Truce Fails To Stop Rising Vietnam War Casualties
Nearly 15,000 Vietnamese casualties reported in three weeks of the cease-fire as the Joint Military Commission urges all sides to end hostilities and settle disputes by peaceful negotiations. The article notes Article 4 of the Paris cease-fire protocol was not included in the communique and Viet Cong observers remain largely absent.
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Saigon
United States
North
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Joint Military Commission
Paris
Bui Tin
Nguyen van Thieu
Quiet end to bustling Kansas legislative week
The sixth week of the 1973 Kansas Legislature in Topeka closed quietly with brief sessions as school finance remained in committee. GOP caucuses backed a 1.5 percent local option income tax surcharge while debate on key measures such as corporate tax disallowance and the circuit breaker loomed for the week ahead.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Senate
Senate Education Committee
House
Robert Docking
GOP
Robert Bennett
Education Committee
House Assessment and Taxation Committee
Docking
Docking criticizes GOP leadership in Kansas for blocking tax relief
Gov. Robert Docking denounces autocratic Republican leaders who he says force allies to kill the property tax circuit breaker and suppress debate. He accuses them of gagging legislators, dictating calendars, and pressuring votes on bingo legalization while ignoring individual taxpayers.
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Southeast
Kansas
Docking
House
Senate
GOP
Bingo
US China Talks Move Toward Normalized Ties After Kissinger
Tokyo reports quote Asahi Shimbun on concrete steps toward normalizing U S China relations after Kissinger visit. Proposed measures include trade missions, exchange of newsmen, and boosted economic ties. Observers say an understanding on massive Taiwan troop withdrawal may follow, though no official meeting details released.
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Tokyo
China
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Japan
Asahi Shimbun
U.S
Taiwan
Asahi
Kissinger
Weather County Forecast Travel Advisory Tonight Snow
Travel advisory for tonight with occasional snow accumulating 1 to 3 inches by late tonight. Sunday mostly cloudy and slightly warmer. Lows tonight in the low to mid 20s, highs Sunday in the 30s. Precipitation chances: 60 percent tonight, 20 percent Sunday. Historic temps noted: high Friday 24, low today 14, record highs 75 in 1913, record low 22 in 1903. Hourly readings end at 8 am. Barometer 0.37.
Former Ottawa Mayor and Herald Reporter Dies at 73
Lamar Phillips, 73, longtime Herald reporter and former Ottawa mayor, died Friday at Ransom Memorial Hospital after a six week illness. A printer by trade turned flood specialist known as Mr. Flood Control, he spent 20 years at flood control hearings in Washington and received a 1958 Army Corps of Engineers civilian award. He was born February 12, 1900, in Warren Illinois, lived in Neodesha and Chanute before moving to Ottawa, retiring in 1964 but writing occasionally. He served as Ottawa mayor for 16 months starting in 1967 and was survived by none. Funeral services are set for Monday at Lamb Roberts Chapel. Burial in Highland Cemetery.
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Herald
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Phillips
Marais Des Cygnes
S. F. Harris
The
Washington
House
Senate
Missouri Valley Flood Control Association
Army Corps of Engineers
Warren
Ill
Neodesha
Coffeyville
Chanute
Tribune
Vola Madge Lercy
Independence
Lamb- Roberts Chapel
James McCrossen
Highland Cemetery
Fog Delays POW Flight Landing At Alameda Base
Twenty more former American prisoners of war head home from Clark Air Base after fog forces landing at Alameda Naval Air Station instead of Travis. The 8,000 mile journey ends for 20 of the 143 released this week, with 379 more Americans still due for repatriation. Francisco Caamano Deno, rebel leader in 1965 Dominican civil war, and two guerrillas were killed as government forces hunted insurgents near Santo Domingo.
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Alameda
Calif
San Francisco
Travis Air Force Base
Alameda Naval Air Station
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Pentagon
U.S
Hanoi
Navy
Harry T. Jenkins Jr
Washington, D.C
Clark
Cmdr
Everett Alvarez Jr
Santa Clara
Vietnam
Tangee
Alvarez
Army
Floyd Thompson
Thompson
State Department
Douglas E. Ramsey
Boulder City
Nev
Air Force
Robinson Risner
Tulsa
Okla
Risner
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Francisco Caamano Deno
Herberto Lalane
Jose Wellington Ascanio
Caamano
Juan Bosch
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Dick Rogers
Manhattan
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Norman Gaar
Gaar
House Committee On Commercial and Financial Institutions
UCCC
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Pittsburg
Ramsey
Richard Springman
Long Beach
Cottonwood
Ariz
Letterman General Hospital
Springman
Cambodia
Raymond 0. Schrump
Tomahawk
Wisc
Travis
Dee Lapson
Schrump
Dominican
Cuba
Joaquin Balaguer
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