Traffic deaths top 164 over Thanksgiving weekend
AP reports 164 traffic fatalities by end of Thanksgiving weekend as rain and snow affected travel from the Southwest to the Great Lakes. The toll began Wednesday 6 p.m. local time and ends Sunday midnight. Detroit notes GM and UAW plan a joint effort to curb absenteeism and new employee dropouts under a multi billion dollar contract with wage estimates for 1973.
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Associated Press
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Pacific Northwest
Great Lakes Region
Rockies
Great Lakes
Detroit
General Motors
United Auto Workers
UAW
Indians Stage Protest at Plymouth Rock Mayflower II
In Plymouth Massachusetts about 150 Indians held a protest on a national day of mourning. About 25 climbed Mayflower II and ripped down the ship’s 17th century colors while denouncing Plymouth Rock as a monument to a myth.
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Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Rock
New England
Teacher Talks Resume in Hartford Strike Talks Continue
Negotiations resume today between the Hartford Federation of Teachers and the Board of Education, the first talks since the strike began on November 15. The union attorney Bertran Diamond said intensive discussions are planned over Thanksgiving weekend to resolve the outstanding issues.
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Hartford, Conn
Hartford Federation of Teachers
Board of Education
Bertran Diamond
Panthers Register Delegates for Constitutional Convention
In Washington a Hassle continued over a meeting site as Carloads of young people white and black arrived for the two day finale of the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution and ban what the Panthers say is rampant racism in the country.
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Washington
Black Panther Party
U.S
Canada’s Sharp Vows Relentless Search for Kidnapped Diplomat
Foreign Minister Mitchell Sharp pledged to Britain that the search for kidnapped diplomat James R. Cross would continue relentlessly, with every possible regard for his safety, after talks with Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home.
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London
Mitchell Sharp
Canada
Britain
James R. Cross
Sharp
Alec Douglas-Home
College Plan Proposed Cuts College Time and Costs
Washington AP reports possible 25 percent reduction in four year bachelor programs and potentially two years off Ph.D. studies. University presidents see benefit for both families and institutions if the plan gains traction.
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Washington
Police raid on Roanoke black power HQ arrests 17 youths
In Roanoke Virginia police arrested 17 young Black suspects after two officers were wounded during a murder call. Tear gas flushed residents from an apartment described as a black power headquarters with weapons seized and photographs of militants on the walls.
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Roanoke
Black Power
Swiss Arms Chief Convicted for Illicit Exports
Dieter Buehrle, head of a major Swiss arms maker, and five executives were convicted by Switzerland's Supreme Court of illegally exporting large quantities of war materiel. The shipments mainly went to South Africa, Israel, and Egypt, amid an international crisis.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Dieter Buehrle
Supreme Court
South Africa
Israel
Egypt
Foot-Long Knife Used In Assault On Pope Paul VI
A Bolivian painter in clerical garb tried to stab Pope Paul VI in Manila during an Asia tour. The assailant, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, weaponized a dagger hidden beneath a crucifix but was stopped by security. The Pope was unhurt.
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Manila
Paul VI
Humanity
Asia
Pacific
Benjamin Mendoza Y Amor
la Paz
Bolivia
Vatican
Stephen Cardinal Kim
South Korea
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Marcos
Col
Fabian Ver
Juan Velasco
Viet Nam Peppers Cambodian Border Fronts Clash Near Saigon
North Vietnamese forces hit a South Vietnamese command post inside Cambodia and pressed on toward Phnom Penh while fighting raged along Highway 7 and southeast of Saigon. U S forces reported no American casualties for the day as the battle disrupted key routes and isolated parts of the Cambodian army.
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Phnom Penh
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Vietnam
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Cambodia
Krek
Sagion
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Prek Kham
Mekong River
Taung Kauk
New Cease-Fire Plan Proposed For Middle East
Israeli Defense Minister Mouhe Dayan outlines a plan to thin forces along the Suez to ease talks. Western sources say talks to restart Jarring mission before year end are underway with U S Britain France and Egypt wary of another extension. Egypt's Riad denounces the plan as deceptive and aims to keep the canal war from becoming a permanent status quo.
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Mouhe Dayan
Middle East
London
Dayan
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Suez Canal
Egypt
Israel
U.S
Canal Zone
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
United States
Nixon
Howev
Mahmoud Riad
Riad
al Akbar
Cairo
East and West Germany Resume Official Talks in Berlin
West German State Secretary Egon Bahr led a four hour visit to East Berlin as contacts resume after a six month pause. Foreign Minister Michael Kohl and East German officials discussed procedural questions and potential next meetings amid ongoing Berlin access negotiations.
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Berlin
Egon Bahr
East Berlin
Bahr
Willy Brandt
Berlin Wall
Brandt
Willi Stoph
Michael Kohl
East Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
Soviet Union
West Berlin
East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives Plot Uncovered
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover testifies to a Senate subcommittee about an East Coast group calling itself the East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives. He says the organization plans to destroy underground electrical lines in Washington and kidnap a high government official to force an end to bombing in Vietnam and the release of political prisoners. He notes the group claims Catholic priests nuns teachers and former students as members.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
White House
United States
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
U. S
Big contrast in POW views between U S and North Vietnam
The AP reports a sharp difference in attitudes as Washington worries over about 450 American prisoners while Hanoi and the Viet Cong have not acknowledged their nearly 37,000 troops held in South Vietnam. Red Cross teams inspect centers and U S advisory groups monitor camp conditions amid minor complaints from inmates.
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Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Washington
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Paris
South
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Geneva
U.S. State Department
America
Blacks Elected to Office Increase in the South
The Voter Education Project reports 75 new Negro officeholders after the November 3 elections, bringing total Southern Black elected officials to 665 across 11 states. The gains include first Black lawmakers in Alabama and South Carolina, with Black sheriffs and legislators expanding in Florida Georgia and North Carolina.
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Voter Education Project Inc
South
John Lewis
Alabama
South Carolina
Arkansas
Old Confederacy
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Lowndes County
Lewis
Selma
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