League Voters Calls for Immediate Withdrawal in Asia
Atlanta report says the national convention of the League of Women Voters approved by 760 to 545 a resolution demanding immediate and complete withdrawal of American forces from Southeast Asia. Sponsors argued the league must act on the gravest national problem now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women Voters League
Atlanta
Wpq
League of Women Voters
Southeast Asia
League
Vietnam
Indiana
America
Richard B. Stoner
Cumming Engineering Co
Okaloosa Digest Items From Playgroud Daily News
A compilation of notices and upcoming events for Okaloosa County including St. Mary’s lunch menu, a gospel music event at Valparaiso First Assembly of God, and the County Development Report availability. Community meetings, electoral notices, Rap House description, Red Cross Youth interviews, and a Vietnam War discussion are listed with contact details and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s
St. Mary's
Bill Maroon
Gospel Music Association of Nashville
Real Parkway
FWR Civic League
Civic League
Chester Pruitt
Bill Peebles
Jayeve
Elks Club
Order of the Arrow
Valparaiso
Choctawhatchee
Boy Scouts of America
Camp Robbins
Eglin Afb
Rap House
Eastview Ave
Red Cross
USAF
Contempt cited in Morrow bribery trial in Pensacola
Defense attorney J B Hopkins was cited for contempt and fined 25 dollars after rifling pages during testimony by Escambia County Commissioner Henry Lane in the bribery case involving Hugh Morrow Jr of Birmingham. Morrow allegedly offered 4500 dollars to County Commissioner Sherman Barnes to secure a favorable gas utility sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Escambia Natural Gas Service Corp
Vatican City
UPI
Pope Paul VI
Vietnam
Christ
Rome
Loyola University of Chicago
United States
Washington
House Ethics Committee
House
John Dowdy
Tex
Dowdy
Chamber
Apollo 16 Astronauts Recall Narrow Moon Landing
Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly held a postflight news conference detailing a six hour delay on the Casper and a tense descent into the lunar highlands. They described breccia rocks and ridge lines photographed from lunar orbit and noted the complex geology awaiting unraveling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young
Duke
Orion
Casper
Mattingly
Dataram
Younss
Rescue Workers Press Search For 53 Sunshine Mine Victims
In Kellogg Idaho rescue crews with gas masks and air compressors drill through 100 miles of Sunshine Mine tunnels seeking 53 miners missing or dead after a blaze. At least 29 dead, 108 escaped, disaster dubbed Idaho’s worst mining tragedy. President Nixon orders a formal report and conveys condolences to families.
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Kellogg
Idaho
UPI
Cecil Andrus
Sunshine
Naw
Andrus
Rogers C. B. Morton
Panhandle
Nixon
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Five Wounded In Separate IRA Raids In Northern Ireland
In Londonderry and Belfast five people were wounded including two British soldiers and three policemen in coordinated IRA attacks. A flour mill in Belfast was bombed, marking the second factory strike in three days. A Belfast sniper wounded a soldier near Ballymurphy after a fruitless search at Kelly's Bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Londonderry
Kelly's
Ballymurphy
Miami Beach invites GOP to hold nominating convention
Miami Beach City Council votes 4 4 to invite the Republican National Committee to relocate the August convention from San Diego. Officials cite fears of protests while noting San Diego’s arena issues. GOP leaders expect acceptance and set July conventions nearby. The city pledges up to 500000 in cash and services, matching Democratic costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
UPT
Republican Party
San Diego
GOP
Washington
National Committee
Richard Herman
Rocky Pomerance
City of
Clifford O'Key
UPI
Wall Street Skyscraper Explosion Kills Seven in 500 Degree Steam
A 14 inch high pressure steam pipe exploded on the 36th floor of a Wall Street skyscraper, scalding seven office workers to death as steam reached 500 degrees. Fire and city officials investigate the cause while the 38 story building is evacuated and steam shut off.
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Wall Street
New York
UPS
Wouter
Office of
General Public Uirlities Service Corp
Milton Helpern
City Medical Examiner
Helpern
Wall Street Financial District
Stennis Says Air War Failing to Save Viet Campaign
Senate Armed Services Chairman John Stennis warned that even maximum U.S. airpower has failed to stop South Vietnam’s defeat threat and ground troops may be needed. He cited crushing blows to Saigon forces and said recovery without ground support would be difficult.
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Stennis
Washington
UPD
John Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
U.S
South Vietnam
Mississippi Democrat
Nixon
Saigon
Adm
Thomas Moorer
Joint Chefs of Staff
Vietnam
Quang Tri Survivors Rampage Through Hue
Troops marching from Quang Tri to Hue riot through the old imperial capital looting stores and burning a marketplace and a cement plant. Many are drunk hungry and despondent after a defeat to North Vietnamese forces last weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hue
Vietnam
UPT
Quang Tri-City
Vu van Giai
Phu Rai
Quang Tri
Kit Dong Bai
Surprise Mother's Day Surprise Ends with Car Crash
In Studio City California Kim Richmond a 24 year old rock band leader and new husband assembled a 10 man group to greet his mother in law Barbara Bates with a garage concert. As Bates arrived and drove in she hit the musicians and drove into Richmond slightly injuring no one.
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Studio City
Calif
Kim Richmond
Richmond
Barbara
Barbara Bates
Caral Burnett
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R.T. Mikel
DeFuniak Springs
Camp Blanding
Florida National Guardsmen
53Rd Infantry Brigade
K.C. Bullard
Tampa
Okaloosa Digest
Playground Daily News
PGDN
Your Freedom
Florida Freedom Newspapers
Eglin Parkway
Ft. Walton Beach
Florida
Fort Walton Beach
Honida
United Press International
WALP
Varia
Mamberclithe Auay Bo
Crabonen
John W. Lindsay
Consolidated Edison
Labor
UPID
Richard A. Sprague
W. A.tony Boyle
United Mine Workers
UMW
Joseph A. Yablonski
Sprague
Silous Huddleston
Focal
Tennessee
Yablonski
Huddleston
Research and Information Committee
Prater
Ernest Thomason
Monatian Dr
Fort Wallon Beach
Cecil C. Donaldson
Pryor Dr
FWD
Jose Stilygo
Pollce Department
Thomason
Tok
Ferry and
Chestnut Road
Dolores Weiss
Gial
Ard
Parma
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