Nixon promotes peace goal amid defense and busing debate
In Chicago and Michigan stops Nixon pressed a strength based peace plan and urged anti busing legislation while avoiding direct attack on McGovern. He said the United States would be a second rate power if opponents defense economies prevailed and dismissed differing views with caution on leaders of China and the Soviet Union. He praised detente prospects after West German talks, acknowledged open world contact, and rode home past cheering supporters after a long day.
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Jury picked in Lockheed tunnel trial
In Los Angeles a municipal court selects seven men and five women for a second trial of Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co. of Seattle on misdemeanor charges linked to the Sylmar tunnel disaster. Judge Tramell says alternates will be chosen before testimony starts. The case involves six charges against Lockheed and three employees, with one cooperator after charges were dropped against a fourth employee. An earlier trial found the company guilty on similar safety violations. In Coos Bay Oregon two teens adrift at sea for two days aboard a disabled fishing boat reach port after restarting the engine. Richard Howard, 18, and Ray Hoppe, 14, had food and water aboard Sea Bea.
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Empire
Sea Bea
California Wildfires Threaten Ojai and Condors
Firefighters battled four California blazes as winds fanned flames toward Ojai. Crews built a 24 mile fire line through rugged terrain while 350 acres burned at Sespe Creek sanctuary, none of the endangered California condors were harmed. A Sequoia blaze near Kernville continued out of control in brush and grass on steep hillsides.
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Tolkien Alive and Secretive on New Book in Early Era Tale
In Long Beach readers learn author J R R Tolkien is reportedly alive and at work on a new book described as similar to The Lord of the Rings but set earlier. Details remain scant with no completion date projected and Tolkien keeping plans private.
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Que Son recaptured as airmen lost in action
North Vietnamese forces surrounded a 0-man elite Ranger unit in Que Son and killed or wounded 67 with 75 missing over two days. In Mekong Delta near Cai Lay Communist troops attacked cutting Highway 4, the rice lifeline between Saigon and the Delta. Government reinforcements were rushed in as fighting continued eight hours later. Meanwhile heavy combat near Quang Tri and Da Nang saw Marines repelling tank incursions. 207 Communists killed, 15 Marines dead, 58 wounded. Brig Gen Pham Hoa Hiep flew in 5,000 infantry from Hue and Rangers from Saigon to capture Que Son, but his orders collapsed as he was relieved by executive order. The recapture eased the Da Nang threat though Communist forces remained in the area with tanks and artillery.
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Cai Lay
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Nixon halts minority quota in federal hiring order
President Nixon ordered an end to quota systems for minority hiring in federal employment. The Civil Service Commission said the measure aims to root out discrimination while keeping hiring and promotion merit based rather than quota driven. Commission chairman Robert E Hampton noted Nixon insisted merit be the sole criterion in federal jobs.
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Wealthy American plans private aid voyage to North Vietnam by yacht
Conrad Mikulec, 37, of Buffalo, intends to sail his 38 foot schooner Star of Peace to deliver medical supplies to North Vietnam, anchoring offshore to avoid U.S. minefields. He says the North Vietnamese accepted aid, aims to also assist South Vietnam, and will unload via small boats from his offshore base in Bangkok. He distances the mission from the U.S. government and notes talks in Paris and with Sen. Tam Quang Thuan. The crew includes eight volunteers, skippered by Wallace Stark.
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Tam Quang Thuan
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Ban on bird imports to curb disease
The Agriculture Department bans all commercial imports of live birds including finches canaries parakeets parrots and mynahs effective Thursday to curb Newcastle disease. The ban lasts until imports are proven free of the disease and stems from a recent outbreak that killed about 3.9 million poultry and other birds, mainly in Southern California.
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Agriculture Department
U.S
Newcastle
California
Seventy Twain Letters to Be Published by Berkeley
Berkeley reports the University of California will publish seventy letters by Mark Twain. One letter ridicules marriage calling weddings tragic and black attire, dated 1905, written by Twain whose real name is Samuel Clemens, to his future sister in law Susan Langdon Crane.
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Susan Langdon Crane
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