Nixon receives warm Romania welcome on first Communist capital visit
President Nixon arrived in Bucharest to a thunderous reception with crowds shouting Nixon and waving US and Romanian flags. He and Nicolae Ceaușescu toured crowds, shook hands, and pledged US readiness to help Europe live free from fear of war. Nixon urged frank talks and peaceful coexistence during talks with Ceaușescu before heading to Britain.
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Romania
Nixon
United States
Europe
Nicolae Ceausescu
U.S
Nian
Earth
Ceausescu
Britain
Harold Wilson
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yalta
Stalin
Ottawa School District 290 moves to new office quarters
The Ottawa School District 290 relocated to 420 S. Main this week from 114 W. 3rd, after two months of remodeling. Superintendent Marvin P. Forker described the design, including a corridor with reference shelves and a machine counter, a receiving room for shipments and the district’s 35 reel film library. The project, planned five years, was largely done by four shop teachers and involved architect KB. Skidmore and Welborn Electrical Service with T & W Refrigeration. The building is owned by Ottawa Lodge AF and AM.
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Ottawa School District 290
S. Main
W. 3Rd
Marvin P. Forker
Main
Walnut
Forker
Board of Education
Ottawa
P. R. Jamison
Mike Newmaster
Ron Spencer
Dewayne Grace
Cecil Spratt
Police seek link between EMU slayings and motorcyclist
Ypsilanti Michigan AP police press case ties motorcycle enthusiast John N Collins 6 ft tall Eastern Michigan senior to Karen Beineman death and six other unsolved slayings of young women in Ann Arbor Ypsilanti area over two years. Beineman 18 vanished July 23 after leaving wig shop with a young man. Collins held without bond after Friday charge of strangulation. Preliminary hearing set for Thursday. Sandy Fleszar 20 sister Mary fatally stabbed in first slaying. Victims Mary Fleszar and Joan Schell EMU students nearby. Collins formerly worked near Fleszar. Neighbors describe him as polite and athletic but moody.
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Ypsilanti, Mich
Michigan
John N. Collins
Karen Sue Beineman
Eastern Michigan University
Collins
Eastern Michigan
Ann Arbor
Ypsilanti
Booker T. Williams
Washtenaw County
Sandy Fleszar
Willis
Mary
Mary Fleszar
Joan Schell
Miss Fleszar
Center Line
Moody
Mariner 7 Cameras Survive Meteorite Jolt
In Pasadena AP reports Mariner 7 sent two good test pictures as it neared Mars despite a meteorite impact scare. Flight controllers ordered tests before an initial 34 approach shots from over a million miles away.
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Mariner 7
Pasadena
Calif
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mariner 6
Earth
US Bombers Strike Near Saigon Amid Heavy Raids
Saigon trembled as B52 bombers hit bases around the capital in 11 raids Friday and four more today. Ground fighting was light while U S fighter-bombers and armored units clashed near Trang Bang, with casualties on both sides and a helicopter collision near Chu Lai killing six Americans. A 750 man battalion of the 9th Infantry Division heads to Hawaii as part of Nixon's troop withdrawal.
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Saigon
Chau Doc
U.S
Trang Bang
Air Force
Chu Lai
South Vietnam
Collins Reunion With The Good Ship Columbia
Collins visits Apollo 11 capsule Columbia in quarantine at Space Center Houston and says with repairs the burnt spacecraft could fly again. Armstrong and Aldrin join, inscribing a note on the ship while technicians finish unloading gear and deactivating systems.
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Space Agency
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Spacecraft 101
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Aldrin
Ronald J. Buffum
George Williams
Buffum
Williams
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