McGovern charges White House blocked campaign contributions report
Lawrence F. O'Brien accused the White House of using political pressure to delay a GAO audit of the Nixon campaign fund raising. The GAO postponed releasing findings on $114,000 in contributions routed through the Committee to Reelect the President, with ties to Bernard Barker. Indictments in the DNC bugging case were anticipated.
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Washington
UPI
George McGovern
Lawrence F. O’brien
White House
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
Nixon
Bernard Barker
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
O'Brien
McGovern
O’brien
Stans
Miami Beach
Republican High Command
McGovern Gets Warm VFW Silent Treatment in Minnesota
Sen George S McGovern faced another cool reception at the VFW convention in Minneapolis while receiving a warmer response from the American Federation of Teachers in St Paul who endorsed him and gave 250000 dollars. Hubert Humphrey offered support as McGovern criticized the Republican National Convention as closed and controlled.
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Minneapolis
St. Paul
Sen
Hubert Humphrey
McGovern
AFT
Solzhenitsyn Attacks UN and Soviets in Nobel Lecture
Nobel literature winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn condemned suppressive regimes and urged writers to fight falsehoods. He did not name the Soviet Union but aimed at censorship, calling for a war to save mankind. The 53 year old spoke in his delayed Nobel lecture published in Le Prix Nobel.
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Soviet Union
Nobel
Nobel Foundation
Karl Ragnar Gierow
Swedish Academy
Solzhenitsyn
Convicts hold Kentucky guards hostage at Eddyville prison
Five convicts at Eddyville State Penitentiary took two guards and a 20 year old lab technician hostage for about 12 hours. The captors released after assistant superintendent William Lasley pledged no physical punishment. Governor Ford authorized action to prevent bodily harm.
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Eddyville, Ky
UPI
Eddyville State Penitentiary
Charles Brooks Jr
Louis O'Neill
Brooks
Garland Brooks Jr
William Lasley
Gov
Wendell Ford
Holmes
Ransom Money Brought Back From Skyjack Case
Two Delta Air Lines executives arrived from Paris with two black suitcases containing a record 1 million dollars in ransom paid to eight skyjackers who hijacked a Delta jet on July 31. Algerian officials seized the money, then arranged its return to Delta. The cash was counted at Dulles International Airport by Delta officials and FBI agents with little disturbance.
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Washington
UPD
Delta Air Lines
Paris
Delta
Detroit
Algiers
Dulles International
Virginia
FBI
Carl Dowling
TWA
Apollo 17 Ship Hoisted on Saturn V for Moon Flight
Apollo 17 spacecraft bolted to the Saturn V rocket at Cape Kennedy to begin final 15 weeks of prep for the December 6 launch. Engineers report the command ship and lunar lander in good shape and expect no launch delays barring major issues. Astronauts Cernan Evans and Schmitt will oversee the rollout to the launch pad with a Dec 11 moon landing planned in the Sea of Serenity region.
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Aps
America
Saturn
Manned Spacecraft Operations
George F. Page
Apollo
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H. Schmitt
Cernan
Schmitt
Moon
Sea of Serenity
Cabinet Member Slams McGovern Viet Policies
Secretary of State William P. Rogers assailed McGovern's Vietnam stance as an unconscionable abandonment of South Vietnam to secure a peace with Hanoi. He affirmed Nixon will not abandon Saigon and will support Greece due to NATO strategic needs.
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UPI
William P. Rogers
George S. McGovern
Vietnam
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Hano
Nixon
Saigon
Rogers
American-Hellenic Educational and Progressive Association
AHEPA
Nguyen van Thieu
McGovern
United States
Greece
NATO
Retiring General Maxwell and Incoming Commander Kucherman Featured
Maxwell plans to retire after 44 combat missions in Europe and a long USAF career. He earned a UT mechanical degree in 1947 and Princeton aeronautical master’s in 1949, with 3600 flight hours and multiple decorations. Kucherman, new ADTC commander, led R&D and test roles since 1949 and completed 82 combat missions in P-51 and P-47 in WWII.
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Princeton University
Air Force
Maxwell
Harriet
Jewell
George
Kucheman
ADTC
Air Force Research
Directorate of Research and Development
Headquarters
USAF
Eglin Armament Center
Nixon Trails Chicago Legions and Campaign in Michigan
President Nixon campaigned in Chicago and Michigan promising strong defense "second to none" while denouncing McGovern defense cuts. He criticized court ordered busing as wrong and urged a school bus signaled start as students return to class.
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Mich
UPI
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Chicago
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Dwight David Eisenhower
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Michigan
Bomb blasts cut water for Northern Ireland towns
A 180 pound bomb destroyed a water main feeding Dungannon and Moygashiel, leaving both towns without water for 12 hours. An armored car was hit by a land mine near the Irish border, killing one British soldier and wounding another. IRA provisional bomb makers use unstable chemicals, causing premature explosions.
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UPI
Northern Ireland
Irish Borderh
Irish Republican Army
IRA
County Tyrone
Dungannon
Moygashiel
Armagh
Community notices and schedules from Okaloosa County area
Local items include bus stop publication, a Navy event dinner in Pensacola, Cub Scout pack sales and outings, Destin Legion game night, Mary Esther fire department fish fry, Holy Name game night in Niceville, a rescheduled Valparaiso Niceville fish fry, and a Twin Cities Chamber event.
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Brooks Plaza
Barbara Owens
Cub Scout Pack
John C. Beasley State Park
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Carol Ave
Tri-County
Sikes
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Holmes
Walton
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George Ralphmiller
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Mustin Beach
Mary Esther United Methodist Church
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Cub Scout Pack 555
Gannon State Park
Destin Legion
Destin American Legion Post 296
Fire Dept
Mary Esther Vol. Fire Dept
Mary Esther
Holy Name
CCD
Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church
Palm Blvd
Highway 20
Valparaison
Jaycees
Twin Cities Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
John Sims Parkway
Twin Cities
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