Helicopter with 33 aboard disappears Mexico's leader beset with varied problems
Mexico City reports President Luis Echeverria faces deep social and economic tensions as unemployment, inequality, and corruption strain his early presidency. The piece notes strong U.S. investment, a growing middle class, and rural poverty despite reforms and industrial growth. A second story describes an Inflatebird emergency craft under development for military use.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Luis Echeverria
Cial
Mexico
U.S
Bank of Mexico
Echeverria
United States
Saving Big Thicket tops efforts for park proposal
A multi-part report tracks the Big Thicket National Park push from 35,000 acres toward a proposed 191,000 acres. Residents like Dolly Hoffman recall early plans and the erosion of the thicket amid timber and political pressure.
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Saratoga
Tex
Big Thicket
Texas
Big Thicket National Park
Hoffman
Harold Nicholas
Ralph Yarborough
Senate
House
U.S
Bob Eckhardt
Houston
Eckhardt
Nixon aims to visit China while keeping allies
President Nixon plans to announce a China trip date within 48 hours while promising to ease East-West tensions without breaking alliance unity. Press secretary Ziegler says allied consultations with Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, and Canada are key before any journeys to Peking and Moscow.
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Washington
Nixon
China
Ronald L. Ziesler
Moscow
Britain
France
West Germany
Japan
Canada
Air Force One
California
Ziegler
White House
Peking
Delegates at aging meet study issues
Delegates to the second White House Conference on Aging split into small study groups to seek solutions for problems. Ninety five meetings were scheduled in four downtown hotels as eight congressmen were invited to speak at four luncheons.
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Washington
White House
Arthur S. Flemming
Flemming
American Association of Retired Persons
National Retired Teachers Association
National Association of Retired Federal Employes
National Caucus On the Black Aged
National Council On the Aging
National Council of Senior Citizens
Labor
J.D. Hodgson
Transportation
John Volpe
HEW
Elliot L. Richardson
Housing and Urban Development
George Romney
John Ehrlichman
Leonard Garment
Virginia Knauer
Committee eyes vending panel probe in Texas
The House General Investigating Committee will meet in Austin to decide probe scope into the Texas Vending Commission controversy. Rep. Menton Murray says the five member panel will not examine the merits of Gov. Preston Smith's recent appointments, while the nine member panel faces scrutiny for industry influence and Raymond B. Williams’s role as a major dealer and donor.
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Mercedes
Smith
Raymond B. Williams
Dallas
Dallas to hire civilian dispatchers for police radio
The Dallas police department plans to replace sworn officers with civilian men and women as radio dispatchers possibly by mid next year. The move follows the introduction of police radio and aims to change dispatcher staffing.
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Dallas
Dallas Police Department
Dowdy bribery trial enters fourth week in Baltimore
Rep. John Dowdy of Texas faces an eight count charge including bribery and conspiracy over a $25,000 payoff at an Atlanta airport in 1965. The defense pressed to bar a two year old tape recording as evidence as U.S. District Judge Roszel Thomson weighs its admissibility after a Thanksgiving recess.
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da Nang
Phu Bai
Gardner
South China Sea
U.S
Panhandle
Laos
Nha Be
Saigon
South Vietnam
U. S
Mekong
U Minh Forest
Ca Mau
U Minh-Ca Mau
Delta
Baltimore
John Dowdy
Texas
Dowdy
Atlanta, Ga
Roszel Thomson
Thomson
Leon H. Pierson
Stephen H. Sachs
National cemetery expansion urged in Congress
Washington AP report notes only about 9 000 of 55 900 Vietnam war dead are in national cemeteries. Space is limited with 244 000 gravesites unfilled. lawmakers push expansion or higher burial allowances to ease private cemetery costs.
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Washington
Army
House Veterans Committee
Clin Teague
D-Tex
Teague
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