U.S. Planes To Continue Fly Overs Over Indochina
Unarmed U.S. reconnaissance planes will keep flying over Cambodia and Laos after the Aug. 15 end of major military operations. No retaliation plan exists if planes are shot down. President Nixon blasts Congress over ceasefire efforts as Supreme Court action seeks an immediate halt to bombing in Indochina.
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Mike Shanahan
Washington
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Cambodia
Laos
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Senate
Armed Services Committee
Indochina
Nixon
Congress
Capitol Hill
Yakima
Wash
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Douglas
Wilds of
Seliesinger
Schlesinger
Phnom Penh
Vientiane
Yard Lay Off at Boston Naval Yard may close
Boston Naval Shipyard lays off 281 workers as part of Defense Department orders. An additional 291 were already laid off or received notices, with many seeking other federal or private sector jobs. A larger layoff is planned for Nov 9. total cuts reach 2,408 by next spring, affecting Chelsea Naval Hospital, First Naval District HQ, Westover and Otis bases, Hanscom Field, Newport, and Quonset Point.
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Boston Naval Shipyard
Defense Department
Chelsea Naval Hospital
First Naval Districct Headquarters
Westover
Otis Air Force Bases
Hanscom Field
Newport
R.I
Naval Base
Quonset Point
R.L. Naval Air Station
Saint Nicholas Towged After Collision With Sea Ferry
In Rockland Maine a collision sent an 84 foot Saint Nicholas from Gloucester towed to port by Coast Guard cutter Saghomish. The 87 foot cruise ferry struck the fishing boat Massachusetts unit and both vessels were later due to arrive around 4 am Saturday.
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Rockland
Maine
Massachusetts
Rennin
Saint Nicholas
Gloucester
Coast Guard
Saghomish
Deepwater ports urged to handle oil imports
Interior Secretary Morton warned of heavy environmental and economic costs if the nation does not build deepwater tanker ports. He testified for federal licenses and argued offshore ports are essential with rising imports, despite opposition from port cities. Morton cited drastic dredging harms and questioned territorial claims and licensing fees.
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Washington
Rogers C. B. Marton
Morton
High Seas
Saylor
Leaky Aro tanker departs amid crew flight from ship
The Liberian tanker Aro left Portsmouth Harbor for drydock repairs in Boston after leaking thousands of gallons into the Piscataqua River. Four crew members refused to board, fearing an explosion, and a $100,000 admiralty suit was filed in U.S. District Court to recover damages for marine life loss and cleanup costs.
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Piscataqua River
Portsmouth Harbor
Boston
John Holliday
US Immigration Service
Sprague Steamship Agency
al Smith
Aro Jeft
Portsmouth
U.S. Customs
Kenneth Gove
Arc
New Hampshire Environ
Mental Protection Division
U.S. District Court
Atty
Warren Rudman
James Jackson
Diving Surveyors , Inc
the Herald
Pierce Drydock
Oil Refinery In New Hampshire Promised By Sprague
Newington C H Sprague and Son Co says it will bring New England first petroleum separation plant into operation next month near Sprague Atlantic terminal. The project, tied to a patented Separate System, aims to separate liquids including asphalt in heating oil and may reclaim other mixtures. Initial output plans include 10 000 barrels daily with gasoline and heating oil. 27 staff to be employed. Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. praises project as a practical energy solution and environmental tests reportedly passed. Page 2 reference.
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New England
Newington
C. H
Sprague and Son Co
C.H. Sprague and Son Co
Sprague Company
Sprague Energy
Axel-Johnson Co
Sweden
Sprague
Johnson
Atlantic Terminal
Twill I
Shire
New Hampshire
Omard
Cali
Ai Ie
Gray Admits Reading and Lying About Documents
Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters and others testified that Gray admitted reading secret papers and lying about the Watergate related documents. Gray reportedly burned papers taken from E. Howard Hunt's safe while in Ehrlichman’s office on June 28.
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Dick Barnes
Vernon R. Walters
Washington
Cla
FBI
I Patria Gray Gray
Senate
CIA
Iday
Tergale Committee
White Hannan Tao
Seaaialee
CEA
Mexico
Julo D. Ehrlichman
Nixon
E.howard Hunt
White House
Doctors Amputate Legs Of Lone Crash Survivor
Boston AP report on Leopold Chouinard, sole mid thigh amputee survivor of Tuesday's jet crash near Logan International Airport. He remains in critical condition at Massachusetts General Hospital with third degree burns and crushed bones in one leg. Federal investigators wrapped a wreckage search, noting no engine power failure though water traces found in engines.
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Boston
Leopold Chouinard
Marshfield
Delta Airlines
Logan International Airport
Massachu-se
Chouinard
Iand
National Transportation Safety Board
Safety Board
Boston Harbor
Try
The
Isabel Burgess
Yesin Ayd
Pageant Rehearsal Schedule For Final Practice Week
The rehearsal schedule for the final week of practice for They Came to Fish is announced. The historical pageant moves to the high school football field Monday at 7 p.m. for scenes 1 through 6, Tuesday covers scenes 7 through 22, and Wednesday Thursday and Friday offer ice for the entire cast lines at 8 30 p.m. All cast members must attend.
City to start 414 mile geodetic survey from Portsmouth
Portsmouth will be the origin for a 414 mile geodetic survey spanning seven states to Maryland. A 20 man National Geodetic Survey field party led by Lt. Lewis A. Lapine will use tall steel towers and precise instruments to map latitude positions, aiming for sub half inch error over ten miles.
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Portsmouth
Maryland
National Geodetic Survey
Lewis A. Lapine
Cleveland
Ohio
Averrees
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Pot Cities
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
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Panama Canal
Houston
John P. Saylor
Storton
Meldrim Thomson Jr
Greenland
Ana Ae Ash
Walelas HS
Lal Portsmouth
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