US halts minesweeping in North Vietnamese waters
The United States suspended minesweeping operations in Haiphong area amid claims of ceasefire violations and ongoing enemy supplies to South Vietnam. Hanoi said the pause violates the cease-fire and the Pentagon cited the other side's failure to honor Paris accords.
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Saigon
U.S. Navy
Hanoi
Cambodia
South Viet
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
Paris
South Vietnam
United States
U.S
North Vietnam
Pen pals arrange marriage between strangers in Chicago
Ron Word, a 26 year old production engineer, plans to marry Grace Daren Torralba, a 2 year student from Nagaview campus, Philippine Union College, Legazpi. After 18 months of letters and tapes they will wed in the Philippines on May 3, despite never having met.
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Chicago
Ron Word
Philippines
Grace Dardéne Torralba
Ward
Nagaview
Philippine Union College
Legazpi
Luzon
Weather damages Souths fruit crop
Fruit crops, especially peaches, suffer from spring weather with cold spells and heavy rains. Flooding, notably in Mississippi, saturates farmland hindering planting as Mississippi State University extension reports conditions worsening across acres.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Cooperative Extension Service
Mississippi State University
Ray Converse
State Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Converse
State University Extension Service
Chilton County
Ala
John Sparkman
Earl Butz
Illinois Crop Reporting Service
Illinois
Virginia
Ross Byers
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Arkansas
Michigan
Lake Michigan
Student aid bill awaits Nixon OK
Congress sent an emergency aid bill to President Nixon to sustain existing student aid programs totaling 872 million dollars for this year. It funds only 122 million for a new basic grant program, far short of requests, prompting pleas from Sen. Pell for greater future support.
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Nixon
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Sen
Claiborne Pell
D-R.i
Pell
Man jailed after southwest Houston shooting spree leaves 3 dead
Larry De Lon Casey 21 says he held a real grudge for years and signed statements admitting he drove a car and fired a .22 rifle in a Wednesday killing spree. Victims were Beuth Davis 86 Jana Whatley 10 and Claire Jakubowski 3 with two others wounded. He also claimed responsibility for a February 21 grocery store clerk murder during a $70 robbery.
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Houston
Larry de Lon Casey
Casey
Willowhend
Beuth K. Davis
Jana Whatley
Claire Jakubowski
Karen Kurtz
Lynn Tucker
Dorothy Jones Young
Justice of the Peace
Thompson
Police Homicide Division
Theron
Newark
N.J
New York City
Lora
Jakubowski
Kurtz
Tucker
Charlie Armstrong
Armstrong
Edith Bayne
Yvonne Ellis
Bobby
Herman Short
Doris Casey
Honorable discharge comes 67 years late for Brownsville soldier
Ed ward Warfield, aged 89 in Los Angeles, received an honorable discharge today for service up to the Brownsville raid era. He and 166 black soldiers were discharged without honor after Roosevelt's 1906 action. Warfield is one of two known survivors of three infantry companies denied honors over the Brownsville shootings.
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Los Angeles
Edward Warfield
Brownsville
Theodore Roosevelt
Warfield
Tex
Augustus R. Hawkins
Calif
Congress
France
Mass transit lobby fights for highway fund taps
Mass transit forces led by governors and mayors and aide of President Nixon pushed a House vote to tap highway trust funds. Republican floor leader John B. Anderson of Illinois predicted a squeaker but said the votes may be there. Secretary of Transportation Claude S. Brinegar commented.
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Washington
Nixon
John B. Anderson
Illinois
Secretary of Transportation
Claude S. Brinegar
Anderson
Jim Wright
D-Tex
Senate
Congress
Deadline nears for controls as Congress stalls
Washington AP reports wages and prices could escape government limits in 11 days unless Congress acts in one day. Senate killed a parliamentary move to extend Nixon wage price controls, sending the bill back to a conference. House Republicans oppose provisions requiring price justification disclosures.
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Washington
Congress
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate
Nixon
House Senate Conference Committee
John J. Sparkman
Dala
House
Robert Packwood
Oregon
Suspension of Soviet Jewish exit taxes may be temporary
Washington reports that Soviets suspended high exit taxes on Jews emigrating to Israel with no guaranteed permanence. Some officials say the pledge rests on Soviet word and may be reversed, while Henry M. Jackson presses an MFN condition requiring ongoing certification that taxes are not reimposed.
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Washington
White House
Moscow
Kremlin
U. S
Senate
Hugh Scott
Nixon
Israel
Meany Recall of AFL CIO Official Sparks Labor Feud
Washington AP George Meany recalls a top AFL CIO official from Labor Secretary Brennan’s staff amid a feud with ex aide Robert McGlotten who is expected to resign and return to his AFL CIO civil rights post. The dispute ties to wage policy and political remarks involving Nixon and Chavez.
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Washington
George Meany
Aflcio
Peter J. Brennan
Meany
Robert M. McGlotten
Brennan
Afl-Cio
Thomas J. Costigan
Costigan
McGlotten
Labor Department
Federation
White House
Richard
Nixon
Milhous
Pete
Aflcio Teamsters Union
United Farm Workers Union
Cesar Chavez
Chavez
Teamsters
California
Frank Fitzsimmons
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Lon Non
Lon Nol
Phnom Penh
Winifred Cunningham
Pittsburgh
Cunningham
South Africa
Word
Dorsie Willis
Minneapolis, Minn
Mass Transit
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
Jackson
Soviet Union
Labor
Bob McGlotten
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