Victory For Electoral Reform Overwhelming Victory
Washington AP reports the House approved a proposed constitutional amendment for direct popular election of the president by a wide margin 38570 with bipartisan support. Supporters hope for Senate passage and state ratification, despite uncertain Senate prospects and Judiciary Committee opposition. House sponsor Emanuel Celler hailed passage as a historic achievement while acknowledging his long tenure and near life’s end.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Bayh
Senate
George Washington
Emanuel Celler
D-N,v
Nixon
Celler
Shakeup at OEO Prompts Large Staffing Reassignments
Washington AP reports the Office of Economic Opportunity plans a drastic headquarters shakeup. CEO Donald Rumsfeld sent a memo to 1,100 staff listing about 900 with definite new assignments while roughly 100 workers were placed in a pool awaiting future duties. Some in the lower salary range fear being phased out as the agency reorganizes. An OEO spokesman denied a blacklist but gave no job guarantees.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Donald Rumsfeld
OEO
Nixon
Colorado Springs
Cola
Gromyko Urges Military Exit From Vietnam War
At the United Nations General Assembly Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged the United States to end the Vietnam conflict by renouncing military and other interference in Vietnam. He defended Hanoi's peace proposals and reaffirmed Kremlin support for North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, while ruling out early U.S.-Soviet progress on the Middle East.
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United Nations, N.Y
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
U.N. General Assembly
Gromyko
Nixon
Hanoi
Kremlin
North Vietnam
Middle East
Fatah claims massive attacks on Israel clash
Al Fatah spokesman in Amman reports hundreds of commandos attacked 14 Jordan Valley positions with claims of two Israeli observation posts and three advance posts destroyed. Israel counters with only a single skirmish, four Arab saboteurs dead, and four reports of light arms fire. The Israeli spokesman mocks the claim.
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Associated Press
al Fatah
Israel
Amman
Jordan Valley
Val
Weather County Forecast Puts Emphasis on Warm Saturday
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday. Low in upper 50s tonight, high around 80 on Saturday. Thursday’s high 73, today’s low 49, record high 102 in 1984, record low 38 in 1938. Barometer 30.22.
Parents Still Against Autopsy in Mary Jo Kopechne Case
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania counsel for Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents says they will keep fighting in court to stop Massachusetts from exhuming her body for an autopsy. They dispute claims of blood in her nose and mouth on her clothing when removed from Senator Edward M Kennedy’s submerged car last July 19.
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Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Mary Jo Kopechne
Massachusetts
Joseph Flanagan
Mary Jo
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Flagman's Status Looking Up By Ed McGrath
Katie Staneart a 24 year old woman becomes a flagman for a construction firm on the K 68 project near Forest Park. She left Kansas City after a month visiting her parents and accepted the job at 2 50 an hour starting at 7 a m. She says she has no special training and plans not to continue in the field though pay is decent.
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ED McGrath
Katie Staneart
Forest Park
Steaneart
Orville Staneart
Miss Stan
Staneart
Kansas City
California
Navy
Marais Des Cygnes
Flagman
Nixon halts draft calls for November December
President Nixon announced the cancellation of all November and December draft calls and ordered 29 000 October inductions to be spread over three months, averaging under 10 000 per month. He cited Vietnam troop withdrawals and lower manpower needs.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Vietnam
Congress
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Selective Service
Ronald L. Ziegler
Bombing raids dominate Vietnam action near Saigon
U S bombing sorties along the Cambodian border total 1200 tons as eight waves of B-52s strike North Vietnamese base camps northwest of Saigon. Ground fighting remains light but Marines and Cavalry units report attacks, casualties, and the withdrawal order by President Nixon aims to reduce U S troop strength by 35,000 before December 15. Col Dale J Crittenberger dies in a Mekong Delta helicopter collision.
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Vietnam
Laird
Nixon
Saigon
U.S
Washington
South Vietnam
1St Air Cavalry Division
3Rd Marine Division
Dong Ha
Demilitarized Zone
Col
Dale J. Crittenberger
Mekong Delta
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