Committee
Charles G
Bebe” Rebozo
Miami, Fla
Small Business Administration
SBA
Rebozo
England Snow Storm Disrupts Railways Across Britain
A light snowstorm in Britain disrupted railroads with frozen switches as crowds gathered at London stations. Coventry warned residents to stay indoors with three inches of snow. Dozens of sports events were canceled including soccer matches expected to draw large crowds. Arsenal was the only club with under‑turf heating to keep its field usable.
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London
Britain
Coventry
Arsenal of London
Second Pueblo Sailor Sunday Treks to Altar
CORONADO Calif AP Wedding bells will ring for the second of the freed Pueblo crewmen Quartermaster J C Charles B Law Jr 27 and a San Diego secretary plan to marry Sunday Law said Friday he met Marie Cherry 35 at a party shortly after the 82 crewmen of the captured U S intelligence ship had been freed by North Korea The couple plans to marry at a restaurant on nearby Shelter Island Last month a shipmate Store keeper 3 C Edward S Russell and Sharon McCartney married after a long engagement.
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Coronado
Calif
Pueblo
J.C. Charles B. Law Jr
San Diego
Law
Marie Cherry
U.S
North Korea
Shelter Island
Edward S. Russell
Sharon McCartney
Rockefeller seeks no-file insurance rate plan in New York
Gov Rockefeller unveils legislation to boost consumer protection and price competition in New York insurance. The proposal would let insurers set property and liability rates without prior approval, a no-file system drawing opposition from lawmakers who doubt rate reductions.
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Albany, N.Y
Rockefeller
New York State
Richard F. Stewart
California
Stewart
Rickefeller
New York City
Bernard G. Gordon
Rpeekskill
Alfred D. Lerner
Queens
Assembly Insurance Committee
Mrs Minnie Tillapaugh Celebrates 101st Birthday
Mrs Minnie Tillapaugh plans a 101st birthday in Beadle Nursing Home discussions with nurse Miss Roberta Baker. She was born February 9 1868 in Point Peninsula Jefferson County and lived many years in Minetto, crediting good living and self care for her long life.
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Minnie Tillapaugh
Roberta Baker
Beadle Nursing Home
Miss Tillapaugh
Point Peninsula
Jefferson County
Minetto
Massive pot party bust nets 108 teens in Queens home
In Queens police seized 108 youths at a private home raid including 68 aged 10 to 15. Officers found heroin and marijuana and confiscated nine knives a loaded .22 revolver a starter pistol and imitation pistols. Forty others faced drug and weapon charges.
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New York
Queens
Selden
Bronx
New York University
New York City
Middletown
Orange County
Sullivan County
Two Philippine boats capsized with many missing
Late wire report from Manila says two boats capsized in southern Philippine waters. As many as 95 presumed drowned per Daily Mirror. A passenger boat overturned off Lanao del Norte with about 100 aboard. two survivors reported. A fishing boat capsized off Lanao del Sur. nine rescued and unknown number missing.
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Manila
Philippine
Daily Mirror
Lan
Ao del Norte
Lanao del Sur
Fire claims life of Watertown woman in basement
Miss Lottie V. Dickhout aged 75 died in a house fire in Watertown New York. Firefighters found her body in the basement near the furnace where the blaze is believed to have started.
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Watertown
Lottie V. Dickhout
Jet fighter crash in Kanasawa area kills four
A Japanese air force F104 jet crashed in a densely populated district near Kanasawa causing a fire that killed four people and destroyed a quarter of homes. Officials recovered two bodies and reported twenty injuries.
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Kanasawa
Japan
Man Charged in Depew Kidnapping and Assault
A 44 year old Avoca man, Clayton A. Scott, was charged in Depew with second degree kidnapping second degree assault and possession of a dangerous weapon after police say he grabbed a 12 year old boy at gunpoint and drove around with him for about four hours. The boy’s identity was not released and Scott remained in Erie County Jail.
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Avoca
Erie County
Depew
Buffalo
Clayton A. Scott
Corning
Rockefeller names Hall to State Banking Board and Cannon as special assistant
Rockefeller appointed Leonard W. Hall a former Republican national chairman to the State Banking Board. In a separate move he named James M. Cannon, a veteran political writer, as special assistant to improve ties between the governor, New York's congressional delegation and the Nixon administration.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller Today
Leonard W. Hall
State Banking Board
Rockefeller
James M. Cannon
Governor
New York
Nixon
Priest resigns pastor role to wed former beauty queen
Catholic priest Francis X. Burns, 44, resigns as pastor in Delaware after marrying Joanne Sakowski Burns, 33, a former Delaware beauty queen and Du Pont secretary. They wed in a Catholic service and a civil ceremony, with Burns declaring he will remain a Catholic priest until death while noting loneliness and waning vocations in a letter to church officials.
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Husband
Delaware
Francis X. Burns
Burns
Catholic
The
du Pont Co
Nixon Orders Schedule For Facts Release
President Nixon directs government statistics agencies to publish figures on a strict timetable to avoid political timing. A White House adviser says the aim is to create an open administration and restore public confidence by pre announcing release dates for key reports.
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Washington
Nixon
Conesus Man Struck by Cat Kills Passenger at Route Intersections
A Conesus man identified as Eugene A. Lowrey died early Saturday after being struck by a cat at the intersection of routes 20A and 15 in Livonia Livingston County police said.
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Livonia
N.Y
Livingston County
Eugene A. Lowrey
Hobart College Students Arrested on Flag Charges
Six Hobart College students in Geneva were arraigned in Ontario County Court on charges of mutilating and dies. The brief report notes the incident occurred in Canandaigua New York with the AP.
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Hobart College
Canandaigua
Geneva
Ontario
Gener& Business Law
Hobart
United States of America
Christopher C. Addison
Washington, D. C
Kenneth W. Gilbert
Virginia Beach
Ralph L. Tucker
Burlington
Mass
Mark N. Weiss
Laurelton
Elliott S. Lewitt
West Orange
N. J
Peter J. Sanderson
Ridgeway
Princess Grace Attends Quebec Regency Ball
Princess Grace of Monaco attended the Quebec Winter Carnival Regency Ball dressed as Napoleon’s Josephine in a honey and lemon organza gown. She was escorted by Michel Pasquin and danced with guests including Mayor Gilles Lamontagne as the festival opened.
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Quebec
Grace
Monaco
Napoleon
Josephine
Michel Pasquin
Montreal
Grace Kelly
Prince Ranier
Gilles Lamontagne
Oil Well Capped by Mud After Massive Spill
The underwater well six miles offshore near Santa Barbara was halted by a large mud dose and cement plug after 12 days of leakage. About 21,000 gallons daily flowed, coating 30 miles of beaches and harming wildlife. cleanup crews, led by Union Oil and federal officials, will take about three days to restore beaches under heavy cement sealant and steam cleaning where needed.
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Union Oil Co
Calif
Fritz Springman
Union
Springman
Heaid
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Muskie
Senate
Coast Guard
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