Hoover Remembered as FBI Chief in National Funeral
President Nixon led tributes at a national funeral for J Edgar Hoover the FBI director who died at 77. Nearly 18 000 mourners viewed the casket in the Capitol Rotunda as Tolson resigned for health reasons and a new FBI headquarters was renamed The J Edgar Hoover Building.
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Hoover
Congressional Cemetery
U. S. Capitol
Capitol
Nixon
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Pennsylvania Avenue
Justice Department
Clyde A. Tolson
Tolson
Women Voters League Rejects Men Voting
ATLANTA, UPI The national League of Women Voters voted against allowing men to vote in the organization. The measure would have changed the nonvoting status of men, with about 1,500 delegates weighing the impact on the league’s moderate influence and unity.
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Atlanta
UPI
National League of Women Voters
Priscilla M. Leith
Newton
Mass
League
Priscilla Kuhn
Tucson
Ariz
League of Women Voters
Women’s Liberation
Gloria Steinem
Leith
FDA to release most agency files to public
The FDA plans to reverse its secrecy policy and release roughly 90 percent of its files. FDA general counsel Peter Hult said minutes of meetings with industry lobbyists and letters from lawmakers would be public, with safety and effectiveness data on additives and antibiotics also disclosed.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Peter B. Hult
Hutt
Republicans Favor Move to Miami Beach for National Convention
The Republican arrangements committee voted unanimously to recommend moving the 1968 convention from San Diego to Miami Beach amid rising San Diego costs and venue issues. Florida GOP chairman L. E. Thomason proposed accepting the invitation to hold the event in Miami Beach, with a special meeting of the National Committee expected to approve.
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Washington
UPI
San Diego
Nixon
Ghoiee
Richard L. Herman
Alebraska
Miami Beach
National Committee
Bul Herman
Peter Graham
Turkey Places Forces on Emergency Military Alert
Ankara reports the armed forces placed on alert after gunmen wounded Gen Kemalettin Eden gendarmerie commander. Troops confined to barracks and leaves cancelled. one assailant killed two captured. Eden in stable condition. Government says no national state of emergency. Friday Gazette will publish death sentences for three terrorists.
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Ankara
UPI
Turkey
Cyprus
Kemalettin Eden
Eden
Turkish Hijackers Surrender Plane
Four Turks surrendered after hijacking a DCO twin jet to press Turkey to free three condemned guerrillas. The plane carried 68 people. six passengers and two stewardesses departed after medical distress. Hijackers negotiated for hours with Turkish embassy representatives, repeatedly extending the deadline.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
UPD
Turkey
Ankara
Humphrey Narrowly Wins Ohio Primary Vote
In Ohio Hubert Humphrey edges George McGovern as 98 percent of precincts report. Humphrey leads in at large delegate race with five elected and 24 leading, while McGovern has 27 elected and 35 leading. Other candidates Muskie Jackson and McCarthy trail in totals.
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Columbus
Ohio
UPI
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
Humphrey
McGovern
Edmund S. Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
Eugene J. McCarthy
Rescuers Find Bodies Of Eight More Miners
In Kellogg Idaho rescuers reached Sunshine Mine No 10 shaft and found eight more bodies raising the death toll to 32 from western mining disaster. Crews prepare to descend to the 5 000 foot level as pumps and cleanup proceed.
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Kellogg
Idaho
UPI
Sunshine Mine
Sunshine Mining Co
No. 10
Meir Makes Historic Visit to Communist Romania
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir flew to Bucharest for a four day official visit the first by an Israeli leader to a Communist state. She met with Nicolae Ceausescu Ion Maurer and other Romanian officials to discuss Middle East peace while Egyptian and Libyan leaders held talks in Algiers on strategy against Israel.
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United Press International
Golda Meir
Bucharest
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
Muammar Khadaty
Algiers
Howari Boumedienne
Israel
Cairo
al Abram
Sadat
Tunisia
Iraq
Meir
Tel Aviv
Nicolae Ceausescu
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
Protestants vow to fight any Irish merger in Northern Ireland
In Belfast UPI reports Rev. Ian Paisley leader of the Democratic Unionist Party warned to the death against Britain uniting Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. He said loyalists would resist with every means including their lives to protect heritage homes and families amid IRA violence.
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Belfast
UPI
Ian Paisley
Northern Ireland
Britain
Irish Republic
Paisley
Democratic Unionist Party
William Whitelaw
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Moon Phases Linked to Miami Murders
A University of Miami team reports a 15 year correlation between murder rates in Dade County and lunar phases. They find murders rise before the full moon and peak at it, then fall toward the new moon suggesting lunar tides may affect human behavior and terminology.
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Miami
MPTI
Des. Arnold L. Lieber
Carolyn R. Sherin
Lieber
University of Miami Medical School
Dade County
Key West
Community notices for Okaloosa Digest compiled for Playground Daily News
Local organizations submit handwritten notices for Okaloosa Digest inclusion. Listings include St Marys Lunch Menu details, Sonic Boom Coin Club meeting at Elks Club, USO Coffee House jam session, Order of the Amaranth meeting at Masonic Temple, Sidewalk Art Show timings and prize time, American Legion Game Night, Miracle Strip Rod and Custom Club bake sale, Choctawhatchee D C T sale, Used Book Sale at Ben s Lake BX, Anchor Club rummage sale, Vaudeville memory show by Cheerleaders, Fort Walton Beach church rummage and bake sale, Playground Mutual Concert Association kickoff with Max Johnson, Knights of Columbus game night, and Elks steak night on Okaloosa Island.
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Sonic Boom Coin Club
Elks Club
USO
Playground
Order of the Amaranth
Eglin Court
Masonic Temple
Brooks St
Brooks Plaza
Eglin Parkway
Gibson's
American Legion
Destin
American Legion Post 296
Rod and Custom
Niceville
Miracle Strip
Rod and Custom Club
Choctawhatchee D.C.T
B.C.T. Club
Choctawhatchee
Kwik Chek
Valparaiso
Ben's Lake
Eglin
Addie R. Lewis
Anchor Club
Fort Walton Beach High School
Choctaw
Sal
Mutual Concert Association
The
Playground Mutual Concert Association
Coronado Motor Hotel
Max Johnson
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Knights of Columbus
Carol Ave
Elks
Okalonsa Island
Neil
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Romania
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