Fly Freed By Guerrillas In Uruguay After Heart Attack
American agronomist Claude L. Fly, 65, was released by Tupamaro guerrillas near Montevideo after a heart attack. He and Dr. Jorge Dighiero were found blindfolded in a truck outside a hospital. Fly is expected to remain in the hospital about a month.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Claude L. Fly
Fly
Jorge Dighiero
U.S
Charles Adair
Fort Collins
Colo
John
William P. Rogers
John Fly
Dighiero
Tupamaros
Latin America
Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide
Geoffrey Jackson
Dan Mitrione
Richmond
Ind
Dias Gomide
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Mitrione
Pacheco Areco
State Department
No Arrests Made In Capitol Blast
The Capitol bombing sparked theories false bomb scares and a credit-claim letter from the Weather Underground. FBI silence and ongoing checks followed as the Senate weighed security measures and officials dismissed inside-job claims.
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Capitol
FBI
Laos
Congress
Defense Department
Associated Press
New York Post
Weather Underground
Elizabeth
N.J
Ing
Powell
Mitchell
House Committee On Internal Security
Weatherman Organization
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
New York
House Votes to End Secret Voting on Amendments
The House of Representatives moves to record teller votes on amendments for the first time, adopting a rules package from this Congress. The change aims to curb secret balloting, boost accountability, and improve attendance on the House floor during debates on debt limits and bond provisions.
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Washington
House of Representatives
House
Federal Government Places Ban on Whaling
AP reports the U S government under Secretary Maurice H Stans banned Del Monte Fishing Co from continued whaling in the Pacific near San Francisco Bay The move aims to protect remaining whales as the company planned an eight month season starting April 1 Del Monte employs 40 workers and operates three 103 foot ships from Richmond California The International Whaling Commission set 1971 quotas for Del Monte including 40 finbacks 75 sperm and 51 sei whales
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New Bedford
Mass
U.S
Pacific
Golden Gate
Maurice H. Stans
del Monte Fishing Co
Charles Cairo
del Monte
Richmond
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Cairo
North Pacific
Russia
Japan
United States
Stans
International Whaling Commission
Missiles Fire by North Vietnam Over South Vietnam
North Vietnam fired SAM2 surface to air missiles at U S planes over South Vietnam for the first time in the Indochina war. U S sources warned of possible retaliatory air strikes as heavy fighting persists in Laos near Hill 30 and along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Pao Bao
Indochina
Cambodia
Demilitarized Zone
Nixon
Dmz
East Pakistan troops patrol capital after general strike violence
Troops in trucks and jeeps equipped with machine guns patrolled Dacca after 24 hours of looting and mob violence sparked by a general strike protesting the postponement of the constitutional assembly., The rest of the text is parts from Vietnam war updates describing Thieu’s remarks and U S response.
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Dacca
East Pakistan
Constitutional Assembly
Conte presses SST hearing over Garwin memo claims
Rep. Conte cites a two year old Garwin memo calling the SST an economic fiasco and environmental disaster. Volpe dismisses the memo as outdated while Dr. James E. McDonald warns 500 SST flights could raise skin cancer cases by thinning ozone. Udall brands the SST as an airborne Edsel and urges funding for city and environmental problems.
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Washington
Silvio O. Conte
R-Mass
Garwin
Volpe
Richard L. Garwin
White House
Nixon
Conte
New York
James E. McDonald
National Academy of Sciences
U.S
McDonald
Stewart L. Udall
Coalition
Christie honored by Queen with Dame Commander order
Mystery writer Agatha Christie, 80, received the Order of Dame Commander of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in a Tuesday ceremony. In private life she is Lady Mallowan, wife of archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan.
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London
Agatha Christie
Buckingham Palace
Mallowan
Max Mallowan
Pot Quality Gone To Pot
Pima County deputies burned about 250000 dollars in marijuana and drugs seized as evidence and found infestations of bugs and worms in about 150 packages. Some bricks contained alfalfa cow manure and chili peppers hidden under poor grade cannabis.
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Tucson
Ariz
Pima County
Ted Brandes
Mr. Sammler's Planet Wins National Book Award
Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet wins the 1970 National Book Award fiction prize in a ceremony marked by a poet’s corner tempest. Mona Van Duyn takes the poetry prize. Allen Ginsberg denounces the judges’ selections from the podium.
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Mr. Sammler
Bellow
Mona van Duyn
Allen Ginsberg
Hotel Biltmore
Gregory Corso
Erich Segal
Augie March
Herzog
Viking Press
Upper West Side
National Book Committee
Sebastian
Lloyd Alexander
E.P. Dutton
America
Raymond Phineas Stearns
University of Illinois Press
Frank Jones
Bertolt Brecht
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Indiana University Press
Edward G. Seidensticker
Yasunari Kawabata
Alfred A. Knopf
FTC Orders Dent Detergents to Drop Washday Miracles Claims
Three major detergent makers Lever Brothers Colgate Palmolive and Procter & Gamble agree to FTC consent orders disclosing that enzyme additives do not perform washday miracles and must specify limitations on stain removal. McDonalds agrees to stop similar deceptive sweepstakes practices and ensure prize accuracy and disclosure.
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Lever Brothers
Colgate-Palmolive
Procter & Gamble
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
McDonald’s
Colgate - Palmolive
Colgate- Palmolive
Axion
McDonald’s Corp
McDonald’s Systems, Inc
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Hanoi
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