Nixon Mao Likely Meet in Hangchow During China Trip
Honolulu AP reports President Nixon likely to confer with Mao Tse tung in Hangchow as part of his China itinerary. The Hawaii stopover aims to ease jet lag while Kissinger and Rogers coordinate the talks ahead of Peking.
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Hughes reportedly holed up in Managua hotel
Billionaire Howard Hughes is believed confined on the eighth floor of Managua's Intercontinental Hotel with a US spokesman saying he will stay in Nicaragua indefinitely. Officials note Hughes may pursue investments here and avoid contact with outsiders amid security concerns.
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Andreotti forms all Christian Democrat caretaker cabinet
Premier designate Giulio Andreotti announces a minority Christian Democrat cabinet to guide Italy through elections. The plan aims to control electoral machinery while countering the neo Fascist MSI, with Moro Colombo Pella and Rumor in key posts to lead treasury finance and interior.
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Emilio Colombo
Giuseppe Pella
Mariano Rumor
Treasury
Finance
Interior
Viets Down 7 U. S. Planes and Fatalities Reported
Saigon AP reported seven U.S. planes lost in Indochina air operations this week including three shot down over North Vietnam. Six airmen were missing and three killed in other crashes, with one injured. South Vietnam saw Tet cease-fire end and renewed small attacks around Saigon and the central and northern coasts.
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Fierce Winter Storm Hits N. Midwest Areas
The Associated Press reports a fierce winter storm with winds up to 90 mph and heavy blowing snow across Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa. Roads closed in northern Iowa motorists warned against highway travel while schools and bus services were disrupted. A whiteout reduced visibility in parts of Iowa and a secondary Atlantic coast system brought a light snowfall to the Eastern Seaboard. The Weather Service cautioned that the coastal storm may set the stage for a larger disturbance.
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Britain Coal Strike Ends? Union Deliberates on Pay Offer
London AP reports the three man Wilberforce inquiry board proposed weekly increases from 11.70 to 15.60 dollars for Britain's 280000 coal miners, retroactive to Nov 1 for 16 months. Mineworkers union leaders meet to decide acceptance, while government warns of power cuts and industry disruption.
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Blackout Stories Rival Those of London Blitz
AP report from London covers personal blackout tales during a coal strike led power cut. It highlights Mrs Panter who relies on an artificial kidney machine and ice cream vans repurposed as generators, and Sarah Daniel delivering sausages to miners.
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Janet Gladden
Nottingham
John Gielgud
John Mills
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Death penalty ruled unconstitutional by California Supreme Court
AP reports California Supreme Court justices declare the death penalty unconstitutional. In Belfast, Bernadette Devlin and Frank McManus among 13 civil rights protesters sentenced to six months for defying parade ban. Bail set at 100 pounds pending appeal.
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Northern Ireland
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Block Cocaine Shipment Foiled in Martinique Four Arrested
U S and French narcotics agents halted a 1.4 million dollar cocaine shipment bound for the United States. At a beachfront hotel in Fort de France Martinique German Arrogo 44 a Colombian named a major narcotics figure was arrested. Rogelio Gomez 36 another Colombian was seized with Moreno 36 and Salazar 45 in Miami.
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Train Engine Catches Fire in Bronx Delays Penn Central
An engine fire aboard the 6:55 a.m. Norwalk to Grand Central train stalled on 183rd Street, Bronx, delaying about 15 000 Penn Central commuters. Power was cut as firefighters accessed the train and passengers walked on the tracks. Service partly resumed after 45 minutes. The stalled train was later moved by a second engine to Grand Central Terminal.
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Nine antiwar sailors aboard Kitty Hawk flee to sanctuary
The Kitty Hawk carrier carried nine antiwar sailors who hid in two San Diego churches to avoid sailing. Navy investigators took seven crew members into custody about three hours after departure. They were flown to the carrier at sea and two sailors from the oiler Mispillion joined the voyage.
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Vietnam
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Court Upholds Ruling on Desegregation Plan
A federal appeals court upheld a district ruling that the Charlotte Mecklenburg disallegation desegregation plan imposed a heavier busing burden on Black students than on Whites. The court found the plan as first proposed shifted transportation load toward Black students.
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N.C
Iap
Charlottee-Mecklenburg County
James B. MacMillan
Rhode, Wife Kill Self in Md. Council Official Shooting
Earl Rhode, executive secretary of the Cost of Living Council, was shot to death by his wife who then killed herself with an antique derringer in Montgomery County Maryland. Neighbors said Mrs Rhode, 28, seemed troubled by her husband, also 28, working seven days weekly on his job. Police alleged today.
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Earl Rhode
Cost of Living Council
Atique Derringer
Montgomery County
Retired inspector aids foil of $40,000 truck hijacking
In Queens a felonious hijacking spree ended after former Asst Chief Inspector James Knott spotted four men forcing the driver from a Sal's Airline Delivery truck. Knott alerted patrols who pursued and halted the stolen vehicle. One suspect, Nicholas Gruttadauria, was charged with robbery kidnapping and weapons offenses as officers recovered a shotgun and revolver from the truck. The driver Thomas McCray and his helper Walter Corcoran were unharmed and released in Flushing.
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Asst
James Knott
Astoria Boulevard
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Queens
Sal
Kennedy
Knott
of Queens Detectives
Nicholas Gruttadauria
Corona
Democrats and Republicans trade blame for lagging Albany session
In Albany the two party leaders traded charges over inaction with Democrats accusing Republicans of a master plan to do nothing and Republicans retorting that Democrats prefer ending the session to addressing state needs. Each side defended their own approach while ailing leaders were away or ill.
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Assembly Democratic
Stanley Steingut
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Senate
Joseph Zaretzki
Manhattan
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Ipetty
U S Government Studies Chinese Acupuncture Practice
US government scientists have quietly gathered information worldwide on the 5000 year old Chinese medical art of acupuncture. They refuse to discuss with reporters and say the inquiry is informal and professional curiosity driven, not tied to Nixon's China trip.
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