Towns Help Sought For The Starving Biafra Aid Drive
Westminster United Presbyterian Church in Kansas plans a Biafra relief service with dialogue by Judith Kahane on the crisis. Afterward parishioners can write to representatives, sign a petition for a mercy airlift, and donate at a church collection point. A dime could save one child for a day.
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Ottawa
Westminster United Presbyterian Church
Kansas
Robert Docking
Biafra
Heaven
Roger Greenslade
Greenslade
Judith Kahane
University of Kansas
Biafra-Nigeria
Roy Menninger
U.S. Committee For Unicef
State of
United Nations
United States
Great Britain
Hope Dim On Pueblo Exchange Strains in Talks
Washington reports official hope nearly vanish for release of the USS Pueblo crew as U S and North Korean negotiators prepare to meet at Panmunjom for the 26th time since the ship and 82 crewmen were seized last January 23.
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Washington
Panmunjom
North Korea
Moscow
Peking
United States
Wonsan
North Vietnam
Michigan Atty General Replies to Fifth Grade Student
Lansing based Atty General Frank Kelley received a letter from a New York fifth grader asking for all information on the United States. The office plans to send material on Michigan laws to the youth.
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Lansing, Mich
Frank Kelley
New York
United States
Bombs Slam Saigon Perimeter To Break Red Concentrations
Saigon imposes a curfew on U S troops in the capital district as B 52 raids continue. 1800 tons of explosives dropped to blunt enemy advances while 52 secondary explosions indicate hits on ammunition. Navy says enemy actions rise on rivers west and north west of Saigon. two sailors killed and 14 wounded in four attacks. US forces alert at Ben Cat Phu Duong as intelligence notes four North Vietnamese divisions near the Cambodian border.
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U.S
Capital Military
Strategic Air Command
Okinawa
Guan
Thailand
U.S. Navy
Cambodia
Navy
Ben Cat
Associated Press
Peter Arnett
Binh Duong
Phu Duong
South Vietnam
Laird Hopes For Viet War End Next Year
Washington AP Melvin R. Laird, in his first Pentagon news conference after meeting with Clark Clifford, hopes the Vietnam War ends by the time he drafts his first defense budget late next year. He pledged careful, restrained spending and said defense's primary duty is to restore and maintain global peace. Laird expressed optimism about peace prospects but did not indicate an imminent agreement with Hanoi.
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Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Pentagon
Clark M. Clifford
Vietnam
Clifford
Paris
Hanoi
Wisconsin
United States
Russia
Nixon
No Progress In Paris
Expanded talks to end the Vietnam war stalled over conference table shape. North Vietnam called the latest U S compromise as unacceptable. Cyrus Vance met Col Ha Van Lau and proposed four diagrams including a donut table with secretarial desks.
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Paris
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Col
Ha van Lau
Vance
Ing
United States
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Lau
Fire destroys Kansas State Nichols Gymnasium complex
A Friday night blaze at Kansas State Universitys 57 year old Nichols Gymnasium left the three story stone building an empty shell. The fire damaged KSAC and KSDB FM radio stations the music department and women’s physical education facilities with two pools ruined. No injuries were reported but investigators suspected arson as explosions continued into freezing morning hours.
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Kan
Nichols
Kansas State University
Sunflower
Ahearn
KSAC
Ksdb-Fm
Porter Hackett
Campus
K-State Music Department
University
K-State
Anderson Hall
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Pueblo
Red China
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Noel Dagenette
Gary Hobbs
Larry Lynn
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