Nixon reporting to Congress on China trip and homecoming
President Nixon spoke to congressional leaders upon return from a 32 day, 20390 mile China visit. He defended the communique, pledged no secret deals, and framed the trip as beginnings to broaden trade and cultural exchange while reassuring allies about Taiwan. The welcome included a mass Andrews hangar crowd.
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Nixon
Congress
China
House
Thomas P. O'Neill
Massachusetts
Mord
Vietnam
William J. Buckley
Taiwan
United States
Andrews Air Force Base
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
U.S
Chiang Kai-shek
Freking
Chow Enlai
Jetie
Long Beach Action Line Notes Immunizations Traffic and Hydration Tips
Readers discuss a new fall law requiring DPT vaccines for school entry and free immunizations at the Health Center. Traffic officials review a right turn lane at Gate Five after ACTION LINE's intervention, with a plan for another study. Hydration guidance explains the hydrator drawer keeps produce moist, and tips are offered for storing fruits and vegetables to prevent spoilage.
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Pine Ave
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Gate Five
Seaside Boulevard
Action Line
A.H
Long Beach
Violent Quake Shakes Tokyo Island Area
A strong temblor of magnitude 6 jolted Ichija Island the hardest. Tokyo reported intensity 4 with tall buildings swaying and residents fleeing after shutting off gas and electricity. A dormitory fire erupted in Shinjuku, but no tsunami warning was issued and Tokyo airport briefly halted operations. High speed rail service between Tokyo and Osaka was paused for damage checks.
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Ichija Island
Environmental Agency
Tokyo
Shinjuku
Tokyo International
Osaka
Japan National Railways
RTD and union fail to resume talks amid transit strikes
RTD and union negotiators remain at an impasse with no contract deal, while a heavy Los Angeles fog disrupts travel. A rare floating fogbank on Monday caused a 69-vehicle pileup on the Pomona Freeway during the morning rush, as RTD offered a 5.5 percent yearly raise for two years and the union rejected a fact-finder plan. Downtown Los Angeles faces ridership shortages as Long Beach buses run while a riotous bus barn is idled by pickets on the Long Beach Freeway.
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Los Angeles
Pomona
RTD
Rapid Transit District
Jack R. Gilstrap
RTIC
Gilstrap
Long Beach
Long Beach Public Transportation Co
Biy
Big Rid
Seventh Street
Belfast bombings target city stores in Protestant Catholic tension
Extremist bombers struck several Belfast stores causing panic but no injuries. Two gunmen planted a 30 pound bomb in a men's wear shop in central Belfast, the manager removed it and threw it outside as crowds fled. British troops sealed the area after the blast.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPY
Missile pac awarded to Douglas
In the late 1970s at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the South Pacific Safeguard tests are under way. Safeguard testing includes its huge radar apparatus computers the Sprint missile and the Spartan a McDonnell Douglas Astronautics missile. Pentagon planners say combining Safeguard with the SDM system will greatly increase the Minuteman force survivability after a first strike by Soviet ICBMs.
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Kwajalein Missile Range
South Pacific
Safeguard
Pentagon
Minuteman
Russian UN translator seeks political asylum in the United States
Mikhail V Belov, a Russian translator employed at the United Nations, asked a patrol officer in Queens for asylum saying he must not be sent back to the Soviet Union. Police contacted federal agents and he was taken to the INS office in Manhattan for processing.
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New York
United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
Mikhail V. Belov
Queens
Immigration and Naturalization Service Office
Manhattan
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First Family
Andrews Afb
AP Wirenhole
S. 8
Federal Trade Commission
Wilshire Blvd
Calif
Commission
PTC
Missile Pac
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Russ
U.N
Corona Door
Toyota
Freighe
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