Pope Paul opens World Synod in Sistine Chapel
Pope Paul VI concelebrates Mass in the Sistine Chapel to open the World Synod of Bishops. Cardinal Mindszenty and other prelates join as the month-long gathering faces clerical celibacy, social injustice, and potential reforms amid cautious liberal opposition.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Synod of Bishops
Sistine Chapel
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
England
John Cardinal Heenan
Canada
Alexander Carter
Senate to approve six month Indochina withdrawal demand
The Senate is set to back a Mansfield withdrawal amendment calling total U S withdrawal from Indochina within six months. Supporters concede House likely rejects the measure as it did before. Conferees may water down the amendment on the $21 billion military procurement bill.
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Washington
Senate
Indochina
Nixon Administration
Mike Mansfield
House
Senate House
Mansfield
Super Spy Oleg Lialine Identified as Soviet Defector
The Daily Express named Oleg Lialine, 34, a Russian trade official and recent traffic case figure, as the defector who exposed a Soviet spy ring in Britain after a diplomat hinted the man involved in a drunken driving incident. The newspaper ran the story with the headline Super Spy Oleg.
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London
Britain
Daily Express
Oleg Lialine
Vladimir Pavlinov
Lialine
Oleg
Meade Residents Turn Christmas Light Duty On Bird
In Sunrise Plaza Meade Kansas the last house on holiday lights must host dinner. Banker Clark Bird failed last year and left the group. He traveled with his wife for three days to Colorado and returned to find 11 of 12 homes lit, leaving Bird to play Santa again.
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Bird
Santa Claus
U.S. military death toll rises in Vietnam to 29
The U S Command reported 29 Americans killed in action in Vietnam last week, exceeding 20 for the first time in 11 weeks. Maj. Richard Gardner explained increases were partly due to administrative casualty-list changes, with six previously listed missing or wounded now classified as dead.
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Saigon
U. S
Vietnam
U.S
Richard Gardner
C5A Transport Delays Attract Sharp Testimony
Former Lockheed manager Henry M. Durham testified to a congressional committee that management blunders on the C5A transport cost millions in CIA expenses. He claimed threats to his family followed his public account and alleged Air Force collusion with Lockheed to bill for unperformed work and falsify records.
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Washington
Lockheed
Congressional
Henry M. Durham
CIA
Air Force
Agnew urges Nixon to delay running mate pick
Vice President Spiro Agnew said Nixon should not rush the 1972 running mate decision to allow selecting the strongest candidate. He added he is willing to wait and not decide this year, if Nixon delays his choice. Agnew spoke at a news conference in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
Agnew
Mexico City
Richard E. Hyland
la Mesa
Calif
Hyland
Mexico
Eduardo Ferrer McGregor
Ferrer McGregor
Thieu Critics Push Boycott and People’s Congress
South Vietnam’s Senate debated Thieu’s rule as opposition groups call for a voters’ boycott of Sunday’s one man election and plan a “people’s congress.” Police confiscated opposition papers and 74 detainees were taken in three days of protests.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
People’s Congress
South Vietnam
Senate
Thieu
Ket
da Nang
U.S
Navy
Committee Against
An Quang Budhist
Hoa Hao Sect
Trinh Quoc Khanh
Peo
Cong Luan
Vietnam Press, Today
Kissinger denies China statement amid POW family claims
A Kissinger denial followed Barbara Mullen of Oakland saying the White House adviser claimed Nixon’s China trip could speed up Vietnam peace talks. Kissinger said he did not make such statements and warned against misreading private family meetings. The remarks echoed earlier comments by Louise Mulligan at the National League event.
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Washington
White House
Henry Kissinger
Nixon
China
Kissinger
Bar
Bara Mullen
Oakland
Calif
Laos
Mullen
U.S
Hanoi
National League of Families of
Southeast Asia
Peking
U S and Sovi ets to ink two disarmament pacts today
The United States and the Soviet Union plan to sign two side agreements on disarmament at the State Department. The accords cover modernizing the Washington Moscow hot line and avoiding accidental nuclear war as part of ongoing SALT talks. President Nixon and officials described progress and voiced hope for further movement in Vienna in November.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
William P. Rogers
Andrei Gromyko
Washington- Moscow
State Department
United Nations
Nixon
Gromyko
Ronald L. Ziegler
U.S
Helsinki
Vienna
Ziegler
White House
Berlin
Mideast
Vietnam
Dutch plan delays U.S. gold price rise at IMF
Dutch Finance Minister R J Nelissen proposes a temporary devaluation via a new dollar value tied to major currencies to delay lifting the official gold price above 35 dollars an ounce. The move aims to reopen IMF operations and set provisional currency par values while seeking a long term system. First U S reactions are cool.
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Washington
U. S
R. J. Nelissen
Nelissen
White House
U.S
Carl Klasen
United States
International Monetary Fund
IMF
Nixon
Treasury Department
Klasen
Ginger pounds North Carolina coast with 90 mph winds
Hurricane Ginger battered the coast causing widespread power outages and flooding. Shelters filled as hundreds fled to Red Cross facilities in schools, churches, and armories while evacuations expanded along the coast and nearby towns faced rising floodwaters.
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Morehead City
N.C
Ginger
North Carolina
Red Cross
National Guard
U.S. Weather Service
Atlantic Beach
Here
Civil Defense
W.W. Moore
Beaufort
New Bern
Neuse
Trent
Stu Taber
Cartaret
Pamlico
Craven
U S and Egypt discuss interim Mideast settlement
Secretary of State Rogers and Egyptian Foreign Minister Riad held a two hour meeting about continuing work for an interim Mideast settlement. Riad warned such an effort could become permanent and urged Israeli agreement to Jarring proposals while U S officials emphasize the interim step as a path to final peace and reopening the Suez Canal.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
Mahmoud Riad
United States
Mideast
Riad
United Nations
Israel
U. S
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Raid
McCloskey
Draft calls start today for 12,000 men
The United States plans a quarterly draft call beginning today with about 12,000 inductions for October through December. Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird aims to replace monthly drafts with quarterly notices to reduce uncertainty for 19 year olds and push 1971 inductions under 100,000.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Jerry W. Friedheim
Newsmen
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