White House aide fabricates Muskie letter in sabotage plot
Washington reports Ken W. Clawson admitted writing a forged letter damaging Edmund S. Muskie’s campaign amid a broader Nixon sabotage campaign. FBI sources tie break ins, bugging, and forged materials to White House and CRP operatives. Segretti linked as GOP operative. Nixon spokesman calls the Post piece fiction.
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Gunman kills Catholic militiaman in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland a gunman killed an unarmed Roman Catholic sergeant amid clashes with Protestant militia. Two of the sergeant’s 12 children cried out in terror as the incident unfolded.
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Northern Ireland
Edisto Trapped in Arctic Ice Delays Arctic Shipping
The Milwaukee based Coast Guard icebreaker Edisto is crippled in heavy ice north of Iceland along with two other ships. A Canadian icebreaker could reach them within seven days as the Great Lakes shipping season risks disruption.
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Great Lakes
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Explosion Rocks Lowell Building In Morning Blast
An early morning explosion blew out the first floor of a two story Lowell building, toppled a neighboring structure slightly, and posed no injuries though schoolchildren would have passed by minutes later. Fire and police reported the blast as officials investigated the cause.
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Lowell
Lowell, Mass
Maine Posse Ramps Up Hunt for Missing Hunter
In North Sullivan, Hancock County deputies resumed a search for a year old hunter missing since Monday afternoon. Frank Coulter borrowed a neighbor’s dog around 3:30 pm and planned to return within an hour. Fish and Game officials expect air support to aid the effort.
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Sullivan
Maine
Hancock County Sheriff's Department
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North Sullivan
Fish & Game
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Talks Continue in Paris Amid Vietnam Negotiations
Henry Kissinger entered a third day of talks with North Vietnam in Paris and met French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann after meeting North Vietnamese envoys. Saigon papers say few changes occurred in positions, while observers note the extension signals a quicker pace in negotiations.
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Arthur K. Watson
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Vietnam
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Tin Song Daily
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Ellsworth Bunker
Thien
Hoang Nha
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Ronald L. Ziegler
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Campaign Stand Sparks Barbed Exchanges Between McIntyre and Powell
The fight between Senate hopefuls McIntyre and Powell escalates as they trade insults on healthcare Social Security and credit for policies. McIntyre defends a national health care plan while Powell accuses him of rushing to take credit without voting in the Senate.
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Manchester
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Exeter Board Confident in Staff Amid Property Use Talks
Exeter Public Schools issued a statement of confidence in the teaching staff and discussed using the St Michael s convent and the McNulty property. Supt. Melvin will present Space Needs slides, with fire marshal checks, for potential primary special education classes and other services.
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McNulty
Jerome Melvin
Exeter Public Schools
Exeter School Board
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St. Michael’s
Recreation Department
New Hampshire Appeals Dual Enrollment Aid Ruling
The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office filed notice to appeal a U S District Court decision that Nashua's parochial school dual enrollment program is unconstitutional to the extent it funds secular teaching inside parochial schools The appeal aims to keep the program running for this year as the state moves toward the First Circuit in Boston Judge Hugh Bownes criticized the program as a subsidy for parochial schooling while noting the statute itself is not unconstitutional.
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First Circuit of Appeals
Boston
Bownes
School Board Hears Requests For Gym Use And Food Upgrades
Hampton Recreation Director Neal Socha asks to use the girls gymnasium at Academy Junior High for a girls volleyball program grades four through eight with Saturday sessions and no custodian extra. The board weighs supervision, legal and insurance duties, and potential costs while also debating cafeteria snacks needing two double door refrigerators at $1,500 each and a vending machine option to supply a balanced meal from Stewart Sandwiches.
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Neal Socha
Hinior High School
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Thomas Burbank
Burbank
Robert Nolet
Richard Hamilton
Russell Call
Nolet
Stewart Sandwiches
Needham Heights
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McGovern To Outline Viet Plan
Sen. George McGovern details a step by step plan to end the Vietnam War in a CBS telecast from Detroit. He dismisses peace rumors as election eve talk and vows the war remains a top issue with views to be clarified during his campaign.
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George McGovern
Nixon
McGovern
Richard Nixon
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Kalamazoo
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Paris
North Vietnamese Hold Hamlets North of Saigon
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces clung to hamlets 14 to 22 miles north of Saigon as South Vietnamese command urged efforts to drive them out. In the air war, U S fighters and bombers conducted more than 300 strikes, hitting Yen Bai, Thai Binh, Dong Hoi and targets around Saigon and several South Vietnamese cities.
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Dong Hoi
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Bowen Denies Globe Allegations Over Rail Office Post
Former Portsmouth city manager Richard J. Bowen denies the Boston Globe story claiming he feathered his nest in taking the Executive Director post for the New England Rail Passenger Office. He says his salary is 24000 rather than 25000 and challenges the reporter’s accuracy. Bowen left the Massachusetts Office of Planning and Coordination to take the new role in 1971.
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Bein
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McLane outlines tax plan to fund education statewide
Concord mayoral candidate Malcolm McLane proposes a 20 per thousand state property tax to finance education and a low-exemption combined sales and income tax before a 1974 legislative special session. He links revenues to local conservation, recreation areas, pollution controls, university tuition cuts, and mental health funding, challenging opponents on education support. Police report a Chappaquiddick beach tragedy involving a father and three sons, with the grandfather’s body recovered.
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N.C
Concord
Malcolm McLane
McLane
Roger Crowley
Meldron Thomson
Crowley
Four Family Drownings near Chappaquiddick Island
EDGARTOWN Mass AP Four members of a family drowned and one was rescued after their fishing boat sank off Chappaquiddick Island. The dead were George C Jaeger 73 and his three grandsons Bruce 18 Robert 11 and Clifford 10.
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Chappaquiddick Island
George C. Jaeger
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Robert
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