Thanksgiving holiday highway fatalities and injuries forecast
The National Safety Council estimates 670 to 770 deaths and 29 000 to 34 000 injuries on highways during the four day Thanksgiving weekend from Wednesday at 6 pm to Sunday midnight. Last year 696 died over the same period. Also in court martial news Lt William L Calley Jr resumes trial at Fort Benning with prosecutors yet to present direct evidence linking him to the My Lai killings on March 16, 1968, involving 102 unarmed villagers.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
FT. Benning
First Woman Preacher in America is Ordained
Rev Elizabeth A Platz becomes the first woman Lutheran minister in America after being ordained at the University of Maryland chapel. She says her choice reflects her life style and does not aim to prove women's liberation or seek the ministry to prove a woman can succeed.
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College Park, Md
Elizabeth A. Platz
America
University of Maryland Chapel
GM Production Begins After Short UAW Strike End
General Motors starts work at 21 Fisher Body plants nationwide with the first post strike car due to roll off the Pontiac Division plant in Pontiac Michigan on Wednesday.
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Detroit
General Motors
Fisher
United Auto Workers
Pontiac
Mich
Pope Set to Welcome Pope Paul VI in Manila
Manila prepared for the arrival of Pope Paul VI on Friday despite Typhoon Patsy's devastation. Church and government officials said the papal visit would proceed as planned in the Philippines, where the death toll stood at 160 with about 300 fishermen missing or feared drowned in Manila Bay and nearby waters.
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Manila
Phillippine
Paul VI
Asia
Manila Bay
White House inflation alert signals strong language on settlements
Washington officials say the forthcoming inflation alert from the White House will be forceful about growing contract settlements but will stop short of an incomes policy. The alert, the second from the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, aims to keep prices in check without ground rules for wages.
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Washington
White House
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Cold Wave Grips Nation With Sharp Temperature Drop
The Associated Press reports a severe cold wave sweeping the U.S. with strong winds. The Great Lakes region and Central Plains bear the worst of the weather as temperatures plummet, including Valentine Nebraska dropping to 19 after a 61 reading the day before.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes Region
Central Plains
Mercury
Valentine
Neb
Yahya Khan to Visit Dacca After Cyclone Toll
President Yahya Khan plans a Tuesday return to Dacca to assess the relief program for hundreds of thousands needing food shelter clothing and medicine. He will stay for an unspecified period after surveying theGanges Delta devastation following the cyclone and tidal waves.
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Dacca
East Pakistan
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
Ganges Delta
Yahya Khan
China
Pretty Girls Do Not Guarantee Sales Says Utah Professor
University of Utah professor Dr James E Fletcher told the Western Speech Association that using a pretty girl in advertising may attract attention but viewers often remember the model rather than the product, reducing sales impact.
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Portland, Ore
University of Utah
James E. Fletcher
Western Speech Association
Contractor Ambushed in Baltimore Death Shocks Community
Electrical contractor John E. Owens, who survived a prior bullet wound in a supposed contract murder plot last June, was shot and killed Sunday night while returning from work. His office had been firebombed earlier that evening in Baltimore Maryland.
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Baltimore, Md
John E. Owens
Weekend bombing raids over North Vietnam assessed for damage
U S reconnaissance planes patrolled over North Vietnam to evalua te damage from weekend strikes. The Pentagon ended raids at dawn Saigon time, and Saigon authorities kept news blackout. Additional actions involved Laos and Cambodia targets with B 52s and fighter bombers. a OV10 crash near Kompong Cham was the first loss over Cambodia since October.
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U.S
North Vietnam
Pentagon
North
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Melvin R. Laird
Laos
Cambodia
Kompong Cham
Phnom Penh
Penm Chikang
Guinea accuses Portugal mercenaries of landings in war
UN Security Council calls for withdrawal of foreign forces in Guinea and votes to send an investigating mission. President Sekou Touré claims repeated enemy landings by Portuguese forces and mercenaries as Guinea enters the second day of what it calls a Portuguese war for colonial aims.
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Lisbon
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Egypt claims Egyptian bombers violated cease fire along Suez Canal
Tel Aviv says Egyptian warplanes flew along most of the canal and over Israeli positions in violation of the cease-fire. Two complaints were filed with UN truce authorities. No bombs or strafing occurred and Israel did not fire on the aircraft. Egypt denied crossing the line and urged the U.S. to halt spy flights.
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Suez Canal
U. N. Truce Supervision Authorities
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Egypt
Munir Hafez
Cairo
Canal Zone
United States
Pope Sets New Decree Limiting Cardials Over Eighty
Vatican City AP Pope Paul VI issued a Motu Proprio barring cardinals aged 80 and over from voting in a papal conclave and from Vatican offices to freshen the Curia. The rule takes effect January 1 and leaves retired cardinals as church members until death. speculation grows about the Pope's own retirement at 73.
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Paul VI
Vatican
Roman Curia
Concalves
Paul
Pisa XII
John XXII
Holy See
Four Laotian positions fall in initial NVA Pathet Lao push
Reports from Vientiane say three North Vietnamese battalions overran two key posts on the Bolaven Plateau as Pathet Lao forces opened a dry season offensive. Government troops abandoned another position nearby. In Saigon the U S command says an American helicopter gunship fired on South Vietnamese troops, killing one and wounding seven.
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Vientiane, Laos
Bolovens
Saigon
U. S
Weather West of the Pecos Fair Through Tuesday
The forecast covers West of the Pecos with fair weather through Tuesday. Tonight will be colder with a hard freeze in most sections, lows from 12 to 26. Tuesday should bring a bit warmer air, highs between 35 and 50.
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Doves Slam New Action in Vietnam Policy Debate
The United States faces sharp criticism from congressional doves over bombing sites in North Vietnam and reopening policy debate on Nixon's Southeast Asia program as Senate Democrats resist the $155 million Cambodia aid request led by Majority Leader Mike Mansfield.
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U.S
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Vietnam
Congressional
Nixon
Southeast Asia
Senate
Cambodia
Mike Mansfield
Cong Plans Boycott of Sessions
Paris AP dispatch reports Xuan Thuy chief of North Vietnam’s Paris delegation announced a boycott of Wednesday’s talks amid weekend air raids on the North. He said the delegation would return Dec 3, warning the raids could stiffen Hanoi and retard negotiations.
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Xuan Thuy
Hanoi
U. S
North Vietnam
Choisyle-Roi
Thuy
Drugs Used on Children Prompt Senate Hearing
A government investigator told Congress that as many as 30 percent of children in some elementary schools may be prescribed drugs to quiet them. Dr. Leo Hollister noted large Department of Defense purchases of methylphenidate and cited education and industry as factors shaping doctors' prescribing practices.
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Leo E. Hollister
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Defense Department
Hollis
Wisconsin
Gaylord Nelson
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