Nixon DefCon-3 Crisis Averted After Nightlong Defense Turn
President Nixon ordered DefCon-3 after Soviet hints of Middle East troop involvement. Kissinger, Dobrynin talks, and White House meetings sparked a precautionary alert with naval movements and carrier redeployments. UN Security Council later ordered a peacekeeping force.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
America
Soviet Union
Middle East
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Henry A. Kissinger
Dobrynin
Kissinger
State Department
White House
National Security Council
West Wing
State and Defense Departments
CIA
Florida
Homestead Air Force Base
Atlantic
John F. Kennedy
Mediterranean
Oval Office
House
Carl Albert
Moscow
Gerald L. Warren
United Nations Security Council
Mideast
United States
Qval
Israel pressses new cease fire violations as UN force forms
The Associated Press reports Israel accuses Egypt of new cease fire breaches while UN officials assemble a new peacekeeping force. Egypt disputes tanker damage, citing mines, and denies west bank tank attacks. The Siris tanker, tied to Israeli interests, was damaged near the Gulf of Suez. UN troops to depart Cyprus for the Middle East later today.
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Associated Press
Israel
Egypt
U.N
U. N
Security Council
Gulf of Suez
West Bank
Suez Canal
Suez
Cairo
Lloyd's of London
Sinai
Ronald Thomson
Cyprus
Middle
State Jobless Level Down
Gov Docking announced Kansas unemployment fell to 2.8 percent in September with 26,400 jobless out of 955,600 in the civilian labor force. Employment totaled 928,800, including 74,300 in agriculture and 864,500 in nonfarm work. Nonfarm wage and salary employment rose 11,300 from August and 33,200 year over year. manufacturing rose to 160,900. government gained 9,600 as schools reopened. farm employment slipped to 74,300.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas
Docking
Carlson couple injured in Concordia car tractor collision
Former U S Senator Frank Carlson and his wife Alice were injured when their car struck a westbound farm tractor on U S 24 near Concordia Kansas. Both suffered fractures but were reported noncritical. Carlson, 80, retired from politics in 1968 after a long career in Kansas and national government.
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Concordia
Kan
U.S
Frank Carlson
Alice
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Robert Fisher
Senate
Carlson
U.S. 24
Highway Patrol
Gerald L. Link
Aurora
Link
Kansas
U.S. House
Clyde M. Reed
Carlsons
Ford and UAW reach tentative national contract deal
Ford and the United Auto Workers reported a tentative national contract for about 185,000 workers with a key point offering 25 year retirement with full benefits for foundry staff. negotiations faced a strike deadline and focused on overtime limits and foundry early retirement.
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Detroit
Ford
United Auto Workers
Cleveland
Ohio
UAW
Ford World
Dearborn
Leonard Woodcock
Ford Uaw
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Simcha Dinitz
UN Force
Dim Warnock
Roy Brown Ford
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the Gas Service Company
D.E. Young
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Victor
Lincoln
Independent Welding Services, Inc
N. Main
Ottawa
Rand
Southwestern Bell
P.O
St. Louis
Missouri
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