Vern Affirms He'll Run Again
Atty Gen Vern Miller announces re election bid at a Sedgwick County 4 H Building dinner in Wichita. He vows to continue fighting gambling drugs and fraud while balancing campaigning with duties. No other candidates have announced and he cautions elections can still change.
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Vern
Wichita
Kan
Atty
Vern Miller
Miller
Congress
U. S. Senate
Robert Docking
Senate
Docking
Sedgwick County
4-H
Sedgwick
Johnnie Carr
Keith Sandborn
Sandborn
Protester disrupts KOAM TV broadcast in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg Kansas a man with a knife forced a antiwar anti Nixon broadcast at KOAM TV. He appeared bloodied from self inflicted wounds and demanded a youth be allowed to speak on air. The station went off air for about ten minutes before surrender. Police took the man into custody pending investigation.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Koam-Tv
Phil Stearn
Stearn
Nixon
Quebec Labor Leaders Jailed Sparks Widespread Strikes
Protests across Quebec enter a fourth day over the jailing of three labor leaders Louis Laberge Marcel Pepin and Yvon Charbonneau. Workers shut construction sites mines factories and hospitals as editors and broadcasters walk out and newspapers halt. Premier Bourassa rejects amnesty and says appeals possible.
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Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Bourassa
Louis Laberge
Quebec Federation of Labor
Marcel Pepin
Confederation of National Trade Unions
Yvon Charbonneau
Quebec Teachers Corp
Agnew Meets Sato on Japan's North Vietnam stance
In Tokyo, Vice President Agnew and Prime Minister Sato discussed U.S. cuts of supplies to North Vietnam. Sato urged neutrality, signaling Japan would remain impartial. Security forces prepared for demonstrations as Okinawa shifts to Japanese control and protest plans gathered across 81 sites.
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Tokyo
Spiro T. Agnew
Eisaku Sato
U.S
North Vietnam
Washington
Nooi Nobuhiko Ushiba
Sato
Agnew
Nixon
Okinawa
Japan
U. S
Ashiba
Naval An
Love Bugs Invade Central Florida This Spring
In Gainesville Florida an insect specialist from the University of Florida reports a large influx of love bugs this spring. He says birds and predators do not find them tasty and dragonflies also avoid them. The bugs swarm along highways for about four weeks each spring and fall, coating car windshields and grills.
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Gainesville
Fla
Florida
Lawrence A. Hetrick
University of Florida
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Hetrick
Flood Flooding from Guadalupe River Claims Texas Lives
A Guadalupe River crest devastated New Braunfels and Seguin as a late night cloudburst released floodwaters. Eleven people died, about two dozen are missing, and 3,000 plus 1,500 residents evacuated. Restoration crews work amid looting warnings and guarded neighborhoods. Clarence Knetsch, 51, a Secret Service agent and former Lyndon B. Johnson ranch security chief, died helping others.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Guadalupe River
Gulf of Mexico
Seguin
Clarence Knetsch
Secret Service
San Antonio
Knetsch
Lyndon B. Johnson
Guadalupe
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Texas 123
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